i had some training comments to put in the daily doggie , but gwen tells me i should have a trainers meeting to discuss thee concep-ts befor they hear the concept in the daily doggie...
2020 10 29
That's just one more thing I shouldn't talk about in the daily doggy until I do something else .. sometimes I feel like I'm being shot at from all angles if I discuss anything but the weather .. and it's about to snow on tomorrow Friday wow …
I had a close call in front of the camera yesterday when I went into the arena and there were two very happy dogs in there who wanted to jump on me and nearly knocked me over so I swung at them to stop it and then I thought oh Lord that was in front of the camera and somebody is going to get mad at me for hitting the dogs but I not supposed to get knocked over either .. I did make the dog come back to me and behave nicely and stand in front of me but there was that instinct to make him stop jumping ..
It never ceases to amaze me that I've written over 3000 of these things without getting myself in legal trouble somehow .. however I think you all have to approach the daily doggy as just something that is rattling through my head at that moment
.I got going yesterday I just touched briefly on the concept of how do you find trainers ---my opinion is you find them –the fine tuning is not something you can get from A BOOIK…. Sometimes a 10 year old kid it's perfect -- and my further comment which was not in yesterday's daily doggy is that of the two kinds of dog trainers at the moment obedience trainers or agility trainers I think my preference would be to try an agility trainer for a service dog because the agility trainers are working with the dogs in a little bit different atmosphere thAn the strict obedience of “commands” heel sit stay down come ---to go further I need to have a trainers coffee…. All 10 feet apart.. in the rain---- or snow !!
I COULD DO AN ENTIRE DAILY DOGGIE OF THINGS I MUST NOT DISCUSS ----AND FOR ME THAT IS HARD.
However I think I found one topic I haven't discussed is that maluka honey dressing for wounds .. I told you I'm hard pressed for topicS -- you've seen THAT HONEY advertised as having antibiotic properties and very good for several different kinds of skin problems ……I certainly have that three corner TEAR in my leg where the tractor attacked me , so I bought some … and with great care before I got up this morning I tried to change the dressing on my leg .. I know a little bit about honey so I was exceedingly careful the handle the impregnated Gause square with tweezers and placed it carefully on my laceration covered it up with gauze and wrapped it in what I call vet wrap .. with all care I took I then had honey on the inside of my forearm a tiny bit on the bedspread and a small quantity on my other leg .. I just about had to take a bath to get rid of what didn't belong there .. and it's not that easy to get rid of honey .
However---- … TRUE STORY I do have a story IN MY Resume , about honey …when I was in the business of providing animals for commercials this was the worst job I ever took on and I tried to talk them out of it--- as nearly impossible---- but somebody said they really wanted to do it and I was the only one who would even attempt to put four pigs in harness in front of Santa's sleigh for a hood milk commercial ---.they gave me 9 days to pull this off .. I went and borrowed four pigs from Mr Scott in Newbury who has a pig farm .. I rented them -------there's not a lot of places you can rent pigs , but Mr Scott was always very cooperative and I always paid him ….. I got the four pigs in my barn and tried for seven days to even get near them without them screaming .. I was not doing well AND WAS LITERALLY IN TEARS WONDERINGHOW TO PULL OFF THIS JOB WITH THESE WILD PIGS THAT I COULD NOT EVEN TOUCH AFTER A WEEK. and then it must have been Goldie with a stroke of genius .. I put some honey in a spray bottle which I then diluted so would come out the little nozzle and I was those pigs best friends I found that I could control them by just spraying honey into their mouth and they would follow that wherever you took them .. I made a harness for them because there is no such thing as a pig harness that I know of--- aNd the day of the job I loaded them up on the big trailer with the spray bottles of honey and trundle off to the studio where I found that not only was I to be in front of this sleigh but that was up on an 18 inch platform .. so with four basically wild pigs and their only control being with spray honey I had four people with four bottles in front of four pigs to get them lined up and then to duck down out of the shot and take the picture .. I have to add that the way I had these guys lined up I ran a rope through the left harness of the right pig and the right harness of the left pig and ran that back in a loop to a 200 pound guy who held on for dear life I had two sets of those so that when the pigs pulled forward they pull themselves together... ? YOU GOT THE PICTURE??? well now I had to get them in front of the wagon lesleigh which meant that we had to have other people hold the sleigh up on one runner while we got the ropes back behind the sleigh with the two men hanging on for dear life while the pigS strain forward to the spray bottles of honey .. WHICH IF THE HONEY WAS NOT IN THIER MOJUTHS, THEY SCREECHED AS ONLY A PIG CAN DO.....
the whole job was made even more challenging by the fact that they were blowing plastic snow so we get these pigs all lined up they blow snow--- we duck down with these spray bottles of honey and my son in law and I had the two front pigs I really don't think he sprayed me on purpose but suffice to say both of us had an awful lot of plastic snow glued to us before that job was done . I WAS TOLD THEY GOT 14 USEABLE VIDEO CLIPS OF MY STRUGGLE. THE PRODUCER APPOLOGISED.. HE SAID HE HAD NO IDEA PIGS WERE LIKE THAT...
six months later I still ran into sticky snow in my TRUCK
