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[AHPP]

Sailor's nearly four and has got way better with other dogs. He's easy at the shoot now. Mingles fine. Walking round the edge of town earlier and he charged up to an Airedale terrier like he always wants to but came off beautifully easily. Chatted with the bloke for twenty minutes and he laid down, came over gently, went back away etc. Encouraging stuff.

 

He also just ate half a bag of pheasant guts and wings and threw up next to my guitar pedals. Cheers.

Edited 1 hour ago by AHPP

[Rich Rule]

Kira was always a pretty sweet dog but for the last year or so she has become more reactive.

 

Tried everything.  Here in Norway they are very much positive reinforcement training.  Whilst that is good for learning g new commands it isn’t any good for behavioural changes.

 

My old man had gun dogs and I was around lots of gun dogs as a kid as my uncle bred them.  Old school methods and old school results.

 

I changed before summer and ditched the harness and treat and went back to what I knew.  Had a bit of help with a guy from the Uk who trains protection dogs for the police and military.

 

Been at it nearly 5 weeks now with the new regime.  He changed my thinking about training.  His ethos is to have a completely neutral dog and then you call in their drive when you them to work.  So for the first 10 minutes of a walk, she gets a lead correction if she looks at another dog, looks around, lunges, pulls or anything other than being neutral.  Then she has 40 minutes of being a dog doing what she wants and we switch collars or onto the harness if we are in the woods tracking.  Then the last 10 minutes same as the 1st 10.

 

She ia walking past dogs and ignoring them even when they are growling and barking at her.  In the past she would have tried to rip them to shreds.  By breed they are pretty dominant and can be aggressive unless trained not to.

 

She seems to be doing fine and walks much better in leash.

 

As opposed to positive reinforcement and treats all the time.  Basically you are keeping their emotions at a high levels rather than neutral then a strange dog comes round the corner and bang, she explodes.

[AHPP]

It's a stupid hobby when you think about it.

 

"I know. I'll get a barely domesticated wolf that can do 20 mph over any terrain and kill anything up to a small horse if it wants to.

P.S. It wants to."

[Rich Rule]