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[tommer9]

Lovely dogs Dean. They related?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Lovely dogs Dean. They related?

 

Father and Son Tommer, there's 12 month between them and they work really well together

 

Their markings are almost identical.

 

I was just looking at Micks dogs and wondered what sort of mongrel the middle one was

[tommer9]

They are very similar. We have a four year old golden lab, his daughter, her son, and those pups are hers, brothers and sisters of third dog. I reckon it makes for really well adjusted and tempered dogs. Like your first pic BTW. Do you get to go out with them much?

[Dean Lofthouse]

They are very similar. We have a four year old golden lab, his daughter, her son, and those pups are hers, brothers and sisters of third dog. I reckon it makes for really well adjusted and tempered dogs. Like your first pic BTW. Do you get to go out with them much?

 

I think the same, temprement can be passed on .

 

Mine, in season are out every weekend, if I can't work both then my mate take one on the beating line, that way they are worked all the time. During summer they don't get out as much only for pigeon and squirrel shoots.

 

Trouble is they think they're working all the time, they were up looking out the window because a pigeon landed on the lawn

[tommer9]

Trouble is they think they're working all the time, they were up looking out the window because a pigeon landed on the lawn

 

Working dogs... you gotta love 'em.

[woodsmanBSc]

This is Gyp our Border Collie from a Welsh working farm. Shes a lot bigger now but was cute as a button when we first got her.

Was very scared of me and would only sit with her new mum!

Sadly my current job wont allow me to take her to work but we are working on that!!

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[Ian Leach]

Here's some more of my dog a mth later, don't they grow quick.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Thats a nice looking dog Ian, going to be a good size too.

[Ian Leach]

Thats a nice looking dog Ian, going to be a good size too.

 

He's quite well behaved already (well when i'm there anyway), Back turned and hes nicked something and chewing on it. He nips at the kids (any advice on that??), My youngest Amy whos 6 grabs him by the scruff of the neck and pins him and says no until he submits is this ok.

[Dean Lofthouse]

It's a problem of status, pinning him down will help but wont solve.

 

It's how you and your pack behave around him and how he perceives his postion in the pack.

 

One book you should get is Jan Fennell's "The Dog Listener" ISBN 0-00-653236-5.

 

It basically tells you how dogs heirachy is created, it is much the same sort of thing as the Dog Whisperer on cable tv.

 

The three very most important things are:

 

How you enter the house

How you leave the house

How you answer the door.

 

You must not greet any dog when you enter the house and if the dog comes too close to you or anyone in your pack he must be pushed away with no talking or eye contact, I growl at mine, sounds silly but they understand growls.

 

Anyone knocks at the door, the dog must not be infront of you when you open it, you must place the dog behind and make him stay BEFORE you open the door. This must also apply to any memebr of your pack who has a higher status. The dog is the last in the pecking order.

Get the kids to answer the door and make sure they psuh the dog away and make him stay quietly. If he tries to bounce around push him away with the knee, no eye contact and growl at him, if he still bounces around growl and nip his ear.

 

Leaving the house: He must be the last to leave, everyone must be out of the house before him and he must be kept behind the pack.

 

If he goes out first he has high status and is in charge of the hunt, he will pull on the lead ahead of everyone and will be stressed because he has a big responsibilty now, he must protect and find food for the pack. That is not his job, that is yours and he must be relieved of this burden

 

People always comment how calm my dogs are for springers and how controllable (most of the time) they are.

 

90% of problems with dogs stem from them being too high in the pack and the stress and responsibility this position affords, take that position away from them and they will be a much calmer and steady dog.

 

Follow those three rules and your halfway there.

 

The chewing of stuff is normally through frustration, a lower member of the pack or all the pack has gone without him and he's fretting because it is his job to protect them being that he has a high status

 

See how you go on Ian