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Red Rascal	May 12 2009, 07:33 PM
Chatterbox Posts: 866 Group: Full Members Member #646 Joined: April 15, 2008	Well today I got big surprise, Rascal growled at me for the first time ever! I normally give him chicken wings to clean his teeth but thought they looked a bit dull so got him his first ever marrow bone from the butchers, it was huge and at least a foot long if not more. :D He wasn't sure what to do with it at first and was licking it on top of his bowl and then pulled onto the floor and after about five minutes managed to get it to his mat in the conservatory. I thought it was funny and got the camera to take a picture, I bent down to take the photo and he growled! I put down the camera and just said Rascal and he growed again! He was blocking the the door to the garden and I wanted to open it so I just got all matronly and took the bone from him (leaving it on the floor) and ushered him towards the door with my legs, while opening it and ushering/shoving him out. :blush: I then made him sit and stay while I put the door stop against the door, and then marched back into the bone while telling him to stay and picked it up and then put it back down, he was totally watching me like a hawk. I then released him and he ran and got the bone taking down the garden. He was chewing it for nearly two hours and has just brought it in (now a lot smaller) to the house, and chewing on his mat in the sitting room (beside my husband) like he does his usual chicken wings, although he is still doing his regular evening back garden patrol, checking next doors cats don't come in :rolleyes: :D and taking the bone back and forth with him. Did I do the right thing? :unsure: I was really surprised when he growled at me as he never has before, it wasn't a really vicious growl more like a warning growl, like he did today at a border pup he was playing with when she started swinging from his tail. And if I dealt with wrongly :err: please tell me what I should of done.


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