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  1. Casso
    That's a good post , forget training or visits to anyone , the single most important issue that pup has is safety, it needs to feel safe around you before it can contimplate doing anything else, I wouldn't bother with the bowl , get him up closer than that and gradually bit by bit fear ebbs away , there is no magic cure , trust must be worked on before anything else
  2. Casso
    When was a dog attack ever based on the fact a dog was working bred or not, the vast majority of attacks are just family pets with no avenue to Canine expression of any form, Most of the most grounded relaxed animals are actually working dogs , who have clearly identified an avenue of expression be it the pit or the field
  3. Casso
    Desire overcomes the fear instinct, fear the instinct is uncontrollable, If you continue training or similar activities you are only compounding the issue, Only feed in your space , no bowl , no putting food down anywhere else, the desire to eat will force the pup to give up a certain amount of fear each time Think of it like a scales when one side goes up the other goes down, A desire is the only thing that will progress this pup, forget petting or fussing , it will only add more pressure on the already shaky foundations , Get him eating in your space , then touching you then pressi
  4. Casso
    I do delve a little deeper socks, into the why in relation with dogs but in saying that I believe pups can be manipulated for our own good by management, I don't dislike an up and at them pup in fact I prefare it but the younger they are stimulated , the harder it is to override it or reel it back if it's not exceptable, in the case of running dogs it's not a huge issue if owners are savvy and know the ropes, But the amount of lads with problem juvenile dogs is massive and too much to soon is usually the cause I'm not big in reinforceimg recall with a pup in a lot of cases your setting y
  5. Casso
    What I will tell ya about drive mate is, real drive not prey instinct involves sexuallity , what fella's call juvenile stage when pups start misbehaving , it's not because their trying your patience on purpose it's because their driven to be fullifed by more , it's the call of the wild, If the fecker is not chasing at that stage you have a issue,
  6. Casso
    When a dog is hunting it's hunting it don't wait to be told to run but what I'm trying to get across is that I want the pup to believe that what happens, say a rabbit getting up is somehow controlled by me, for starting on the lamp it's ideal That way he says close and he listens and he thinks the sun shines out of my ring , it cuts out a multitude of problems So I try not to have him stimulated by movement , I have to go breaking him to all animal movement after that domestic or otherwise at a stage in his life where I don't want to be confronting him Working with dogs is about ma
  7. Casso
    It sure will, the intelligence is already in there waiting to be harnessed but a sheepdog pup needs man to sustain its drive it don't need to kill , working with man is enough to fulfill it, And that's what I like to facilitate in a running dog , not to be hyper stimulated by movement but to be able to take instruction while in a driven state, the pup will hunt anyway but I like a handle on its prey making before introducing it to the most exciting thing it will encounter , prey
  8. Casso
    Keep the pup focussed on you as long as you can, it will pay dividends in the long run as in having more controlWhen a pup is overtly reacting to movement he is then acting on instincts a state which is uncontrollable for owners , The longer you can be a focus for his attention the better, don't be in rush to throw away his interest in you, it makes training much easier, Best of luck with pup I have to totally disagree ... A dog working on instinct is the foundations and building blocks of training a dog to do what you want it to do ... A collie herds sheep through instinct ... The guard
  9. Casso
    Keep the pup focussed on you as long as you can, it will pay dividends in the long run as in having more controlWhen a pup is overtly reacting to movement he is then acting on instincts a state which is uncontrollable for owners , The longer you can be a focus for his attention the better, don't be in rush to throw away his interest in you, it makes training much easier, Best of luck with pup
  10. Casso
    If a dog gets too much attention in its formative years, that attention becomes the metric for the dog feeling right, not good just normal, So when that object /person /thing is missing the dog don't feel right Calm , slow upbringing works , pup has his crate ,gets out to pee and whatever, no playing or fussing inside , less is more with pups with him having a big bone to occupy himself in the crate Every pup is an open book , it's about knowing how to shape it so you don't have to correct it or are not creating problems for the future
  11. Casso
    If you could be a bit more specific Dogs become the equal and opposite of each other to live in harmony , What one likes the other wont much care for and likewise with other members of the pack,it's the natural rules of pack life, Each pack of dogs make up a whole whatever number it is , 2, 3 or more if one goes the structure shifts to facilitate this, So the behaviour of current dog will effect newcomers but maybe not in the way people expect
  12. Casso
    As the man said it takes time don't start confronting the dogs over it, it will take forever that way, Trying bringing home a 6 week old kitten, did it years ago with a Wheaton bitch in the house, she went ape shit for a while and now they can sleep in front of the fire together, no intervention, no confrontation just time , best of luck
  13. Casso
    There has to be something in it for the pup, it's how dogs turn a negetive into a positive , The lead walking has to be the prelude to something enjoyable happening for the pup , walk so far and take out a ball or something like that , play , walk again produce it again and so on , A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down ,
  14. Casso
    Crate him up,
  15. Casso
    Feed him only on walks making him work for his grub in other words , get plenty of contact making him push through one hand to get food in the other , Dogs are attracted to whatever gets its energy flowing , that's why other mutts are such an attraction to him,
  16. Casso
    How many dogs are Ya working ? You seem to have your hands full
  17. Casso
    How many dogs are Ya working ? You seem to have your hands full
  18. Casso
    Trying to prevent over excitement is a real help in working with dogs, not hyper stimulating pups as they grow helps to raise a calm dog, The reason for this is ,that how a pup feels inside is what it feels makes things happen So if a pup gets worked up before feeding or letting it out , that excitement it feels as far as their concerned makes what happens happen if ya get my drift, So before it do anything for a pup I get a certain behaviour, box work is great for this , the box must be high enough so if the pup lunged forward to get fed it goes off the edge and has to climb back up
  19. Casso
    The pup is uncomfortable in its surroundings , which is understandable if you only have it a while, in other words it feels under pressure, one of the ways dogs relieve pressure is just that , they relieve themselves, As said earlier it will sort itself out in time when it adjusts to life there , don't crowd it give it space, don't fuss over it , it's functioning on instincts, hand feeding helps overcome fear but no fussing or over stimulation Best of luck with the pup bud
  20. Casso
    It's all about the pup tuning himself in to the movement and where the bunnies ultimate aim is to be , in the safety of the hedge, dogs can't be taught to be hedge huggers overnight it's only through experience and graft, keep him at it,
  21. Casso
    What do lads make of ingles approach, where he gets a young lad conifident in defence first, no head shot sparing and works on their mental development as well,
  22. Casso
    They do have s tendency to yap, more than other breeds, your never going to be able to prevent a worker coming under pressure at some point It's more how you deal with it then, a yap on the turn don't make it a bad worker,
  23. Casso
    Part of bringing on a pup as far as training goes, is having it work off lead I have no problem starting it on slip the reason for it is to make a pup believe that your proximity and command make the action happen If walking beside and listening to your "watch up ' command when you spotted a bunny gets the pup focused , and then hissing it on when in range The truth of the matter is a pup has no idea why any thing happens , it's just making it believe that standing beside you and listening to commands makes the rabbit appear,it will stand beside you all night Stant a pup on its own
  24. Casso
    Casso have you tried it as a remedy ??? I have used it a fair few times and I have suggested to quite a few people on here and other sites and its worked for most of them also .......No I never used it , does it add something , I never had a dog that ate shite , all their diets have varied from raw to complete to scraps , a lot of the dogs around the house when I was young would only have eaten scraps but others everything from sheep stomachs to sheep heads, growing up we had little enough to eat let alone the dogs I'm sure most of them were missing something in their diet but have never come
  25. Casso
    Eating shite has absolutely nothing to do with anything missing in his diet
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