Sniffer, Diary of A Dog In Isolation!
Hi everyone. My first post as an independent canine Club Member. My human’s aren’t in total lock down yet, but are behaving a bit strangely, so I thought I’d take to this Web thing and give it a go.
We canines, and I suspect other chilled out cuties of the fur and feather kind know a thing about communicating. But just how are we going to do it if our walks are on lock down, those well loved paths and trails an ever decreasing source of scents and sniffs?
Well, compared to our highly developed, totally secret Sniffer channels, our humans finally developed what they call Twitter. It’s a crude, limited, easy to understand type of communication thing, but it might be worth putting up with something similar until we can physically get together and wag our way along those walks again.
So, if you want to share lockdown tips, keep in touch, add a photo, say hello to a mate you haven’t seen for a while, feel free to add something here, on the Sniffer thread! It would be good to hear from other confined canines, but in this special circumstances, anything that woofs, neighs, squeaks, grunts, moo’s, tweets.......ok, even meows, is most welcome to join in. Humans without anything furry or feathered, but who would like to join in are most welcome as well.
My bolshy human (not the quiet one) has told me that there is a special pet section, but advised me to ask the in charge humans on this Web thing to leave it here for a while, so that more of us highly developed communicators can find it easily and take part if they want to, maybe moving it in a few days time to the pet section.
I’d sign off in my usual way at the moment, but apparently it’s not good etiquette with anything electrical, so get those paws tapping and say hello........
😱 I forgot.......fish! Most welcome, but don’t get too close to the cats!
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Hi Sniffer, I am Jen a two and a half old Labradoodle. Mam and Dad are still taking me for walks close to home. I want to go and sniff at everything as I normally do and want to go and greet other mams and dads but they keep me close. I go out in the garden a lot and frighten the squirrel that comes into my garden 😊. The blackbirds get the same treatment. I lull them into a false sense of security but when they come half way up the garden I chase em away he he. I fink your writing is so good I learnt everyfing from my dad so, at the mo that is not a lot 🙄😂😂😂 my mam will help me when I decide to listen. Anyway too tired now writing do going to wind up mam and dad before I crash for the nite,
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Hello (wag, wag) Jen. You sound just my type, much more my size than the next door neighbour here! She’s pretty, sort of silver grey, floppy ears, but a bit on the petite side. She tends to like the local tearaways further up the street more than me, they go around in a gang of three!
I’ve had quite a nice day. A local reservoir walk this morning, lots of sniffs, and I could see a very nice looking Fox Red Lab chasing a stick the other side of the water, but it was a lonely walk, a few messages at selective posts, the ducks weren’t playing. After that it was home for a snooze, but the irritating noisy one was busy cleaning, so lots of huffing and puffing disturbing me. The Adored One was busy sorting out his strange old chariot in the garage, got no roof, but great for Summer travel. That left my tea to the Noisy One, and she’s got everyone on rations at the moment, something about not being able to see my ribs. Can’t see her’s either but she was scoffing a biscuit at lunch time!
We have tree rats here as well, too fast for me nowadays, but I pee on their buried nuts if I find them!
Stove is lit, so I can’t seem to keep my eyes open at the moment......
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Down, Boy!!
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It was dad's birthday yesterday, I got im a card as did mam. He says he is 48 🙄, In his dreams, But I no he is 90 in the body and 10 in his mind 😂😂😂😂. Mam and I bought him a birthday cake which we both thoroughly enjoyed, dad was given one bit as it was his birthday🎉🎂🍰. I got into the back bedroom today and just happened to maul one of mams soft toys, as you do, she was not pleased, can't think why. Just had my tea and some of dads and I am now lying on the settee and getting tickle tums from my slave. mefinks I will then crash out before I start again. 😁
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Exhausting isn’t it, all this entertaining the troops 🐶 I’ve had a normal morning with The Quiet One, plenty of carrot treats, then it sort of went pear shaped around 2pm. Carted off to Grandma Cheese’s house, which was good, but the Noisy one was up there digging a pond, and when I showed enthusiastic interest (as you do) I get yelled at! How is a dog supposed to know that it wasn’t a drinking bowl, and the plants did look tasty. Got my own back, peed on the Rhubarb when she wasn’t looking!
Grandma Cheese, (who is in my top three humans) came home with us, and I spent all afternoon showing her my toys, hoping for a bit of biscuit, but the Eagle Eye was around, and I got nothing! Tea was nice though, my German vet has decided that more protein, less carbs is the way forward, so I got extra tonight, and it’s Pasta for breakfast tomorrow!
Just heard best mate Flyte has made it home. He really lives the doggy dream, travels all over, beach after beach, walk after walk👍
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Hi, Sniffer, good to hear from you. Hope that your bh is still able to give you a helping hand when your legs get a bit tired. I think I might just have a word or two with you-know-who and see if they will consider getting me one, as I can always pretend that my legs aren't a good as they used to be. However I doubt that they'll fall for that yet, although maybe in a few few year they might, the poor old things.
I'm just off out now for my last wander round the green so I'll have to drag him away from this computer thingy. However I'm sure I'll be able to drop in again tomorrow and we can have another chew of the fat!
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Hey yup Flyte💕 glad your humans got you home, right old palaver though all this. Will be on the Twilight Bark tomorrow👍
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Hello Sniffer,
I thought I'd comment on my Owners who seem to be acting even stranger the last few days compared to their earlier attempts while owning me for the last two years
When on a walk in the parks we keep our distance from my mates (Ben, Lassie, Satan and even Charlie who I adore) and despite my efforts to get to them the recall signal means I'm deprived of canine company.
Yesterday was something called a 'Birthday' for the Lady keeper, who apparently answers to the name 'Would you like a cup of tea?', and her relatives came round to my house but surprisingly sat quite a long way from her and the Man keeper.
As an aside, he normally answers to the name 'Will you be watching football on Sky?' but seems to have altered his name recently to 'What shall we have for tea?'.
The guests to my house yesterday as normal threw one on my tennis balls for me to chase and bring back to them – it's good exercise for them and some look as though they need it !
The keepers also spend more time in the little room, the one we dogs use for drinking water if our bowls get empty, and there's quite a bit of singing (always out of tune) from inside the little room so they must be up to something else as well.
Apparently someone called Pappa John is calling this evening with my supper – I'll keep an eye out for him later today.
They are off for some fruit at the Market in town in a short while and I have to guard their transport while they search for essentials - to keep their bowels moving apparently, whatever that means !
By the way, my name is Merl, short for Merlin, and the picture is of me active on the beach – do you love the wide open spaces of beaches ?
Hope to hear from you soon and keep wagging.
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Hey up Merl....oh yes, I love a beach. My humans got me when I was a mere stripling (8 months) I was a bit thick, hadn’t learned my name, so they gave me another one. I nearly got Satan, Diablo, Mephistopheles, Noisy one said it was what she saw when she looked into my eyes, but they relented, and I now have a posh, but easily yelled name, shortened to Rieves. Anyway, I digress, (much like the Noisy one usually does on here🙄) I was thrown into back of a big Jeep and taken on a long journey on my second day with my new owners. It was ok though, as they knew I had a cast iron tum and wouldn’t throw up. They hadn’t bargained with me not being quick to catch on that a walk meant a 💩, so I had great fun blowing their minds on that journey, every whine set them off yelling, “quick, stop”. They were well trained by the time we reached Penzance🐶 Home there was sort of a small cabin, but we all got on ok, including the gorgeous girl who I got to sleep with after a brief hello! Next day, they blew my mind, definitely brain out, run around idiotically on something called sand. Marvellous, it’s like a drug for dogs, you can never get enough. That wet crashing stuff had me puzzled for a while, but after 5 minutes I was in and swimming. Never looked back since. But I am a Labrador, and our legs get all sorts of things wrong with them, so I have to be more careful now, and I can’t walk as far as my brain tells me to. I still go “cracker dog” just to worry them though, that “kerching” look of shock sets on their faces, and I know it means “vet”😱
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Now then Sniffer, I'm Cassie, bit of Labrador, Spaniel come Collie.
I love going to the vets, I get treats there and food is the driver of everything.
On Tuesday I had an operation for a growth to be removed from my eyelid as it was rubbing my eye, it went well but the anaesthetic left me more than a bit 'windy' 
so my 'carers' opened all windows in their quest for fresh air. I couldn't see what the problem was
Today was a post op checkup and once out of the car, I dragged them at breakneck speed to reception, sat and put on my best 'pretty please' look, it worked a treat and I got a treat
Looking good I heard the Vet say and the stitches will eventually dissolve, but I wanted to get back to reception ASAP. Treats must cost a lot as after I had another one my human had to pay just under £700
I do hope they can afford to keep buying them for me 
We are lucky living in a small rural village with plenty of open spaces, so nothing has changed as yet with my walks, although at nearly 11 years old now they are quite a bit shorter than when I was younger and fitter.
Keeeeeep walking
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Hi all my name is Iggy, I'm a cute (well I think so) little black cat meow.
I don't really have an owner anymore as they decided they preferred a dog
so being as cats are very intelligent I decided I would adopt a couple of new slaves I've got a really good thing going now with 2 soft humans who seem to like my company. One is very old and doesn't get out much so I try to keep her company, the other one is a bit younger but keeps vanishing weeks on end, just back from somewhere hot by the looks of them as they have changed colour.Anyway back into by routine again of visiting each of them to keep them happy. The young one gave me a good feed, then a nice brush
I'm quite capable of cleaning myself but she seems to like doing it so I play along. They are busy just now so I've sneaked into their bedroom and made myself at home on their bed, they leave a nice furry cover on it just for me. It's nice having others to chat to so I may be back on here but for now I need to have a nice sleep Zzzzzzzzz.
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Hi My name is Tallulah, I'm a rescue chihuahua with loads of energy if anyone wants to play with me...🐕
I hope you don't think chihuahuas aren't much of a dog, did you see one of my friends at Crufts this year, she was very clever...
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Hi all, especially my buddy Rieves. I'm rather disappointed that they've drag me back home as I was looking forward to lots of new sniffs to sample while I was off in with white box thing that gets dragged behind my mobile home. It's back to the same old walks and smells again, however this morning I got a good run over the old slag bank, searching for those funny bunny things that keep disappearing down holes whenever I get anywhere near them. "He who must be obeyed... or maybe not" was at it again cleaning my mobile home. It happens every time we get back home and I know that it'll be just as mucky in no time at all I've no idea why he bothers!
It's getting that time again, so must dash. Keep sniffing one and all.
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Hey up Cassie, long time no see. Sorry to hear the old peepers have been playing up, mine aren’t too great nowadays either. I have to take lots of tablets for my arthritis, and it’s sort of stopped me crying, no tears, so I have three different sorts of drops. My humans are always muttering about “how much” when they ring the vets, but I love it there, they have Liver Pate, scrummy, Food of The Gods!
This self isolating isn’t so bad you know, but I still get a couple of walks, but never see anyone now. But the messages are there, mates are doing ok. I’m very lucky, I have a largish garden to play in, plenty of squirrels to chase, and the odd visiting cat. I reckon I could get on ok with a cat you know, only trouble is, they do like to tease. It’s that wafting tail thing.........
Back for an edit....hello everyone, good to have a pussy dropping in, great to hear some cat tails,😂 I think my humans have had cats as well, I can see some photos around, they are a pair of soft touches these two, rescue anything!
Tallulah.....now that’s what I call a name! Small pooch but big on character I bet.
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Weird aren’t they Flyte! All that effort on a box on wheels. I’d give anything to be able to chase bunnies, but the old legs are past it. Got mine well trained though, I have a chariot which they shove around for longer walks. I usually find that my legs go walking uphill, so there’s usually a lot of puffing from the Noisy One, but she needs the exercise, do her good! 😂
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Hello again Sniffer,
They didn't leave me for long yesterday morning in the transport device, and through the open window I could smell delicious food being cooked, and they came back smiling.
They had a couple of bags of fruit and vegetables, milk, sausage and fresh meat pies that I hope to help them eat if they leave any scraps for me.
The keepers chatted about how easy it was to use the well stocked local town centre shops and market stalls and how they'd laughed at the people struggling to park and then shop in the empty Supermarkets.
We had another walk across the deserted Golf course in the afternoon to chase the squirrels and rabbits – I will catch one eventually, I know I will !
I like to keep my keeper happy with all the exercise he gets by throwing a ball for half an hour and walking up and down the park and golf course.
They've promised me more time in the garden in the next few days and I intend to help them dig – even if it's not exactly where they need the digging done.
And I might find the couple of dozen tennis balls I've left up the garden during the last few months.
Just resting now in a sunny spot in the lounge near the Lady keeper who is putting little bits of cardboard on the dining table to make a picture– bless her, it should keep her happy for a few hours.
I can hear the Man keeper tapping slowly on something upstairs – I can't understand why he can't lie on the floor and keep me company.
Another hour or so to dinner time and, hopefully, a few tasty morsels.
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Wow, is that Decoupage Merl? They don’t half get up to some weird stuff at times don’t they. Noisy One here is fixated on wool at the moment, makes all sorts of stuff for keeping hands warm and as a sort of collar. She promised me a knitted collar, but it hasn’t appeared yet🙄
Quiet One is even more weird. He disappears up into some sort of man cave right at the top of the house, then you can hear a weird noise a bit like a giant wasp. I went up to find out what it was, but it was only his bike. He was pedalling but going nowhere. He puts loud music on as well, so things get a but loud. Noisy One gets really annoyed when she yells at him to come down for his dinner, and he can’t hear. But now she phones him so that stops his music!😂
Grandma Cheese is here at the moment. She was bundled into a big coat, hoiked into Jeep, then unwrapped and disinfected when we got home. She doesn’t scratch for fleas, so not sure what all the washing was for, but I am pleased to see her. She feeds me biscuits on the sly! Every dog needs a Grandma Cheese👍
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More walking, more gardening, more cycling going nowhere. A quiet day until........😱Noisy One heard me flap my ears. Bang, before you know it, I am pinned down, lugs turned inside out and she’s in there with all sorts of things. And then, no chance of recovery before the bl**dy flea treatment is out. Hells teeth......what a life!
Things......can only get better, whoo 👍
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Love reading this thread before bed. Nice and uplifting 😀 just what I need to settle down. Keep it up folks.
Sadly giving up on the dog hunt ourselves 😢 in light of the current situation. Mind you I'm still checking out the adoption websites 😂 but I don't think I could class checking out etc as essential travel and with OH in the high risk category I'm not sure on exercising new addition outside our garden 😂😂😂
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Hello again, just popped in to see how you are all doing. Been a busy day today as the sun has been out and the young human has been in the garden all day. I've been playing hide and seek under the bushes and had a mad 10 mins running around the garden. They feed me again but I'm not that keen on duck so didn't finish it all, will try and see if the old one has something better. As they were busy today I didn't get into the house for a sleep so I'm a bit tired now and need to go to the old ones house to sleep, she's on her own so I need to go and look after her, I know she is worried about having to stay in for 12 weeks on her own, the young one has a man human so doesn't need me to be there at night.
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Hi Bakers, I don’t mind being your virtual dog. Noisy One says if this blasted website was better she’d post some funny photos, but she’s too tight to sort out something that sizes photos better, and a bit dim anyway when it comes to techno gadgets🙄 But she’s a good human really, not bad at the walks and cuddles thing! I was allowed on the bed this morning, just for a post breakfast tickle, and it was their basket washing day, all bedding off, so it was nice. Sunday is toast morning as well, I usually blag a crust or two. I don’t have to ask in the MH, it’s easy to wake them up in there! Have to be careful where I plant the old paws though, otherwise the yelling starts🤣
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This is a younger me, looking handsome, on a beach! The other photo is of the house legend, an Airedale called Bingley. He was a bit of a lad apparently, and although we never met, I have tried to emulate his forte for naughtiness. This is the day he was caught red handed, having a nap in the four poster. Top marks for naughtiness👍
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Well Reiver that Bingley looks like he sets a very good example. Listen and look carefully you may hear and see other good things to do.
Tell your noisy one that she doesn't have to pay to post photos. Photo and picture Resizer is free app on android.
As I suspected our nocturnal visitor has finished hibernation and last night was seen wandering across the grass - those blasted sensor security lights make invisibility very difficult! Something to feed again, assuming there's anything in the shops 😤
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Hi folks, I'm Tinker I'm a visiting dog, my owners are working and I prefer to get my paws under the table of some gullible people rather than be left on my own. I'm ten years old, getting a bit portly but as I'm a terrier I can run things off. I have to share with a chihuahua now and I have to say I like her little chihuahua biscuits quite a lot and so does Rollo the cat who lives with my day time foster parents. In fact Rollo and I are probably getting one too many chihuahua biscuits and those in charge are trying to stop us...grrr.
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She’s terribly thick about such things Baker, and uses some strange box called an iPhone and an iPad, but will look into Resizer. You really do need to see more of me and the things I do.
That Bingley really did live the dream. He had two girls with him, pampering to his every need, although they did sometimes nick his treats apparently. Not only that, but they all got to live in Cornwall for around four months each year, so there was lots of beach visiting for them. I had a lovely girl who was my best friend, but she was a bit older than me, and got ill last year. I do miss her, we had some great times together. Noisy One thinks it would be too much to have another younger dog with me at the moment, but Quiet One might win, who knows......
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Great to be a visiting dog Tinker, best of both Worlds, you get to see mates, but still get spoilt as an only dog as well!
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Steady day today, local woods with Quiet One, Noisy was off on a mission to get Meds, including my Cocodamol, but we found her later, wandering the streets, peering at folks gardens. There was a lot of huffing and puffing replacing a drainpipe and fitting a water butt this afternoon. I had to assist, important that I am close at times like this, although I might have actually been a bit too close judging by the language at times when Quiet One was trying to step off ladders. But they got it done.
This Corona lurgy thing is getting to be a pain in the butt. Looks like long walks might be cur-tailed a bit now. Mind I don’t mind the local park, usually plenty of talent on parade in there, they will have to be careful with social distancing though, lots like to say hello to me in my chariot.
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Chihuahua New Owner Training...how to train your owner with kindness. 🐕
Step 1
Get a chewy stick and place it on your owner's shoulder.
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Repeat till they get used to the idea.
Step 3
Gradually move away, leaving the stick on your owner's shoulder, get them to respond, good girl or good boy.
Step 4
You'll now have your owners confidence.
Step 5
Leave the room and encourage your owner to stay with the stick on their shoulder.
Step 6
Your owner will now sit with a stick on their shoulder while you go off and chew a few chair legs, books or whatever you fancy chewing. Well done you have trained your owner!
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