Now, why the old location suddenly doesn’t work, is beyond me.
But I’ve relocated the docking station to the living room, it’s line of sight to the dog room, where the dogs are during the day. It’s where we hang out in the evening, when we’re home, and it’s the same room where we keep Maggie. The little dogs sleep in the hallway in front of my room in cages and it’s downstairs from them. It’s super inconvenient to do any trouble shooting, but oh well.
Our Pet Tagg problem seems to be environmental.
Do I resign myself to charging them nightly or do I move the dock with the dogs?
The Taggs seems to slip away from the dock and go out of power saving mode. When they do, they don't communicate with the dock. They sometimes turn off without a low battery warning or a off notification.
Dulce got a Games II Q this morning. It was called “What’s My Line”, and we had to get a certain number of random obstacles. Obviously we got enough.
Macy did well, but got one of the random obstacles twice, which was against the rules.
Macy had the next run, took the A-Frame in a tunnel / AFrame discrimination, and then proceeded to run the rest of the course correctly until the last obstacle.
Dulce was very silly, but got most of the obstacles correctly.
BUT THEN! She Qed on her second attempt.
We went home, as I was expected a repair man to come by and give us an estimate on gutters, and was feeling very off. 8 runs is a bit to many when the building has stairs to climb to get in an out. But we had fun.
Dulce has two legs towards her Games II title and two legs towards her Beginner’s Teacup Title.
Got done with a really good for Dulce run and was trying to praise her when an idiot woman criticizes how I was running my dog.
I got up, had a party for Dulce at the crate and explained to the woman when I got back that she was raining on my parade and no do that, but do I really have to teach adults, especially adults obviously older than I am how to behave in public at a dog show.
Geeze….
I used to love our Pet Taggs. We have three. Between the three Pet Taggs, and the surveillance camera system I felt that we were safe and secure and we’d always know where the beagles were.. Then all of the sudden the Taggs stopped working right. We stopped getting notifications, and they started chewing through the batteries. It was a full time job keeping them charged.
They ended up replacing all three Pet Taggs with no improvement. Now mind you, nothing here at the house changed, except that we went from wireless to wired surveillance cameras.
I think we have some where around 50 cases into them about the issue when this week, one of the techs noticed that the Taggs were sneaking out of power saving mode. We did a 48 hour test where we had the Taggs and the docking station sitting next to each other. Worked out well until yesterday evening when Dulce decided she needed to get rid of Macy by chewing on her Tagg, guess the next step was shoving her out the door, though Macy never goes far….
Well, Macy is getting a new Tagg, we’re all getting a new Docking station and an additional travel charger sometime early next week so we’ll see if that solves the problem.
After living with a dog afraid of fireworks for 10 years, I am really over them.
I live between two city firework sites.
Now I get Addison, no one lives there and the bars and restaurants welcome the revenue from the patios watching the fireworks. Boy howdy, go for it.
But why are we doing it in Farmers Branch. Ours are ground level and we have long run off any restaurant near the site. Lack of revenue.
How much money did we make? Who did it benefit? I am about to start attending council meetings and put a stop to it.
Yeah our house was shaking from 9:00 – 10:00 from it.
Tax dollars at work?
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I’ve got a Swivl Marker on her collar, you can see it glowing. That way the camera is following her, and I don’t need a cameraman. Available at http://www.swivl.com and found it at the Dallas Pet Expo.
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I have a dog that escapes. She is a small, 16 pound, under 13” beagle. She is afraid of thunderstorms and is 12 years old. She is on Xanax twice a day and yes, we’ve tried the thundershirt, etc. By the way, most of those items only work if you can get it to the dog before the thunderstorm and we live in North Texas. The weather people miss a lot of them.
Recently during the first few minutes of an storm that was not forecasted and at 3:00 am in the morning, she broke a shipping type crate, escaped, dug out of a 6 foot run, and broke through a 6 foot privacy fence. We knew this because we have a broken crate, surveillance film footage of her digging, the whole and the broken fence. We received a phone about 10:00 am, over 24 hours later, asking would we please come get our dog.
Yes, we looked for her. Fortunately her ID tag was still on her, but we worried for 24 hours.
I had been watching Pet Tagg and other GPS collars but they were just too expensive. Fortunately, shortly after this event, Pet Tag went down in price and I was able to afford a set of three, one for each of my dogs.
We’ve had a variety of dogs through 25 years of marriage, and we have had our share of incidents. Marcie liked to go walk about, and she even spent the night in the local pound. Yard people have left gates open, etc. Fortunately we’ve always managed to get the dogs back and I’ve done my share of catching dogs and getting them home.
However, you cannot imagine the sense of well being you get when you know you have GSP collars on your dogs. Now, you can’t locate your dog precisely with a Pet Tagg©. What you can do is narrow the search down to a few houses, and between that and some really good treats, you should be able to find your missing pet, be it a dog or cat.
With Pet Tagg© , you get a text message and email telling you when the following occurs:
If the dog leaves the home zone, you can send a text message and either locate and/or track your pet.
When you track, the system locates the dogs every three minutes.
It’s great peace of mine. However, it doesn’t substitute for a proper fenced in yard and supervision. I got my Pet Tagg from http://www.pettracker.com/ but I understand that they are now available at Best Buys and some pet stores.
Good show.
Good dog training philosophy.
Weird, as usually the only thing two dog trainers agree on, is that the third is doing it wrong.
I like him better than Victoria Stillwell, because he doesn’t have a gimmick. He comes across as sincere, even if they are all actors.
First, I’ll start out by saying I am and have been treated for sleep disturbances for several years. I’ll also state that I have been sleepy behind the wheel AND as soon as I know it, I pull over and take a nap. I have actually called in sick on the way to work because I was falling asleep at lights. Before treatment, I was so bad that on several occasions fell asleep while waiting for students to give answers at the board. So I know where I speak, and I do take care of the issue.
There is nothing more important than arriving at your destination alive. On Monday morning, an agility exhibitor killed two of her dogs and injured three others. At least she only killed her dogs, and didn’t kill the driver of the 18-wheeler she hit. She’s not the only exhibitor who has ended up in the hospital because he or she kept driving when they shouldn’t.
You CAN sleep in your car, I have.
You CAN pull over and get a hotel room, and sleep for a few hours. I have.
If getting to an appointment is too important, skip that last class or two. I have.
Oh, gee, I did that on Friday. I’d been at a trial since 7:30 am, and they were building my last class at 4:30 pm, but I knew if I stayed through the whole class to run, I wouldn’t have been able to get home.
I’ve spent the last 12 hours or so very upset, and get even more upset when I learned the cause.
Grow up, get some sleep, and stay out of the car when you are tired. You can seriously kill someone else. Oh, back in the day when I was doing the K9 dog thing, a couple of my police friends were almost killed by a sleepy driver.
Some other things you can do to help the rest of us:
Get and use Taggs http://www.pettracker.com/ so we can find your dog. Keep them charged (I have a spare charger that I take with me to trials and recharge them when I’m running the dogs).
Keep your dogs in crates when you are traveling. I don’t know about this weeks incident, but we had one several years ago in Texas where we were frantically looking for a dog for 2 weeks who wasn’t crated at the time of the accident.