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Kill or be killed that's what hunting is all about , I know it's difficult when the shoe is on the other foot but surely to hell you can't want to dilute everything down and make the natural world a submissive entityHow many bears are killed every season bud , ??
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What have ya gone and rooted up now ? This whole site is a testament that dogs(Domesticated) not Wolves (Wild) are an animal drawn to hunt with others thereby creating a social bond in doing so Let me break this down , there is a bird called a Harris hawk in the wild it hunts in groups , that is a fairly unique system for a bird of prey but because of this social aspect it has become a real bird of choice for a lot of falconers around the globe in a relatively short space of time , its social element has got zero to do with domestication and lots to do with its hunting habits ..
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Dogs by their very nature were bred to build up a charge, From the time it was a pup the way to ground a feeling of excitement or stimulation was by mouthing and shaking, it's instinctive but it's also a phase for most dogs unlike working dogs who can be manipulated for our advantage to continue this circle of building up a charge in a working environment and grounding that charge out through work , it gives the dog the ability to contrast WHERE and WHAT to prey on and most of all the dog can tune you in because you become Alpha not because you dominate the dog but because you facila
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The point im making is that people talk about this whole " pack instinct " thing as if its some kind of guide to how we train a dog when in reality most dogs lost that instinct years ago.....most dogs do not even retain the instinct they were bred for in what is a blink of an eye time wise so why would they still have any kind of pack instinct......obviously a chimp is not a domesticated animal so theres no reason for its instincts to have been lost or diluted down but keep those chimps in a zoo with close human contact over enough generations and do you think they are going to retain those wi
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Christ , you've got a massive country there mate , we over here can only look in awe at the amount of species you have around you, We ran the last wolf down here in the 17 hundreds , our mighty oaks were cut down and most of our forests were cut to the ground, we have no bears or beaver once you shackle the wolf and confine it to tiny pockets of land you lose the wild out of wilderness
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Hi Gnash, You and me kind of had that conversation on another thread and, I think I may have not put my view across very well. Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not some animal rights luvvie.... There are good dogs and there are bad dogs. There are good owners and there are bad owners. As already said in this thread, problems occur when people stop remembering that they have an animal living in their home. ..... A dog is a dog is a dog. It's a basic pack animal with muscle and teeth. Whether it weighs 4kg or 40kg. The dog is a basic animal with basic instincts and relativel
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You don't need to dominant a dog to have a social and secure animal Any dog can grow up social if you channel its natural energetic expression into group behavior with its owner, its the expression of energy that builds the social bond, a dog is born social , what happens between when it first arrived as a pup and when it flips out is a tale of missed opportunities misleading nformation and a complete disregard or failure to motivate the dog to commit to a group mind , if a dog can go by feel and feel secure in its surrounding it can overwhelm any instinctive f**k ups which are the cause of t
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You don't need to dominate a dog to have a social and secure animal Any dog can grow up social if you channel its natural energetic expression into group behavior with its owner, its the expression of energy that builds the social bond, a dog is born social , what happens between when it first arrived as a pup and when it flips out is a tale of missed opportunities misleading nformation and a complete disregard or failure to motivate the dog to commit to a group mind , if a dog can go by feel and feel secure in its surrounding it can overwhelm any instinctive f**k ups which are the cause of
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Pup's Training Coming On, 6 And 4 1/2 Month Old
Casso replied to nickdonboy's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
That's good advice , I don't like a pup breaking until he gets a verbal or a stronger enforcer is touch( physical command) because a lot of the time your body language can indicate the release command, which you may not be aware of Walk back give pup a touch on the head and give release command , it gives a definitive point to wait for, You seem to be on top of it bud but pups reads body language far quicker than any other signal Best of luck -
could always Tow a cat along as well to take care of the fumes lol A canary might give ya a better read out for fumes
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There's not much else out there bud unfortunately , I always have an interest in dogs and countryside activities so it occupies a few minutes in a newsagent , It's the potential of finding something really interesting in it and maybe at my age having seen and done a far bit , the run of the mill stuff leaves me a little disappointed, in fairness it must be difficult to keep it fresh when your just writing to get something out there
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As far as I can see you'd find enough on here to chance your arm writing an article on it , find a topic pack it out a bit and bobs your uncle ? I'm sure a recent post disscussion off here end up as an article on it
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Play play play , don't throw too many commands at it , it will only lead to confusion at that age their concentration levels are so low , Best of luck with it
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The only thing about dummies and toys is they may not be high prised enough to substitute for the huge emotional high of the real thing, If you equate food as highly prized item , I would be encouraging the mutt to feed in your space , not talking about a bowl here get the dog making contact to eat , front legs up on you , getting plenty of contact , dogs are very aware of their own space and very instinctive with food If you nullify the instinctive behavior , which is fear , you can ease out a lot of other little niggles , What I'm banging on about is that before you approach t
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We build the association with gunshot and work by managing the situation to create a feelgood factor through the driven mindset , you can bang all the bowls you can find and create as much din as you like but until you plug the dog into the can do attitude of a driven mindset , you may as well be idle If we take it a step further and look at bulldogs, why don't they respond to the pain inflicted by people who struggle to separate them when fights break out , why don't they feel the pain , the truth is they do , they certainly do in a casual situation , But when charged by natural in
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You're on the money with your breakdown of first encounters , critical that you manage the situation for the benefit of pup
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It's more about managing the pup , it will meet family of course but just be sensible keep it low key , at the end of the day the pup does not need to meet every f****r or encounter every occasion , it's ridiculous , it needs you to be its rock and not to be put in situations it can't emotionally deal with , Why don't they let children watch horror movies, because the more fear you introduce at an early age the bigger the physiological effects are , a dog has a physical memory , it relives the feeling it got when it encounters something and there after it goes through the same feeling for e
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Likewise , I've done the social thing , now I focus it on me , build trust / bond and take it from there , the rest of the world can wait until we're ready
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http://www.collared-scholar.com/more-harm-than-good-3-reasons-why-i-never-socialize-my-puppies/
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Interesting post , If we break it down to finer detail , the gun shot is precieved as Information f we look at it as anything else we are just going to be going round in circles, Does he think he going to be shot , does he believe it's a monster, he hasn't a clue what it is but he clocks it because it effects him he feels it , so he flinchs but for me he doesn't run from the spot he felt it , he waits and for me that's the key he braces and nothing happens , the more he works through that , the lesser the effect every time My take is that , the state of mind informs the dog , when
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I'm trying to get your thinking on that with the greatest respect ?My thinking on it is that the young dog is been shown that the sound of the gun means work , its showing what you want him to do , when you want him to do it and if he grasps that everything in the hunting environment becomes a positive in his mind including the gun shot He associates his surroundings when working with the most positive experience he gets while out I can't see what holding him back would do , I'd push him on through always trying to make the last half hour most memorable and positive while out , the end of
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I'm trying to get your thinking on that with the greatest respect ? My thinking on it is that the young dog is been shown that the sound of the gun means work , its showing what you want him to do , when you want him to do it and if he grasps that everything in the hunting environment becomes a positive in his mind including the gun shot He associates his surroundings when working with the most positive experience he gets while out I can't see what holding him back would do , I'd push him on through always trying to make the last half hour most memorable and positive while out , the e
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Keep him at it don't drop off with the work , when a dog is in a driven state of mind it can turn the negetive into a positive , it's the driven mindset that makes the association With a static or normal situation the dog can't process the shots , as he matures and settles into his work his association with gun shots and work /drive develops into the norm
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I'ts not necessarily a dominance thing, but often the sign of intense drive. I've always allowed gentle mouthing: it is a way in which the dog can connect to me. It sees me as a powerful attraction, something to be close to. One of my most zany, intense lurchers which was Saluki blooded but more of a high-powered speed machine, was so manic that the only way to keep him calm as a pup was to let him hold my hand, which he did, very carefully, never left a mark. He was a very rewarding animal to work with and understood the rules of any games we played faster than any other dog I've had. He wasn
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Box train the sitting issue separately to reinanforce it
