How a Fila puppy clears a room

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Ha! Don't leave out the 'ill behaved' ADULTS!

We used to do the pet supply stores often, but I just don't even want to anymore. Kids and other dogs, I expect that........but when you have full grown MORONS who act like they've never seen a dog before, crowd in and want to touch even though you tell them NO THANKS, act like you are a selfish bitch and get huffy, well, it's just too much for me.
You are right I forgot them too. I do go into the pet stores on occasion. Gotta get the green queen her food. But I rarely take Ivan.
 

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Yup, I have 3 Great Dane clients who stopped taking their dogs out and about because they couldn't control their dogs. Most of my small dog owners pick their dogs up when they are being naughty, heck I've been known to swing my dogs in the 40-60 lb range on my hip and walk out if they're too stimulated to redirect. Not an easy task with a dog that weighs as much as you. lol
 
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Actually, it's remarkable because it IS strange behavior for most Filas. Even Shiva, one of the most food oriented creatures I've ever known, didn't shoplift. The only time she ever got the least bit discombobulated in public was when they moved the stock around at Agri-Feed and her favorite treats were in a different aisle, and even then all she did was voice some concern via crooning and giving me anxious looks before she used her nose to find where they were.

She didn't even misbehave when she was about 7 months old and the male Great Dane jumped her while we were in there.

But you have to be on your toes, and really can't let them get the idea they can get away with acting out in public. Or scaring people for the fun of it.

The red fawns seem to have the weirder sense of humor, at least that's what a number of people who have an assortment of the different colors have related. I can vouch for the reds though, lol. Probably why they're my favorites.
 

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Yup, I have 3 Great Dane clients who stopped taking their dogs out and about because they couldn't control their dogs. Most of my small dog owners pick their dogs up when they are being naughty, heck I've been known to swing my dogs in the 40-60 lb range on my hip and walk out if they're too stimulated to redirect. Not an easy task with a dog that weighs as much as you. lol
LOL when people told me how bad PyrSheps were I was like "well at least if a PyrShep is out and behaving too badly, you can pick them up and leave".

There are a lot of people with big dogs who never take them anywhere because the dog is too poorly behaved and hard to control. It is much, much easier to manage an anti-social toy dog then an anti-social large dog.

IShe did something very unusual today though; she screamed and barked nonstop at everyone and everything that was blocking her way till they gave way as she dragged her human across the store towards the direction of a bin filled with very aromatic smoked bones.

She played with Katalin for a while and kissed me - then repeated her crowd control number once more on the way out. There was a older man and a blonde lady chatting about cat litter in the cashier line up - she howled and barked at them until they stopped talking and let her and her person thru. Her man reached into the hospitality-treat canister on the counter and grabbed her a piece of pepperoni-bit. Gisela wasn't satisfied - she jumped on the table, knocked the canister over and inhaled the twenty or so pepperoni morsels that landed on the floor while unabashedly giving the employees and customers that were witness to it a "what-you-gonna-do-about-it?" look.

Filas are...something else lol
I think what people have an issue with here is the description of a very large dragging her owner through a crowded store while screaming, barking and howling at customers being portrayed as cute, funny and endearing. I guarantee you most people in the store had no idea this was a Fila. I am sure they were not in awe of the dog's behavior and did not find it funny, cute or endearing but were probably concerned for their safety.
 

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One of my Facebook "friends" blocked me after I told him his dogs needed more training and he shouldn't be bragging about how rowdy they are. One of them jumped out of his car into the drive-up window at a fast food restaurant. The dog was actually most of the way through the window!
 

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But you have to be on your toes, and really can't let them get the idea they can get away with acting out in public. Or scaring people for the fun of it.
^*That* is exactly why I jumped on this thread. It's true of all breeds, but especially when your breed of choice is a giant known for protective characteristics, then it's downright dangerous to not set these boundaries early!
 

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Yeah I don't like little dogs acting out but at least when they are wee they can be scooped up as an option. I pick up my dog when I need to. When really reactive dogs walk by us on the road I have to pull Bandit to the side, hold onto his collar for him not to react back. I do what I have to when he will be over his threshold and training isn't an option.
 
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^*That* is exactly why I jumped on this thread. It's true of all breeds, but especially when your breed of choice is a giant known for protective characteristics, then it's downright dangerous to not set these boundaries early!
If for no other reason than to protect your dog. That's the big reason Kharma is always on leash, on a prong collar. Not because she really needs the prong, but because there can be no legitimate question that she is under my direct control at all times.

Honestly, she's probably the most bomb-proof of my three, and that's saying something because they all make me proud in public (99% of the time, lol, every once in awhile I get punked :eek: ), but it's the result of showing her where the boundaries are and using her own innate intelligence and poise, along with the fact that she really hates to look foolish in front of strangers or get called down in front of anyone. She could be a real terror if we hadn't laid the foundation early. I have to give Bimmer part of the credit for it too.
 

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Ahem, I said - "if you think I have a double standard then fine." as in "fine, if you think I do have one then so be it - I'm not going to try and convince you otherwise if you think I do.". You're entitled to think whatever you like about me - it's not my job to chase after you and convince you that I'm up to your moral/ethical standard. That's all.
Oh, I knew what you meant, but I'm still not okay with tolerating intolerance :)

Its not about my opinion or view of you either. That has nothing to do with it, and I'm not sure why you always circle back to what other people think about you. This isn't about *you*, but what your attitudes and behaviors do to others.

Oscar Wilde said that "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike", and that quote makes a ton of sense in the context of this thread (and the others like it). Its EASY to be kind and fair and compassionate and non-judgemental with those that we like or that we readily identify with. Being able to be kind and fair and compassionate with those that we do NOT readily like or identify with is much harder, and I would argue, more important as far as being a moral human being.

Let me ask you Stephy, how would you feel if someone started a thread on here about how they saw a Kuvasz misbehaving on a street corner, and then continued on to say how stupid it is to own a LGD like a Kuvasz if you live in a city far from any livestock. How there is no point in something like that, and people who do are not providing their dogs with a good life?
Do you see any parallel with the above and how you tend to jump on people who have different preferences than you?
 

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I fail to see why people continue to fuel the attention fire that the OP sets with every thread she starts.

Now class, let's all flip the the page in our training manuals entitled "How to extinguish a behavior."
 

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I fail to see why people continue to fuel the attention fire that the OP sets with every thread she starts.

Now class, let's all flip the the page in our training manuals entitled "How to extinguish a behavior."
Get ready for the extinction burst! Creepy hardcore tentacle porn incoming..... :rofl1:
 

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You know this reminds me of something I posted on Facebook about Lola. LoLa is quite naughty at home at times. It is always very quickly dealt with while I laugh about her naughtiness. I do find humor in her antics at home but would be mortified if she misbehaved in public!
I will just say I would die of embarrassment if any of my dogs acted like that. I find nothing funny or cute about it, it sounds like a situation that could have went even worse than it did very quickly.
Omigosh, this!
I complain about how "bad" my dogs are all the time - at home, I do find there toddler behaviors amusing lol. But no one seems to believe me that they actually do misbehave, because I have really high standards of good behavior in public, and I work with them on it consistantly. And if we are going somewhere and I wouldn't be sure if I could give them the attention or management needed, one (or both!) of them stay home!
I don't want to be THAT person, who ruins it for everybody - making dogs not allowed to go to certain places because of an "incident."


If I was at a pet store and saw a dog acting like this, I would probably leave. And I would be angry with the owner, would think about saying something to them (but if I'm being honest here I probably wouldnt) and I'd probably be upset with the pet store workers for not asking them to leave. Unfair, probably. But I agree totally with what Mandy said on that topic

I fail to see why people continue to fuel the attention fire that the OP sets with every thread she starts.

Now class, let's all flip the the page in our training manuals entitled "How to extinguish a behavior."
click-treat :D

You owe me a new keyboard. :rofl1:
:rofl1: and where are the wipes for my screen?? ha ha
 

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I fail to see why people continue to fuel the attention fire that the OP sets with every thread she starts.

Now class, let's all flip the the page in our training manuals entitled "How to extinguish a behavior."
LMAO, I have a 12 hour day with 14 dogs that resemble the Fila in question, behaviorally speaking. Thank you for the laugh, it was much needed.
 

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I fail to see why people continue to fuel the attention fire that the OP sets with every thread she starts.

Now class, let's all flip the the page in our training manuals entitled "How to extinguish a behavior."
I fail to see how her original post was fueling or starting anything.

Heaven forbid that someone share an experience.
 

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I fail to see how her original post was fueling or starting anything.

Heaven forbid that someone share an experience.
maybe because she's stated herself
Oh you know me guys - I like to shake things up lol.
So this is pretty much going to be a common reaction. It's just a common theme in these threads.
 

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Yeah, I have nothing against the OP, I really don't, I just feel like we really can't complain about this when she said herself pretty much that she does it to get a rise and we keep feeding into it.

She posts these "experience" threads almost daily, all seeming to have the same motivation, which is a reaction like this. If we don't ever respond to this type of thread, eventually it would probably stop, and at the least if nobody responds then it can't have this huge result. So...yeah.
 

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I fail to see how her original post was fueling or starting anything.

Heaven forbid that someone share an experience.
Yeah, I'm not seeing it either. I also think it's kind of sad that a single quote from a very early thread, that was made in a completely different context, is getting whipped out every thread she makes when people look at all the responses like :confused:
 

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