this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2025
13 points (100.0% liked)
Casual Conversation
1816 readers
91 users here now
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling.
- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible.
- Avoid controversial topics (e.g. politics or societal debates).
- Stay calm: Don’t post angry or to vent or complain. We are a place where everyone can forget about their everyday or not so everyday worries for a moment. Venting, complaining, or posting from a place of anger or resentment doesn't fit the atmosphere we try to foster at all. Feel free to post those on !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
- Keep it clean and SFW
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.
Casual conversation communities:
- !casualuk@feddit.uk
- !casualeurope@piefed.social
- !forumlibre@jlai.lu
- !batepapo@lemmy.eco.br
- !esp@lemm.ee
Related discussion-focused communities
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca
- !askmenover30@lemm.ee
- !dads@feddit.uk
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
- !movies@piefed.social
- !television@piefed.social
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Leo decided today that he wouldn't tolerate the robotic vacuum any longer.
https://youtu.be/u2F_ZD0EohE
He argued with her for a long time until I finally couldn't take it any longer and put her in another room.
Leo made me miss Lana, my childhood poodle. She was roughly the same size and colour as him. Extremely smart, loyal and kind to the point she nursed a kitten.
Leo is being trained as a service dog for my wife.
Among other problems, she experiences attacks of low potassium. When it happens, she can't move and can barely speak. However, we have a rescue med that she can take that raises her potassium and gets her back to normal.
That was one of the things we wanted Leo to do. Not so much give her the med, but let me know so that I can and she doesn't spend hours stuck while I'm working. However we had no idea how we were going to teach him. It turns out we didn't have to.
The first time I had to give her the med, he thought it was a treat and jumped on her to try to get some. That happened a few more times. Eventually he just sat there and watched.
One night he was acting strange. He was pacing around, and jumping up on me as if he wanted to climb up into my chair, but then he'd jump down again. After about 20 minutes of that, my wife started to feel an attack coming on. I went out to get the meds, and he hopped into her chair and put his head on her lap.
I gave her the meds and he stayed on her lap until she was ok again.
After that there was a day when I had to be onsite at work. Those are always bad days because by the time she realizes she's having an attack, she can't move, so she can't get the meds on her own. If I'm not there, she's stuck sometimes all day waiting for me to come home. However, Leo took her by the hand and pulled her into the kitchen where we keep her meds while she could still get them herself.
Leo's still a bit of a pain in the ass, and he has a lot of training and maturing to do before he can be certified as a service dog (service dogs don't argue with vacuum cleaners). However, he already figured out the most important thing.
That explains the "service dog // do not pet" on his harness, I was wondering about it.
Birds of a feather with Lana then. Who took human meds not once, but twice. The first one was simply calcium supplements, no biggie, but the second one got us really worried because it was pressure meds. It was, like: my mum put my father's meds on a handkerchief, went to the kitchen to grab some water, and when she was back to their room... where are the meds? Thankfully they only made Lana sleep through the whole day, but still, it got us worried.
Smart dog being the hero of the day \o/
That's the charm of poodles: they're quick to learn things, and they care a lot about the ones around them. I bet he'll realise the roomba is no threat (or noteworthy) in no time.
Also, I have no idea if the attacks are a temporary or permanent issue, but I hope your wife gets better!