Smashing stuff Jewel.
Donna
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TvNZ are showing a BBC series on choosing a dog, and in the last episode, they
were talking about quiet and noisy breeds, and the Maltese was amongst the
hnoisy ones. I can't remember mine being, abnormally, noisy, but with their
high-pitched voices, a little noise goes a long way, literally and figuratively.
Now, what I am about to tell you, Nella! may make you like them even better,
but, on the other hand, you may say "spare me from a dog that has so much
brain!" but Iam sure that #2 is unlikely.
Of course, with their long coats, they do require regular grooming. Some
people clip them, but why get a long-coated breed and then cut the coat off?
of course" I haven't lived anywhere where it gets, tropically, hot, but when I
lived in Christchurch, we could get up to 30C and I didn't see them as being,
unduly, uncomfortable in the heat.
I read a book that said that one of the attractions of the Maltese is that they
are big dogs in the skin of a small one, and how true that is.
My first Maltese, Champion Oelrich TwinkleToes was a dog in a million: never
will her like be seen again.
I will tell you some stories about her so make yourself a large pot of coffee.
I trained Twinkle for competitive Obedience, and it is from this field of dog
activity that most, if not all, of these stories come.
One day, at the Canterbury Canine Obedience Club, we were doing the retrieve,
and when it came to our turn, I threw the dumbell out and sent Twinkle out to
retrieve it , which, of course, she did, but when she brought the dumbell back
and sat in front of me, rather than holding it as she should, she dropped it at
my feet. "FETCH!" I said, expecting her to pick it up and hold it until I took
it off her.
Well! Twinkle knew what "FETCH!" meant so she picked the dumbell up, ran out
into the centre of the ring, put it down, picked it up and returned and sat in
front of me and held it until I took it off her.
The class instructor was, gob-smacked by the whole performance, and said "There
goes a well-trained dog!"
I tried on 3 separate occasions to get a CD, or better, CDX with Twinkle but
was not successful for the following reasons.
In the Companion Dog test, in the "5 minute stay: handler out of sight, the dog
must stay down for 2 and a half minutes: 50% of the time, before judging
commences, and as they have to get, at least, 75% of the available points for
any exercise, it the dog breaks the stay before the 2 and a half minute mark,
there is no possibility of it getting 75% of the marks, and if it fails 1
exercise, it might as well have failed in all of them Anyway, in 2 of our 3
attempts: more of the third shortly: the long down was Twinkle's nemissis. I
had never failed to return from where I was hiding, but Twinkle couldn't bring
herself to believe that this mightn't be the first time.
She managed to keep herself nailed to the tground for a minute, and then, she
stood up, and, this seems almost unbelievable but is, absolutely, true, she
started to run on the spot.
It was plain as a pikestaff that She had 2 thoughts in her head; #1: she knew
that I had told her
to "STAY!" but#2: at the same time, she knew that she had to find me, so by
running on the spot,
she tried to do both things at the same time.
Unfortunately, the people who had made up the regulations for the test had not
included bonus points for originality and brilliance of thought, so As Twinkle
had lost all her points, not only for the long stay, but for the entire test,
Collene Cooper, the judge, picked her up and handed her to one of the
spectators who brought her around to where I was hiding behind the clubhouse.
I think that was our second unsuccessful try for a CD, but our third, and,
final attempt, the loss was, completely, my fault.
Every Labour weekend, the NZ kennel Club held the National canine Obedience
championships , when clubs from all over New Zealand competed against each
other, and for this, particular one, they were going to have the Companion Dog
test as one of the tests.
For a number of years, the NCOC was held in Wellington, and then, it was
decided that it would be
moved around the country, being held in a different province each year, and in
the year of which I am writing, it was in Auckland.
The CD test day arrived and when Twinkle and I got to the test grounds and I
was checking through my gear, I found, to my, absolute, horror that I had left
my scent cloth at home.
I will explain. For the CD which is test A rules, with the scent
discrimination, it is handler's scent on a cloth provided by the handler. Test
B is handler's scent but on an unfamiliar cloth provided by the host club, and
test C is judge's scent.
Well, I had left our cloth at home, so I substituted with a handkerchief, and
as Twinkle was small and the handkerchief was large, I should have ripped it in
half, but, honestly, I just never gave it a thought.
For the first time ever, Twinkle did a perfect 5 minute down: never moved a
muscle: and then came the final test: scent discrimination.
Twinkle ran out and selected the correct cloth, my hankie, and started back to
me, but then she stepped on the trailing edge and came to a halt, and jus stood
there with the oversized cloth clengched in her teeth, vbaffled by the fact
that she couldn't move forward.
In the rules, The handler was not allowed to speak to the dog once it had been
sent out and had returned and was sitting in front of the handler.
When I called her, after the allowed time was up, she came to me. As this was
many many years ago, I cannot remember if she came avec cloth or if she left it
and came alone.
Iff only I had torn that damned cloth in half, I would have been able to affix
CDX to her name as she, so richly, deserved as her points for the rest of the
test were very high.
Now just for my final story of a small dog with a mega brain, I will leave the
world of canine obedience.
I expect you have this type of dog run that has a hand hole near the flip up
catch that holds the run gate closed.
Twinkle would climb the wire pannel and would, them, put her paw through the
hand hole and flip the catch up.
We all know of so-called 1-man dogs, and we, generally, think of German
Shepherds as being typical of the description. Well add Maltese to that.
Twinkle was only aware of 1 person, and, usually, that 1 person was me, but if
I had to leave her with someone while Mitzi and I were traveling, the 1 person
of whom Twinkle was aware was the person with whom I had left her, but they
ceased to exist the instant I was back!
Jewel
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From: <nfoster@extremezone.email>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 2:53 PM
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Subject: [IOTAList] Re: OT Maltese
Jewel I usually don't care for little dogs, but have liked every Maltese I've
ever met.
What can you tell me about the breed?
I jokingly say I need to find a small breed that I like so it can be my little
old lady dog. Lol
Nella
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Jewel that is quite a combination of dog breeds.
Nella
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In the 90S, 20 years ago, when I was younger, 2- 0 years younger, and a great
deal fitter than I am
now, I had 3 working guide dogs: Sieger, a Huntaway/Samoyede/German Shepherd
mix, and 2 monsters,
in size, not temperament: Buck, a purebred Newf, and Wolfgang,
mastiff/rhodesian Ridgeback/beardie
collie mix.I worked them on alternate days, and they all got on very well.
Oh, and just to make sure that I didn't have too much idle time on my hands
for the devil to find
work for, I had Afghan Hounds and a tribe of Maltese.
Jewel
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 12:53 PM
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Jody and I were having this discussion earlier today. I've never had 2 working
dogs at once, but
find it hard to have multiple pets at once. Well maybe it is just the 2 I have
now. I've had as
many as 5 dogs before and that group worked out really well together.
I was telling Jody how Hank the terrier mixed can be very stubborn and
disobedient. I have to stay
on top of him constantly and have to use pretty firm corrections. He is very
confident and tries to
be dominant. Winston the GSD is just the opposite; he is nervous and lacks
confidence. He needs
lots of praise and rewards. I have to be very careful not to over correct.
Sometimes the 2 of them
together can be exhausting. All that said I love them and we are stuck
together for life.
Nella
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:00 AM
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Yep..
In general, I think it’s very hard to have more then one working dog in the
house. I’ve done it,
and would think long and hard before doing it again..
My hat goes off to Donna-don’t know how you do three!
And, we want a Kizzy update!
anybody hear from Kris and Sterling?
Cait
On Jan 18, 2017, at 3:59 AM, Shanna Stichler <slstich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Cait! I still miss the black demon, but he needed more work
than I could give him enough work to keep him happy. I do think that
if Gideon was my only dog he and I would be fine because I could have
given him tons and tons of work. Also if the IPO thing hadn't been a
total fiasco, we would've been fine, but part of that mess was my
fault because I did lose my temper with them when they told me I had to bring
someone else to
training and that I could never work my dog on the field.
Anyway, I know he's happy and probably having a blast learning stuff,
so hopefully he'll do well with his new person.
Shanna
On 1/11/2017 9:56 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
You go, Shanna!!!
I know how much it took to donate Gideon, but I think you are on the
right track-now he’s got his very own person-a GSD’s dream come true!
And Diamond now has you all to herself again-she’s probably thrilled too!
Good luck with your new venture! And, out of all the organizations
you could join, the IACP is a great one! Lots of good, sensible,
knowledgeable folks in that
organization!
Cait
On Jan 11, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Shanna Stichler <slstich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and that 2017 is
starting out well. For me, the holidays turned out rather bittersweet.
After a lot of discussion between Gideon's breeder, myself, and our
mutual friend Leslie who trains primarily mobility dogs, I decided
that Gideon would be happier being a service dog with a human of his
very own. Since I'd put all the public access work into him already,
with the exception of the subway and airline travel, I donated him
to my friend so he could enter formal harness training. If all goes
well, Gideon will assist a retired Marine who handled military
working dogs and is a huge Shepherd fan. All I know is that Gideon will be
doing some balance
work in downtown Baltimore, and that his new person does a lot of walking,
so Gideon will get
lots of challenging work and physical exercise, as well as his very own
person.
I have also decided to take the plunge and start a private service
dog training company of my own. The name I came up with for my
newborn business is Juno Dog Training Academy, or JDTA. My goals are
to assist people with disabilities who are interested in training
either dogs for themselves, or wish to learn to train dogs in a more
general sense...learning to
do so despite whatever physical disability they may have.
I am also wanting to help people evaluate service dog prospects as
an objective third party and offer either board and train options
for people who don't, as an example, feel comfortable teaching
public access, traffic training, and everything in between. I have recently
joined the IACP,
well back in October, and plan to sit on their service dog committee if
they'll have me.
IACP stands for the International Association of Canine
Professionals, and they offer a quarterly journal along with access
to a variety of workshops that allow members to learn about almost all
aspects of dog training
and keep current within the field.
I was not trying to turn this update into an advertizement, I
totally swear. Anyway, my web site is still under construction
because my web developer just had a new baby who is rather ill right
now, but feel free to let me know if you have questions about what I do or
if I can help someone
in any way.
I'm also willing to do vollunteer puppy raising or significantly
discounted for a school or an individual, so long as they can get
the dog to me. I just really miss having a puppy in the house. lol
Take care,
Shanna with Diamond, PHD, IACP#7565
Owner of Juno Dog Training Academy
Phone (402) 659-4765
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