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Working on a sleeve , gives a context, a when a where, a command Back in the 80's a friend had a pit , a grouchy nasty fit able watch dog I hated going near the f****r but after he was taken out and worked he was like a different dog for the next few weeks , Dogs learn by contrast, I teach the hup command for the dog to jump up , it giving him a command for the action and at the same time he ceases to jump up at other times , Take him out with a tug item if you don't want to go the sleeve idea , keep him on a long lead , let him work the item , let him win (every time ) reel him in tug a
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Does the shepherd have a proper outlet for his energy , not just walking and trotting I mean a full blown grab and shake the living f**k out of a sleeve or item every now and then , Some mutts need to get up close and personal as a way of relieving tension as the specific breed was designed for, May not happen for a while but at some stage in the future that shepherd will Need to release huge amount of tension into something Look at it this way Jig , if the dog is constantly getting wound up in his daily environment , every time he sees something that causes him to bark or get excited
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You can make it as complicated as you like bud but the dog is a uncomplicated animal , your putting human thoughts and reasoning into a canine mind , it's either intent or attraction , with intent you could be reasoning the why for the need 50 years
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The dog is one of the most social animals on earth, as a whole they are attracted and curios about anything which stimulates their senses, Smells in particular are probably their greatest avenue to fulfilment , A dog when stimulated has to act , it can't half do something, it must see it through , stimulation in most cases must have a physical completion, When greatly stimulated , it has to make contact eirher orally , sexually or physically , it will choose to eat it , hump it , or make some sort of physical contact , The shit of prey animals can be picked at and digested , rabbits
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Don't be hard on yourself bud, dogs vary wildly in behaviour, In situations like yours where a dog is expressing fear of things/ people, the dog is all in its head /fear , it feels disconnected it can't deal with all the input of strange people , it's gets overloaded , it's acting on instinct which is how wild animals normally function, If we look at when wild animals /birds come into our environment by far the main attraction for them is to quell HUNGER, which is a feeling in the gut , not the head , it far outweighs the fear, the natural instincts, So I would work on feeding only in un
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Dogs have a physical memory, in that I mean when they are in a physical place where an emotional incident happened could be it chased a rabbit , fox , had a incident going through a gate , Whatever it was , the dog has taken an environment snap shot of everything in that location, smells , weather , every goddam thing A bit like where you were and what you were doing when you heard about , 9/11 or some huge news to you , you know who was there what was happening , even the smell for some is in their memory bank, big emotion shock leaves big physical snap shot The dog then reverts back
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Like it very much, having a bit of craic with dogs and ferrets with a few like minded individuals , that was always what it was about years ago before egos and wankers wanting to prove they've the fastest , fittest or whatever the latest fad is , begone era , thanks for sharing
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Getting some sound advice already, One thing I would add is trust like a muscle is build up over time , a dog can look friendly when approached but it can still harbour fear which will be exposed when out of its comfort zone, ( new things , people , places) give it plenty of time With pup like this I become more of an observer and less of an imposer, try not to stimulate too much excitement, excitement energises a dog and of it can't act on it is stored as fear As said hand feed getting the pup coming into Your space , that's the important part , the pup has to make all the moves i
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The problem your having is not as straight forward as just having her stop, When a dog ventures on a prey item rabbit , bird etc, its prey instinct is programmed to mouth or to try to get its mouth around the item , it's what it has done from the time it was in the kennel with the bitch , when it was energised , it bit or mouth something The issue really is what does she do with the energy produced in her by the sight smell and movement of the prey animal , it has to go somewhere it can't disappear and when it's not acted on it gets stored for the next time so the dog is actually mo
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Never came across that before and I've heaps of boxes up, a lot safer for the brood in the hole fronted box, magpies play havoc with them nesting round the hedges here,2 broods of tree sparrows , great tit , blue tit and starlings in boxes around the house, never had coal tit nest in any ever ?? I'd be made up with the Tree Sparrows It's funny you should say Magpie, because there's a Carrion Crows nest looking down from a fir tree. It's the first time I've seen Robins in a holed box. The funny thing about the tree sparrows is , a cock bird would always show up every spring at one of the
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Never came across that before and I've heaps of boxes up, a lot safer for the brood in the hole fronted box, magpies play havoc with them nesting round the hedges here, 2 broods of tree sparrows , great tit , blue tit and starlings in boxes around the house, never had coal tit nest in any ever ??
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Not sure the point there soks, drive is drive whether it be a lab swimming for hours in sub zero temp or the focus of a sheepdog to pen a flock of sheep , granted The difference is temperament which is at what scale the dog jumps ship because the resistance is too great
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I understand where your coming from and you make a valid point penny concerning you own cosy group of dogs, where a raised tone from you probably sorts everything out ? But,, , he's not dealing with an animal bred to chase small game , in choosing a pup he lookin for the most driven individual in the group, no pup is chosen to fit in , he's picked to win and show fearlessness and aggression when asked, different game different animal ,
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Interesting that I always felt that a truly grounded confident dog doesn't need to go round pushing his/ her weight around Whereas a dog with issues, a lot of times fear was instilled at some stage will act like an anti Christ at the sight of another dog , it's a case of not been able to deal with how another dog makes it feel , Just on that aggression point I was talking to a successful working German shepherd trainer and he said He will never let juvenile dogs play with adults , he has 5 male working line animals and never has aggression issues , he won't allow nothing but positive in
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What do ya think she would have ended up doing penny if she hadn't killed herself , Just a question ,do you think she would have bitten you or someone else because of her social climbing mentality?
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So do ya think she's bluffing mate , by making other dogs believe shes bigger than she is
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_%28VC%29 Mothers grandfather, tough times make for tough people
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Very nice , fine looking animal to bred from best of luck
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It don't work like that , I don't confront pups for expressing natural canine behaviour , if you manage them and don't hyper excite them they're not half as worked up , when you excite you igniteThe puppy stage is not the right time for confronting a emotionally driven pup, the pup may need to bite it's programmed to bite when we confront that urge we cause a kink in its expression , maybe not in the next few months but it will show at maturity when we want to work hand to mouth with it I have never had a biting dog ever not as much as a growl or a white eye look , I manage pups and channel i
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It don't work like that , I don't confront pups for expressing natural canine behaviour , if you manage them and don't hyper excite them they're not half as worked up , when you excite you ignite The puppy stage is not the right time for confronting a emotionally driven pup, the pup may need to bite it's programmed to bite when we confront that urge we cause a kink in its expression , maybe not in the next few months but it will show at maturity when we want to work hand to mouth with it I have never had a biting dog ever not as much as a growl or a white eye look , I manage pups and
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Nice little pup, When a pup is stimulated / excited it has to act on it , it has no impulse control at that stage in it's development, in fact the more any dog was stimulated as a pup the harder impulse control is as a grown animal and when a dog is super excited it is drawn to mouth something , anything within reach The trick is to keep it on an even keel , don't ffs play with it in the house , your just making a cross for your own back , try and not overexcite it, The calmer you raise a pup the less problems you going to have with bad behaviour, whining , barking , mouthing , r
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Newsboy makes a good point, if 2 dogs are bred for purpose why wouldn't there offspring be as fast if not faster surely it's the purpose the dog is bred for, is what has shaped all the breeds If we take it right back to the start, the dog was only ever bred for use and to facilitate that each breed evolved into a particular shape and temperament best suited to the job at hand , when many of these breeds evolved hundreds of years ago the world was a much smaller place and folks couldn't venture far from home , so you could only really bred from animals in your district so the diffe
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Just asked the woman here how she was voting , she liberal enough in her thinking generally but she says it's almost as if it's been forced on us and if you don't go along with it somehow your in the wrong but this is not what marriage ever mean to us And in a climate where we've experienced financial cuts and extra charges imposed from a government licking Europes ass this vote to a lot of folk will just feel like another imposition on our culture and things hold dear ,
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Nice little bitch , good work, she looks like a right one
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I never thought a table shitting pup would make a 3 pager but there ya go,
