Tough crowd. But will say, I don’t really get what Blutman is trying to say that him not driving is being responsible and saving money.
My guy, it doesn’t answer why you still don’t have a license!
They’re a unique case. Their uniform came onto the scene in the mid 90’s and has been touched very little, besides new alternates and a logo tweak. Very few uniforms introduced in that era have survived without an overhaul.
They feel like a case of a uniform that was becoming outdated design wise, but then stuck around enough to where it’s starting to look like a modern classic? The jersey and the number font is perfectly simple with a bold color scheme. Most of the best modern redesigns have been aiming for this type of look.
The only thing that seems to have aged a bit is the silver helmet. We’ve seen them introduce a black helmet, and it looks nice. My only gripe is that it looks awkward with an already black logo. A white helmet to pair with the scheme could look really interesting, but it would probably come with ditching silver altogether, pants included.
Thoughts?
So Archie is 6 months old now. He’s largely a pretty happy and healthy fella. Full of energy. The one issue he’s had: his awful digestive flare ups.
It did start out with having Giardia when he was at 3 months, we got that treated and his digestion cleared up for a while after that. However, we’ve noticed a trend where every time he has a significant addition to his diet, he doesn’t just have a stomach upset, he seems to get a full on colitis episode where he’s having diarrhea and upset stomach for multiple days in a row. Last time it lasted to where he had to get meds from the vet just to finally settle. This happened from trying to switch his food to Blue Buffalo from a sensitive prescription food he’s been on. (which in hindsight we transitioned way too quickly and switched him back)
Right now, he’s having a flare from some sample beef food we received at a Pet Store. It isn’t surprising me now checking the ingredients why it didn’t agree with him, it looks like it had a ton of fiber stuff in it. But he didn’t eat a ton of it, maybe 10-15 pieces tops. So it’s surprising his stomach is still as upset as it is two days later.
When he’s not having a flare, his digestion/ BM’s are very normal. He can even occasionally eat a small scrap of something falling on the floor or a new treat with no problem. It just seems like whenever he has something that gets him to flare up, it really does a number on him and completely throws off his gut.
What are others experiences with this, especially at his age? Is this something that he may grow out of and partially due to his age? I’m just hoping we don’t spend the next 10 years giving him digestive meds on and off every time he eats too much of the wrong thing. 😂
It was a perfect window in time:
Jaguars/Panthers uniforms introduced. Patriots also fix royal blues and begin to wear the set they wore through the late 90’s. One of my favorite uniforms of all time.
But this was also the last year before any millennium era updates began and started to suck the color out of uniforms. Eagles, Seahawks, Bills, Falcons, Broncos, Bucs, Jets, Rams, Pats and Giants among others would see their color schemes bland out over the next decade.
You can make an argument for 1996 as well, since the Ravens uniform was introduced and the only update in 1996 started the trend with Philly’s uniform update. But yeah, the mid 90’s was a perfect peak between old and new for uniforms.
Archie (6 mo) has had a problem with his eyes being very watery and staining from the day we’ve gotten him. 😂
It possibly could be allergies, but may be anatomical as well. It does seem to get worse when he’s been out in the country/open air.
It’s better his eyes are too watery instead of too dry. But I would like to see if we can reduce the staining a little. I keep reading suggestions that people swear by blueberries to help with this. Anyone else with experiences with this?
My 6 month old had largely been great with potty training. After the first week or so, he went months without having a true poop accident inside (only exception was when new food bothered him and he had some diarrhea in his kennel overnight, I can’t really count that.) He has had occasional pee accidents, but not a ton overall.
Welp, since last Thursday he’s had about 5 consecutive days pooping inside. Every spot in the same area, up at the top of our stairs somewhere on the carpet.
Think this was my fault. I was reading online about 6 month Cavaliers lasting several hours at a time between bathroom trips. We still were doing them every hour or so because it’s manageable for me working from home. I decided I wanted to stretch them out to every 2 hours or so while awake/not in his kennel to get him used to that habit.
The first several days went great. He was holding it just fine and had no accidents. But what happened though was that we started to ignore his initial outside signals (we have bells on the door) and eventually one of the times lead to him going up and pooping on the carpet. (I think he had the zoomies right before, so it sped things up for him) We’ve since shampooed and enzyme cleaned the carpet, but he’s still doing it. Think it’s less a scent issue, but more an association habit. He developed the connection “the bells no longer work, and this place is a place I can poop now if any urge comes. He seems to be doing it now when it’s not even an urgency.
Anyone else with similar experiences at this age? I’m pretty much banning him from being in that area unsupervised for now until the habits get broken.
Archie just hit 6 months. I think he’s getting near the end of teething, but not done yet. Won’t be getting fixed until he’s at minimum 9 months, may be closer to a year, per vet recommendation.
I have no expectations of him getting to “adult” levels of calm anytime soon. Which I’m fine with. I work from home, so I have the capacity to entertain him. But my bigger question is when my wife and I will have an evening again where he isn’t sprinting around the room in circles picking up everything in sight for 3 straight hours? 😂 He just doesn’t seem to shut off unless he’s sleeping in his kennel (which he thankfully loves)
Is this something that gets better as he gets to 8-9 months, or will stay the same/get even worse? I’ve heard mixed things about what to expect. Teething stopping should help some I would think?
Lmao. “They need to prove themselves”
all while putting them behind a completely fluky Bears team and Dallas, among others.. What a load of horse shit.
Have a 6 month old here and a little
freaked out.
I got him up from his nap and he was acting normal.
Suddenly when he came in he briefly seemed to “lose balance” for a brief second, then did the phantom leg air kick right after for a couple seconds then stopped. He wasn’t on his leash or anything. But like exactly the symptom that people talk about. Just was the most random thing.
He was immediately normal after that, even ran upstairs with his normal routine. But everywhere I read says the leg kick is kinda “the sign” He’s otherwise acting completely normal, but I’m aware that he’s at that first age where some start showing signs.
I guess I just want to figure out if this always mean this is what it is or if there’s other possible reasons as well.
So my 5 1/2 month old so far has always stayed leash only outside and I don’t plan on going away from it until we would have a fenced in yard. Going on walks with him, he is finding scents everywhere and wants to take off to find them.
He’s not a massive animal chaser like you would think. Love chasing bugs when he sees them. Mainly loves people and will go after any person he sees.
The one time he did “get out” on us so far was out of our garage about a month ago. He saw our neighbors out across the driveway and got into their open garage.
He doesn’t seem like he actively wants to run away from us intentionally while outside, or actively try to bolt out the door. But my big concern is one of these days if we mess up, I hear they have basically zero outdoor danger instincts. We’re about 1-200 feet away from a pretty busy road, so that definitely leaves me uneasy if he ever got out and saw something way across the street.
Best move just to teach recall as best as possible? We are starting to teach him to stay in position when outside doors open with treat incentives. But doing recall so far has been spotty and hard to train when he’s always inside and we don’t have a fenced yard at this time.
Archie is at 5 1/2 months now. It’s fun slowly seeing his coat start to show signs of thickening. Love how his tail almost seems like it’s slowly unfurling as well 😂
When do random “yips” on occasion become a concern?
So we’ve already done a ton of research on King Charles Spaniels when we got our Archie, who is now 5 months old. The heart stuff for one, but also looking out for any SM signs.
Obviously this has lead to sort of watching his behavior at times. Something I have noticed is that on rare occasion (maybe once a day, but maybe not even that) he’ll let out a random yip that seems oddly non specific.
Like it will involve handling usually, but it did not seem like we obviously pinched him or anything. I haven’t seen him do any majorly obvious air kicking you see in the behavior, though I’ve occasionally thought I’ve seen him kick the air briefly for a moment? But may be overanalyzing that side of things.
Energy otherwise is all normal. He shows no major sensivity to being held or having his head/neck touched. (other than the fact he is still teething) and his energy is very high like any other puppy.
I’ve seen some posters jump to diagnosing SM pretty fast in other threads. But can this behavior just be the fact he’s a puppy having growing pains?
If worst case scenario does happen, we thankfully already are ahead on pet insurance.
Happen to see my Tandy’s gotten a case of stolen identity. Guess defrag’s are no longer sacred!