Re: [PyrNet-L] Pyr's That Don't Like Toys

[Joy Mccarron <joym@monmouth.com>]

aaaaaaaah. What a cute story!!   Joy (Maggie's Mom)


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From: Tracy Bassett <espinay@dynamite.com.au>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [PyrNet-L] Pyr's That Don't Like Toys


> >     Does anyone have a Pyr that doesn't like toys? We have showered our
> >girls with endless things that I thought would be fun, but all they seem
to
> >really enjoy are the edibles like rawhides and pigs ears. >
> >-Emily Hainsworth
>
> My older girl Halley, despite being showered with toys from day one (9
weeks
> old) by me, has never really been into toys. (edible treats are another
> thing!)  Her one exception is a teddy bear - but I would not really class
> him as a 'toy'.  She has a very special little red plaid bear that I made
> for her.  This is the only toy that the other dogs (who REALLY love toys!)
> will not steal, play with, chew up, destroy etc, despite the fact that I
am
> sure she would not argue with them if they took it.  They seem somehow to
> know to leave it alone (?). Halley is a consummate 'worrier' and often has
> 'fits' of separation anxiety as I leave for work.  Not every day, and not
> even every week, but when she does, she goes in to a flat spin panic.
Quite
> distressing to watch! We (she) has learnt to control these 'attacks' by
> grabbing that little red bear and holding it in her mouth (I pick it up
and
> rub my scent on it and put it by the gate before I go to work each morning
> just in case she needs it - she might not touch it for days or weeks).
She
> still paces around and winges, but it is not the full out frenzy that it
> would be otherwise.  On those days when this occurs, I usually come home
and
> find I have to dig up the bear from where she has buried it in her
favourite
> sleeping pit!!!!  God bless this poor little battered bear! :-D
>
>
> Tracy Bassett
> espinay@dynamite.com.au
> Canberra, Australia
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