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dlmckay

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  • Birthday 02/05/1973

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    Dogs and how they think - I love teaching handlers and their dogs at my local dog training club. <br />Flygility - best thing since sliced bread - ribbon winning dogs at home!<br />My dogs are:<br />Tui - brought over with us from the UK when we emigrated in 2003 - GSD x <br />Raven - pound puppy from Manukau - GSD x Huntaway?<br />Jet - pound rescue from Waitakere - ? x ?<br /><br />X breeds are Xcellent!

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  1. Not the easiest dog in the world to train, our Jet! Lovely dog, no vices, but thick as pig muck! He has been a lesson in how to break down anything into the tiniest increments for him to "get" it I'm still impressed with him - he got extra rations tonight too!
  2. K9Fran has it - they give you "too much money" and then want it back... but their cheque doesn't actually clear... and now they have your bank details too...
  3. I cannot believe it - if I didn't have it on video, I'd swear it was a dream! I have had Jet for 2.5 years... and have been trying SOOO hard to get him to focus, stay with me and LEARN... frustrating isn't half of it! And now, I've got him weaving 6 poles! *does the happy dance* I've used the same techniques as my last two dogs, but these didn't work... I've tried channel weaves, weave-o-matic and finally! someone suggested the 2 x 2 method. Not sure I did it exactly how she teaches (as I've had to steal other people's videos from YouTube for info), but anyway - we have WEAVING!!!!! Week 1 Week 2 Week 5 and then because he was doing so well... Tonight, I've had the six poles all together... although wierdly, he's still better one way than the other Dogs and their inability to generalise! Anyway, enough of my ramblings... I is very, very proud
  4. Thanks for that chicky! No printable version sadly, but I'll cut and paste...
  5. ok... I need your help. Can you point me to info that I can print out and leave with the neighbour who owns a beautiful chocolate lab. She is currently on heat and they will not spay her until she's had a litter because that's what you do. Apparently. *in disbelief that people still think this way*. I need literature from reputable sources that explains why this is a bad idea and what happens When Whelping Goes Bad. TIA!
  6. Click to Calm is my favourite book atm - using it now in fact! Written by Emma Parsons and inspired by Karen Prior
  7. It took me a moment to get that... it's been so long since I went shopping in England... *sighs whistfully for Wilkinsons and Tescos!*
  8. Hee hee, in fact, I'm soooo far away, it took me nearly a year to get to this thread!
  9. Try dogstardaily for hints on pet dog training. http://www.dogstardaily.com/training/home-alone should help a little.
  10. OK, body language experts... if you look at the Prince, you'll notice he has a rifle under his arm and his hand is tucked in. If he were to be seriously laying into the dogs with intent to hit them, wouldn't he have given the gun over? It really does seem to me that all he's doing is making a lot of fluster to separate the two dogs scrapping over a bird (which is very naughty gun dog behaviour). Unfortunately, he chose to use a big stick to do that, but I'm still not convinced that the stick made any connection. Same as this guy isn't holding the sun...
  11. dlmckay

    Flygility

    This is video shot at the Kapiti Flygility Tournament near Wellington, New Zealand. There are only a handful of dogs competing in flygility and it is common for handlers to come up against themselves in heats if they have two or more dogs in the same competition. At this tournament, the open, intermediate and advanced finals were all battles between Rebecca Sidwell's two dogs Seeka and Mya. It was pretty amazing to see her handling both dogs at the same time - Mya was left by herself at the start, but knew to wait until the go command.
  12. I wish Raven wasn't so frightened of dogs. So frightened in fact, that if one makes eye contact with her, she'll fly off the handle and agress at that dog. :-(
  13. Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? I'm not denying that hitting your dog with a big stick is a bad thing to do, but come on! Would anyone like to be accused of something you didn't do? I surely wouldn't! When I think of the times I shove my dogs about when we're playing together - imagine if that were misinterpreted by someone who doesn't play as rough as me with their dogs The photos imply - they don't prove. FWIW I feel more sorry for the shot pheasant than for the dogs!
  14. He seems to be fine - no recurrance of lumps or bumps yet. They monitor him for five years, so we're not out the woods just yet. He's back at work and cantankerous as ever, so I keep telling him there's nothing wrong with him!
  15. You know, I can actually join this thread! Here's my hubby after his lymph node removal surgery... he had staples too... 24 or so I think The red on his face is the radiation field - he's now left with an area that he never needs to shave :-) one bright side eh?
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