[guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits
- From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 06:34:35 -0500
Julia, yes, that's a bad habit for a dog to get into, unfortunately, my
shepherd takes naps with me on the bed, but he does go in his crate every
night, he likes it, guess i'm just an old softie, but if we go to other
people's houses, he's on leash the whole time, Don
----- Original Message -----
From: J Kimbell
To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits
Mine thinks its funny to let Wren get on his lap on the settee. He says
"cuddles" and she jumps on to his lap, he showed it off to me the other day and
I got really cross, as I dont want her ont he furniture. I've caught her ont he
bed a couple of times with him when he's been laying on it but she got a wallop
on the bum from me and ordered off. Not hard you understand, just a light slap,
but I really just dont want that starting thanks. Its not fair either as the
poor dog then gets told off by its handler for doing what the rest of the
family think is funny.
Julia
----- Original Message -----
From: pam
To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 2:29 PM
Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits
hi nadine
i know all about partners teaching the dogs bad habits. mine taught callie
to jump up on him when playing. but when she started doing it to me and my kids
too we had to nip it in the bud. she has pretty much stopped doing it
altogether now.
pam
Sent from my iPhone
On 4 Jan 2014, at 14:01, Nadine Lattimore <nadine.lattimore@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Vince
I am curious if you were old enough to remember eating these a la carte
treats, just how old were you?
Nadine Lattimore
On 4 Jan 2014, at 12:47, Vincent Thacker <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
========================================
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.
========================================
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 9.0.930 / Virus Database: 2425.1.1/5035 - Release Date: 05/31/12
06:34:00
Other related posts:
