WHY DO WE NOT HAVE TO LICENSE/ REGISTER CATS???? THEY NEED RABIES SHOTS TOO... LAST NIGHT ... THE DOGS WERE NOISY ABOUT MIDNIGHT AND I SAW SA CAT RUN THRU THE DONKEY STALL, IT EVEN MADE TEH DONKEYS ALL RUN OUTSIDE... IT WAS NOT A FISHER CAT... IT WAS A SPOTTED HOUSE CAT... COULD BE A FERAL HOUSE CAT... BUT CERTAINLY NOT MY CAT. POLICE CALLED ABOUT THE NOISE AND WE--- DENIS--- TRIED TO DEAL... BUT NO AMT OF KONGS WOULD DETRACT FROM A LOOSE CAT. I DID LEAVE TEH VIDEO -- AND SOUND ON IN MY ROOM ALL NIGHT.. AND IT DID QUIET DOWN... BUT ABOUT 11 TO 12... IT WAS NOISY.
UNFORTUNATELY DANES SUFFER BECAUSE OF OTHER DOGS... DANES ARE BY NATURE QUIET SEDATE DOGS-- A FAR CRY FROM WANDA... OUR JACK RUSSELL (JR)-- IF WE HAD 50 JR's IT WOULD NEVER BE QUIET EVER... THEY WOULD BARK WHEN SOMEONE PUMPED GAS AT TEHGAS STATION A MILE AWAY.. BECAUSE OF ALL THE MISBEHAVING DOGS, PEOPLE JUST DO NOT BELIEVE DANES ARE BASICALLY QUIET..
FED, WATERED, EXERCISED, AND GIVENTN A LOVELY "NEST" THEY NAP... PROBABLY 23.5 HOURS A DAY IF ALLOWED TO. SOMEOSN CAN CLOCK CHAOS ON THE SOFA... BUT THEY SUFFER THE REPUTATION OF OTHER DOGS. AND SINCE THEY ARE BIGGER,THEY MUST BE WORSE..
WRONG... AT LEAST IN MY EXPERIENCE....
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LAST NIGHT AT MAIL CALL I READ A LETTER ABOUT A DOG I "TRAINED" FOR A VET... WAY BACK BEFORE SDP GOT GOING... TEH DOG "B2" WAS A PUP FROM ONE OF MY FEMALES I HAD GIVE N TO A FRIEN D OF GEORGE MYERS AND BRED TO A STUD OF MINE... THUMPER WAY DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT "TREE" OF OURS 2003.. THE LETTER -- FROM A IRAQ VET.....
I CAN NOT BEILEVE THE TURN AROUND IN MY DOGS ENTIRE ATTITUDE-- I HAD BEEN TO ANOTHER TRAINER, AND THE TOP VETERNARIAN AST TUFTS UNIVERSITY WITH NO SUCCESS THEY SUGGESTED THE "GENTLE LEADER" WHICH WORE THE SKIN OF HIS CHIN AND MY HAND, PLUS SOME BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION PILLS. I WAS UNHAPPY.. B2 WAS UNHAPPY AND MY MOPTHER WAS MISERABLE AND ABOUT TH THROW US BOTH OUT.
ONE WEEK WITH YOU AND B2 HEELS PERFECTLY, HE IS HAPPY, HIS TAIL IS WAGGING- AND HE LISTENS TO BOTH YOU AND ME- I HAD TO BTRING MY MOTHER TO THE FARM TO SEE FOR HERSELF. ( ED: I TOOK TEH MOTHER TO COSTCO AND SAT HER DOWN AT THE TLUNCH TABLES WITH B2... , ANSD SHE WAS NEARLY IN TEARS-- WITH DISBELIEF.)
THAT WAS BEFORE SDP AND PROBQBLY ONE OF THE BIG REAQSONS WHY I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT I COULD DO THIS... BUT HAD TO DO IT MY WAY .. I LOOKED UP ADI MEMB ERS ..MANY OF WHICH GAVE LESSONS ON HOW TO TRAIN A SERVICE DOG..-- ONE CHARGED $5000 FOR A 3 WEEK COIURSE ... WITH BOOKS... SO I ORDERED THE BOOKS- AND THEI FIRST CHAPTER LITERALLY STARTED " DOGS SMELL WITH THEIR NOSES" I FIGURED I WAS WELL BEYOND HAVING TO B E TOLD THAT...AND TEHRE WIOL B THOSE WHO WILL TELL ME WHAT A HUGE PART OF T4RAINING THE NOSE IS... BUT THAT IS A "GIVEN" AND I DIDN'T NEED TO SPEND $5000 TO DISCOVER THAT ..
TEH OTHER THING IS YOU SHOULD THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT CONSULTING YORU VET ABOUT TRAINING. . BUT I HAVE HEARD SOME TERRIBLE ADVICE GIVEN BY VETS IN GENERAL... QUICK FIXES WITH NO ACTUAL TRAINING... LIKER THT GENTEL LEQDER-- WHICH I ( AND DOGS-) HATE.--- PERSONALLY I ADMIRE GEORGE'S MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. HE HAS GIVEN PEOPLE-- AND HIS DOGS ... BY MY STANDARDS HAVE NO TRAINING AT ALL.- SORRY GEORGE...-- I BASE THAT ON YOUR USUAL 25 FOOT LONG CLOTHES LINE/LEASH... ASKING A VET ABOUT TRIANING IS SOMEWNAT AKIN TOI ASKING A DENTIST WHAT KIND OF RIDING BOOTS TO BUY.---
FIRST LESSON IN PICKING A TRAINER... HOW DOES THERI DOG BEHAVE??? IS THE TAIL WAGGING?
I REMEMBER..... THAT JOB OOF GETTING 34 DOGS TO BEHAVE OFF LEQSH IN TEH MIDDLE OF NEWBURHPORT WITHOUT PEOPLE, IN THE PHOTO.... I CHOSE TO USE EVERY "FARM DOG " I KNEW.. AS OPPOSED TO "AKC OBEDIENCE" TRAINED DOGS.. LIKEWISE TEH HOMELESS DOG I USED IN BOSTON TRAFFIC... THER EI S EDUCATED....AND TRAINED.
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BASICALLY MAKE FRIENDS WITH TEH DOG AND THEN DEVELOPE A CONVERSATIONAL TONE TO TRAINING. NOT DOMINATING COMMANDS...
WALKING IN CIRCLES T OGO TO TRAINING "CLASSES" HAS BEEN THE CLASSIC TRAINING.. SIT BEING THE ULTIMATE CRITERIER FOR A "TRAINED DOG" -------- SIT DOES NOT HAVE ANY PURPOSE IN REAL LIFE EXCEPT TO BE SOMETHIGN RELATIVELY EASILY TAUGHT AND THEN USED AS AS "TELL THEM TO DO SOMETHING BESIDES WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO DO" -- HOW MUCH MORE USEFUL IS "WAIT"
BOILS DOWN TO .... TRAINING THE HANDLER IS THE HARD PART.
THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS ON TRAINING DOGS, AND CHILDREM..... AND WE KNOW HOW SUCCESSFUL CHILD TRAAINING BOOKS CAM BE.
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MY ;ATEST BRAINSTORM IS ONCE AGAN MY FASCINATION WITH PHYSICS- ANDMAYBRE DOING MAIL CALL IN FORONT OF THE PUPPY HILL CAMERA SO I COULD DO SOME FUN THINGS WITHTHAT SWING SET... I HAVE ASKED FOR HELP IN WAYS TO DEMONSTARAT SCIENCE
NICE SIMPLE AND MESSY THINGS ARE BEST.
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