Gone to the Dogs

[heirloomgal]

SIL took 15yo Tenma in this morning to send her along. IT was VERY HARD for him.
Please pray.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Last will and testament of a very distinguished dog. By Eugene O’Neill.

https://nilesanimalhospital.com/files/2012/07/The-Last-Will-and-Testament.pdf

 

[Marie2020]

Pal, the German shepherd, and his Dad. Fostering a little blind dog

 

[Marie2020]

I absolutely agree with everything this lady has to say.
Nancy is a lot calmer. But still likes strutting around the garden like she's the boss.

We were out today and she saw the dog she always barks at, with one a little tug of her harness, she happily went on her way. No problem

However those two yappers next door, can get her going. But their barking and banging their metal fence, it's hardly surprising .
They make me jump out of my skin to.

Another thing that I was reminded of in the comments mentioned below the clip above.

Nancy wasn't only forced bred, at a young age with numerous dogs that might have potentially hurt her. But as said in the comments, the "covid lock down", has caused a lot of problems for dogs during that period. Especially ones that were born through that time, as she was

Then of course being tied too a fence where her heartless owner had left her. With fleas and ear mites. I'm really blessed to have the dog I have here.

As for the separation, that's still an issue. Hopefully that will calm down in time.

Snoozing nicely here with not a care in the world

 

[Marie2020]

One loved up little gem was supposed to live six to twelve months. After 27 months he's still going

 

[heirloomgal]

I absolutely agree with everything this lady has to say.
Nancy is a lot calmer. But still likes strutting around the garden like she's the boss.

We were out today and she saw the dog she always barks at, with one a little tug of her harness, she happily went on her way. No problem

However those two yappers next door, can get her going. But their barking and banging their metal fence, it's hardly surprising .
They make me jump out of my skin to.

Another thing that I was reminded of in the comments mentioned below the clip above.

Nancy wasn't only forced bred, at a young age with numerous dogs that might have potentially hurt her. But as said in the comments, the "covid lock down", has caused a lot of problems for dogs during that period. Especially ones that were born through that time, as she was

Then of course being tied too a fence where her heartless owner had left her. With fleas and ear mites. I'm really blessed to have the dog I have here.

As for the separation, that's still an issue. Hopefully that will calm down in time.

Snoozing nicely here with not a care in the world
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Does she really sleep like that!?

The woman in the video, what she's describing in dog training lingo is called 'working under threshold'. It is super popular in the circles right now. So much I'd love to say about that lol, but, it's much like my daughter at 3 years old when I forced her into swimming lessons. She hated the water, in a big way, hated putting her head under which was required in her tiny tot class. She did not want to go for quite a while. Surprising to me as I was a fish at her age. But I absolutely forced it because I wanted to drown proof her; one of the nicknames for where we live is city of lakes.

Fast forward to now, and as a teenager, her passion in life became swimming. We never stopped lessons/pool fitness all these years, and now she's on the verge of becoming a scuba diver. Her skills are truly incredible and she loves it in a way I could never have imagined. Working dogs under threshold prevents them from ever gaining confidence. If I had let my daughter not go because she hated it, she'd never be where she is now and its much the same with dogs and their operational thresholds. And even if you shelter a dog from being above threshold there is always gonna be places where you can't avoid it, like the vet. Their world tends to get smaller and smaller.

Being in so many classes and seminars, I've seen many dogs who were extremely reactive totally stop, it really isn't a permanent part of the dog, which is why I don't believe in working dogs under threshold. Keeps people and their dogs stuck. And many of those reactive dogs I saw were also dog killers, and that totally stopped too. They just need the right feedback to stop the behavior. (That said though, I don't think leashed dogs should ever meet under any circumstances, the leash is too problematic. And definitely no loose dogs either!)

 

[Marie2020]

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Marie lot’s of good chuckles in that vid.. dogs are really great comedian’s.

Opps ran into a computer glitch.. sorry for the double posting..

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Great vid Marie…

 

[digitS']

Does this bear on yesterday's discussion .. . ?