First off, Princess Hallie got her highest score yet this weekend at the dog shows. I'm proud of my little patootie. She is entered this weekend as well.
Secondly, is anyone elses doxie TERRIFIED of cooking? I rarely cook (I hate it passionately) but I have cooked this or that maybe once a month or so. Every single time I do, Hallie runs and hides, and shakes all over (this dog is used to everything and goes everywhere with me and nothing phases her so this is really odd to see her like that). I just now cooked some frozen salmon and Hallie was so traumatized by it she would not eat her dinner in the kitchen. VERY very odd to see her turn her nose up to food and run off. SHe ate it like normal when I brought it into the living room but she is still all shaky poor thing. I am almost sure she smells smoke because three times in the past, we've been in smoke (at a barbeque, near a fireplace, etc) and each time she has done the same thing...shake all over and look for a place to hide. She also avoids people who smell like cigarette smoke. A big part of me thinks YES!!! A great excuse to never cook! :thumb: But sometimes I do have to bake her training cookies and stuff. I doubt there is anything I can do (other than never cook again LOL) but just wondered if anyone elses doxie is afraid of their mom's cooking....
ROFL!!
No mine love when i cook they wait and hope for something to drop on the floor so they can snarf it up!
Sarah is afraid of the garbage can though... one time when she was younger my mom knocked the lid off and it smacked the floor really loud about a inch from her and ever since that day she runs when you open the lid... ONLY the kitchen garbage can i have a smaller one with a lid up here next to the computer and she doesn't even pay attention when i open it... silly girl :)
Jen
Congratulations to Hallie on her performance last weekend! She is just so smart!!!
Kendall-angel was the same way with smoke. Randy is a huge popcorn eater and occasionally I would burn it. If it was bad enough to smoke up the kitchen, Kendall would be under the bed shaking. Schatzi isn't like that, though. The amazing thing with Kendall-angel was she was perfectly okay if we were outside and I was cooking on the grill. That smoke didn't bother her, only what was in the house.
Congrats to Miz Hallie BB!!! As far as cooking goes, I don't do that much (mostly heat things in the microwave) but if I do cook, especially chicken, they hang out in the kitchen and whine and moan until they get some. They have never been afraid of anything cooking. I also have a fireplace and they are not afraid of it. The thing mine are most afraid of is thunder.
Yay Hallie BB!! You GO girl!!!
Now as far as the cooking thing goes, perhaps Hallie is simply feeling your bad vibes about that horrid task, maybe? Maybe the lady had a bad cooking day in her puppy life, who knows. As for my hooligans, they can't WAIT for me to start stirring something up in the kitchen. I love to cook and tend to be a sloppy cook, so something is bound to fall on the floor during preparation. And if I pull out the broccoli? They go CRRRRRAZY! They love the stalks. I always give 'em a chunk of stalk but not too much. Don't want them passing gas a little later on. :nana:
And speaking of cooking, here's a quick and easy recipe I made up tonight.
Bacon Shrimp Wraps
4 slices of bacon cut in half
8 large raw shelled and deviened shrimp
Place bacon on a microwave proof plate and cover with a sheet of paper towels, securing the towels under the plate. Place bacon on plate in microwave and cook on HIGH for about 4-5 minutes.
Let cool a bit so bacon is easy to handle. Wrap a piece of bacon around each shrimp. (Bacon should be limp and about 3/4 of the way cooked.) Place paper towel back on the now wrapped shrimp on the plate and continue to cook on HIGH for about 3-4 more minutes.
Serving size 8 shrimp wraps
whahoooooo Ms H on your win.
To mumsy tell her to spray tinfoil with oil and place the salmon on it and wrap it like a parcel and put it in the oven , yes that thing that sits in the kitchen and could look like a TV. at about 150C for about half an hour , therefore nice fish no burny smell.
Roberta
ps if I was closer we could do a cookery class for you. Perhap the rest of us should send you some real easy recipes
pps wez only get scared of da when mum forgets to take the plastic containers out the oven before turning it on. yuuuccckkkkkkkkie
Way to go Halle!!!
The only thing that scares Ozzy is when I get into the cabinet where I keep the pans and start banging around. I usually end up having the jumbled array of pans fall out on the floor; that's how unorganized my kitchen is! He hates any kind of loud noise.
Otherwise, he is right there in the kitchen, waiting for something to hit the floor - there is NO 5-second rule in our house!
Good job to the team of Hallie and her mom !!!! Congrats !!!!
Bet Hallie had a bad smoke incident in her past....and I would definatly take that as an excuse NOT to cook - woo hoo !!!! Maybe when you know you are going to cook something - give her a bully stick to chew on in the living room and maybe she won't notice. Maybe she just doesn't like fish.... HA !
I don't do much cooking either - but my kids are right there under foot in case they might get a nibble. At Thanksgiving and Christmas when I had to be in the kitchen for a long time, I just moved their beds in there with me. They snuggled in and kept one eye open for anything hitting the floor !!!!
Oh boy, this is TOO funny, you really left yourself WIDE open on this one, DD. Hallie is terrified because "oh no, mommy is TRYING to cook again! She might make me eat it!!!"
No, seriously, she is probably smelling smoke or something. Who knows what she went thru in her past but if she was ever trapped in a place where it was smoky or if there was a fire, she'd never get over it fully.
One time Domingo was playing with one of those floating tank heaters and pulled it out onto the dirt floor in the barn, so it smoked. None of the horses would go anywhere near that barn for 3 days! Its the "fight or flight" thing in them, and being prey animals, they're gonna get the heck out of there if they think there is a fire. We threw that heater away and bought a Rubbermaid heater that goes with their really neat 300-gal. water trough, and the heater is installed in the bottom of the tank so curious young horses won't think its a toy.
Congratulations to Hallie on her recent accomplishments!!! That is great, I would love to see her perform.
Congrats to Miss HAllie on her recent accomplishments!
About the cooking it could be that she is smelling smoke. Is it possible that something is on one of the burners that smells of smoke when you turn on the oven/stove? Cajsa goes nuts whenever the smoke alarm goes off at our house. It does that pretty regularly when I'm making bruschetta as David likes it barely this side of burnt instead of just toasted. If I mistjudge, it gets burnt and smokes! Something funny though is that if David goes to cook, she will run away and get out of the kitchen and sit by the front door. It could have something to do with the fact he's set the kitchen on fire twice in the past year. LOL! (Nothing was harmed but a cooker/lid, but there were a lot of flames!)
I think Cajsa running to the front door when David goes to cook is even funnier than Hallie running from DeeDee. It seems that Cajsa knows who the dangerous one is in the family!! :2funny:
Hhmmmmmmmm, I too, think it's the smoke smell. And since ya don't cook that often it may or may not be a problem. Are the situations so frequent that it is a problem for you guys, or just something that ya only notice when it happens? Were there any smoke alarms or other sensory assaults connected with the fear? Mebbe fireworks? That would be a sensory experience that ANY dog would long remember.
If it's a problem, (like you start dating a fire fighter :thumb:) you might want to de-sensitize her. And I can think of no better way than to start adding a pleasurable sensation to the smoke. This involves several trips to the Drive Thru at Burger King :apls: and yeah, I'm not kidding. If you want her to not be fearful of the smoking smell, Hallie needs to associate the smoke with a pleasurable sensation--and not her fear. You'll notice I didn't advocate that you actually cook!!! That would be wrong! :crazyeyes: ha ha! But if this is somethin' that you can live with and doesn't happen very often, I'd say let it pass as a quirk.
Of course, you're not rushing to soothe her when this happens, 'cause I know that you know this will only reward her behavior.
And a great big WAY TO GO YOU GUYS for the great performance!!!! :urock:
LOL after reading these posts, I think we have a whole herd of nutty doxies on this board! ;) Ooooh Sandy...thanks for the recipe (someone try it and let us know!) Dee Dee can't do shrimp (huge maggots) or bacon (raw fat with little strips of dead pig)...the salmon is pushing my limits of what I can touch that was once alive. :grin: Roberta I did put it on tin foil the last 2 times but forgot this time! That is my MO...think as little about the cooking process as possible. :) Dang it. I'll remember next time. Although the two times I did cover with tin foil she still acted like the sky was falling...
Yes I wonder too if Hallie had a bad smoke incident in her past although I hope not. I tried giving her special treats, chewies, etc but she wouldn't even eat her dinner! :dontknow: Yikes Patty I remember that story of Domingo and the water tank heater. He might have turned out to be one of those "curly horses"! I agree with you guys it's probably a smoke smell doing it but I dont' smell it if it is! She does this no matter what is in the oven, even her training cookies that I make (and she loves those). I never smell whatever it is she does.
Les she does it every time I use the oven, never when I use the stove top or microwave. You are right, I don't cook enough that it's a big problem but when I do, it's sort of tense because although she never EVER jumps on furniture by herself normally, she always runs in and jumps up on the chair in the computer room when I'm cooking (she knows she'll get mommy's attention then) so even though I will close that door, I have to keep watching her to be sure she doesn't jump on the sofa or something else in the living room. I can't block her into the kitchen with me in any way because that is where she is the most terrified. Its too cold to put her in her crate in the van in the garage and too cold to let her sit at the back door like she wants. So I can't cook and let her be on her own at the same time. LOL OH yes she goes through drive thrus with me several times a week!! (in my defense...it's usually salads, baked potatoes, etc) and that doesn't bother her at all, she loves that. :thumb: There have not yet been smoke alarms or other sensory assaults...unless you count my bouts of profuse swearing as I cook. :) (which doesn't bother her...believe me, she just finds me funny! LOL.) Fireworks don't bother her, it gets real smokey around my house on the 4th and loud and she just sits and watches them with me.
those are all good thoughts though you have me thinking deeper....it just seems to be the smoke smell, since she's been terrified of it before I'm just guessing that is what it must be here. Maybe I'll just have to cook in the summer only when she can sit outside in the sun til I'm done! Heh.
QuoteOf course, you're not rushing to soothe her when this happens, 'cause I know that you know this will only reward her behavior.
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Does running up to her with arms outstretched talking baby talk, scooping her up and hugging her tight with her little head tucked in around the back of my neck, patting her back and apologizing to her up and down that Mommy scared her with her cooking, and kissing her all over her face count as "soothing"? :verdict: