Nik_B
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nice work
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Fighting On The Frontline 39 mins in unf-ckinbelievable
Nik_B replied to SUNDAYBAIN's topic in General Talk
Probably meen nothing to them but I'd shake all their hands. This country doesn't deserve such heroic people. -
You've sent them away for residential training What a good idea, can I have the trainers number! After 2 days they got sent home again for whining in the kennel
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Sorry wasn't saying you were but there are lots of people out there who buy a trained dog or have one trained but expect the dog to be like a robot when it comes home. The dog no doubt soon figures out where it can start to exploit weaknesses and I'll bet 6 months later it ends up crap. It must be annoying for the professional trainer of those dogs when someone says "so and so trained that dog" with an accusing tone. It is going to be very difficult to maintain consistency but I am totally committed to winning this battle and ending up with a dog that I am proud of. AS you say the work
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No I bite their ears
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I have started using my dog training techniques on my kids it's working a treat
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Either way I'll have to hand him over to someone when I leave for work. I'd prefer a gundog trainer to my wife. I am looking at this as a team effort and not me being lazy and getting someone else to do all the work which we all know doesn't work out. After some lessons we are making real progress but I leave for Saudi next week and will be away for 3 or 4 weeks and I know for a fact that if I leave him with the wife I will come back and have to start the process all over again. Once I am back it will be boot camp for ME not Ollie We will have lessons once a week and I will do tra
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But he isn't kicking the dog! That's like saying me smacking my daughter is beating her up! There is a difference and idiots will always be idiots and they don't need TV to be a nasty piece of work and abuse animals! A firm hand and making the dog understand he is at the bottom of the pecking order in that house (where it should be) will probably save it's life in the long run. How much longer before they get rid of it and it goes to the RSPCA where it is then killed because no one else will want it. It has been allowed to be aggressive towards people which I think is inexcusable and becau
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He did a good job. That dog thought it was the dominant force in that house how on earth is that acceptable!! Caesar Milan has similar techniques. Alternative situation police take dog away after it bites a child and dog gets put down...child suffers, dog suffers and owners suffer.
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regarding the solar argument I would start with putting solar panels on offices and tower blocks etc. WHy shouldn't 'green' energy be produced where it is used rather than sticking those horrible winda farms up in the countryside. Either by incentive or by force....then work down to housing and estates nothing should get built that doesn't have a solar panel and at least it will contribute. Problem is that every time we invent a technology that reduces the reliance on oil/gas/coal and then let in 500,000 people from overseas we're back to square one, or even fuel use is more rather than le
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They dont have to have any. Look at the bigger picture, strategically they are a good country to chum up with. Can't disagree with that. I was going to edit to say that the oil wasn't the reason the came but yeh I agree that to kick em out or to ban the burka might upset the oil producing nations. Does your head in
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Pakistan doesn't have any oil!!
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I fried some nice bacon (not that crap from the supermarket) in butter until crispy then put my pigeon breast in and fried for about a minute a side (maybe more). Then made some toast and put some rocket leaves on it followed by the pigeon and bacon. Drizzled a little bit of the juices over it all and salt and pepper. My little girl said "This is so nice it could be pudding" and she was right!!!
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We're getting loads of them round here in the lastr couple of years. I am putting the finishing touches off to the house so I can sell it and become one of those townies moving to the countryside Just need to buy a new range rover and we're all set
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and when they up sticks and move country where do you think they are going to go
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The biggest mistake was to let him run round with other dogs when he was young. I knew it was wrong but let myself be persuaded by 'park dog' owners who are just clueless muppets and kept saying thiungs to make me feel guilty about not letting him off the lead. That made him more and more motivated by other dogs and also conditioned him to thinking grass = run around. Some successes I had this year were to make him steady when he sees cats and other animals, I walk him where there are loads of cats and everytime he sees one I blow the stop whistle. He's really good now and also I can walk
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I set myself a tall order indeed I've never been beating or picking up nor have I even been on a pheasant shoot! I have seen a spaniel work and been on the occasional rough shoot and decoying pigeons so in terms of experience I have very little. Still I wasn't going to let that stop my usual impetuous nature I read as much as I could and I don't think I've done bad for a total novice....oh yeh did I also mention I've never owned a dog before either? He's great around the house and good at retrieving in the garden and delivers to hand, he understands the stop whistle and walks ve
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AHAH!! Nice headbut
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Unbelievably this towrag sued the sun newspaper successfully as he was "humiliated" and "I'll never be able to get a job"
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You are completely right. He will become someone else's dog while he is there. After this it will be me that needs training to handle him and I'll be making weekly visits for lessons. I'm under no illusion that my own inexperience is the cause of my problems but I have also learned for the next time where I have gone wrong. I could have bought a fully trained dog instead of a pup but I'd have just ruined it in the end anyway. He's nearly 2 years old and 2 months training isn't going to have turned him into a fully trained gundog but I think he will be disciplined and understand what is accepta
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Ha ha you cruel git!!! I was working in the desert and we had loads of those horrible camel spiders on the rig site. I was stepping carefully out of my cabin one night and saw one leg it past, I stept backwards to give it a wide birth and this Algerian guy pinched me on the ankle....I must have lept a foot in the air
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After a year and a half of making mistakes and then trying to fix them it was getting to the point where I would have probably ended up with a ruined dog. I've taken the decision to sent the lad off to a professional to get him straightened out. I suppose you don't learn if you don't make mistakes and in the last few months I could see some progress but he is way behind where he should have been at 22 months. He's going to learn kennel manners and have his general discipline sorted out first as obviously we can't move forward without that. When he gets home he's going to live in a kennel so th
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Sorry didn't spot that
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It's the owners more than the animal though. They require little work and most owners chuck them out so they can go and sh*t in someone else's garden. I am guilty as charged on this count when I had cats and as you say as a dog owner we are expected to have our dog under control at all times and not to let them roam freely and we'd get fined £2000 for letting our dogs do what cats do.
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I am going to get a kennel for my Labrador. I need to time it for when he gets back home from his residential training on the advice of the trainer. Could someone advice me on what size run and kennel do I need for him please. Also if anyone has any recommended websites for buying a combined kennel plus a run I would be most appreciative. Cheers Nick
