ArbDogs? Pics!

[AHPP]

I just called him off a deer when he was already twenty yards committed. Buy a lottery ticket!

[AHPP]

Sailor’s been pretty bloody good recently. Usual annoying babe under my feet but recall etc has never been better. Walking tighter, not bursting off so far and so quickly. Asserting himself with the geese more and hassling the chickens less. Often herds usefully. 
 

To what do I attribute this advance? My deep understanding of the canine psyche? Doubtful. My slavish devotion to routine? Err. No. Savage beatings and round thrashings? Sadly not. He hasn’t needed any. My calm demeanour, reassuring consistency and patient husbanding? Some of that. Inherent maturity (he’s 2.5 now)? Probably helping. 
 

Basically I’ve stopped walking him. Instead of 1-3 hour sorties in the countryside, we pod around the garden and do a 500m lap of the fell (becoming his territory) on the way in and out. He’s not cabin feverish or obviously missing it and approaches domestic activity with the same enthusiasm he did for the outside world. 
 

So that’s a result. 
 

 

 

Edited May 18 by AHPP

[Stephen Blair]

Oakleys been a good help recently 

[AHPP]

Not sure if this should be dog thread or chicken thread but here I bally go.
 

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On 22/06/2025 at 12:41, AHPP said:

Not sure if this should be dog thread or chicken thread but here I bally go.
 

Errrm... Thinking way back that could be me "A Hen pecked sailor"

[Rac man]

6 month old Youngster catching up to 5 year old 

[Rich Rule]

Lovely midnight walk the other night.

 

 

 

 

[AHPP]

 

 

Bored as arseholes and half deaf from 8 hours of 661 earlier. He’s not going to like going back for another five or six days of it.

[skc101fc]

20 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

 

Bored as arseholes and half deaf from 8 hours of 661 earlier. He’s not going to like going back for another five or six days of it.

If that's his tether rope going under (and presumably,  through and around multiple times) the log pile, he's not going anywhere for quite some time - and its only going to get worse over the next few days. Fine looking hound. - hopefully he's going to do something really stupid soon for you to entertain us with 😁

[AHPP]

Aye. Free him every time I check his water. Ties himself straight back up, which in fairness is preferable to him going under the telehandler. He is fortunately scared of the big yellow thing. Not remotely scared of saws though, which he investigates tip first, nose first.

 

He tried felling a fairly senior lady with said tether the other day. Estate agent who liked dogs and was happy for me to leave him in the garden with her while I looked round inside. I'd left the long line on him in case any sheep hove into view (that'd be one way to meet the neighbours). She was talking with some other people who turned up to view. He started circling her like the scene in Star Wars where they trip up the massive walking robots. Good lad. Estate agents deserve it, old women or not.

 

 

So I'm afraid he's not done anything really moronic for a while. Keep you posted. Won't be long.

 

 

Edited July 3 by AHPP