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A dog fancier is somebody with an interest in dogs With all due respect you are speaking with a very naive outlook on nature......you say " all dogs are born social ".....that is absolute nonsense,what so because a puppy will lick your face and roll over to have its belly rubbed that means its born social ??.....you think that means theres not a capacity within that dog to be bad ?.....YOU DISREGARD THE LAWS OF NATURE AT YOUR OWN PERIL !........and the laws of nature dictate some living things will be born good some will be born bad.....as dog breeders we must strive to weed out the bad,but
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im not sure what a dog fancier is, maybe thats what someone who keeps dogs in this day and age is called,but it doesn't mean they know anything about dogs, i kept dogs all my life same as my father and his father before him and i can assure that any litter of pups born anywhere to any bitch of any species is born with certain traits either to be the most social or the most aggressive that breed can be, these are traits that can be encouraged or neglected, all of which depend on learned behaviour, strong dogs and high drive dogs can all be kept with ease if you know the systems to work the
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people give horses enough respect by not walking behind them and putting themselves at risk, you wont hear any shouts about putting such a horse down when it kicks someone but sticking your face into the mush of a strange dogo seemly is ok ?? but
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The yanks used the dobermann in world war 2 in the pacific to great effect, and in the same way as most other breeds go when the general public decide they fancy the look of a dog for their home, breeders start breeding for friendliness not purpose, when you start breeding for a family friendly dog you lose drive, highly driven dogs are just to much for the average household, the dog still looks the same as the original but with less heart or bottle,
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you know your getting older when, the wind feels colder hedges are higher and the barbwire seems sharper,,
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what we might call incidents and what the mutt feels about the same incident can be totally different, a negative situation involving another dog in the field maybe involving game, it may not seem like much to us but can leave a pup with a negative charge which gets replayed in the pups mind when he finds himself in the same environment after, so each new dog becomes like the first dog he can across in the field
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just a quick question ideation, was he started on his own or has he any history of incidents in the field involving other mutts when he was younger,
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its always the last few feet some dogs have a problem with, its the coming into your space area, i try making coming in and making contact with me as the start of any exercise and throughout with the dog, i get the dog to actually put his paws on my chest dogs which have be told off for jumping up or have experienced negative associations in your space can take work to bring round, hand feeding is a good way of overcoming tension in the mutt it brings the dog up close and personal in what is a very sensitive act for the dog, lowering your height for the final bit of the dogs retrieve, can
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im sure the pup will become reasonable at what you want if for, But for me a long line of working lurchers bred to catch have developed a knack genetically to do the job, they just seem to be born with the requirement for the job already preprogrammed in their makeup, we all know certain families who have certain skill traits be it football or boxing or whatever, its genetics until the day a donkey wins the derby, i believe the genes play a huge part in the animal world
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some very valid points already made,but another point to ponder is, ingestion of matter turds included in dogs can often be a release from tension or stress, it can be like the canine form of nail biting or self harming in worse cases, any huge changes in her world recently, whatever the case work on the bond between you through play , a ball or tug is ideal, get her out more doing doggy things with you, often when dogs are allowed to expose their predator side, the other crazy shit (excuse the pun) they sometimes do just goes away, best of luck with her,,
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bud you need to be clear in your own mind what you want to accomplish with the pup, that is, what sort of retrieve you want, do you want it to hand or a few feet away, dont treat a bad retrieve, i only throw for the pup to retrieve if he jumps up and gives me the ball straight from his mouth, that way he gets used to close contact and my hand movement close to his mouth for the proper retrieve rabbit style, i dont bring a crew with me either, just you and the mutt, he will be better focused that way cause frustration in the pup for the item, if he knows your going to launch it everytime
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dont make a big fuss of the pup in the house, the pup will start making association with its surroundings early on, inside calm, outside play, people dont get this and its very important the pup if it gets used to seeing the house as an exciting place and play area is what leads to furniture getting decorated later on in its life, things get chewed and it runs around biting the children, come in to the house , ignore the pup , let him out if he's in a crate, go to the back door let him out, let him pee, praise him then make contact and pet him, i dont touch the dogs in the house, they come
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Advice on training my whippet!!!
Casso replied to bigbailey's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
you need to make yourself more interesting to the pup, hunting up in her mind is the best use for her energy, plus she will also associate the woods with squirrels and be on the look out for them, if she can understand that being near you will give her a high return energy wise then she will pay attention to you where ever you are, potential energy is a hugely valuable tool in controlling a dog, a bird in the hand is not worth 2 in the bush to a canine , that is to say once a rabbit is caught, the energy is caught and the next potential rabbit is much more interesting to him, he will stan -
dogs will urinate to relieve tension, strange smells in particular will cause a charge in the dog which in turn will make her feel uncomfortable internally, urinating then becomes a natural release of tension in the canine body The dog coming back into the house with strange smells about is probably what triggered it especially nervy dogs like whippets, may never happen again, best of luck with her, p.s i take it , it was the whippet that urinated not the wife, if it was the wife i totally lost,,,
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he is expressing his drive through hunting which is only natural, but doesn't see any great return in retrieving a dummy drive wise if ya get my drift, if the result of the retrieve is to get to hunt again it will feel to him like a far better return for his energy, the reward for retrieve can often seem worthless to a highly driven dog if its mostly based on praise and treats, for a young dog to need to hunt far out weights these, as he get older and understands his job and you, praise has it place i wouldn't let him hunt for a while until you get a handle on him retrieve wise, the reason f
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i dont put too much emphasis on jumping, the mutt can jump, but i dont expect him to jump when we're out roaming or i dont make him jump,he finds his own way, having too lift a dog over things when out is madness and a lack of fieldcraft in my experience, if the dog wants it enough he'll find a way , over ,under , through whatever the obstacle ,
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great input there mind you does not suprise me. I wouldn't dare try and surprise you, I'd only end up embarrassing myself. After all you are the all-knowing and ever fearless scothunter. The type of man on which the great british empire should model itself on. Never mind me and please carry on, i enjoy your posts. we aint had an empire in a long time, as for fearless i have no idea what you are getting at by that. fuk all wrong with having pride in my country. im sure you feel the same about yours, despite it never achieving the same heights as the uk. never mind you s
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great input there mind you does not suprise me. I wouldn't dare try and surprise you, I'd only end up embarrassing myself. After all you are the all-knowing and ever fearless scothunter. The type of man on which the great british empire should model itself on. Never mind me and please carry on, i enjoy your posts. we aint had an empire in a long time, as for fearless i have no idea what you are getting at by that. fuk all wrong with having pride in my country. im sure you feel the same about yours, despite it never achieving the same heights as the uk. never mind you s
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seem to spend my spare time dropping the kids to what they want to do in their spare time, and when im not doing that im trying to figure out why dogs do what they do,
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you need to start off with short periods spent away and gradually increase, never go back to him in mid-howl as such or mid-bark or whatever noise he's drumming out, or he will make an association between him making noise and you being there, then it becomes a habit, which is a b*****d to sort out, when you leave him, leave him with a meaty bone or a kong stuffed with something nice , frozen yogurt in a kong keeps then occupied for ages, if its the crate thats affecting him, you need to make it a really positive place, feed him in there, made going into the crate the start of a game
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how to stop my lurcher from this?
Casso replied to madmacca's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
he's young yet, doesn't sound very mature,but it will come, in the mean time forget all the training with him your boring the tits off him, the dog will always come in the house, folk think the mutt is trained because of this but why wouldn't he most times there's something in it for him plus no distractions like dogs to play with or interesting smells, if he not interested in treats some other stimulation is needed that involves interaction between you, the training your using is not attracting his energy to you, as a general rule the more you attract his energy and satisfy his dogg -
do you have a command for the retrieve,? when your playing with a toy or ball with the mutt try using a command with two items, what i find is some mutts prefare one item more than the other and may not retrieve a certain item all the way back to you, i use "bring it" to make him retrieve an item to get to play with another, or drop an item and walk on with the dog on the lead stopping some distance away, turn around and look at him giving him the command bring it, pointing towards the item, when he gets the command into his head it can be used else where, the trick is to make him believe
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try to make the pup believe that coming back to you with the item means another item comes to life in your hands, 2 items are needed for this, dont worry bout taking the first item as the man said, when i work with pups, i make them come into my space sometimes jump up on me to throw an item for them, it leaves them with no fear for the retrieve later on where a lot of mutts fail at the last few feet when working its the energy you create in the item the dog should be looking for not the item itself, bringing the item back to you should give rise to more energy in the dogs mind, meaning bri
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You need to make yourself more interesting to your pup in the short term, in the long term he'll grow out of it once you start working him and he knows what his job is, he's running off because he looking to hook up and play with other canines or humans, shocking him wont do much for the relationship between you, although i can see the logic in it, work on the bond through play, it will pay back greater in the long run than the quick fix, i like to use a long lead too so the pup can have a feeling of freedom, you can get really long ones online, when he gets used to having one on even at
