If you can do that with Fred, when he arrives, I'll be well impressed. _________________ My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.
What breed is Fred - Weimaraner? _________________ Annie
Handle every situation like a dog, if you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away
Oh NOOOOOO!!!! Not another one! One of them in my house is enough _________________ Annie
Handle every situation like a dog, if you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away
Fred is lovely, and Hester got on fine with him - with her muzzle on!
Now, I'm re -hi-jacking Allez's diary!
Went to our new-found training ground this afternoon to find the track gate was locked so had to do a 25 point turn in the track to face out, then took the little lad out through the pedestrian gate (it's a Public Footpath to the Dam).
This was to be a sit, turn, and recall enforcement exercise so kept him on the long line so I didn't have to run after him. However, he was very good and apart from a slight hesitation on one turn, and one whistle sit, he did good. A bit of tripe for each recall seems to help a great deal. But he STILL isn't looking round at me every time on the sits. Don't know what I can do about that except stand there and wait fro quarter of an hour then praise madly when and if he does turn round - no-one goes there so OK to do that. He stopped a couple of times voluntarily when we hear phezzies calling not too far away, so I know now that there are some up there.
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Next it was getting to know the enemy time! so we went over to Jane's Rylands for a wee look. I think Allez's words might have been "Don't come any closer, girls, I really don't fancy teddy bears"
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He looked but made no comment -
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So far so good, next we went to see the ponies - again not a word even when Bramble tried to eat our hair.
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Gray was almost too much to cope with so at that point Allez did a runner - back to the car!
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Training session not yet over, I asked him to recall once more, jump in teh carcage, and he got his treat. Happy with that. _________________ Annie
Handle every situation like a dog, if you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away
Glad you both finished on a positive... thats the most important part of training... sometimes we even finish on a whistle to sit, basic i know, but something he does without thinking
We had a REALLY GOOD positive tonight. Here I was typing away on the computer keyboard, Allez lying sound asleep at my feet, when Whoosh - he jumps up and rushes over to the shelving unit and goes on point. Out of the corner of my eye I had just felt, rather than actually see, something flash across the room, so I had a shrewd guess that one of my wonderful cats had brought in a gift for me. Sure enough when I moved the bottom shelves there was another flash of light brown, followed by the same Whoosh from Allez Back on point he was, so I edged the shelf out again and said 'get in', he dove forward, then disappeared out the door and along to the spare room. At first I thought, 'what a wimp, he's run away from a mouse', but then I saw the tell tale tiny bit of foot hanging from his gob. 'NO NO NO, don't let that bloody thing loose in the bedroom, I'll never find it!' I screamed at him, then remembered I had the whistle round my neck. I ran away from him and through to the utility room, blew recall and there he was in front of me, one mouse still in his gob and still very much alive! (I could see the feet moving) I gingerly took a hold of the foot, said DEAD, mouth opened and one squiggly thing very nearly escaped again. Opened the outside door, despatched the thing and dumped it in the nearest wheely bin to the door (without looking to see what colour it was - the bin I mean, not the mouse, we do a lot of recycling up here) Praised my wonderful mouse catching doggy woggy and went to find that damned cat to give it an earful! I think I'll lock the cat flap tonight!
_________________ Annie
Handle every situation like a dog, if you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away
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