Craziness ensured

[scottishlass]

Late last night I found out why our internet connection is so wonky. The new modem (the second one at that) is already kaputt (out of order). As we haven't been switch to the higher DSL rate, I actually hooked up our old modem and voila, I was online for straight 11 hours!!! Too bad our old modem can't handle the new DSL 6000 rate. So now I have to call the folks from Telecom AGAIN and complain AGAIN that their brandnew modem is crap. The first one didn't even switch on, and the second one has a faulty LAN port :s
Of course, those techie folks said it was MY fault because I hadn't configured our PC right. Yeah right. *fume*

As for Sunday. Our visit to the two young women who were interested in Cenour, was quite successfull until the point where we told them that he is deaf. They didn't know (obviously the lady from tis didn't tell them). I don't think that they will take Cenour and His Hubbiness™ and I will be taking him for good if that is the case.

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[barefootatkheb.livejournal.com]

Of course, those techie folks said it was MY fault because I hadn't configured our PC right. Yeah right. *fume*
*sporks techie folks*

would be great if you get to him him thou, ne?

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

He is a cute dog, and such a little klutz. And he is beautiful, but he was only our foster dog. Yet, the longer he stays with us the harder it will be to let him go. Perhaps he is destined to be with us, I don't know :)

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Don't you think it will be difficult for him, too - to change home again? I somehow hope that at the end he will stay with you.

[barefootatkheb.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he is destined to be with us, I don't know :)
could be ^^

[elfnut.livejournal.com]

I think Cenour would be very happy to stay with you and lucky to have you. If anyone else can't accept him as he is, its really a pity.

Lotsa love
Elf

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Oh he is very autarch in his behaviour. As long as he has a couch, regular food and cuddles whenever he wishes, he is happy. Probably.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think so too. After all he is a beautiful dog, esp. now with his winter coat he looks like a polar wolf but as soon as we mention his lucky paw (the arthritis) or his ears, ppl find him faulty. He is a wonderful, charming dog with lots of cheekiness and klutziness - he is in his Flegelphase now - but still ppl see him as defective.

*huggles*

[elfnut.livejournal.com]

I think that kind of people just don't deserve him!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yes, true. And we when ppl said that we already told them that there are other immaculate dogs around.

[elfnut.livejournal.com]

Abandoned dogs are seldom healthy or perfect (hell even bought puppies have issues).

Some people just want to take in a homeless dog to feel good with themsleves and say they did something generous. If they don't mean it, they shouldn't do it.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I know ... and that why so many ppl shy away from homeless dogs. They always think that they ether have psychological problems or are ill. They never think that their former owner were the ones that were ill by giving them away or abusing the animals.

Oh well, Cenour is save now, and if no one else wants him, we will.

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

For some reason I am glad that Cenour will be staying with you :) He looks adorable in the pic you posted. Btw. Does being deaf affect Cenour in a big way, like, does it make him less able to take care of himself?

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

No, he is okay. The only thing where he reacts differently/doesn't take care is when dogs approach him from behind. He can't hear so he gets really aggressive when someone sniffs him from behind (esp. male dogs). So as the owner/handler you need to listen for other dogs and whether they come up or not and keep him on a tight leash. He won't bite, not really, but he pinches which is really painful.
But other than that, he is okay. He still needs to learn to react to hand signs but we are working on it. He is a bit slow but I'm glad the infection he had in his middle ear, didn't affect his brain. According to the x-rays he doesn't have much middle ear bones left, no saddle bone, no anvil no nothing, the pus/sanies really took care of that.
But other than that he is really fit physically as well as mentally and he seems to rely on his nose more than e.g. Chica who is blind on one eye and relies more on her hearing.

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

He won't bite, not really, but he pinches which is really painful.
I wonder, how does a dog pinch? :D

I used to be okay with dogs (in Australia, my friends' dogs would lick me and all), but ever since I returned to Indonesia, I hardly ever come in close contact with dogs and cats, and for some reason now eventhough I'm not scared of dogs, I don't like being too close to them (unless they are really tame and uber cute like Chica perhaps, LOL).

With cats, though, I am a bit scared. My brother once took home a stray kitten and it was so super duper hyperactive and would sometimes scratch me, and ever since then I just didn't like being near cats. D loves cats and he's been trying to get me to do cat therapy, LOL. I still can't bring myself to do it >_>

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I wonder, how does a dog pinch? :D
Oh easy, they apply pressure to their jaws but don't close the jaw as if biting and breaking the skin. And Cenour never does it with humans. Once we played around a bit more roughly and he got my hand between his jaws by chance instead of his plaything and he immediately let go when he felt it was soft. He was sooo scared, but apart from a few blueish marks as if someone had pinched me with really tiny fingers, I was okay.
If he doesn't like a male dog he pinches the nose which is painful but never leaves any scars (he never breaks the skin with his teeth). Because he is deaf he assumes the others won't hear him as well, so this is his way of saying: Back Off, you don't have any right to sniff my behind and my gentalia.
On the other hand, male dogs he likes (our neighbouring dog who is not neutered, as well as a little pincher called Finn) are his best buddies. He sniffes, they sniff and then they just put their heads together and it like an old gentlemen's meeting in a club.

Cenour is a very gentle dog, he loves children and he is extra careful to stand totally still when little children hug him and all. He knows he is taller than the average 2 to 4 year old and much stronger, but he loves being cuddled and hugged. He has a little human girl-friend who gives him a hug every morning before going to kindergarden. We can never pass her door before she has appeared, he waits stoically until she turns up.

really tame and uber cute like Chica perhaps
Nothing has been ever farther from the truth. Chica is a typical terrier, if something is not to her liking she turns from Jekyll to Hyde. She has bitten me not only twice but more times than I care to count. She needs to get medication for her eyes and it has to be applied twice daily as she lacks lacrimal fluid in both eyes. After a year you should expect that she somehow got used to it, but no! Every morning and every evening it is a struggle to get her to take the eye drops. Our vet calls her killer as she needs to wear a small muzzle while being examined otherwise she will bite.
Don't get me wrong, she is uber cute and tame, but as soon as something goes against her own opinion of right or wrong, she becomes a little monster. E.G. you couldn't take a movie of Chica with her bone as we did with Cenour. She would be in your face, all fangs out, aggressively protecting her bone. But she is a little angel when ppl not me or His Hubbiness™ meet her, she always looks like she wouldn't have a care in the world and is the nicest little doggie there is, she just has her own personality. Just like Cenour who has this uber patient, wise personality with a bit of klutziness thrown in. He lives according to his own calm Zen; when looking into his eyes, it is as if you met all the wisdom in the universe and beyond.

I love cats, perhaps even more than dogs, but His Hubbiness™ is allergic to their hairs so when my cat died in 1998 when she was 15, I didn't get another kitten. I just like their mysteriousness and their independance but dogs are okay :)

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Hee... so I guess I was wrong about Chica being tame! :D But I did know already that Cenour has a lot of Zen. And that is so cute how he won't leave before the little girl gives him his morning hug :)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yep, he is a gentleman ... and he loves kids. He can't understand why some kids feel scared when we come (mostly kids with migration background who think dogs are not pets but work animals or evil). He always looks as if they have mortally wounded him and he hangs his head.
Even though his former owner had used and abused him (his arthritis stems from blows against his leg with a butt of a rifle and his ear infection was never treated when it first turned up), he never let it show. It is as if he has forgotten about it, now that he has a new life. Only when he sleeps sometimes you can notice that he dreams of his former life, then he whines and cries in sleep (Chica also did this in the first six months of her staying with us).

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Cenour sounds totally human. And so wise and gentle. Eeee! Adorable. His former owner treated him pretty awfully, huh? >_> So glad he has a good, caring owner now :)