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3 Apr 2009
A hilarious music video: Period Drama Montage "It's Raining Men" by DreamyViper @YouTube. Fairly decent vidding relying mostly on Austen films, Hornblower, and Wives & Daughters. There's some stuff like North & South that I haven't seen; the absence of Master and Commander struck me forcibly, especially given Hornblower's presence.
But then, even more striking is the extreme lack (in existence, I mean, not in the vid) of other dramas from near the same period as Austen. I want more delicious production design and costumes. Sigh.
But then, even more striking is the extreme lack (in existence, I mean, not in the vid) of other dramas from near the same period as Austen. I want more delicious production design and costumes. Sigh.
I've got the peein' dog blues
3 Apr 2009 09:43 pmUnfortunately my dog, Perry, has come un-potty-trained (or rather, housetrained: he's never peed on the actual toilet) in the last few months.
He's about 12 years old, and has had a pretty good bladder and no accidents except when sick after he was housetrained, but a few months ago he either had a bladder infection or just some incontinence and peed on the floor inside a couple of days.
In retrospect I see it was my fault, although I don't think I could have predicted what would happen. I knew something was wrong with him. He showed me the pee himself and hovered guiltily with his tail drooping while I cleaned it up the first few times, requiring reassurance before he'd go away. He also peed as close as possible to the cat litter box at first (which is in the bathroom - which is to say, the toilet in European terms, since the sauna and shower room are separate) and then outside it. Well, he was paper-trained in the process of house-training him; so I put some paper outside the bathroom where he'd peed, and we took him to the vet. He got some medicine that was supposed to give him better control of his urinary tract, if that was the problem. It didn't though.
Instead of stopping peeing on the floor, he started peeing on the floor more often and then pooping on the floor too. Now it's clear that he just thinks night time is free-for-all time and he'll pee and poop in the same place regardless of whether the paper's there; he'll never go inside when somebody's up, even if I pull an all-nighter, but even if I just go to bed to nap for three hours in the middle of the day he'll pee on the floor.
So now I just have no idea what to do. Consult an animal behaviourist? Get dog diapers? (But will that even work? He sleeps in my bed!)
He's about 12 years old, and has had a pretty good bladder and no accidents except when sick after he was housetrained, but a few months ago he either had a bladder infection or just some incontinence and peed on the floor inside a couple of days.
In retrospect I see it was my fault, although I don't think I could have predicted what would happen. I knew something was wrong with him. He showed me the pee himself and hovered guiltily with his tail drooping while I cleaned it up the first few times, requiring reassurance before he'd go away. He also peed as close as possible to the cat litter box at first (which is in the bathroom - which is to say, the toilet in European terms, since the sauna and shower room are separate) and then outside it. Well, he was paper-trained in the process of house-training him; so I put some paper outside the bathroom where he'd peed, and we took him to the vet. He got some medicine that was supposed to give him better control of his urinary tract, if that was the problem. It didn't though.
Instead of stopping peeing on the floor, he started peeing on the floor more often and then pooping on the floor too. Now it's clear that he just thinks night time is free-for-all time and he'll pee and poop in the same place regardless of whether the paper's there; he'll never go inside when somebody's up, even if I pull an all-nighter, but even if I just go to bed to nap for three hours in the middle of the day he'll pee on the floor.
So now I just have no idea what to do. Consult an animal behaviourist? Get dog diapers? (But will that even work? He sleeps in my bed!)