[guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

  • From: "J Kimbell" <whitetiger62@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:10:00 -0000

Right, OK!!! 
Julia

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Norman Waddington 
  To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 9:06 AM
  Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits


  Julia,

   

  I was referring to a case about 35 years ago.

   

  Norman.

   


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  From: guidedogchat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:guidedogchat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J Kimbell
  Sent: 06 March 2002 07:20
  To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

   

  I've seen toddlers eat dog bisucits!! My younger son likes the ones I make my 
dogs!! But I know what goes in them. 

  Julia

   

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Norman Waddington 

    To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

    Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 4:03 PM

    Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

     

    HI Vince,

     

    Not so humans tend to stereotype things.  I can remember a toddler eating 
dog biscuits at about 15 months.  My response was if they are good for dogs why 
not kids?

     

    Norman.

     


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    From: guidedogchat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:guidedogchat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent Thacker
    Sent: 04 January 2014 12:48
    To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

     

    Children soemtimes do this sort of thing, don't they? or was I a very 
strange child? I can remember eating soil, coal, soap, etc. Not habitually, and 
not more than once very often, but if you're born with a curious mind, all 
sorts of horrible things are possible!

    Vince.





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    Message Received: Jan 04 2014, 10:51 AM
    From: "Fay Marshall" 
    To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Cc: 
    Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits

    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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