Assuming you're serious... try positive reinforcement (aka sheer, utter, shameless bribery with one thing your dog loves the most. sometimes it happens to be the stinkiest tennis balls, hot dogs, or smelliest cat food (uhmm, I'm running on a theme here)).
It could also be that your dog is just claustrophobic... -E. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dammit! Why can't I get my Chihuahua Nico, who like all of his breed loves > to burrow -- wraps himself up in the bedding until he can't be found -- why > can't I get him to accept a small portable kennel or pet carry bag? > > I tried a small plastic kennel, but gave up. A year before I'd ordered a > Timbuktu pet carrying backpack with the little nose hole and everything. > Laid it on his basket, left it for a week for familiarity (and > inconvenience, hoping he'd sleep in it rather than on the tile floor), > inserted scrumptious treats; all to no avail. I finally tried brute force > but damn, it was like trying to stuff an earthworm into a straw -- except > that the earthworm was spazzing from a high-voltage electrocution. > Fortunately I was able to brush all the hair off (the pack was black) and > get a full refund. Silly little shit! > > I'd love to have a way to carry Nico on a bike. A couple of years ago I > came across a young man on a commodity mtb carrying his little Chihuahua > (1/2 N's size; N is pure but ~9-10 lb; this one must have been 4-5) in a > cheap backpack -- nozzle sticking out from under the lid. He said he rode > all over ABQ with her. Stupid dog! > > Nico is mellow for a C -- which is why I bought him; didn't like the breed > before, savage little rats. But he has anxiety "issues". > > Perhaps I should drug him first .... Any suggestions for canine behavioral > modification? > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Tom Harrop <twhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Excuse the poor quality, but I thought I'd post this anyway, just in case >> the internet runs out of cat photos... >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *[I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore > himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to > destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his > needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely > having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in > electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing > so.”* > * > -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* > > *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, > I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have > the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and > though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not > money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and > though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me > nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money > vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh > not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in > iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all > things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, > these three; but the greatest of these is money. * > * > -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
