November 7, 2012

Wordless Wednesday: The Power of Jerky

As you know, we've been in the midst of a backyard renovation project. It had hit a snag (caused by the city, which tried to give me a heart attack from the stress of dealing with them to get our permit, a process that only took about 10 days longer than it should have...), but we are back on track now. This is good news for me and the hubs, but terrible news for Rita, since she HATES the strange men in the yard.

Here she is in typical Cujo-mode when she sees the men out there working (been keeping the blinds down, but as you can see that doesn't really help...):
Yes, her feet are fully off the floor.



But... here is she is enjoying her Decadent Doggie jerky (remember we won some awesome jerky?!) in front of the window, with the same scary man just feet away. This jerky is powerful stuff - it has powers to soothe the savage beast:
You can see him through the blinds in his red shirt. (Unfortunately our blinds are not fully BLIND.)

Here she is in a blissful post-jerky stupor.
"Ahhhhhhhhh. Jeeeerky. Feel happy."

Unfortunately, the blissful post-jerky stupors don't last nearly long enough! I probably have enough jerky to keep her a heck of a lot quieter, calmer, but she'd gain another 30% of her body weight.

So, in the meantime, I'm trying locking her in the bedroom with the radio set on a classical station. The bummer is that she can still see out at them if she pokes her nose through the blinds, but it seemed to be okay this afternoon. Only mystery was that when I went back in the room later, it was on a rock station.

I guess she prefers that to the classical. Sorry about the wordiness on wordless Wednesday!





10 comments:

  1. Woof! Woof! Calming scents is really helpful and scented calming candles. It works for me... Happy Wordless Wednesday HOP. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar

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  2. Treats usually work to distract Boomer and Dottie but on occasion fail and they still go nuts.

    I hope everything finishes up soon so you can go back to normal!

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  3. Oh I know what you mean! The Newfs don't like when someone is working in our yard either! A few weeks ago we had to keep out curtains closed on the front window because workers were working on the street in front of the house I thought Leroy was going to go through the window a few times!

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  4. The last 3 mornings, our neighbors have had painters show up early. Dakota goes out to pee first thing, sees the strange truck on the street, turns around and hops back inside. He'd rather hold it than pee in front of a strange dude.

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  5. Maybe you two can compromise and listen to classic rock?

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  6. Timing is too funny on this since right this moment Daisy is growling at the man on the ladder outside our window! They are power washing our apartment building which I'm happy about but it's freeking Daisy out!

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  7. Timing is too funny on this since right this moment Daisy is growling at the man on the ladder outside our window! They are power washing our apartment building which I'm happy about but it's freeking Daisy out!

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  8. Hey Rita,

    I'm with you buddy - I'd totally be freaking out with people in my garden!!

    Do you bark? Love the action shot, very clever of your Mom :)

    I say you need more Jerky - Tee Hee - Love that you pretend it 'wears off' - You're so smart!!

    Wags to all

    Your pal Snoopy :)

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  9. Would it help if you stuffed a piece of jerky in a kong-type ball and surrounded it with peanut butter then freeze the whole thing? It might keep your puppy happy for a little bit of time. Good Luck!

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