D^O^W^N !!! "OK... I DID THAT.... YOU THEN WALK AWAY FROM ME VERY PLEASED WITH YOURSELF... "I MADE THE DOG DO SOMETHING." MEANWHILE I AM THINKING..... YOU DID NOT EVEN SAY THANK YOU,--- WHAt do i need... a sign that says i work for patting or FEW KIND WORDS???" and will you stop reading about all those expert ways to train a dog.. will you PLEASE juST Stop AND THINK. YOU CALLME... AND I RUN UP THINKING WE CAN HAVE A FEW SECONDS OF "PERSONAL TIME' FOR A QUICK EAR SCRATCH, ADN YOU SHOVE A COOKIE IN MY FACE.. MIND YOU I WILL EAT THE COOKIE-- BUT I KEEP HOPING TO FIGURE IT OUT. YOU JUST MADE ME LIE DOWN= DID NOT SAY THANK YOU OR GOOD DOGGIER OR ANYTHING.... AND JUST WALKED AWAY NEVER TELLING ME WHEN IT WAS OK TO GET UP AND LEAVE.... YOU FORGET... THEN GET MAD AT ME BECAUSE I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.....
tehre are sooooo many people writing books and telling you stuff on teh internet-- THE "SHOVE A COOKIE CROWD"...... let me tell you.... these people WRITE BOOKS... THEY TELL YOU MANY QUICK SOLUTIONS TO CREATE a dog that does tricks.... BUT MISS ThE BIG PICTURE. ....
HUMANS JUST DO NOT THINK==THEY HAVE HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICES TO TRY AND GET THEM TO BE "HUMAN" WE DOGS NEED A DOGGIE RESOURCE OFFICE.... DOGS EARN A "SERVICE DOG DEGREE" AS TEH ULTIMATE IN WELL BEHAVED DOGS... WELL PEOPLE NEED TO BE TAUGHT TO BE A "POLITE PERSON " IN THIER DOGS EYES. D^O^W^N ---- T^H^A^N^K^Y^O^U^ G^O^O^D^O^G^G^I^E^--- DOES NOT TAKE TOO MUCH OUT OF YOUR BUSY DAY...
RUNNING TO YOU TO GET A TREAT IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THAN RUNNING TO YOU BECAUSE I LIKE TO BE WITH YOU..... EVENTUALLY I WILL DISCOVER IT IS MORE FUN TO BE WITH YOU THAN BEING WITH A SQUIRREL... where a cookie will never outbid a squirrel.
not every dog is a mindless fool. the capabilities of dogs hAS ONLY STARTED TO BE APPRECIATEED. bombs cancer sugar. earthquakes, drugs bodies, replacing eyes, ears or canes- for openers.
HUMANS NEED A BIT OF TRAINING TO COMMUNICATE WITH DOGS ........OR EACH OTHER.
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devin put in a long day yesterday... i hope she is alive and well today... she is good to watch while she trains the dogs in teh arena-- we had a small problem yesterday ... the dogs ar e on tha 7am timetable and she was not due here til 8... so i asked denis to go do a "quickpik" adn hand out cookies to eliminate the empty tummy of a dane.... we had a few volungeers here both sat and dunday... sort of one per 1/2 acre as tehy picked up each of the dog runs all carefully fenced in from each otehr. judy exhaused herself also trying to clean up the corners and crevices ( and refrigerators...) donna showed also... she is another neatnik.
having trainers in thE ARENA ON A VERY REGUOAR BASIS IS WONDERFUL FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE SOME EXPERT TRAINING... BOTH DEV AND MEG ARE A STUDY IN CONVERSATION WITH DOGS... AND WHAT BETTRE TIMNE TO WATCH THEM AS THEY EXPLAIN TEH PIECES OF LIFE WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY BE PART OF THEIR LIVES WITH A BALANCE PERSON. THEY BOTH ARE NSUPER TRAINERS.. DOGS ;OOSE FOLLOW THEM LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FUN TO DO... PUT ON COLLAR AND HARNESS HAPPILY.. EMMEDIATELY GO INTO WORK MODE SLOW.. FASTER UP STAIRS..AND DOWN.. ON WALKWAY SEE THRU LIE DOWN AN DWAAIT SOMEWHERE.. CRAWL UNDER...ME OR QA TABLE...BACK UP TEHRE ARE SO MANY SUBTILE THINGS TO LEARN FROM WATCHING THEM... AND I DON'T THINKYOU WILL FIND ANY BETTER DEMOS ANYWHERE... BUT YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR THESUBTLE THINGS.
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CHICKENS... I AM HAPPY TO SAY WE ARE GETTING SUGGESTIOBNS... THEMURPHYHATCHERSY... I NEVER HAD A "WHEN AVAILABLE" ILLUSTRATED BEFORE... I KNEW GUINNEA HENS HAD A VERY SPECIFIC MONTH OR TWO WHEN THEY WERE HATCHED... BUT THE REST GIVE YOU A HATCH DATE FOR MONTHS AHEAD... AND BEWARE I HAVE ZERO INTERSTIN 25 ROOSTERS... SO WATCH OUT FOR THE M F TO GET A FEW POLISH HEAD TUFTED WE MIGHT HAVE TO HAVE 5 UNSEXED... WHICH WOULD PROBABLY GIVE YUS A ROOSTER OF=R TWO... BUT DON'T ORDER THOSE ON PURPOSE... THE NEIGH ORS WOLD REALLY HAVE A FIT I USED TO HAVE PEACOCKS FLYING AROUND HERE... BERFORE EH DEVELOPENET... YOU WANT NOISE--- IT IS THOSE.. SCREAMING "HELP" FROM THE TOPS OF THESE HUGE TREES... I HAD TO WARN THEPOLICE WHEN I HAD THOSE... IT SOUNDED LIKE A PERSON SCREAMING.; WHEN THE NEIGHBORS MOVED INI WENT AND TURNED 3 OF THEM LOOSE AT TEH GOLF COURSE WHO'S LOGO WAS A PEACOCK... THEY WERE around for years...
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moving on...
