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Shih Tzu Day 67: Scaredy Dog, Cats & Grooming

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I got up with the shih tzus this morning to let them out and feed them so John could sleep. For the next few hours, I worked on some ad copy for a client, with Dottie beside me and Candy and Flower at shih tzu Central.

When John got up, we took the shih tzus back outside. Flower was sitting on the porch when a motorcycle started up. Our scaredy shih tzu jumped up and ran for the door, pushing it open to get inside as fast as she could, with Dottie not far behind. As usual, Candy had the opposite reaction. She stood where she was, looking towards the fence, an inquisitive look on her face.

Flower gets an “A” on the grooming table

shih tzu after partial grooming. We put Flower up on the grooming table, because I’ve been noticing how wild she’s been looking lately, particularly her face. We went through the routine with the hot dog, letting her smell it to associate it with grooming. She didn’t take a piece, but when John started clipping her, she stayed completely still. We don’t have a grooming arm yet, so I held her in one place, but she didn’t fight me or John during the grooming process. We clipped a lot of her body and tidied up her face. The next time we groom her, we’ll work on her paws again and clip her nails. I was very proud of her. It was quite different from when she got kicked out of grooming school or our earlier attempts to groom her.

Backyard Intruder

shih tzu looking at cat in backyard.John and I went out to lunch and to run some errands, including looking for a new carpet to replace our beautiful, western carpet, from which we can’t seem to extract the urine odor. We decided to look for something cheap and small that we could stick in the washing machine. We found one we both liked at Kohl’s. I wasn’t sure about the size, and when we got it home, I thought it was way too small. We talked some more, and we decided to cover ever inch of our western carpet front and back with pet cleaning solution and then rinse it with the hose as well as we could.

three shih tzus chase a cat away.While we were outside, Flower spotted an intruder in the backyard. A stray cat was sitting on the landscaping timbers, putting her out of Flower’s reach. We put up a fence to prevent the dogs from climbing up into the landscaped area and possibly escaping out of the fence between us and our backyard neighbor.

Flower got as close as she could and barked like crazy. The grey cat just sat there aloofly, staring at Flower. Her barks finally pulled Dottie and Candy away from what they were doing, and they came running. That moved the cat to cross into the neighbor’s yard and the girls finally calmed down.

Shih Tzu Day 13: Flower’s Food for Thought

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Hi. It’s me, Flower. Boy, I can’t believe how late Mom sleeps in. We were up and playing around at about 5:30, attempting to make so much noise that she would have to come down, but she didn’t. Dottie finally decided to run up the stairs to try to get them. She didn’t want to go into that one room Mom always disappears in, so she just went and peeked into the bathroom, and then ran back down.

I was getting bored, so I started running and up down the stairs with her. This is kind of fun! Who needs a dog run!

I decided that I was going to see what Dottie was looking at, so I peeked through the bathroom door with her. I couldn’t see anything though! Then, Dottie went and walked right into that room! I didn’t know what she was doing. I finally went and peeked through another door, and she had her paws up on this big wooden thing. Oh, I know what that’s called. It’s a bed!

I went right in there beside her. Wow. It’s weird being in here. Mom was saying, “Come here, girls. Come over here, girls.” I could tell she was on the bed. She was hanging her arm down and wiggling her hand. I ran up and started dancing near her hand with Flower. We took turns pretending we were biting her hand. She was laughing at us. We know not to bite down too hard. We don’t want to hurt her. We just like to play.

I wanted to see what this room was like, so I started walking around. Then, I had to stop. I felt that feeling I get some time and I crouched down. Mom said, “Don’t pee there.” Too late.

Dottie kept reaching up, putting her paws on the bed. Shih tzus don’t have very long legs, so Dottie couldn’t jump up that high. Mom picked her up and I couldn’t see where she went. A few minutes later, she jumped back down and started playing with me again.

Mom finally got up at 7. We sat in the hall and waited while she got ready to come down. When she did, she went and got our three bowls of food together. The Man came downstairs and we knew what he was going to say: “Go outside.” We all ran outside, but then Candy and I ran back in. It’s kind of fun to pretend like we are going to mind, and then to suddenly scurry back inside.

By the time we went back outside, Dottie had eaten all of the food out of one of the bowls. I saw her headed towards mine! But Mom picked her up and held her, while Candy and I ate our food. Sometimes Candy’s food looks better, so we switch places, and then we switch places again.

That Man came outside. I barked once, just a little one, to tell him I was watching him, but then I went back to finish my food.

We heard a loud noise and we all ran back inside. Mom said, “It’s only a motorcycle. It won’t hurt you.” When we were sure it was gone, we came back ouside.

I went to sit between Mom’s feet a few times, before she finally picked me up. There are strange noises out here, so I kind of like it when I can sit on her lap and look around. Only when I’m outside! Inside, I don’t need to sit on her lap.