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Hey dover! Good to see you! Long time no see :) It was a blast!

No! Corvus shredded his fido fleece? How are he and Bates going to be evil black dog twins together? :D Yes, he did have a total blast. We will definitely be doing this again :)

Bates is dying of embarrassment that he had to wear his obnoxious lime green fleece for these pics, but it will have to do :) Catching channels of scent: Searching... Different alerts: Start box: Tunnel and climb/jump: Mom this is the best...

I’ve never been much of a fan of boxers, not in to brachiocephalic anything, and their OTT personality and obnoxiousness with other dogs is just plain annoying to me. Not a huge fan of labs either, just an overexposure thing, they’re everywhere around here. Now I have a Bates who is...

The best choice is whatever works best for you and your dog :) I have a great dane and a very large mutt-dog, and they wear harnesses. Both have awesome leash manners, so it’s not a control thing, though I don’t feel like I have less control with a harness than with a collar (or...

So cute!! I’d keep bringing her to barn hunts, sounds like she was environmentally sensitive, but got better as the day progressed? Just keep exposing her to the game, she’ll get it :) She certainly has the interest!

Yep, this... Thanks for saying it all pretty and succinct-like :D

Well, there is a whole part of hunting that involves using the nose, picking up a scent, figuring out what the scent is, if it's fresh, where it's going, where it's coming from, following it etc. etc. But even before all of that, the dog has to have a drive to actually get out and LOOK for...

Don't know and don't really care. As long as I can access the drive in a way that is useful to me in training, it doesn't really matter a whole hill of beans to me if it's all prey drive, if it's different drives, whatever. And to be fair, it's a hell of a lot more sanitary to carry a tennis...

Found the article, I think it applies to the conversation: http://suzanneclothier.com/blog/drive-and-brakes-and-steering I love this article for the other part - that out of control, non-productive arousal does not necessarily equal good working dog, and despite the fact that I *know*...

Not even going to pretend to know much about drives in breeds and prey vs. toy... My instinctual response is that it’s all prey drive, just different manifestations of the predatory sequence. Suzanne Clothier I think is the one who’s article I read that made a lot of sense to me about...

Okay so... Barn hunt seminar was FUN!!!! The blowing, freezing rain not so much, the crazed dogs with clueless handlers not so much, but Bates and I had the best time! First we showed the dogs the tube with the rat. Some were interested, others not so much. Bates thought it was really...

I hope it works well for your guys! :)

Ours are on 4Health, and do great on it, but then they don’t tend to have any food issues. We rotate between the grain-free flavors, they do well on all of them.

You’ve gotten good advice already :) I’m just going to second a lot of what’s already been said. I have a great dane and an am-bull sized dog, and while the smaller dog is still very much a big dog, he is FAR more “portable†than the great dane. For example, next weekend, the...

Oh you’ll hear all about it LOL! :D

I just signed me and Bates up for a barn hunt workshop next weekend. I’m so excited. I think Breez would like it too, but the “smaller†dog always gets picked to test things out. I heard something about a 22 inch tunnel and decided on the 26 inch dog versus the 33 inch one LOL. But...

Thanks :) She’s already fine. She left her bandage on all night, doesn’t seem to have bothered it at all, so I don’t think the claw is bothering her much either. It seems to have stopped bleeding though I’m not taking the elastikon off yet to check for sure. Goofy dogs.... It’s...

Okay, *I* didn’t break it, *it* broke it LOL. Took the dogs for a great long walk in the freezing cold, they were idiots running around like loons. (Though honestly, a great dane running flat out like Breez does, really is a thing of beauty.) Anyway, brought them back in, was feeding them...

Aw... thank you for the nice comments :) Emily, yes, I’m sticking around, thanks :)