[guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits
- From: pam <pamyoung80@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:07:46 +0000
Sent from my iPhoneoomg faye, lol. what from what i've read on the internet
it's pretty common in labs and retrievers to eat stuff like that.
pam
> On 4 Jan 2014, at 10:51, "Fay Marshall" <fmkc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well, my dog ate rocks, bricks, etc. I would think wood is better. (grin)
> Never broke her of it.
>
> From: pam
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 4:04 AM
> To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits
>
> well my dog has a bad habit of eating sticks which make her sick a few hours
> later and can't be good for her. she only does this on a free run never when
> working. i've tried giving her toys to play with to distract her but it
> doesn't really work she just goes back to eating the sticks. my instructor
> said the only real solution is to find another free run area but where i live
> is all woods so that's not really possible. so if anyone has any tips for me
> on how to resolve this i'd b very grateful. other than that she's a very good
> dog. happy new year :)
> pam
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 4 Jan 2014, at 02:45, Vincent Thacker <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Nadine,
>>
>> I can't exactly call them resolutions, but I want to work on a couple of
>> things with my dog that spoil an otherwise happy partnership. One is
>> scavenging, and the other is improving his recall, which has improved then
>> got worse again.
>>
>> With the scavenging, I suppose I'll have to go through the food refusal
>> stuff we did in initial training. As I haven't got spare food to throw
>> around very often because I eat it too fast for it to go off! I'll have to
>> use bits of his kibble. If I can get him to walk past some outside, he can
>> have a treat. Hmm, food-related problem, rewarding him with food, wonder if
>> there's a better idea?
>>
>> And his recall was getting really good at one stage, then one day he ran off
>> and although there were people about, nobody could tell me where he'd gone.
>> He did wonder back towards home eventually, but this was really worrying,
>> and I'd called the police and the dog wardens. I'm glad to say he was
>> brought home within a few minutes, but it worried me so much he hasn't had a
>> free run properly since. I take him around the field on a flexi-lead, and
>> he's got the idea now that he can run about quite a bit even with the
>> restrictions of the lead, but it's not as good as a real free run. I don't
>> have a pair of eyes available to me at the moment, and no longer employ a
>> Personal Assistant as I did before, so I'll have to do loads of obedience
>> stuff while he's on the flexi-lead in the hope that I'll be able to let him
>> go eventually. The other answer is to find a safer place to let him go, but
>> the only one I know of is miles away. No doubt we'll have a lot of fun with
>> whistles and treats and all that.
>>
>> Apart from that, he's such a good worker, I just want to keep the good bits.
>> We went to town yesterday and went all around Sainsbury's with Zym waiting
>> patiently whenever I stopped to faff about. He was really excellent, even
>> among the mad crowds rushing about to the sales or whatever they were doing.
>> It was a long walk in and out, well, long enough at about 3 miles each way,
>> and he's got a very good idea even knowing which paths to take through the
>> park to go in the right direction. When he's good he's very, very good.
>>
>> Vince.
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>> ========================================
>> Message Received: Jan 04 2014, 02:00 AM
>> From: "Melanie Akpotu"
>> To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc:
>> Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits
>>
>> Sounds nice!
>>
>> Mel.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nadine Lattimore
>> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:29 PM
>> To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [guidedogchat] Bad habits
>>
>> Hi to all a happy new year if you recognise the calendar change at this
>> time.
>>
>> Well it being the first few days of the new year now, I wonder has
>> anyone made any resolutions to include furry friend- such as more
>> walks, more grooms, fewer treats etc?
>>
>> Had a wonderful Christmas and New Year in Lanzarote with Quartz, he
>> met all his friends, remembered his routes and had a lovely lazy time
>> with plenty of love and treats.
>>
>> Nadine Lattimore
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