Update on Bing and pictures

Odessa's mum · Post by **Odessa's mum** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:54 pm

Hi there
Received a few pictures of Bing from his new family and he seems to have adapted to them and little sister Chloe

This is Bing

This is little sister Chloe

And this is of them both together

And this is a message from their mum, any suggestions for her are welcome.
"We had a time trying to get a good pic of the two together as they are still a little unsure of each other but feel free to post these. It was love at first sight for Chloe but Bing is taking a while to warm up to her.They have had times that they are actually close to one another but he still feels the need to get vocal at her with growls and barked at her today when he thinks she's in his way.I guess he wants to be king of the castlKing Bing! He seems to have a nervous stomach no doubt with what he's been through it's understandable but is making improvements each day. I don't think I mentioned Chloe is 4 wks post-op of a cruciate repair,this is the 2nd and hopefully last knee that we have repaired so we have to keep her on modified activity which is easier said than done with an energetic 2yr old. I was hoping Bing would be a calming influence on her,any ideas or helpful hints please pass along. Hope you like the pics"

Her highness Odessa

Post by **chris** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:06 pm

OMG, beautiful they are. I wish them well.
Hmmm, I can only think that with time, Bing will learn that everything is going to be ok and relax more. Im not so much up on the Bing story.. but was he with another dog previously that he did not get along with? Do we know?
gosh I hope everything works out.

Post by **kingalls** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:09 pm

I am so very hopeful that Bing and Chloe will become the best brother and sister. It will take some time I think but the two of them will work things out. It's just up to Mom and Dad to help them through it. Bing might end up being King Bing with Chloe accepting it. We had Shiloh first and she was about 9 -10 months old when we brought Mr. N in to our lives. Mr. N grew to become the more dominant one...they worked it out.

Karen, Shiloh, and Mr. N

Post by **Auddymay** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:16 pm

They are lovely together! Please tell Bing's new family how pleased we all are that they are giving him the time and love he needs. He will warm up to Chloe, but he is older, and will have to still be left alone sometimes from the boundless energy of a 2 yr old. He will tell her, and she will learn when he wants to be left alone.

ngraham · Post by **ngraham** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:22 pm

OMG the picture are great Susan. I don't have any advice sime we are working out the pack hierarchy here between my 2. But I think once things settle down for King Bing, then both Chloe and Bing will work out the rest of it. I am so relieved that it looks as if Bing will stay put. Sometimes it's just hard for us not to get over anxious.

Judy Fox · Post by **Judy Fox** » Mon May 29, 2006 11:19 pm

They are just beautiful and the only advice I can give (I have no experience of this) is that their Mum and Dad just take each day as it comes - keep a wary eye on them - then one day soon I hope, they will be fine.

Judy Fox · Post by **Judy Fox** » Mon May 29, 2006 11:19 pm

They are just beautiful and the only advice I can give (I have no experience of this) is that their Mum and Dad just take each day as it comes - keep a wary eye on them - then one day soon I hope, they will be fine.

Roxana · Post by **Roxana** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:12 am

I'm glad Bing is finally adjusting to his new home a bit. I'm sure with time, he will settle down even more and he & his sister will be inseperable. Bing looks a lot like my Dakota, same coloring, face, everything.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:02 am

Hi! I have some ideas both for the recouping from ACL (Chewie went through that too) and the bringing in of an older dog (Cay was 5, Chewie was a pup, he wanted to play, she wanted nothing of it) and how it all has worked out. I promise I'll post some advice today when I have some time.

chowfrnd88 · Post by **chowfrnd88** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:17 am

They are beautiful! I am soooo glad that things are looking up for Bing.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:26 am

Hi there!

Let me start by explaining that we brought Cayenne our 5 yr old girl into the family last November and when we walked in the door with her, Chewie, our 1 yr old boy was just SO excited. He was jumping around, sniffing her, but she wanted NOTHING to do with it. He tried just sniffing her toes for a while - she wouldn't really growl. Now let me also state that at the same time she wanted NOTHING to do with me. She loved my husband and would go nicely to him and let him pet her, but when I came near her, she would bolt. We found out quickly that she is a total treat hog and would do anything for a treat so over the course of 2 months I worked with treats and "good girls!" and pets and scratches under the chin and now she loves me too. But when we initially got her, I was afraid we had made a mistake. We had planned to keep them separated and do the whole introducing her slowly into the house and his territory to see how it went... but they seemed okay and we were just too anxious so we let them in together the very next day. Chewie decided after a day of sniffing that he was ready to play. That night when we came home and put them together, he ran up to her and went into the play bow and pounced on her. She growled reallllly loud, and snapped at him. It was obvious she was NOT ready to play with him!! After that, Chewie backed away and looked up at us as if to ask "what did I do?" He hadn't encountered a dog up to that point that didn't want to play with him. So we did end up separating them for the next couple of days because we were worried about Chewie getting bit. But every night we put them together to see how it would go and she just kept snapping at him. Once she actually scratched him and drew a little blood on his neck. We did have to physically separate them that time. Chewie still hadn't fought back at all or do anything except try to play. After that time (about 4 nights) he decided it wasn't worth it to try to play and just sat there looking at her. After about 2 weeks of that, Cayenne one evening for no apparent reason decided it was time to play and ran at Chewie full force and pounced on him and grabbed his fur on his neck and started chewing. He just looked at us and didn't move a muscle while she chewed on him. This was on a saturday morning and it pretty much happened all day. On sunday morning, she did the same thing and VIOLA! Chewie played back. Every since then, things have been peachy! He still will annoy her once in a while (mostly trying to give her kisses and clean her face) and she will give a low rumble and he will back off. It has been about 8 months and they are just now started to get a little cuddly. I will post a pic to show you later... Gotta go back to work but I will post about the surgery question in a little bit!!

Hugs

chowfrnd88 · Post by **chowfrnd88** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:13 am

Mandy thanks for sharing that with all of us, I really enjoyed reading it. It's a really informative story and a really, really great story! I'm sure it will help Bing and his family a lot. It's funny, I often found myself (and still sometimes find myself) wanting things instantaneously from Special (from the mastering of a trick to staying still for a hug). I can imagine how things as small as those would maifest on a much bigger scale when you have just introduced a new member to the fmaily to the family and you want everyone to get along and be happy. Everything just takes time. What a great story, thanks again!

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:24 pm

Hi again

So you know how I said they never cuddled until recently? Here is what I walked into after we went outside to grill...

But like I said, it has taken months to get to this point.

As far as healing from the surgery is concerned, they do want to play more than you want to let them don't they? Chewie was ready to go after a month too but we knew he had to take much more time than that! One big thing that helped was doing physical therapy with him. Talk to your vet and they will help with that! We also took Cay on extra long walks to get her tired so she wasn't as rought with Chewie. I'll write more later...

Post by **chris** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:38 pm

It's nice to see that. I don't mean to be a downer, but the 2 chows I had before steel (grizz and thor) were mother and son. They would fight. It was like there was an imaginary Bell that we couldn't hear. They probably fought.. ummm 3-4 times a year badly.
They would be at oposite ends of the living room... bare teeth, growl and then "DING" into the middle of the living room they went... fighting... sometimes they did draw blood and everything. It was scary. I have no idea why they were like that. You especialy couldn't feed them in the same room. Or.. even if they both had their own chew toy, the other wanted what the other one had... (like kids.. lol) we never figured out how to correct the problem.
After Grizz was gone, it took Thor months to get used to the idea that he didn't have to watch his back anymore. You could not walk up to him from behind...he relaxed though finaly.
Steel always wants to play with other dogs, but I haven't found one yet that is as "energetic" sp? as he is. I pray that Steel is not like the other 2 when it comes to other dogs.

Im a little nervous to have 2 again.

Post by **chris** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:40 pm

beautiful looking chows BTW mandy...

Victory · Post by **Victory** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:00 am

I have a very active girl, Firesong is 4 and acts like a puppy, Darkwind is a very dignified 6 year-old. I adopted her to be a companion to him when I'm gone at school for long hours. It did take a little while for them to accept each other completly still when we were in the smaller apartment there were times he would growl to warn here away when she was too bouncy. Now in the bigger apartment, I've noticed less of this as there is far more room and he has HIS place to lay and she has HERS.

I learned how attached they really are to each other when I took them to have their teeth cleaned, the vet techs said that he laid down during recovery and she'd pace to the door, then go right back and be with him.

He does calm her down, I think she'd be very destructive if she didn't have a calm companion, and she keeps him from doing nothing but lay around all day and get fat and stiff.

So give them a little time and they will figure out their own relationship, just remember you are the leader and if they treat each other in a way you don't like, you have a perfect right to stop it, in fact it is your responsiblity. But also remember that they are canines and you are human and they will treat each other differently than the way they act and treat you. And that is normal.

Post by **Zhuyos mom** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:15 pm

I heard from Bing's new mom and the family is well! Mr. Solitary himself, Bing likes it there... little rambuctious sister, Chloe, loves Bing and mom is trying to learn the fine art of walking two chows at once!

Judy Fox · Post by **Judy Fox** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:18 pm

I am glad about that - I was so hoping that he would settle poor chap - he needed somebody to love him.
Mind you that little sister of his looks like she has heaps of attitude doesn't she! Thanks for letting us know Lou.

Judy Fox · Post by **Judy Fox** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:57 am

Lou, do you think when you get a minute to spare, you could contact Bing and Chloe's Mum and ask her to send a picture of them to Mandy and a story of how Bing settled in with them. I could then put the story together with what we know of Bing and his being abandoned and so on.
It is a lovely success story to illustrate what all those tireless rescue people do in the states.

Post by **kingalls** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:50 pm

I received a couple of pictures from Susan Heard. Bing (on the left) is experiencing snow for the first time

Judy Fox · Post by **Judy Fox** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:04 am

Beautiful - I am so glad things worked out for Bing.

Post by **Auddymay** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:16 am

Kind of shocking, seeing the male so much smaller than the female! He looks wonderful, by the way!

ngraham · Post by **ngraham** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:00 am

It's so nice to see the wonderful outcome for Bing after what he went through.

TXSusiQ · Post by **TXSusiQ** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:03 am

great pics and he looks happy in a chow kind of way!