do you suppose she could be coaxed with a heating pad? in these frigid temps don't know many animals that would turn it down?? (or a treat on the futon?

as i speak my two crazy cats are OUTSIDE! (i'm watching to clock no more than 5 minutes...)

Had a 90 lb dobbie, that was my baby, but he would NOT become a lapdog! Always slept on floor by side of my bed.

I had a bag of clothes in the study to donate. I pulled one of my old sweaters out and layed it on the floor for old Homey who has to follow me everywhere. That seemed to satisfy him.

Gayle

Poor poor Ruby.
I feel her pain.
Have you considered couples' therapy?
*G*

Tuffy is my canine pouter. There's no sighing or other guilt-producing techniques. She is cold and just ignores me. And she's good at it. When she's on a sulk I will place myself directly in front of her face and tell her that I loved her first and I love her best. Does this work? Oh no. She will get up and turn butt to me. She'd make a good wife for someone. LOL

Nope. No heating pad - nothing with a cord. She snorts suspiciously at the cord if I try LOL. I used to have a round pad that got heated in the microwave (it was supposed to fit perfectly in a basket type pet bed, which of course Ruby refused to go near because apparently pet beds are diabolically deadly and should not even be walked past).

The cats used to love it, but even if I hid it under the covers on OUR bed Ruby would refuse to be anywhere near it. Such a difficult little thing I tell you!

Finally one of the cats loved the heating pad TOO much and bit holes in it, and all the bead thingies fell out.

LOL poor ruby! more than a yr ago we moved an entertainment center out of the master bedroom into my office room and put the TV in the livingroom. we would sit in bed, eat dinner and watch TV or read in the evenings all together w/ the dogs. my baby Sandy LOVED our time together all snuggled up. for months after we moved the TV she would lie in that bed waiting for us LOL then still more months later she would sit in there waiting for us. she would not come out of there to join us in the livingroom or even outside playing LOL. it was pathetic. even worse we recently started skipping evening TV time and reading back in the master bedroom and sandy now hesitates to get into bed w/ all of us again LOL. ~ liz

Poor Ruby!

Harry says to tell her he feels her pain. He's almost as bad. He doens't like changes in the house either. That's a real problem in this house. LOL

We finally moved the bedroom furniture out of the livingroom and into the bedroom. What a concept! We decided it was the perfect oppourtunity to "wean" both dogs out of our bed at the same time.

We bought them a baby bed mattress to sleep on, complete with all their blankets. They have the green chair and the kennel to sleep in, but he's still very upset. He wants his bed, in his livingroom, just where it's been for six months.

Isn't it interesting ...

... how quickly we can see inflexibility in others ...

... but find it almost impossible to recognize it in ourselves?

ole joyous... mostly full of it

We have a 'thing' to heat up a dog bed that looks like a hard frisbee. After our elderly dog died, it sat in the drawer for a couple of years. Recently on a him, I heated it for DS(8) when he had a cold and wrapped it in a flannel pillowcase. Now the kids fight over it! I never thought about giving it to the cats. I guess I can threaten the kids with that if they don't behave!!

Dances, you could put plain ol' dry rice in a sock and pop that in the microwave if you really wanted to try a cordless (lol!) heating pad for her.

Wait, doesn't Ruby have some kind of sock fetish? Or was that hair thingies? Or was that Jasmin? I can't keep the neuroses straight!

Good luck!