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Thanks mate. I'm looking forward to getting her out next season and seeing if she can pick me a bunny or two up.

After having a few issues with my pup and asking for help on here, things seem to have improved some what. She is still trying to dominate the older dog a little bit when out for a walk, but no where near the extent she did before. She ended up getting a bit of a hammering off the older dog the other day, which seemed to calm her down a little bit, I think she just over stepped the mark once to often. She doesn't try to dominate her in the house now. I have stopped her going in my older dogs bed. I have been doing some retrieve training with her at night and she is fetching a retieve back fr

Looks a nice dog mate. What is the collar it has got on . . .???

A sad sad day my friend. You obviously had something special with that dog. Until you get it, you can't understand it. I lost my old girl last year at the ripe old age of 15. Had her from 7 weeks old. I also lost my one and only dog in 2010, she was a special one like yours, gave me everything. Had many a happy night out lamping and ferretting with her. She sadly went way to early at 4. Slipped her on a rabbit and she never came back to me, she stumbled and broke her neck. Gutting doesn't come close to what I lost that night, but we know the risks. RIP little warrior.

Thanks for the replies. I try and correct the pup whenever I see her doing wrong. I don't let her jump at the older dog or try and stamp her authority in the house. When we are out and off the lead it is a struggle because I am not always next to them when she does it. The million dollar question is how do I get her out of trying to be top dog? She seems to have accepted me as the boss, she will wait now to go through a door after me etc but when it comes to the other dog she tries to do what she wants. She doesn't bully the older dog off her food because I feed them seperately. The pup has he

Thanks Joe. I know what you mean about it grating on you. I am amazed that my older dog hasn't tuned her in by now. I have had a battle with her over the years with her fighting with other dogs, she was an arse for years til I had a zapper collar on her and it has made her into a totally different dog, taking her for a walk used to be a nightmare. I like what she has become now. But she just doesn't seem to bother about the pup trying to rule her, which amazes me.

Thanks Joe. I know what you mean about it grating on you. I am amazed that my older dog hasn't tuned her in by now. I have had a battle with her over the years with her fighting with other dogs, she was an arse for years til I had a zapper collar on her and it has made her into a totally different dog, taking her for a walk used to be a nightmare. I like what she has become now. But she just doesn't seem to bother about the pup trying to rule her, which amazes me.

Thats exactly what I was concerned about. My older dog is 5 now. The pup is 15 weeks. The pup has come from a chap who had bred them for years. He has the mother and the grandmother to the pups. He has worked them for years. It hasn't come from Hancock. I visited the chap who has bred them twice and spent some time looking at the pups and the mother. The mother was calm as anything. She was very chilled out and seemed very level headed. Never uttered a word when I turned up, seemed friendly and relaxed even when we were handling her pups she never bothered. Question is how do I stop it. She w

Hello again. I am after some advice on my pup again. I have made some good progress with the peeing on the kitchen floor all the time now. She is doing alot better with that, thanks to some help off of guys on here. I wanted to ask your thoughts on her behaviour, she is acting quite dominant over my other dog, to the point where if my older dogs is wet and shakes herself off the pup goes for her. One of the places I walk them is an old farm lane and it is quite narrow, the pup gets quite aggressive towards the older dog if it passes her and gets in front. I have noticed that whilst we are ou

Yes. Its clear. That had crossed my mind but she is fine all night and during the day when if she is in her crate. I have been making her go out side every half hour ish or when she is up and about and she is doing a bit better.

Thanks for all the help guys. I will give it a try and see how we go. Its all a learning curve for me as well as her. I always try and learn from my mistakes, I look at my other dogs and think of things that could be better and try and iron out any problems. She is not doing bad on the whole. Her recall is coming on very well when we are out, she mixes with other dogs and people well. And she is doing short retrieves in the kitchen well too now. Thanks again.

Thanks Beast. I have had her at home for nearly 7 weeks now. I took 2 weeks off over christmas with her She was doing great with her toilet training, asking to go out but these last couple of weeks it has gone completely wrong. If I shut her up in her crate she just yaps constantly, so rather than shutting her in when we are knocking about I have been letting her stay in the kitchen, and she is calm and quiet. She always goes in her crate when we go out or at night time. I think I might have traded the yapping for the peeing. . . . I'll try crating her again as well. Hopefully I can break the

Yes. This is the 4th one I have raised now and by far the most frustrating and testing. I lost my old girl middle of last year, she was just over 15. I had her from 7 weeks old. My best dog died at 4, broke her neck out Lamping in 2010 and I have got one now that is 5 years old, and the little pissing tike who is 14 ish weeks. I am just hoping she is going to be worth all the hard work. Fingers crossed. What have you guys got. . . ????

Thanks Lugworm. She does it when I am not looking. I will keep taking her out side. I have always made a big fuss of her when she does it outside, a few times now she will come in from being outside for an hour and walk into the house and just piss in the doorway from literally just coming in from outside. She doesn't give any warning as to when she is going to do it, thats the tricky part, she will just be walking along and just squat. No whining or standing at the door. Very frustrating.

My pup is 14 weeks old now and I am having a nightmare trying to break it from pissing in my kitchen. When it came it used to sit by the back door wanting to go out. That has all gone out of the window now. She just stops and pisses where ever she fancies when ever she fancies. I mopped up 7 times after her last night in the space of an hour and a half. She hasn't messed in her crate now for nearly 2 weeks at night or during the day if we are out. She gets plenty of outside walks. An hour in a morning a walk in the middle of the day and an hour after work. Plus time out in the garden, it ju