How are you feeling today?

[Zaf]

Thanks munchroom :)

Off to bed now as I'm feeling sleepy, I usually sleep well after an aromatherapy treatment so fingers crossed......


Night all, hope everyone has at least a slight improvement tomorrow :)

[Munchroom]

Night Zaf - sleep well x

[cornish]

good night all

[Alstare1974]

Night Cornish and Zaf.

[Zaf]

Well, I did sleep better and dont feel quite so tired, I'm planning lots of R&R  for the weekend all being well but fear I may have to sit up with the dogs if we get fireworks locally tonight

[Munchroom]

Feeling ok today - Thinking I might have a weekend of doing creative things and resting. We do need to plan where we are going on holiday over Christmas so I might be able to pin Chris down to doing that when he gets back from work later!  Have work tomorrow evening though which, although the night shift was ok - I am starting to get anxious about everytime the thought crosses my mind.... Not sure why I have suddenly become so much more anxious about work 

Heard about the crash on the M5 last night just as I was getting into bed. It is truly horrific and I think has hit a chord because it is relatively local and is a part of a motorway that we travel on a lot. Thoughts and prayers today are with everyone that has been involved and the families of those affected and gratitude of course to our wonderful emergency service crews.


How is everyone thismorning? Zaf, I am pleased you were able to sleep better last night  :) I can't say Benji is scared of the fireworks, if anything they excite him even more - daft thing  My sisters dog managed to get herself stuck under a chest of drawers because she was so frightened one year though! And she was a belgian collie x alsation.... not small....

xxx

[Lol]

Morning Campers.

Best thing for your Dawgs guys is to let them choose their own hidy holes where ever that may be!! (one staffy got in a fridge!!) don't create one for them, and let them go there, however absurd/inconvenient that place may be. If they have found a coping mechanism, they will be fine. Shaking is adrenaline realease, not necessarily fear. (Fear and worry are different).  ^&* and whatever you do... ACT COMPLETELY NORMALLY Don't even so much as look at them sideways if a bang occurs because you will be reinforcing their idea that it means something is wrong and make them panic inside. Carry on making the dinner, watching the TV and demostrating that there is nothing to worry about. If they come and ask you to support them, ask them to lie down and ignore them. They are asking you if something is wrong and by consoling them you are saying 'yes'.

I shall be sharing beer with my cat and watching telly. He heard a few last night, looked at me, we chinked glasses and he was fine.  ^&^ $%$

[Munchroom]

Haha Lol you do make me giggle - and you re-inforce to me that it is perfectly 'normal' to have a relationship with your animal where you 'chink glasses' and both know exactly whats going on in each others minds 

Great advice though!  :) xx

[Lol]

Munch it IS perfectly normal to have this type of relationship with our animals!!! NEVER underestimate the human-animal connection. My cat is an oriental/siamese cross and he is FAR more intelligent than I am. He is criminally intelligent actually. He can manipulate me into doing, getting, providing any little thing his heart desires and make me think it was my own idea! He even lures me into bed at night when he's tired (he gets in under the duvet and uses me to warm his paws up). He steels things and hides them in his bed and makes me think I'm going nuts because I can't find them. I've turned out his bed and found wooden spoons before! He's so naughty!! But there is nothing he likes more than to mug me in the evening, curl up on my knee and share a beer or two. I know this because he purrs and gazes at me with his big long fangs poking out.

Actually, you are right... there is NOTHING normal about this!!! 

[Munchroom]

I think if your cat met my dog then there would be trouble.... he's quite easily led when it comes to being a bit mischievous (usually by me...)! Although he does have times where he's a bit of a goody-two-shoes... we don't allow him on the furniture (he's very big and very very hairy) and my parents DO let their dog on the sofas... when she jumps up, he has a look as much as to say 'Um... you arent meant to be doing that....  ' I'm a bit like 'Go on... get up there, live a little!!  ' But no, he knows no so he'll stick with it 

[Zaf]

Poor Jade becomes so terrified despite having a den made for her that she has half an ACP tablet to help her cope, the others arent too bad thankfully and although none of our horses seem to worry too much we get them indoors just in case something frightens them and there is an accident.  I have that sort of relationship with our animals too so it cant be that abnormal, or can it?

That crash looked horrible, all those poor people caught up in it and the emergency people that had to cope with it all

It was pouring with rain by 8am so I gave up on the outside jobs and went to pick up some horse feed, got a tiny bit panicky as I had to go to their new warehouse and at one point thought I had gone to the wrong place.  Then OH took me into the city, I still cant face driving and parking there, it was horribly busy so got the few things we needed than got home asap.

I'm planing the rest of the weekend to do a bit of painting or sketching and some cross stitch, or perhaps if the rain stops get out to walk in the woods.....

Feeling really tired now, going to the city was a bit stressful

[Bewildered]

This is how I feel...in part.
lullaby for grown-ups

don’t be afraid anymore
don’t wear your inside out
to keep you warm

so rest your head
it’s just as well
you can’t keep the sky from falling
anyway

~ ane brun

[Got]

one of the blokes at work was a bit of an !£%^!£$&^! to me and my illness so i had to punish him, i started to mix whey powder (fresh and pure from a cheese factory and a lot stronger than the body builder type) with his powered milk and well long story short he now has a slight weight and cholesterol problem.

This did make me giggle. I like that you stand up for yourself Cornish

[Lol]

That had me giggling for days as well! I loved that Cornish thought he was karma for a while! Still makes me giggle now when I think about it 

[cornish]

woke up about an hour ago, fell asleep on friday evening.  still feel really tired and just felt  urrgh.  turned the tv on for the first time in ages and noticed v for vendetta was on. always loved that film and it seems like such a good idea, also the choice of music is brilliant.