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  1. The thing that gets me here is that this dog attacked Odin as soon as the doors opened . . . what if it had been a child bringing his dog for a walk? I know there is at least one family who's little boy takes their froo froo dog out frequently Not sure if the dog tried to attack DH as well, he's working nights so he's sleepign right now. He said he basically put Odin in a corner with his left arm and used his right arm to slam the dog against the elevator wall a few times cause the dog kept lunging for Odin. DH did manage to pin the dog and I assume that at this point the dog's owner did something, but I don't really have many more details. Thank God DH is build like and ox and has the strength to match. What I want to know is, which organization allowed this dog to be placed with this person? Is is quite obviously not the right kind of person for the dog. So . . . was the dog even rescued at all? Or is that just a tale the Super's spinning? I find it hard to believe that a responsible rescue group would give this dog to a person living in an apartment. Sigh . . . anyway, I gotta go for a bit but I'll be sure to give some updates when I hear from DH later.
  2. Sorry for not keeping up on the previous thread about the move, but to be perfectly honest, the net is soooooo slow here that I can hardly browse. Stupid dialup :mad: Anyway, on that previous topic, my husband did get accepted in the college and we'll be moving here permanently. Odin will be here in a week or so, we're flying him here to Newfoundland via Air Canada Cargo. On this topic . . . it's upset me so much that I don't care if I have to wait 10 minutes for a page to load, I'm still posting. This morning I woke up to find an email from my husband . . . he had been taking Odin out to pee and when the elevator door opened to the lobby, a pit bull was there and immediately broke free of his leash and attacked my puppy Luckily, my hubby is quite a big guy and was able to save Odin. He pushed Odie to one corner of the elevator (yes, all this was going on in a small elevator because the dog basically cornered them there) and tried to get the dog to concentrate on him instead of our puppy. He basically slammed the pit up against the wall a few times and finally managed to pin him and the owner was able to get the dog out. Both my hubby and Odin are physically well, but Odin now refuses to go near the elevator and DH is mad a hell. Apparently, this dog belongs to our building's new Super and it's a rescue dog who was bred primarily for fighting. The Super apologized but I still want to call the police. Another dog was attacked already and there's a wonderfully gentle Rottie in the building who blind due to diabetes that I'm worried about. Needless to say, if it had been me in the elevator, both Odin and I would have been ripped to shreds. My mother in law comes by every day to spend time with Odin and take him out to pee . . . she's shorter than me and no match for an angry pitbull either. I wish I was there to work with Odin through these things, but unfortunately, I can't be. I feel so helpless and angry . . . I just needed to make a post. I feel like flying back to Toronto and choking the living daylight out of the super. Thank the Lord we put our notice in this month. Anyway, rant ended!
  3. Well it's not 2:55 am and I haven't been able to get a wink of sleep. I have to be up at 6 and at the airport by 7. I want to thank everyone for the advice and support, and share a little ray of hope: the reason the inlaws are against keeping Odin is because when he and their dog get together it's play play play run run run. all. the. time. But I think that's because they don't see each other often. (maybe once a month, maybe less?)I'm thinking that if they gave it a week or two, just to try, that maybe they would calm down and get more used to each other. Odin really is a very laid back dog and so is Ziggy, so maybe after the novelty of playing all the time wears off they'll just go back to being lazy! If that doesn't work Dh said he's going to dedicate himself to getting Odin crate trained and he will fly down with Odin when he (Odin) is ready. My outlook is more postive than it was earlier, but I gotta tell ya - I'm terrified of flying!! I'm not looking forward to tomorrow at all and I don't think I'm going to get any sleep whatsoever. But! One thing that will make this all worth it for me is knowing I'll soon be able to see Odin run through pastures and fields as free as a bird. And walk through forests and play on the beach, swim in the ocean . . . maybe even roll in some washed up fish? :eek: I might even be able to rummage up some sheep for him. Thanks again everyone, I'll try to keep you updated when I get to Newfoundland.
  4. Toni, yes I'm leaving tomorrow morning . . . I literally have 0 time right now, and 0 crate for that matter! I would prefer to do the training on my own but I guess I'll just have to guide DH and trust that he'll do it right. I really wish this wasn't happening
  5. Thanks for the replies. RaisingRiver, Smileyzookie: Thanks very much for putting it that way for me. I guess I haven't been able to really think clearly lately so I wasn't able to think of it that way. But you're right, it would be better to have about 5 hours of plane time than have him stay where he won't have the attention and care he deserves. This is all so sudden. =
  6. Charlene, having your pet sedated could cause breathing problems I think. It's considered a very risky thing to do and it's not recommended. Newfoundland is a Canadian Province and it's where I was born and raised. I will be staying with family there while my husband clears up debt here in Ontario.
  7. Sorry for the weird title, but I think I'm losing my mind here. More than that, I think I've lost about 5 pounds in the last week. I had a month long vacation to Newfoundland planned, starting tomorrow. My husband currently works as a forklift driver, his pay is good, he has excellent benefits and we just moved in to our new apartment, which is wonderful. Or at least it's supposed to be. Sunday, DH decided that he wants to go back to school. Even though it's brand new news to me, this is someting he's been wanting to do for a very long time. As scared as I am about all this, I'm more than willing to do it. He has not been satisfied with how we've been living, he does not want to be a factory worker all his life and he wants to go to school and I have to support him. He wants to go to a College in Newfoundland not far from where I grew up, we have friends and lots of family there. But, right now, even though he has an excellent job, we are about 8000$ in debt and obviously have bills to pay and 3 mouths to feed. We can't just pick up and move to Newfoundland. Our only solution right now is for him to go live with his parents for a few months so we don't have to worry about rent, etc. Every penny he'll have coming in from work will go to our debt. By January-February we should be debt free, then he wants to move to Newfoundland. The kicker is that there apparently isn't enough room for *me* at his parents house, so tomorrow when i go on my 'vacation' I'll actually be going for good. I'll never see my apartment again and who knows when I'll see my friends again. Just poof! I lose everything. Plus it'll be about 3-4 months before I see my husband or Odin again. Things sure aren't done this way in Newfoundland. And as if having to go to Newfoundland for 4 months isn't bad enough, my in laws do not want Odin living with them either. I certainly don't want him treated like he's a burden. He's a joy. So now, my biggest problem in all this is that I want Odin to come with me to Newfoundland, but I'm afraid of putting him on a plane. It just breaks my heart to think of him in a crate in a cargo hold of a plane for several hours. He's not crate trained and I don't have time to do it before I leave. I'm afraid he'll be scared and confused and feel abandoned. I'm afraid he'll come off of the plane traumatized. It literally tears me up inside to picture him crying for his momma and poppa Has anyone flown their dog somewhere before? It's 1500 miles to Newfoundland so it's quite a long flight. Please, tell me it's not so bad. I need a ray of sunshine here
  8. *thumbs up* Glad Bandit is okay!! Give him a hug for me please Odin was attacked by a small little dog in the park one day and if his ownder wouldn't have pulled him off in time I would have kicked his little brown butt like a football! :mad:
  9. After reading all your posts and giving it some thought, I've come to the conclusion that it's just best to give up on any hope of them actually supporting us pre-pregnancy. Which is saddening because we really could use it. But it's better to just accept what WON'T happen and move on. Hopefully they'll have a change of heart when there is a grandchild on the way. Thanks for the advice and the reassurances about Odin. I really was freaked out over it. I thought it would be one of those things where we swear we'd never abandon him then we'd end up in these insane circumstances that would make liars out of us. But I really should know better, I don't know what I would do with no Odin. If we became homeless today I would take him to live in a cardboard box if I had to. Pretty selfish huh? Anyway, thanks for the advice and tips and links!! And yes, I am charting! I'm just so excited about concieving that I'm afraid of being disappointed if I don't get pregnant right away, which, I know, its very unlikely that I will concieve that quickly. I see all these encouraging things online that say "Well, 75 to 90 per cent of couples get pregnant in the first year!!" and I just think . . . but I want to get pregnant NOW! LOL! Anywho, thanks again
  10. If only we could have that kind of support I know my m.i.l doesn't *want* to worry so much, she has a disorder of some kind and she can't help it, she's just a chronic worrier. I'm sure she'd love to NOT be one! So we want her to support us but we don't want to hurt her feeling either. We're trying to find the middle ground where we are sensitive to her condition and she's supportive of our decision to start a family. Sigh, all of this stress is not good for someone trying to get preggers!
  11. My mother in law is a worry wart, that's basically why they want us to wait. And when I saw worry wart, I'm not joking . . . she calls my husband every morning at 6am to make sure he's up for work Oh yea, and when we bought a new alarm clock she insisted on setting it herself to make sure it worked properly ps: Thanks for the reassurance about Odin
  12. I really need some advice guys. DH and I have decided to *try* to get pregnant. We both feel we're ready and we'd like to get started soon so that if I can't get pregnant, we can get started on adoption as soon as possible. Now there are 2 seperate things I need advice on. The first is not really an advice thing, I guess I just need reassurance. I love Odin so much, much more than a person should probably love a dog I guess. Now I'm having these nightmares that as soon as there's a baby in the picture I'll become one of 'those' people who abandon the dogs they used to love because they have something 'better'. I can't imagine it ever happening but it happens all the time . . . someone please tell me I won't end up like 'those' people! :confused: Alright, second, and this is where the advice comes in. My in laws are against us having children. What the heck do I do in a situation like this!? We just want them to support us but they want us to wait 5 more years! If I can't get pregnant it may take 5 years or longer to adopt a child so I'd like to get started ASAP! Has anyone gone through either of these things? Any words of wisdom?
  13. Yes, the new place is awesome! I'm gonna post new pics of Odin enjoying his new home soon
  14. Here's a funny little story for ya: My mother in law's dog, Ziggy, has a toy that is made up of a tennis ball and a looped rope, you know, the ones you play tuggy with. So the other day we were visiting the inlaws when DH decided to play tuggy with Odin with this toy. Well, for some reason I haven't yet figured out, the rope part was mostly elastic. And unfortunately for DH, he didn't catch on in time to save him from getting a tennis ball in the eye when Odin let go Wish I had a pic of it. I swear Odin knew what would happen once he let that ball go, he gave up WAY too easy!! Anyway, in short, DH got pwnt (or owned) by Odin. Hope this illustated the meaning of the word a bit for those who don't know what the heck it means
  15. The worse thing Odin has done is destroy the stuffing out of my matress and eat socks and underwear, things that were completely my fault >.
  16. Yea it has a rather tall railing Mesh . . . good idea, I'm gonna look into it
  17. As the date of the move gets closer and closer I am getting more and more worried about that darned balcony. What if he jumps over? I don't mean to ever leave him out there unattended but what if he gets it in his head to jump when I'm out there with him and I can't stop him in time? :confused: Do dogs usually jump from balconies? :confused: I'm probably being irrational, but I'm so worried!
  18. DH and I call ourselves Odin's Momma and Poppa and my inlaws are Grandma and Grandpa Odin isn't just our dog to us, he's our baby. Without him we would just be a couple - with him we are a family.
  19. Odin will be 20 months old on August 10th and he has only lifted his leg to pee ONCE, and that was about a month ago. My husband and were in a park with him one night and we were talking about how odd it was that Odin had never once lifted his leg to pee since we got him. As if he was a mind reader or something, Odin walked right up to us, lifted his leg and peed on a nearby bush, as if to say "There, I did it! You two happy now?" I don't know why he did it only the one time or if he'll do it again, but it's an interesting story to tell, at the very least
  20. Hector, that sounds like a great idea, but leather gloves and a Toronto Summer would be pretty painful too! Definitely something I'm going to invest in when fall comes though. And just as I thought, the swelling and bruising got alot worse, but it feels much better today.
  21. I was at the park with odin today, sitting at our usual picnic table, talking with a friend, when along came another friend (the old lady with the froo froo dog, some of you might remember). Odin was very excited to see the other dog but sat quiety, until the lady handed her dog a treat. Odin was so excited he lunged and it was so unexpected, he pulled my hand under the picnic table, scraping it against the underside of the table from knuckle to mid forarm. I know he's still a puppy who gets excited quickly and he didn't mean to hurt me but BOY did that smart Here's a few pics . . . I think it might be looking worse before the night is out: I went home crying because it hurt so much(It feels much worse than in looks, I can hardly make a fist) and Odin could sense I was in pain. He gave me the most pitiful look it just made my heart melt. He has barely left my side ever since. Now my problem is I have so much cleaning and packing and preparing to do for the move and I'm not sure how I'm gonna manage with my right hand out of order . . . it's taking long enough to type this out! Anyway, I really have to work on the lunging. He's not being agressive . . . just really rude. Sigh, I just feel so overwhelmed right now
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