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What do you make of the Jones camp turning down a fight with Sonnen, i think it could have been the fight that shut Sonnen up for a while, whatever you think of Sonnen the man, he has a fighter's heart,
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take a trip over to Tommy Byrne in woodlands falconry Rathwood, Carlow, heaps of birds on display , always willing to help newcomers with advice , hunted with him years ago genuine fella really knows his stuff, he's got a website too , Woodlands Falconry think its called,
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you wont put her off chewing if she's that way inclined, sprays , sauces whatever shite , shes breaking the place up because she doing feck all , she needs to express herself orally , i wouldn't hold her back any longer , if she's the real deal you think she is , she sounds like it i would let her on, she may get tagged but it will only get her warmed up either that or get her on a strong tug item give her a good ten minutes on it couple of times a day , its that action she needs to release, best of luck,
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not long to go now for the girl to try to achieve her dream of an Olympic gold, terrific dedication from her down through the years , come on kate,,
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sometimes we just have to manage our dogs out in public by whatever means, owners get scared when they see a lot of dogs heading there way and at the same time panic their own mutt, dogs will get themselves into all sorts of situations if we let them and the reason for this is because they are attracted to everything they have such a social apatite, they can be their own worst enemy at times , couple of dogs is not so bad but when you get over 4 together the pack mentally take over and i could see it hard to regain control especially if you have a young teenage dog with a interest in everythi
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what ever ya do bud do it soon, otherwise your going to be left 2 two grown dogs with huge issues over food, emotion in equals emotion out with food becoming the trigger for outbursts, best of luck with whatever ya do
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i understand what your saying penny and it all makes perfect sense to us to discipline a dog, but for a instruction or command to be fully understood the receiver of the discipline must fully understand the others reasoning for it, we find it hard enough to understand human reason how hard do you think it is for a dog, For a dog there are so many other factors which are taken in , mindset of both dog and owner at the time, owner, grass or concrete, location, tension felt inside( hungry or not), weather, time of day the list is endless, dogs find it very very difficult to conceptualize and us
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hi Penny , im only going to put down a few lines til later im up to my ears here my main point of responding on this thread was to try to clear up for my friend the reason for the behavior in the dog and to try to prevent others from misreading a action and disciplining a dog for making a confused connection, the dog was clearly a very social animal just misguided, we dont interpret a scratch or bite from a cat, a peck from a parrot , or ever a kick from a horse, as dominant behavior, but as soon as a dog steps over the line in any form we label him as having intentions to take over th
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your not far off the point mo chara when you say he does it when excited and thats the key he needs to be channeled into a form of connection thats social, when energy is flowing eg, when he is running after you things are in motion its great but its when the energy stops , no motion that the dog is stuck with energy infesting his body in other words, thats when the problem erupts , its still a form of connection the mounting is not dominance, the dog has no dominant intentions what so ever, its a distorted form of connection when energy is not flowing, pups will even do it in the nes
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i agree with that, hunger produces an urgency in the canine and a sharpness , a hungry dog is easier worked with and trained, there are a lot of good traits that piggyback on the back of that feeling of tension caused by hunger, not saying not to feed your mutt or how to feed him but definitely it makes a difference to how a dog approaches work, its up to each individual how they look after their charges though,
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methods of training a complete lurcher
Casso replied to Richard Morgan's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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natural canine behavior expressed as pups such as mouthing chewing or biting are just that, there is no malicious intent in fact there is no thinking involved these outlets or expressions are hardwired into the canine for thousands of years they must be expressed in that form at that age is a compulsion which in turn leads to a level headed adult dog the problem is in a house this behavior becomes unbearable with modern living and tempers fray and a pup gets slapped or beaten and subdued, the discipline will probably work but the compulsion to express drive orally in the pups mind is
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the mutt has drive energy seeping out in what has become a habit formed tension release, get him out using other avenues of drive, hunting , lamping ,mooching , ball play , tug play something that results in a positive interaction involving you and a huge use of energy show and encourage him to express drive in other forms, get him expressing it orally its most natural and feels better for the mutt,
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its a canine form of thumb sucking, its exactly the same action as the first suckling act she ever made with the bitch, it brings her comfort , get her some sort of a soft thing to lie on and keep her on that not the furniture or beds, a lot of attention in the home can have an opposite effect of what its meant to, too much attention mixed with discipline in the house can sometimes lead to a confused pup,
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The term tug play might put off hardened dogmen, but as Chalkwarren pointed out it fools the dog by channeling his orally inclined impulse in your favour, nature has programmed the canine to be forever an optimist , if a dog believes you have the potential to evoke energy in the form of a tug item he will jump through hoops for you, the world is full of highly trained canines who will put themselves in the line of fire for nothing more than a play(Prey) item, all it is, is the combination of a driven dog and an avenue to express his drive energy in the form of a play(Prey) item with you
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Usually praise is enough but yes tip bits can bring things on.... I cant see where playing tug would benefit, recipe for a hard mouthed dog if ive ever heard it. And i'll add always take the squeak out any toy you decide to give your dog or you might just find you get a 'cruncher' as well........ lab, if we take a close look at dogs we will find they are completely orally driven, mouthing is the first compulsion from any pup , its natures way for the canine to connect with the world and its also the best way to interact that creates an understanding there is more to it than just th
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There's an old saying over here that you shouldn't buy a pig in a bag, it hold the same for most things dogs included, you dont hand over money til you know what your getting , not just physically but mentally too, not saying the dog wont be good but too many lads just looking at the external features without realizing that there's more to working a dog than how it looks to the eye,, best of luck to the lad with it,
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no offence bud but why buy a mutt like that , its going to be hard work to get the best out of the dog , just a personal thing but i would never take on never mind buy a dog that wasn't temperamentally sound if im looking for a worker,,
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most hunting folk will no doubt stand with the worker x as opposed to untried animals , in saying that, even a working bred dog and bitch can still throw more submissive and less driven pups in the same litter along with highly driven dominant ones, the reason for this is that mother nature must cover all avenues of evolution, a pack of canines in the wild must have both driven and less driven, confident and active plus shy and reactive, the wolf that will take a head hold on a deer and the one who takes a rear hold when the animal is subdued, while the more dominant sleep the more nervo
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yeah, there is no doubt we are all well aware of animal welfare and working dogs have become part and parcel of the family, well fed and better treated on the whole mistreating animals dog's included is a huge one in society today ,animal cops this and that, dogs are probably leading the way as the model of how animals should be looked after which is great, years of neglect have gone on, But on the flip side which is following on, on the coat tails of animal care is the Ban, which is also in how we treat animals wild or not, you cant have one without the other, you can't elevate one an
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The ruination of lurchers will ultimate come from the ban, maybe not in the next few years but in 20 or so years , purpose begat's form, and when the ban eventually chokes the life out of the hare dog as we know it, smaller whippety running dogs will very much come in fashion, the ability to test a hare gives us the form of that dog for that purpose, without the real quarry the test the endurance and speed , the hare dog will just become a replica of the tried and tested running dog of today, maybe a few years down the road for the older guys on here but its on the horizon for the next gen
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if you get it out with ferrets now .thats a bit of no no aint it at the moment ,lol and how do you know its got no chance of catching anything if it aint getting a chance to run anything ..whats easier than a few young rabbits at this time of year ,(its july its not ferreting time .) get searching mate find a few young rabbits sat out in nettles and thistles ,your pup will love this ,plus this time of year youll find a few about with the myxi as well .get up the streams and chase a few moorhens around with him as well .get your dog out mooching my mate ,dont you go listening to some of the no
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toys and tug items should be just a artificial form of a limb or a jumper a finger a hand, its a item that facilitates contact with you, without losing the use of a limb or drawing blood its the contact with you that's the clincher, the more a dogs confidence and trust of us grows the more energy the dog can gives us, that is the more play he will enter into too and at the same time the more control we have over the dog its the interaction with you that builds the group mind between the two of you and training becomes easy after that, i would have whatever interaction you can that
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Terrier eating sheep sh**and rolling in bird sh**
Casso replied to Jack.308's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
dogs ingest substances from smells that give them a charge, strange smells especially prey like smells from sheep rabbits etc can be eaten in the form of shit, on the other hand less prey like smells from foxes , badgers tend to be rolled in, its all a form of making contact indirectly, that's all watch two dogs meeting and greeting , they get charged up by the sight of each other but through smelling and tasting front and back ends they neutralize the charge and go on their way, It's all a form of making contact through smelling and tasting, i would'nt worry bout it bud, -
3 feet is the distance from us a dog feels safe with an item, its not quite coming into our space and its as near as it can be, thats why tug play is a great for breaking down that barrier, if you dont want to go down that road, ball play or a different item for retrieve with the mutt bringing in the first item into your space for a second to be throw only after its been seen and the pup teased with it , i used to make pups jump up with his paws on my chest with the first for the second to be launched , its take the emphases off the item and makes coming into your space the trigger to thr
