ArbDogs? Pics!

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I've started regularly scanning you tube for the 'Sailor the dog' comedy channel. He must surely be close to signing a contract to supply hours of entertainment in exchange for alternating tirades of abuse and dog chew treats.

Keep this comedy gold going

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

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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 Sunday at 20:00 by AHPP