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  1. Casso
    Six months is perfect ,
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    This seems to be one of the most common problems encountered with lads and their running dogs and one easily avoided Recall trained through treats and praise is limited, in as far as when most treats and such are given the dog is usually in a neutral mindset , which means there are no distractions and the dog is not in drive, You add distractions and the so called trained dog turns out to be throwing you the deaf ear the reason been that you have not addressed the internal conflict the dog now feels , prey items , prey scent and anything the gives the dog a Charge and fills him with excite
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    Stories like this are tragic because they are so preventable, we live in a world where everyone has seen the dog training shows and wants to be pack leader it's the general thinking about dogs , we need to subdue them and keep them under the thumb but month after month we get stories of dog attacks why is it happening , It's happening because a dog is like a battery , stimulation energises the dog we see it in our own hunting dog , terriers in particular when hyper stimulated need to ground that Feeling in their body is uncomfortable for them and how they ground is by grabbing something i
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    Ireland also went a little way in deciding the outcome of the game,
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    Does the pup reference your hands as completely positive? Have you ever disciplined with your hands Hand feed getting plenty of contact using the other hand to massage around the face and zero stimulation in the house
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    Only start using the stay when the pup is emotionally mature enough to control itself , it's impulse control it's when a dog has to settle itself to get what it wants from the inside out Whereas if your going to dominate it to get it to stay your creating an issue between the pup and yourself it's control from the outside in only because you want it To be honest with ya, pups that age are programmed to look for the negetive in every situation try not to have any negetive encounters with the pup , jolly it along all positive once you become the big friendly giant training is a breeze pups
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    Life is what you make it, hunted all my life til I went away for work , lived in London , settled in and lived that life, we had a kid uprooted again moved back here to east coast , Nearest shop 2 miles , town 6 miles rural an quiet, the point I'm making is I know myself fairly well and there is not much I would change don't have a great car but kids are well fed and secure I think you really need to be honest with yourself but what your looking for in life and you and her will need to understand the loss of family a move involves, Think long and hard about it ,
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    Watching a dog like yours work really brings home how much those little cockers enjoy hunting , it's clear to see the pure pleasure in the dogs body , the entire body vibrates with energy Nice little clip
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    It's always amazed me that the rabbit that gets up under your feet up close and personal often ends up been the most difficult fecker to catch , whereas a long slip up to a tricky looking one can end up as an easy lift,,
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    To put this in prospective i was over in Von liche kennels last year, it's the biggest protection dog facility in America, high driven dangerous capable mallies , Dutch and German shepherds all bought in Europe and shipped over for training, the biggest thing I took from it was their insistence that fear should not be instilled at any stage, no trying to show who was boss , their belief was that if you install fear the dog would be found to be holding back in certain areas of its work and become unreliable when the going got tough, they sold a lot of dogs as home protection to families and
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    well i'm thinking now, wasnt that the theory behind the old long netters dogs? never done it or seen it done myself, but used to know two old boys in norfolk who worked on the elveden estate before myxy came, and they used to cross collies to pointers or setters for this work. i guess you might get a collie grey to perform such a task? anyone been down this road? The crossing of the collie with the bird dog would make a lot of sense because the bird dog by and large has a much lower prey threshold meaning it perceives prey but also a lot of predator in smaller mammals and birds making it rel
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    The greyhound was the animal originally bred to Catch hares before money and egos got involved after that the grey was bred to beat another dog to the first turn , to do that grey were bred to have huge muscle mass and over powering drive , the original target to catch the hare got lost along the way , sad but true
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    Just as a matter of interest joe , how did ya house train and has the pup been overstimulated in the house
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    It's not something I've even had to treat or trained pups not to be food aggressive , the situation just never arises even with kids coming and going with the dogs feeding
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    The big difference between the lab in the clip and working dogs is that as much as he subdues the lab in that circumstance that charge is still there inside the dog waiting for another opportunity to vent itself , Whereas in working dogs any charge built up can be can be eased out through work , what I mean by a charge is imagine keeping a hugely driven running dog on a lead all it's life and never letting it do what nature has programmed it to do , gradually over time it become fixated on other dogs , cats , kids , food , any of these can trigger the much needed release of energy, and for
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    Are they comfortable in or around your space ,??if 2 of them are at it , it would appear everything is fine in their ability , it's just the connection of the last 3 foot or so, ever disciplined or confronted for jumping up or similar ?? The dog may be having to change its mind set coming into your zone , from feeling predator to feeling prey like due to lack of confidence in that zone,
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    Hunting with us makes the dog social, pack life can be endured with all it's negative associations ( confrontation discipline)if the canine feels he can express himself through the group activity of the hunt in what ever form that takes for the dog, The stresses of living with humans cause a real energy build up , it's just a constant stimulating environment and when a dog is energised it doesn't dissipate its stored ready to be called on at given moments , I would keep up the retrieve training , by doing so will form a group collective bond with the dog in what it feels is a hunting acti
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    No
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    On or off the lead?? Has she ever been atacked by another dog while out, Is she the same off lead
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    Had a dog one time that I didn't break to sheep , there were no sheep in the area so it just wasn't on, by the time he came across sheep he had a good few years work done and due to that we were really tight and had a well developed understanding of each other he never showed the slightest interest in them, even though he would knock other 4 legged grazers he just knew what his job was and sheep weren't on the agenda,
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    He's right , Mods know and see all , there's nowhere safe anymore ,
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    It's plain to see from that how we have managed to get to where we are with so many different breeds from one species of animal. For example: For the fast dogs mentioned in the extract, read sighthound/herding breeds. For the strong dogs, read alunts and other molassers. For the specialist, read the fighting breeds. All have their wild equivalents somewhere in the wild wolf packs that still work in the same way today..I'm not sure what point your making now Malt , you seem to be an advocate for the wolf now, which is what I'm saying , we cannot replicate what we have got from the wolf , not th
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    It's plain to see from that how we have managed to get to where we are with so many different breeds from one species of animal. For example: For the fast dogs mentioned in the extract, read sighthound/herding breeds. For the strong dogs, read alunts and other molassers. For the specialist, read the fighting breeds. All have their wild equivalents somewhere in the wild wolf packs that still work in the same way today.. I'm not sure what point your making now Malt , you seem to be an advocate for the wolf now, which is what I'm saying , we cannot replicate what we have got from the wolf , not
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    Hunting is the only behaviour which makes any reality to the dog , gun dogs will forsake the kill for the hunt ,the same as the rest the drive to hunt is by far the biggest compulsion in its life, same as the sheep dog it lives to work , nothing else, it's in drive it feels free , it has a three way connection with the most important elements in its life , handler and sheep, all in the same driven bubble , life doesn't get any better than that for a working sheepdog , it has forsaken the instinctive behaviours of it's canine past because it can now feel what we feel , its no longer about the
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