Hi Vince!! I take your point and it is worth a try. Mel. From: Vincent Thacker Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 9:48 AM To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: beasts that eat everything! - Re: Re: Bad habits Mel, the thought is because the malt loaf is rather cloying and sweet, a bit of cheese balances it a bit better, not much, but a bit! Vince. ======================================== Message Received: Jan 05 2014, 01:18 AM From: "Melanie Akpotu" To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: beasts that eat everything! - Re: Re: Bad habits Never had it with cheese but it sounds rather nice. Mel. From: Vincent Thacker Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 9:07 PM To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: beasts that eat everything! - Re: Re: Bad habits Charles, well, a malt loaf is somewhere between bread and a cake, full of deadly currants (deadly for dogs, anyway) and flavoured with malt. Good with a slab of cheese. Vince. ======================================== Message Received: Jan 04 2014, 05:47 PM From: "Charles Rivard" To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [guidedogchat] beasts that eat everything! - Re: Re: Bad habits What is a malt loaf? --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent Thacker To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 6:06 AM Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits Somebody one day was most concerned that Zym had eaten a malt loaf including the plastic wrapper!¬! mind you, I have a rough idea that a lot of malt loaves are actually wrapped in a kind of wax paper, so it could have been worse. Whatever he ate, he's been perfectly all right since, and this was a few months ago. I did offer compensation for the loaf, of course. Vince. ======================================== Message Received: Jan 04 2014, 11:29 AM From: "J Kimbell" To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [guidedogchat] Re: Bad habits I've never had a serious eater thankfully. But I've mostly had Collies and Collie crosses, who arent generally known for being eaters!! My current dog is a Flatter and she isnt much of an eater either thankfully. Doesnt mean to say she wouldnt of course, but at least is not a problem I need to worry about. Julia ----- Original Message ----- From: Fay Marshall To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 10:51 AM 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