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LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 7:43:18 AM)

There's one nearby here in Cheshire who are a charity and they use their own money they make in their jobs to care for the animals, I support them where I can, they had to put down some animals, but they were fighting for the lives of them and were in tears (badly abused horses that just didn't recover) and they take in all sorts of animals. I sometimes even brought the people who run it food, as they were literally living on rice because they spent their money on vet bills.



ExiledTyrant -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 7:49:05 AM)

The Exiled system for successful feather removal:

1. Get a leaf blower.
2. Choose which neighbor you like the least.
3. Open the window closest to the neighbor you like the least.
4. Blow all the feathers out that window.
5. When the neighbor gets home, ask if they had seen the size of that chicken that those wild dogs killed all over their yard?
6. Reaffirm your shock and awe over the gargantuan size of the chicken, and had the wild dogs not been successful, your little town could've looked like Tokyo after Godzilla ravaged it. Good dogs... Feckin spooky chicken.
7. Turn, smile, cover mouth stifling giggles, return home.
8. Pour wine for hubby, describe in detail the look on the neighbors face, laugh.
9. Post an update here about the experience.

Exiled



LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 7:54:22 AM)

The fan blower worked pretty well, just checked, though freezing temperatures in the living room now, the stormy weather will carry my feathers all over town, if I read something in the local news about gargantulan chicken spreading feathers all over the town center, I shall not snicker...



LadyConstanze -> Almost Feather Free (2/17/2014 9:18:44 AM)

My thanks to the joiner and carpenter shop nearby for that big vac...



kalikshama -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 9:47:20 AM)

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And yes, I didn't think twice about rehoming my dog that ripped 3 feather pillows and a feather duvet and caused a blizzard in my bedroom. I had no qualms about doing that and would do it again in a heart-beat.
I actually got a ticking-off from the rescue centre for allowing my dog to get bored enough to do that sort of thing in the first place.


My rescue husky had behavioral issues for a while after we got him. Turned out he had separation anxiety. My OH started taking him to work with him which solved the problem. Eventually, we were able to leave him alone.

This isn't him, but a pretty accurate representation of what happened when he "blew his coat."

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LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 9:51:08 AM)

This is how my living room looked, only with a rust and tan and a black and tan Dobie looking very innocently....



FrostedFlake -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 5:16:11 PM)

Chasing the dog through the living room with a shop vac, snapping up feathers out of the air. The cat, under the sofa, does the fear-joy thing the Germans probably have a word for.



DesFIP -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/17/2014 8:03:17 PM)

Thankfully I've never had a feather disaster but my late golden retriever blew his coat constantly. I cleaned the coils on the fridge every six months and it still stopped working. I had to move up to an every three month routine just for his fur. Apparently refrigerators don't work when the coils are insulated by an inch deep of dog fur.



LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 2:33:10 AM)

I have 2 short haired cats and 2 short haired dogs, by rights and with the amount of fur they shed, all my pets should be nekkid!

Not hoovering for a day and the wooden floors look fur carpeted... Big cat is the worst offender, I try to brush him every day (against his protest and claws), I'm sure what comes out of him, I could have knitted several cats and dobies from it!



Lynnxz -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 4:27:07 AM)


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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

blew his coat constantly.



I've never heard this term, and I'm picturing a violent and spectacular event



LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 5:08:03 AM)

Just had a happy mouse hunt, one of the cats brought a mouse in, both cats watched amused how I tried to catch the mouse with a box, Kia wanted to sniff and mother the mouse, Alfie barked at it (must defend house from dangerous mouse), unfortunately next to a cat who slapped him for noise disturbance...

Mouse caught and set free in the little park across the road, getting very disapproving looks from the cats, I guess no great marks for my chase style and performance...



DomKen -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 6:37:04 AM)

You'd think between the 2 dobies and 2 cats one of them would have at least chased the mouse for you.



LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 6:43:33 AM)

Oh the Dobie girl loves everything that is small and furry and wants to mother it (the cats get regularly carried to her bed and cleaned), the boy barked at the mouse, the cats seemed to be fairly amused by my attempts to catch the mouse, and somehow I had the distinctive impression that it was almost like the jury in an ice skating competition, you know where they give marks for style, performance, creativity... The possibly thought since that they brought me the mouse, their job is done and I can amuse myself with it now or thought that they brought me lunch...



DomKen -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 6:54:17 AM)

The dog carries the cat around? This I'd like to see. My brother's boxer tries to mother my cat when they come over but she gets a face full of claws for her trouble.

And of course the cats were judging you. That's what cats do.



LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 7:11:46 AM)

The cats and dogs have a very weird arrangement, on the stairs the cats can be chased and if the girl catches them, she picks them up by the neck, super carefully like a puppy, cats get floppy, she carries them to her bed, puts a paw on their head and cleans them. It ends with a soaking wet cat and a pleased looking Dobie, once she stops the cat runs up to the bedroom with a face like thunder and complains A LOT. Of course if she isn't careful and has her paw on a cat head, there will be swipes, but the cats don't use their claws with the dogs, but if they whack them, you can hear the impact noise.

On the landings is sort of neutral ground, in the rooms the cats rule absolutely and will on occasion actually clean the dogs and the dogs are pretty deferential to the cats, open doors for them (cats miow and dogs come running).

I don't have a picture of the girlie cleaning the cats, but I snapped one the other day of the boy putting his head on my lap and the cat starting to clean his ears. Both dogs love cats but learned the hard way that not all cats love dogs and that putting up a big Dobie nose up a cat's bum can hurt a lot.

Dobie girl is just super motherly (she's on Incurin as she's been spayed - all my pets are neutered - which makes her motherly feelings even more pronounced), the poor thing needed once 3 stitches in her nose as she wanted to mother a bunny, the bunny didn't know that it had acquired a Dobie mom and bit her, can't really blame the bunny for being terrified, if a T-Rex would try to sniff me, I might try to bite too....

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MAINEiacMISTRESS -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 7:19:19 AM)

Get a roll of wide tape and wrap it sticky-side-out to something you can both roll and "spot dab", like for instance a 2 liter soda bottle. Essentially you are making a giant lint roller with it.

Good luck.


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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

So it's raining again today and I was working on the computer, ignoring the cats terrorizing the dogs ("wet outside, we can't go out, it's boring, OK, we're cats, we go and slap a bunch of Dobies, because we're cats and we can....") then heard the dogs playing with each other, didn't think much of it, only they were apparently playing tug of war over a feather pillow, lounge now looks like it snowed, I'm vacuuming like crazy but the bastarding feathers are just about everywhere... Is there a simple trick because whenever you move with the hoover, you get some but more are just flying about and make you sneeze...

Btw the dogs try to tell me it was the cats who did it, the cats look bored and give me the "Whatevaaaaaaa" look and on occasion paw a feather.




LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 7:25:06 AM)

Thanks, worked it out, got a fan blower from the body shop nearby (opened window, blew feathers out, a bit like one of those leaf blowers) and then one of those industrial vacuums from a big joiner and carpenter company also really near, they told me to pick it up after they closed for the day and I returned it this morning, most of the feathers are gone, but I might try double sided sticky tape for getting into nooks and crannies, there are a few feathers still in the sofa and behind the heaters...



theshytype -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 7:34:14 AM)

So thankful our dog doesn't do any damage, other than shedding. Being a short-haired dog, we're amazed at the amount of hair he sheds.
I would love a cat, though. My husband doesn't want one, believes them to be evil little destroyers.
Maybe that's why I like them so much. It's pure talent what they can do with a roll of toilet paper.



LadyConstanze -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 7:42:03 AM)

Mine don't do much damage, it was just bad luck that they decided to play tug of war with a pillow that fell of the sofa, they don't chew shoes or anything like that, the only problem we had with the boy was really that when we got him he was one confused dog, at the age of 2 he already had 5 homes and suffered abuse as a puppy, so he was a nervous pisser for a while, and my shoe shelves were his fave spot, litlle bastard never peed on wellies or Dr. Martens, he had excellent tastes, Jimmy Choo, Prada, Gucci... The problem was that he's quite tall, so he could reach the higher shelves with a good stream.... Luckily that only lasted for a week and was really just him being nervous and trying to mark his new territory



DomKen -> RE: Feathers?????? (2/18/2014 7:45:51 AM)

I wish I had a good camera. I've been taking Abbie, my cat, out on a leash into the huge piles of snow we have beside my apartment building. She's a Maine Coone and loves playing in the snow. All I get with my phone are kind of blurry shots that could be my cat or could be bigfoot.



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