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shit that something else isn't it,,
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she wants to bring everyone away on hols, i keep putting her off because im terrified of leaving the dogs with the aul lad hes a headbanger with dogs , what do the rest of you do with your little darlings, after all who's going to look after them like we do,,how well are they looked after in kennels,,
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Is the Cockney Sparrow still running that pub up the road from it,,??
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playing tug with the mutt is great advise, on building bonds and achieving a solid trusting relationship , but until you achieve a foundation between you i would keep the mutt on the lead while playing or otherwise he just going to f**k off with the object and your back to square one again, because while playing you must let the mutt wrestle the object from you, and achieve his goal, that is the cofidence builder for the dog, not just the playing , the winning is where he feels he's the dog bollox, and he will want to do it again,and again, its a win win situation he gets to feel good to
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You've seen the light ,,,
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100% right approach bud, the dog will only play with other dogs because the owner wont play with it, the training will come from the play , its just an extension of it , but the dog dont need to know that ,,best of luck
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same as that,,saw a dog before wouldn't walk within 5 metres of any wire , sheep wire included, complete mental shutdown around electric fencing,,
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Was it your dog sparky ???
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no my pup wouldn't have struck me as easy to arouse, a laid back sort of a client, but for what i wanted him for bigger stuff , would have been ideal, would have tested him on sharp stuff by now, you be surprised the difference it makes to some dogs, best of luck with him,,
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i had a pup off that litter, got the pup at 7 weeks from houndsman up there, he was fine pup smooth coated, hadn't started him , when he went down with something, in and out of the vet for a few days, tablets for him, not getting any better so went back in and said there was something seriously here, so found something on xray , opened up and it was too late , blood supply had been cut off to long to a folded gut, they put him down on the table,,felt cheated then having to pay for operation and everything that went with it, if they had acted sooner could have saved him on a lighter not
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There is a shy gene that follows some breeds of dog, its fairly rare thankfully, not sure if thats the case here,,
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salukis resting heart rate - or other running dogs
Casso replied to ol26's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
did you worm dose recently, not saying he has worms, reaction to the dose? -
electronic anti bark dog collar
Casso replied to lapin2008's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Hi, thanks for your response, he knows when in the kennel that he should be silent as is good as gold (most the time) when we are in!! its only when we leave the house I do have a crate in the house which is what i did with him when he was little but think he is too big now to be left in it long term. He has food in with him and bones/trotters most days so I dont think its a hunger thing. I think its a most likely a company thing and I will try the radio with him. I will be getting another lurcher later this year once this one is fully up and running, I may get one on loan from a mat -
i been blessed to live not too far from the coast,,walking on a stony sea shore is great for feet,,because the foot dont come down on a flat surface, each toe has to work in its own right to maintain a grip,,an old greyhound man i knew used to swear by it,,
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a hungry dog is a responsive dog,,i dont leave food down,,i believe a lot of good traits piggyback on hunger,more eager, easier motivated, etc,,it causes a want in a dog makes it keener to work with , takes my take on it bud, best of luck with the new upstart,,
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i tell ya what bud im not a big fan of bringing on 2 pups at the same time, it will take more organising and more time , try feeding the pup on its own anyway, but thats a bigger mountain now, 2 pups together tend to be each others crutch, if the easiest route to burn off his energy is through play with another pup, you might find yourself on the sidelines a bit, you have the summer to pull things round , see how ya go , pm me if your stuck,,
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let the frustration builds up for a couple of days if needs be,,keep him on the lead when out , you dont want any other distractions apart from you and the object,, make sure he's empty when taking out , desire rides on the back of hunger, and when you do feed him , get eye contact focus for about 5 seconds at the start build it up to 10 or more before you put the bowl down,, it will start clicking with him that when he wants something , you are the channel for it, ,it will develop over time if you pay enough attention, you will see him giving eye contact when he wants something,,all
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i would let him rag or get in at the very end , the smells and feel wont be alien to him on his own , sometimes if used on rabbits a young dog can be shocked out of drive and back off with his first engagement with foxy because he not mentally prepared for battle if you can get him worked up, on a kill another dog has made, the second time round the memory of been in drive will charge him up just on the smell alone,,so by the time he makes contact, he will already be in the right frame of mind at least,,
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when i start off with a pup i use 2 of everything, i dont take the dummy or ball out of the pups mouth i find that will only encourage it to keep away at that age,,most importantly you need to build frustration in the pup for the object ,frustration builds desire in any dog ,bounce it throw it around keeping it away from the pup, just until you feel the pup is focused on you, not the object, get plenty of eye contact ,,throw one , the dog will run, hopefully he'll will desire it enough to hold on to it ,call him to get attention,, then throw the other one around, let him come back to you,
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Everything in moderation, as the man said they can be used to good effect when used as part of a fitness programme, seen then used as a good cardio workout with a different type of animal the problem with any fitness training is that you need to know what your doing, its not something you make up as you go along or you could do more harm than good, you dont need to develop a fit pup anyway, pup is programmed to express him physically through play, if you watch two pups playing, running only plays a small part in the activity,,physical contact is huge and a big part in development and
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questions for the more experianced lurcher folk amoung us,
Casso replied to cheeseboard's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
on your point about dogs hitting hedges, had a bitch years ago, who couldn't run to warm herself, slow as f**k, first cross beddy who threw to the terrier side, rarely caught bunnies on the lamp in the open, everything she took had either hit the ditch or just inside, she had learned to use the hedge to her advantage, took good numbers with that bitch too,, -
in general i thing the standard of dog owner hasn't improved, and if thats the case i dont see hows the dogs would have improved and with the hunting ban now in place apart from bunnies , i dont see how it will ever get any better
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Thats an interesting post rob, wolves and dogs are very similar for sure,,but man has bred dogs for drive , because it can be focused into whatever form man needs from the dog, fighting, hunting, searching, whatever,, in breeding for heart (drive) , you increase the desire in the dog to make contact with whatever form its breeding dictates, so much so that it over rides its survival instinct in some cases,,,but increases its pull to make contact, no wolf has as much heart as a good dog,,instinct plays a major role in the wolf's life, it keeps him alive because its mostly bas
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all dogs have drive to some degree, its the want in our dogs to make contact with something,,but all dog do not have the same drive intensity , some dogs will be shocked out of drive with the bite of a fox, some will see it as a positive and respond accordingly,,its that varying degree of intensity of drive is what makes dogs hard or not, its all the one drive but different dogs have different levels, like an elevator in a tall building some dogs will go ,right to the top and enjoy the ride and see everything as positive and some will bale out on the 2 floor , because its all getting to much,,
