The Labraventures of Carbón, Spanish (ex-) foster dog extraordinaire

Lisa

Lisa

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Alberta, Canada
I love Carbon’s front view, but admit to a fondness for the waggy tail view, too!:nod:

So I admit to puzzlement on how you will get him under the seat in an actual plane. Does he have to go behind the seat and scoot under? Or in front and scoot back? Either way it boggles my
mind how it works. There’s so little room for either manoeuvre! Is your seat in the last row?
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Lisa said:
So I admit to puzzlement on how you will get him under the seat in an actual plane. Does he have to go behind the seat and scoot under? Or in front and scoot back? Either way it boggles my
mind how it works. There’s so little room for either manoeuvre! Is your seat in the last row?
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Technically what he'll need to do for a normal seating row (not bulkhead) is reverse into the row, lay down facing my seat and then scoot backward into what would normally be my foot space under the seat in front of me. That would leave his lower body under the seat and his head facing me.

However...when I made my reservation they gave me a bulkhead seat. That means all he has to do is walk on the plane and lay down. Easy peasy. So I've not been quite as dedicated to teaching him scoot as I could have been. :sneaky:

The bulkhead is the first leg of the trip (Munich to Denver) then we have a smaller plane to San Jose. It's practically empty at this point (Sept 11 in the USA is a great day to fly if you're not superstitious) so we'll nearly certainly be allocated an entire row. No backing involved, again he just needs to enter the row and lay down. I'm hoping if the plane remains so quiet, we may be able to practice his scoot/backing a couple times during the flight.

Then we've got three weeks in CA to improve his scoot and back just in case we don't get lucky with seating on the way back to Munich.

One of the reasons I have zero concerns about Carbon fitting under the seat is that he is a LOT smaller than Brogan and Brogan fit with no problems. :)
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Just to add that Carbon's AllSafe car harness arrived today and fits just perfectly thanks to advice from @snowbunny. Absolutely not the thing as a walking harness (now I see what everyone was talking about) but seems excellent for the car which is it's purpose. I got the new red "comfort" model which only differs from the classic in that it has a quick release buckle instead of fiddly straps.

Quite pleased and it will be going in my luggage so that Carbon can ride safely in sunny California. :)
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Good grief. Carbon picked today to discover his inner picking up gun dog. I'm running errands getting ready to travel and one of those was to go into the key shop to see if they could copy my car key. It's a tiny shop (space for about two customers) and there was already someone at the counter so I hung back a bit with Carbon. He starts snuffling in the corner as he is wont to do and I get ready to do my "leave it" thing (though we are working on it uncued, it is FAR from ready for primetime). Then...

...up comes his head with a big ball of something grey and fluffy in his mouth! And the ball starts flapping!

He'd bagged a pigeon! :facepalm:

I nearly had heart failure and I'm pretty sure Carbon and the pigeon nearly had heart failure as well. I yelled "Drop it!!!!", Carbon opened his mouth and the pigeon wisely scurried out the door and flew away.

That did NOT start things off well with the key guy. And to make matters worse, apparently my question about my car key was dumb as "Only the dealer can do that." OK, thanks. I've never had to copy a car key before.

So Carbon and I head out the door and my brave boy cowers as he looks around to see where the pigeon had gone. Despite logic saying that the pigeon was in Carbon's mouth and not vice-versa, Carbon clearly thought the dastardly bird had attacked HIM. :hmm:

Then we went into the bank and saw our favourite teller and all the charm got poured back on. If Brogan would have been "attacked" by a pigeon, he would have needed to lay on the sofa all day with smelling salts. This one...well butter wouldn't melt. The changing moods give me whiplash sometimes!

Oh, and today also included a run to the post office (it's coming @HAH !) where instead of standing nicely in line like he usually does, Carbon decided to run through his whole set of backing behaviours. Down at my side, switch over to down in front, scooting down. I kept bringing him back to his starting position where he should WAIT but he'd just flop off onto to something else. I swear he was gaining momentum from the attention he was getting.

As I said, good grief. I can't whack him with something, so I'll just have to laugh. Only one more errand today...but to the raw food store. Why do I have the feeling he's going to gobble treats, jump into the freezer and vomit on the rug? Party down, Carbon, party down. :xmasspirit:
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Jelinga said:
Carbon sounds great fun to live with, never a dull moment :happy:
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He's not boring, that's for sure. :giggl:

By the way, at the raw food store he greeted our friend who works there like she was his long lost best friend, scarfed down treats until I went from "Don't feed him or he'll vomit" to "He's for sure going to vomit all over you now". Then an enormous dog came in and his owner just let him off lead in the shop (the shop is long but only about 5' wide between the freezers). I thought the blood was going to flow for sure. Then Carbon starts getting so excited and doing his funny hopping thing that he does with @Beanwood 's Bramble. It dawned on me that the dog was a Podenco (Ibicinco, the enormous ones): this was the kind of dog he knew from Spain! And "Bruce" as it turns out, was from Spain!

So no reactivity issues whatsoever as it was simply true love between two Spanish Gentleman Dogs.

However, Carbon got SO EXCITED that he wee-ed on the floor. Yes. Yes, he did.

Our friend who works in the store said, "Hope he doesn't do that in the airport."

Yeah, me too. :facepalm:

We're back at home now and he's happy as a clam with a FULL tummy. I really hope that is the conclusion of our adventures for the day!
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
What should I be doing? Packing. What am I doing? Testing out @snowbunny 's camera with a new mount I got yesterday. First time out so there's a lot of hands in there, I should have had the camera angled higher, and there's a lot of shaking going on...but here's my first go at a walkies (or as I'm calling them "Carbon's Caminos) clip.

Just watched the final version on YouTube: can't believe I spelled "Dunkin' Donuts" as "Duncan Donuts". I guess it was all those years writing "Duncan". And I misspelled "shameful". Ok, need some more practice editing! :unsure:

 
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