Claire
Master Chef
Anyone have experience with pet esp? I call it EPP now, extra puppy perception, but my kitties had it as well. All of my doggies have been crate-trained to some degree. Rosebud was when we got her from the rescue facility. I don't think she ever had a home before ours, I think she was part of a litter that some idiot dropped off the highway. So she knows that if she is in her crate, someone will feed her and care for her.
But the seeming extra-sensory stuff just kills me. She goes into her "bedroom" (the crate) when she thinks we're leaving. At first we thought it was something we said to each other. So stopped doing that. Then we thought it was changing our shoes. But today, 45 minutes before we're to go out, she is lying in her crate. We haven't changed clothes, and really haven't discussed it. Is it mind waves we're giving off? We never have to ask or command her to get in her crate, because she loves it there. She has a hand-crochetted afghan of her own, a nyla-bone. We leave the TV on for her, and we give her a treat. All of the truly good things that have happened in her year -long life have happened since someone found her on the side of the road and put her in a crate. But ... how does she know?
But the seeming extra-sensory stuff just kills me. She goes into her "bedroom" (the crate) when she thinks we're leaving. At first we thought it was something we said to each other. So stopped doing that. Then we thought it was changing our shoes. But today, 45 minutes before we're to go out, she is lying in her crate. We haven't changed clothes, and really haven't discussed it. Is it mind waves we're giving off? We never have to ask or command her to get in her crate, because she loves it there. She has a hand-crochetted afghan of her own, a nyla-bone. We leave the TV on for her, and we give her a treat. All of the truly good things that have happened in her year -long life have happened since someone found her on the side of the road and put her in a crate. But ... how does she know?