Uninvited guests

[Gareth]

Hi

I went out yesterday without locking the kitchen door but leaving the dogs happily snoozing on their beds.
Holsten as usual must have had other ideas because when I came back the 3 weimies were waiting for me by the gate. Nothing new there!!!
Anyway with a sack of dog food on one shoulder and a sack of spuds on another I headed for back door to go into the kitchen, only to be greeted by Charlie (Boxer X) guarding his bed!!!!!!!!!
After dumping both bags on the work top I turned round to see he was actually guarding a hedgehog!!! which was curled up beside him (Very tightly). Obviously they'd found it in the garden but Charlie being Charlie had picked it up and taken indoors!!! I've seen him carry hedgehogs before but I had to wrap it in 2 towels to just to pick it up!!!!!

Anyway I mentioned it to Julie when she came home and she reminded me that this was not the first time they'd brought a friend home.

1. A few weeks before Alanna was due, all 5 dogs chased a squirrel around the front room while Julie was quietly watching True Movies.

2. Julie (Again) was making tea when Holsten brushed up against!! Only to feel something drop on her foot.
He'd only brought her a slow worm out of the garden. To this day I'm not sure who was the more frighten Julie, slow worm or Holsten but by the time I responded to the scream!! Holsten had legged it!!! and Julie was on top of the worktop on the other side of the kitchen. As you may have guessed Julie really really doesn't like slow worms. PMPL!!!!!!

Anyone else’s dogs like to bring friends round unannounced??

[Enzo's Butler]

They do like to have fun while unattended! I saw a slow worm in the garden one night last week, I'd never seen one before and was a bit surprised by it!

Thankfully mine have never brought anything in, but last night Enzo was doing something behind my sofa where the dog beds are. I thought he was just doing his usual roll around on the floor, but when Rossi got up to see what he was up to I thought I'd better look. They were both standing looking underneath Rossi's bed. I really didn't want to see what they were looking at but I made myself get on the floor and look underneath the bed. There was the hugest spider I have ever seen and they wanted it! I ran out of the room to distract them with supper. When they had gone upstairs to bed I had to lock the conservatory doors and it was sitting on the curtain. Mark had gone to bed so I had to bravely run past it to lock the doors up.

I don't know if it was the same one, but this morning I got up and saw one outside my office door. I made Mark get up and get rid of it.

[Maddie's Mum]

OMG that is so funny! How does manage to carry a hedgehog??? Our ol' boy Ben would bark madly at hedgehogs but could never manage to pick one up....not for the want of trying.

The only 'friends' any of my lot have brought home have been dead moles. Our old cat Rocky would kill and leave the moles by the back door and Ben and Holly would bring them in and drop them on the floor at our feet. My SIL, iwho often stayed with us for the weekend, would go hysterical, running round the house screaming as she can't do small furry things. I swear B and H did it to her on purpose just for the entertainment!

[Liz]

Max used to carry hedgehogs - daft dog He didn't mind the prickles, but I wasn't over keen on the fleas

[Joan]

Never had anything brought in by the dogs as far as I remember but years agowe had a long haired cat. he curled up on my lap one day and I felt something cold and damp.

It was a slug stuck in his fur, yuk, never moved so fast in my life. I had to cut his hair to get rid of it. He regularly brought birds and mice in, and once a huge rat which he killed in the kitchen, blood everywhere, but it was ths slug that really turned my stomach.

[Lisa Coull]

Unbelievable that Charlie will pick up a hodgepig, Callie was playing with one a few years ago but she gave up trying to pick it up It's the ticks and fleas that freak me out with hodgies. Thank goodness mine have never brought me a slow worm, I think I'd drop dead in shock!!!!

The only thing that gets to share Della's bed are the numerous tea towels and dishcloths she hijacks off Angus after he's nicked them - do they count

[crockie]

I regularly get brought allsorts, horses, cats, dogs, rabbits

Thankfully thought they are all furry stuffed toys from the kids bedrooms

[Gareth]

:rwl: Unbelievable that Charlie will pick up a hodgepig,

The first time Charlie picked one up we were walking the river!! In fact that night we found 3 of them or should I say Tara was finding them and Charlie was running around with them in his mouth.
The funny thing is not him carrying them but watching me trying to get them back out of his mouth. One hand on the top of his muzzle and the other on the bottom trying to force his mouth open (Won't leave)!! Then shaking his head to get the hedgehog to drop out, while trying to stop the other 3 getting at it and Charlie grabbing the hog again and legging it!!!!! The night they found 3 hogs I actually put Charlie on the lead before he found another!!!!

[marylb]

I wouldn't like uninvited guests of any kind BUT if any of my dogs brought in a simple earthworm then I'd be off like a shot

maryx

[lesca]

Strider always used to find a hedgehog in the garden and he wouldn't come in and would leg it round the garden. I had to go and get thick gardening gloves so I could get it out of his mouth. I used to put the hedgehogs out of the garden but the silly things always come bck the next night!!

[mandy]

Arnie used to pick up fully grown hedgehogs and bring indoors very proud of himself. I used to have to wrap them in a towel and release them out in the front garden where the dogs don't go. On occassions it would be an almost nightly ritual, I'm sure it was the same hedgehog everytime!

We once had a cat that brought us home 4, 3/4 grown live rats and left them in the kitchen. They hid underneath the floor standing boiler, I shut hubby in there with a lump of wood and wouldn't let him out till he'd got rid of them.

[wendy]

I had something unwanted brought in when i had the dog flap.

Woke up and saw something brownish on the bedroom floor.............thinking the dogs had been disgusting and brought in poo i got up and went to the bath room for loo roll. Back to bedroom to pick up offending item only to find out it had claws It was a ruddy rats front leg!

At least they had eaten the rest of it .............or rather Holly had

[ali-g]

purdey never brought anything in but when the cat was younger we have had, mice,birds including a big song thrush, a rat)thankfully dead) frogs and the strangest thing was a live bat

these days we get the odd small bird or mice, i hate the mice as usually he brings them in alive and then looses them, so im on tenderhooks for days until they turn up and we manage to either catch them, trap them or the cat kills them

[Mckinley]

On Tuesday evening Mack went out for his bed time patrol and after a short while became noticeable by his absence from the back door.

Upon investigation we found him pointing like crazy into our now overgrown strawberry patch. He refused to come in, be pulled in or persuaded to be moved in any way When I got there he was nose to nose with a Hog, both refusing to budge The Hog only curled up when I grabbed Mack`s collar and Mack started howling in disgust at being dragged away from his new spikey mate - who we`ve called "Dave"



Two weeks ago he came in from the garden with bird pooh all down his back Then we realised that every time he went into the garden he went straight and sat under a particular tree and wouldn`t move? Again upon investigation , there was a pigeon nesting just above his nose, he could have easily grabbed it but he took to just sitting there willing it to come down and play It must have been the mother that poohed on him !!! The baby, who we called "Fugly" (If you`ve ever seen a baby pigeon with no feathers you`ll know why!!) fledged last weekend much to the disappointment of his big eared long nosed grey friend !


................... and my favourite "McKinley wants a friend story" entitled "How to upset the Saturday Girl at the pet shop" Mack and I were looking into the rabbit pens whilst Mandy was elsewhere in the store. Mack had pointed at first, then dropped to his belly, then settled on just sitting bolt upright with his ears held high and sporting that Weimy "furrowed brow stare" at all the hopping bunnies just the other side of the glass . The ever so helpful assistant came over and said "Oh what a handsome dog, my name`s Katy, can I help you with anything today sir?" It all went a bit bent when I replied "Yes love, he`s a hankering for a rabbit, do we have to despatch it at home - or will you kill it here in the shop for us?" Fortunately Mandy wandered around the corner at this point and screamed "RUSSELL!!!! Are you doing the dead rabbit joke again???"

She took it well........... eventually