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Jeg skal nok lige vende tilbage og fortælle hvad de siger

Det kunne godt lyde som svamp efter din beskrivelse :hmm: Hun er lige som begyndt at "skalle", det vil sige der ryger små flager af og inden under er der så små sår... Så vi har fået en tid hos dyrlægen i eftermiddag, for det ser altså ret ubehageligt og smertefuldt ud, men heldigvis virker det ikke til at Luna deler vores opfattelse, hun virker ret upåvirket af det I går eftermiddags så det sådan her ud

Lige netop næsen er lidt svær at smøre ind i noget, i hvert fald hvis man forventer det skal blive siddende :blink:

Det vil jeg prøve, hun virker jo som sagt ikke irriteret af det, så det går jo nok an at vente lidt med dyrlægen

Det virker lidt tørt og en anelse hævet, men ellers er det kun farven der lige som skiller sig ud. Men som det kan ses på billederne, så er der ligesom en meget klar afgrænsning af området, det ligner hun måske har en rift i yderområdet og denne rift er mere tør en resten. Men når jeg føler efter virker det ikke som et sår der er gået betændelse i selvom afgrænsningen af området ligner et par dage gammelt sår/rift med skorpe på

Aner det ikke, hvordan vil det se ud? Hun har dog lige været i pencilinbehandling for en byld i mellem tæerne (Furunkel) og det er vist i famillie med hotspot (er det ikke), så måske har det bredt sig?

For 2 dage siden opdagede jeg at Luna's næse var meget lyserød, men det er den som regel når hun er træt, så jeg tænkte ikke så meget over det. I går var den så blevet mere rød, og i dag ser den sådan her ud: Det ser ikke ud til at genere hende, men et eller andet er der altså galt, jeg aner bare ikke hvad Er der nogen der måske ved hvad det er og om jeg bare skal se tiden an, eller om jeg skal et smut forbi dyrlægen?

Og det er helt udelukket at der ikke er en fysisk grund til at han strinter indenfor, såsom urinvejsbetændelse eller andre ting der gør han ikke føler han kan holde strålen tilbage? Luna har desværre haft en stor tendens til at tisse indenfor, men det er aftaget kraftigt efter hun har har fået medicin for hendes inkontinens, så jeg tænker at udover at hun ikke drypper længere, så har medicinen også fjernet denne følelse af at hun skulle tisse akut og derfor var nødt til at gøre det indenfor

Hold da op, er hun allerede blevet 10 år Tillykke med den smukke dame, som man da må sige holder sig i allerbedste stil

Luna har allergi overfor tidsler og brændenæller, og det udarter sig præcist som du beskriver, nemlig ved at hun bliver bulet hvor hun har været i kontakt med dem. Så jeg ville nok undersøge om der kan være nogle bestemte planter i haven der udløser det, og evt. lægge mærke til om det opstår på nogen af jeres gåture, og så er det ellers bare i gang med udelukkelsesmetoden

Årh, så jeg havde bare ikke set langt nok i videoen, tak :5up: Og til Umulia, jeg "lader" ikke hundene genbruge mælkekartoner (selvom det da er en god idé), han brød sig bare ikke om at være udenfor, så han stjal den for at lede tøsernes opmærksomhed over på ham

Genbruge mælkekartoner Nu har jeg set videoen igen for at forstå hvad du mente, men jeg har stadig ikke fanget den

Det er min veninde der lå og sov, altså indtil de to tøser besluttede sig for at lege oven på hende

De er nemlig bare så søde sammen og så forsigtige

Jeg har vist fortalt at min veninde har fået en græsk gadehund, og Luna er totalt forelsket i denne hund Dette er tredie gang de ses, og begge tøserne hygger :hjerte:

Hvor er I søde allesammen

Tak Det var Betina fra Dogwise, min absolutte yndlingstræner :5up:

Spændende artikel :5up: http://news360.com/article/248378319# More and more new scientific data are beginning to demonstrate just how similar the mental processes are in dogs and people. This is the case, not only for emotional life and problem-solving, but also for complex mental states. For example, for both humans and canines self-control or willpower is a fundamental ability. It allows us to direct our bodies and minds away from immediate temptation and toward other tasks. Psychologists would say that self-control relies on our ability to regulate urges, to juggle competing goals, and to sustain our attention on tasks. Failures in self-control are considered to be one of the central problems in human society and have been implicated in many phenomena including obesity, impulsive spending that may lead to massive personal debt, criminality, and even certain forms of substance abuse. In dogs failure of self-control mechanisms can result in aggression, excessive barking, apparent inability or unwillingness to learn, and failures at problem-solving. Recent data is now suggesting that self-control in both humans and dogs is a limited resource, and if we spend it on one task or problem, we have less of it to spend on tasks or undertakings that come afterwards. Let me give you an example which comes out of a beginner's dog obedience training class. It was around the third lesson in the session when a Dachshund and a mixed breed Terrier had a bit of a confrontation involving barking at each other and lunging. The instructor, who was quite experienced and knowledgeable, decided that the dogs needed a timeout. The Terrier was placed a few steps away from the practice matting, toward the center of the room, and put into a down stay position. The owner was told to make sure that the dog held the down position. The Dachshund and its owner were ushered into a corner and seated with instructions that the dog didn't have to hold any position but had to remain on a loose lead near the owner. The Terrier was having a bit of a hard time holding its down position, and the owner had to re-issue the commands to "Down! Stay!" several times. After about five minutes or so both dogs seemed to have settled down and the owners were signaled to bring them back onto the matted area to continue the class, however they were placed on opposite sides of the room. The Dachshund re-entered the class without any incident, however the Terrier joined the line of students and found itself next to a Shiba Inu which gave it a hard stare. In response to that stare the Terrier responded immediately and began lunging forward and barking and straining at the leash — now at this new target. One might simply observe this situation and decide that the Terrier was aggressive, or fearful, or had a personality disorder, which was why it could no longer control itself when it re-entered the class. However Holly Miller and her team of research associates from the University of Kentucky in Lexington might have a different take on this. Research on human beings shows that if people are required to exert some self-control, such as resisting the temptation to eat some fresh cookies for a period of time, then they will do less well on a broad variety of tasks that follow, such as solving problems, or exerting some control over their impulses immediately afterward. Furthermore, after exerting self-control for a period of time, people become edgier and more likely to respond aggressively. The Kentucky research team has shown that the same thing goes for dogs. In their first study* dogs were shown a transparent plastic toy in which they could see and smell the treats that it contained. They were taught that they could get these treats by tugging on the toy. The dogs were then assigned to one of two conditions. The first was quite simple, namely the dog was placed in a wire kennel crate and left there for 10 minutes with the owner out of sight. The second condition involved some willpower and self-restraint on the part of the dog. In this test condition the dog was placed in a sit-stay position and the owner left the room for 10 minutes. If the dog began to move out of position the owner returned, repeated the sit stay command, and then again disappeared from sight. Afterwards both groups of dogs were again given the toy from which they had learned how to get food, only this time it was set up so that no treats were dispensed regardless of how they tugged at it. The idea was to measure how long the dogs would persist at this impossible task before they gave up. The findings were quite clear — the dogs who had to exert willpower by holding their position in the earlier part of the session rapidly lost their focus on the problem and gave up a lot more quickly. I presume that some of you are thinking that this experimental result involves a problem solving situation and not the kind of aggressive impulses I described earlier, however this team of researchers extended their investigation in a subsequent study involving aggression**. Here the amount of self-restraint required from the dogs would be a little bit more intense. The dogs which didn't have to exercise any willpower were simply placed in a wire kennel crate for 10 minutes with the owner out of sight, while the dogs requiring self-restraint were placed in a sit-stay position for the same amount of time. More willpower was required of the dogs sitting this time because in front of them there was a mechanical hamster in a transparent ball which wandered around the room. Again the owners would come in and reset the dog if it started to move. The dogs in the kennel crate observed the same toy but no self-restraint was required. It is in the second task where aggressive responses become an issue. After the first task the dogs were brought into the room again, only this time they found a wire kennel crate which contained another dog. Since dogs are highly social animals they have a natural impulse to approach other dogs when they meet them. However the dog that they were now presented with was highly aggressive and territorial and tended to respond with barking and growling whenever another dog came close to it. When faced with an aggressive animal the safest course of action for a dog would be to use some self-restraint and resist their normal social impulses. In other words they should choose to not go close enough to the aggressive dog to initiate a confrontation. The dogs that did not have to exert their willpower in the previous task responded appropriately and now had enough self-control left so that they stayed away from the hostile dog. The dogs who had to exert self-restraint in the previous task seemed to respond as though they had spent all of their willpower and impulse control resources in that they were much more likely to approach the hostile dog who was showing aggressive responses. The experimenters describe this as being "To dog tired to avoid danger." Furthermore, studies with humans have shown that after a period of self-restraint requiring a lot of willpower they were more likely to act hostility toward other people, perhaps because they no longer had the mental resources to control aggressive impulses that we normally try to hold in check. The same thing might be going on with the dogs here These results seem to explain the behaviors that I observed in the dog class. The Dachshund required no self-restraint since she could adopt any position she wanted and do anything she wanted as long as she stayed within leash distance of her mistress. The Terrier, who had to exert self-restraint to lie quietly, had spent all of his willpower-related resources in maintaining the down-stay position while the other dogs in the class moved around. This meant that when confronted with what might be considered to be an aggressive stare from the Shiba Inu, the Terrier had no reserve of willpower resources left to control his impulses. Is there anything we can do to restore resources for self-control? There is no canine research on this, however the human research suggests that following the period of self-restraint, if there is a meaningful reward, this seems to change the situation enough so that a good deal of willpower is restored for the next task that follows. There is no published evidence that this will also work on dogs, however the similarities in the mental processes of dogs and humans certainly makes it worth a try. I hope that the team of investigators in Kentucky (or elsewhere) might continue such research and see whether this suggestion will actually also help in dogs.

I den første træningssession forsøgte vi også at lære Luna at hun skulle gå væk fra det hun stressede over, altså figurant hunden. Men det viste sig, at det kunne hun ikke, hun har et stort behov for at stå og kigge på det der gør hende nervøs og ligesom analyserer situationen, og hvis hun ikke får lov til det, så bliver hun endnu mere stresset, hvorimod hun kan gå afslappet derfra når hun først har overbevist sig selv om at der ikke er noget farligt ved det. Plus, at når vi så endelig går væk fra hvad end der har vakt hendes opmærksomhed, så kan hun ikke vende ryggen til og gå væk, hun skal ligesom gå paralelt så hun stadig kan holde øje med det. Så den der jeg altid har lavet med at vende ryggen til og trække hende væk fra det hun var hysterisk over, det har bestemt heller ikke været den rigtige løsning...

Jeg i hvert fald blevet opmærksom på at jeg selv, ubevidst, er skyld i mange af de ting Luna gør, jeg var bare ikke klar over at hun er så signalfølsom som hun rent faktisk er

Som min træner sagde, så trækker Luna fordi hun lige så som et 5-årig barn "stikker fingrerne i ørerne alt i mens hun skrigende løber rundt og råber, jeg vil ikke, jeg vil ikke, jeg vil ikke..." Om det er det dine FT spaniels gør, det skal jeg jo så ikke kunne sige

Prøv at bemærke at hun på den sidste film både snuser og stopper og for at kigge, for et halvt år siden har jeg helt seriøst aldrig oplevet hende gøre de to ting. Selv når hun skulle tisse foregik det ved at hun sænkede farten fra fuld spurt til langsomt løb alt imens hun tissede... Og snuse havde hun i hvert fald slet ikke tid til, og nu oplever jeg rent faktisk til tider at hun stopper op og vil have vi går tilbage til en snuseplet hun havde overset

Tak

Ja, jeg syntes det vildt, tænk sig at det eneste der skulle til var, at Luna "fik tilladelse" til at stoppe op. Jeg ville aldrig have fanget det hvis ikke det var blevet optaget på film, bare jeg begynder at læne mig fremad for at tage det første skridt, så er Luna klar til at gå videre selvom hun egentlig helst ville have blevet lidt endnu. Og samtidig med denne opdagelse, så har jeg jo også opdaget hvor utrolig opmærksom Luna er på alt hvad jeg gør, så hvis jeg vender kroppen mod højre, så går hun til højre, hvis jeg kalder kommer hun, hvis jeg stopper op så stopper hun osv... Jeg var slet ikke klar over hvor opmærksom hun er og hvor meget hun egentlig gerne vil stille mig tilfreds, hvis hun altså bare ved hvad det er jeg gerne vil have hende til. Alt dette har jeg jo ikke opdaget før, og Luna har ikke kunne gøre det pga. stress, men nu, det er jo helt vildt

Tak, det tog mig så bare lige 5 år at blive det