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The sooner people realise that this is Sports Enternaimment not sports as such the easier it is to grasp the concept that it's just about selling PPV , what happens in realty the night of the fight is beside the point, it'll be talked about for a couple of days later and those involved can cash their huge cheques and go back to normal Can't see how either is going to lose out of this , Floyd will win a boxing match and mcgregor will have a story to tell his grandchildren how he once fought the worlds greatest for millions opon millions, this f****r was on the scratcher 4/5 years ago wit
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Without going into to much detail the wife had a breakdown some years ago ,any suggestion of a doctor was treated as an admission of guilt on her part,until a major episode led to her going to see them....I regularly turned up for work marked up,face clawed,split lips etc etc ,never told anyone,but I think they knew.Real low point was a christening,turning up suited and booted with a face that looked like a wolverine had attacked it,and trying to pass it off as eczema ffs.This was near 10 yrs ago,she did get help in the end and things improved,it was a rough time but we got through it and its
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Enjoy every minute of it Ray, Some interesting posts and correspondence from you on here Lot of dog knowledge gathered over the years Best of luck with the future bud
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It depends what you want in life bud, if your one of these people who will spend the next few years comparing and contrasting what you've have left behind and the things you can't get over here , rather than imbracing what's on offer where your going , well you may as well stay put, Ireland and the west is full of folk who moved here because of whats on offer and they buy into whole heartily, apart from the Irish the largest group is brits here, Spend a weekend , have a look round and maybe you'll get a small sense of what the place is like but I wouldn't be coming over just to boost
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One tip when stock breaking is , try making yourself more exciting to the pup than the stock What I mean by that is , the pup is going to be stimulated by any animal especially movement so bring food / ball anything If a pup will play /eat surrounded by stock , you are making yourself more exciting and accessible when the pup is in a driven frame of mind If you can keep in your mind that when the pup meets anything he will be aroused for movement , if you can be the answer to what is a physical not a mental problem you will retain control , if you get my drift Best of luck
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It's all part and parcel of the hunt bud , your probably lookin for reinsurance that she won't hunt like that What I will tell is every running dog is stimulated by the movement and shape of the bunny, round furry shapes are completely prey like for the dog but what has to happen to really trigger the prey making instinct is Movement , Movement is the key to the chase , prey has to act prey like to trigger the predator , So if we roll this on a few months and say the pup has chased a few , the bunny even without running will galvanise the dog into action because the bunny as an
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Penny makes a point in CMW this week about the use of a tug item in relation to dogs giving up their catch, I haven't used a tug item for a problem such as this , which to me is a temperament issue , (who wants it more) But the point made about the advantages of engaging with the dog In this way still remain, the point being that when a dog is stimulated , he is invested with an energy , he whole body get stiff and still , it's not a state the dog is comfortable with, so he has to act but here's the thing , the dog doesn't care how he shakes off the feeling as long as he brings his sys
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Why does a dog investigate his own shit ?
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Building trust is another way of saying, the dogs own resistance to us is been broken down as well , The dog functions in a predator/prey mindset , that's how his mind is constructed that's the only way he can feel the world around him Everything has a predator/prey ratio to the dog from completely prey like (soft toys) to an oncoming bear (predator) We also fall somewhere on the scale according to how the dog feels about us and all he can go on are past experiences , positive and negetive in order words have we corrected him for what we thought was the right think to do so he coul
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What I read is there is some confusion with the sit , if The Sit is his Go To, time out , stop what going on around me position , It's a position where he feels comfortable , if sitting down stops you charging at him , it's a position that has been granted safety status , If something's works it will be repeated in times of confusion Take a step back and connect with the dog, crutch down an odd time and let the dog come into your space If he will stand give him a rub on his top line until he softens up a bit , is he invested in you or trying to pull away, ? Everything co
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What I read is there is some confusion with the sit , if The Sit is his Go To, time out , stop what going on around me position , It's a position where he feels comfortable , if sitting down stops you charging at him , it's a position that has been granted safety status , If something's works it will be repeated in times of confusion Take a step back and connect with the dog, crutch down an odd time and let the dog come into your space If he will stand give him a rub on his top line until he softens up a bit , is he invested in you or trying to pull away, ? Everything co
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What's it comes down to ultimately is what the dog feels is the best use for its energy, If the dog has been worked , the call of the wild will hold more weight , as compared to the frustration of chasing a ball , ball work will on occasions leave a driven dog with a energy output which falls short of input Which in other words means if he is highly stimulated by a small bouncy object, he can only offload a relatively small amount of energy to catch it , which means the big input has outweighed the small amount of energy expressed , he's at a short fall Now a dog that has worked
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What your explaining is a dog in drive mode , he's in the zone and totally focused on you, When that can be extended to include distractions ,you've become the most exciting object in the dogs environment, and that gives control and real connection , What I would do now is use that drive connection to train whatever you like, the prize being the ball , Another element of that drive control is that the dog tunes in to its handler and wants to engage , The point I've tried to make on here is the dog will make itself fit into any social situation, without having discipline or corre
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Amazing Underwater Footage Of Mink Catching Trout
Casso replied to Minkenry's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
What a multi purpose hunting animal the little mink is , doesn't take much to feed compared to a dog , Pound for pound probably the most accomplished working animal of them all Videos always seem a bit slapstick but then the action is first class , well done bud -
Sorry bout that , didn't mean to mix you up with this other chap
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Are you the lad who just got rid of a pup because it was temperamentally unsound ??
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Nah, beating a pup into submission is all part of the experience Your probably right
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You do it your way bud I'll do it mine There's more to training a pup than twating it everytime it fucks up
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If she's inside Kay I would crate her up as often as you can, get her used to been in it while your out too, Try not stimulating too much in the home , her response to excitement will always be an energetic one , Best of luck with her
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Pups are born with all these innate traits , a lot of them are triggered by something stopping or play stopping, a pup will mount another when play stops , when play stops the pup encounters resistance , it then has a number of traits to fall back on , barking , mounting , scraping, mouthing I would encourage a bite toy but at the same time as already said it could just fade away
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If the physical memory in the dog is hard to grasp , think more along the lines of trauma victims who relive a hugely traumatic event again in real time because what your acually recalling is the feeling had , the feeling actually invests itself in the body and whatever goes in must come out and that then is an outburst, human or canine
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Its just thrown out there, not for yourself in particular bud Some folks can't see the canine world because they spend to long projecting human thoughts into the mutt."if I do this you must do that " Meanwhile dog is going by how something and it FEELS , and in the wolf cub world , that gut feeling help him navigate his environment If we brought him into a city he'd have a meltdown because of stimulation overload the same stimulation any pup is subject too the only difference is a pup can hold on to a feeling before it breaks into instinct but the more you trigger instinct The mo
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I would think the modern understood new puppy upbringing method is socialisation , everyone is at it, it the cure all , perfect puppy out on the lead getting used to the world , fine But we need to look at how a pup processes the world , his world is divided and every action is based on a predator /prey mindset , that's all he can go on So when we bring a young pup out into the big world we are leaving a physical history of what it felt like as a pup to encounter whatever comes it's way protected or not , stimulated over and over is not what I want What I want is calm relaxed u
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Not with ya on the puppy training Nik any dog can be completely social without training at an early age , it's about management not discipline and confrontation The tide will turn on all that socialisation bollox as well , once it's grounded onto its owner it can take the world in its stride, this shite about needing to see everything before a certain date in its timeline , crap , Never socialised a dog forty years ago , nobody did , was there as many in shelters was there as many attacks on people /dogs , there was nothing Dog has hard wired behaviours , if those behaviours are fu
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Long line is the way to go, it's more of amanagement tool, if you see trouble ahead just grab.up the slack A dog won't be a puller on a long line because a pulling dog needs to feel resistance to go forward then the feeling of resistance becomes what lead walking feels like
