THIS WILL BE A FIRST... IT IS A LONG TIME SNCE I DID A FIRSST OF ANYTHING...
LINDA IS A GENIUS TO ARRAINGE THIS DICTATING.. SHE IS A;LOS A PRETTY GOOD CHICKEN CHASER… BUT THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC….
this will be a first one DICTATED….First lesson In dictating is to shut off the television .
I left off yesterday's daily doggy with the fact that my problem was if I mentioned the word car or “ouT” then all my dogs Bolt TO the door.So that I can't get to the DOOR KNOB with six 100 pounds of dog in the way and………. how come I don't train mine better…
well they are trained and they do KNOWo “back and wait “ it shows that I forget to use The first 2 words in any training manual “PLAN AHEAD” …You've heard it before “every time you handle an animal or a child you are training them” sometimes you're training them to do bad things----- you should never say to your dog “stop that be a good dog” because that means HE is doing something bad and all the dog will remember is “good dog” .
try this experiment with your dog
just before you're thinking of starting theIR supper or breakfast or whatever before you've made any physical motion TOWARD their dish…… CLAP YOUR Hbds twice and then immediately stand up and get their food together and gave it to them I think within very short order you would find that anytime you clap twice the dogs woudGET UP AND RUN TO THIER DISH... just like those funny “clap on “ lights do . it happens all the time it just we don't realize it ------it works that way with car keys ----you pick up your car keys and thre dog Gets all excited. THERE ARE 100;S Of things just like that we just don't recognize the subtle cues--- when I'm coming home up route 95 the dogs will stand up as I get off the highway get on 97 if I was thinking like a person It would be all the dog knows where we are=== whereas there is a routine application of the brakes there may be a bump in the road there may be a smell in the bushes or trees you just don't know what triggers that responsive over "nearly home " could be anything .How does my dog know 5 minutes ahead of time that the school bus will be here MAYBE IT CAN HEAR THE BUS 3 miles away or it could be something like the commuter train whistle is blown 5 MIN BEFORE THE BUS AND YOU DON'T HEAR IT.,
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I've become fascinated watching the training that goes on in the zoos primarily Columbus and zoo in Florida where they spend a great deal of time working with the animals to make their life easier …… they have trained a lion To come in and lie down with her rib cage right along the edge of the cage so that the veterinarians can Listen to heart sounds------ they've trained a giraffe to put their head down and hold still so they could inspect the eyes and ears-------- they have one little animal that lie upside down on its back well they do ultrasounds on the belly to see whether it's pregnant ,
all of it has to do with with being able to DEAQL WITH them without getting them upset.
Back to education Means for better behavior dogs or children ..
There are an amazing number of jobs for which there are no applicants which involve training of animals to do specific chores We are just beginning to find out some of the other things dogs can do for us ------apparently detect cancer for one------- the obvious simple one is ----- to have police train a dog to run and chase and bite somebody but there's also a big need for tracking lost people----- search and rescue dogs of any kind and the bomb sniffing dogs at the airport …before I got going on training service dogs I considered bomb sniffing dogs---- be'cause the local hunt club has packs of foxhounds which are sniffers of some sort Hardy things and they sometimes have extra dogs so I considered training for bomb sniffing because at that point I think it was the army was offering $90,000 per bomb sniffer or was it marijuana….whatever ….. and I almost got into it before somebody gave me a Great Dane out of the dog pound and I got off and running on training service danes
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there seems to be a lot of shark videos on National Geographic now.I cannot imagine the advantage humans get from figuring out if a shark response to a magnet … it looks like somebody got a grant to study that.
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We have a bad situation right now with nala not wanting to eat we've tried almost everything from scrambled eggs to sliced steak .it's very quick to assume that she has some medical problem which may OR MAY NOT be the case and we're going to the vet today for some blood work……. but last night I remembered fizzle went through a period of not wanting to shove her nose into a dish and would eat only if I spoon fed her -----could be SHE has a bad tooth OR some Abscess is not broken through or something of that sort which we also WILL LOOK INTO today …... OUT OF THE BOX THINKING. in the meantime I suggested we feed her off a tray instead of a dish and she ate a pretty good dinner last night for the first time … this is a serious problem she's lost weight and doesn't have any extra TO SPARE .. George doctor George suggested I give her pry losec 20 milligrams which both he and I are on So last night she did have that we'll see what she does with breakfast but we're going to the vets mid morning .
WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF THE TRAY SOLVED THE PROBLEM ..The tray was also laced with whip cream which may have helped -----whatever works
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