The dog musing/vent thread

Oh God, yes. Glitch blew me off last week to go hang out with a bunch of drunken hipsters (who were having a party on my front lawn at 10pm on a Sunday) and I wanted to kill him.
 
Sekah said:
If the dogs the trainer is training are happy & engaged, and if the trainer and his/her students are accomplishing things with their dogs, I'd probably not really give much care to whether the trainer ascribes to dominance theory or doesn't tow the R++++ line that some others appear to.
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So you are saying that it doesn't matter if those dog trainers still believe in those theories. They seem to believe in them because they probably don't know that they are not true anymore. My friend told that in Finland many dog trainers use only positive methods. By the way what do you mean by tow? Is it some kind of abbreviation? She only knows about this:
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It is actually a saying. To 'toe the line'. Toe is pronounced the same way as tow but its a saying that means to conform/follow to the rules and not question authority.

Tow means to pull something.
 
Laurelin said:
It is actually a saying. To 'toe the line'. Toe is pronounced the same way as tow but its a saying that means to conform/follow to the rules and not question authority.

Tow means to pull something.
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Today I learned something. I always thought it was tow. Clearly.
 
I have a dog obsessed with carrying his bowl and dropping it at the buttcrack of dawn and kids who like to let him out of the room. He figured out how to release them from bowl jail (feeder we made) this morning at 7AM. We have all hard floors and he has metal bowls.
 
darkchild16 said:
I have a dog obsessed with carrying his bowl and dropping it at the buttcrack of dawn and kids who like to let him out of the room. He figured out how to release them from bowl jail (feeder we made) this morning at 7AM. We have all hard floors and he has metal bowls.
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Give him credit, he knows what he wants! :) Only putting the bowl down at mealtimes would be a quick fix though.
 
We were doing that but then they kept getting lost Lmao. He also gets water pretty constantly since its so hot here. My husband is just going to add a panel to the front of it lol.
 
pinkspore said:
God yes. He's supposed to hate them so I can feel all vindicated.
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Exactly. I can't hate people when my shadow is over there, loving up on them.

I mean, not like it's unusual for Roxie to love everyone she meets, but I was kinda hoping she wouldn't like this one person.

darkchild16 said:
I have a dog obsessed with carrying his bowl and dropping it at the buttcrack of dawn and kids who like to let him out of the room. He figured out how to release them from bowl jail (feeder we made) this morning at 7AM. We have all hard floors and he has metal bowls.
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I have one of these for my girl:

http://www.gundogsupply.com/ruff-tough-waterer.html

Holds enough water to weigh it down quite a bit. I wish any dog luck in carrying that around, lol!!

Of course, it does have a handle... but there's also this:

http://www.gundogsupply.com/deer-creek-diamond-plate-steel-waterer.html

Which has no handle.
 
So Hank is pretty much perfect. I'm going to shamelessly brag a second.

He had an ear infection so I took him to the vet. He handled it like a pro. He is so well behaved and happy and friendly. He did tricks for everyone, sat on a dime when asked, begged for treats, gave hugs, ignored the other dogs and animals. My vet ADORES him (who doesn't?) and wants to come watch him compete one day for serious. I talked to him about agility with him a good 20 minutes about how we train and how Hank is doing. He just kept saying 'Man, I really like this dog. This is a really great dog'

And to make me blush I was telling him how I cold not believe someone did not want Hank. And he told me that Hank was very wild the first time I brought him in and I have obviously done a lot of work with him and it shows. Me ------> :D :D :D :D

He's just so great. So friendly, so easy to live with, so capable and smart and fun. I love him. I really really do.

On a side note, he's up to 23 lbs now!
 
Why did I teach Finn a handstand.

Now every time we have a training sessions, he starts frantically putting his back feet on things. Darn dog with his natural hind end awareness.
 
Picklepaige said:
Why did I teach Finn a handstand.

Now every time we have a training sessions, he starts frantically putting his back feet on things. Darn dog with his natural hind end awareness.
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lmao Cajun does that too. Clearly, anytime I have treats, I MUST want her to start flailing her back feet onto every object she can find. Which sometimes includes throwing her feet onto Juno.
 
Hank has decided to do 2 on 2 off on the table recently. Basically everything must be 2 o/2o. Even nosework boxes.
 
Took Abrams to the beach yesterday and he did fantastic. Even held attention and a stand/stay while an annoying shirtless man meandered towards us and then right in front of us on the coast line when we were about ready to head in.

No barking at people, either, while we were in the car, although he did start whine-screaming under his breath as soon as we pulled in to the parking area and he realized where we were.

He's a good boy. Most of the time.
 
Haha, the two chessies I knew were often in their owner's car (she was a dog walker that walked my EX bosses dog, so in decent weather she'd just bring her dogs as she drove around to clients and let them chill in there). As far as I know they were typically standoffish chessies, but reasonably friendly....not aggressive or anything, just a little wary.

Accidentally walking too close to her truck was the most terrifying thing. They wanted to tear limb-from-limb anyone who got too close to their vehicle. They'd body slam the inside of the car, too, so on top of the snarling and roaring you'd see the car rocking and hear them banging around.
 
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