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I have told him to be extra wary as I have just heard that there are several Bar Stools that have just moved into the area. Apparently they have been making a nuisance of themselves on the way home from the local pubs, but my pup has been worded up and he won't be letting them get past him!!!

There has been warnings that a Recliner has been seen lurking in the area so he is on full alert! And police HAVE linked the teddy to the Elvis bear Barney felt compelled to kill, it's obvious it's some kind of 'ring'

Wanted to add that the one legged teddy in submissive pose in front of my dog, was obviously the couch's accomplice and according to police was the culprit that had originally cased my place in the first place!! Don't let any teddies into your home, even if they are disguised as Telstra employees, or plumbers, or any other licensed tradesmen..................

This is not really a training topic, HOWEVER this has just reinforced in my mind what good training can achieve! Case in point, my Doberman has now become a fantastic guard dog after several minutes of intense training spread out over, oh, I don't know, the last 3 months. In those 5 or 6 minutes of training that I have actually done with him, I enforced with him the neccesity of taking things into his own paws if he smells trouble. So imagine my pride and intense releif upon arriving home to discover that he had bravely defended my home from a futon fiend!!!! The creeping couch had attempted to break into my side door to steal my wordly goods, when my very well trained Dobe, saw it and decided to launch a full attack. He grabbed the lounge, dragged it away from the door and subdued it with several full mouth bites, followed by some worrying to make sure it wasn't going to be getting up until help arrived. I am just so proud of him!!! I will recommend this breed to anyone that has a high couch crime rate in their area, especially where lounges are known to loiter in gangs. What a great dog!!

You like??!! Thanks to Flames Daddy! He did a good job huh?! LOL

I was so dissapointed I had to leave so early!!! I din't get a chance to meet everyone, had to get to the airport unfortunately which was a last minute thing! Glad to hear everyone enjoyed it tho!!

He he he! Am I the only one that had a giggle when the article mentioned that on a 1-100 level collar none of the people could stand the pain on level 20 and 35??!! Ummmmm how bad was it on level 1 I wonder??Or ummmm say level 2?? Why would you crank it up to 20 and then shock yourself? I think that just proves that in inexperienced hands (The people testing it) then it is not a good training tool! For anyone with half a brain it works pretty darn well for the trainer AND the dog!!!

A clean butt. Hmmm vinegar makes me think of fish and chips.....YUM!! LOL But I wouldn't spray it on my dogs butt, or anywhere else for that matter!

Just curious...but if you are only spraying the dog on the rear and not the face.......what's the point of the vinegar?..............

I'll be there with my dopey Dobe :D !!!

K9: I didnt say it wasnt important, I said it was a wives tail that dominance will be elevated by it.. Sorry giggling my head off at wives TAIL......................

*imagining FD very carefully placing bandaid on my scratched and bruised body with a look of total concentration..........* If you were going to place bandages on every single bruise and cut, I would end up looking like a Mummy!!! However in the interest of public safety and FD's continuing career in medicine, I will happily donate my body the next time I am in Sydney..................

You see, the bruise excuse is great for getting an eyeful. Hmmm well I shall be sure to have something worth investigation next time then............... and well done Myszka!! I can imagine you'd get loads of attention in a skirt at work!!

Hmmm does that mean I shall have to have a dog related injury the next time I come to Sydney???

Hmmm in THAT case I had better word up my boys to make sure they are bruising me in the right places....................

OMG!! Can't believe those bites and bruises!! And a girlfriend and I were only joking this weekend that I am the person to bring "Bruises baaaack, oh yeah I'm bringing bruises baaack" I was out foaling down mares this weekend and as one is won't to get covered in blood and muck, you don't bother posing for anyone, so I was wearing a black beany, blue jumper and green trousers, and my darling girlfriend remarked that I looked like a walking bruise! LOL I admitted that if I had been wandering around in a paddock at 2am in the morning naked, she wouldn't have noticed much difference thanks to my dogs!!! Seriously tho I can't remember the last time I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't see bruises..................It's an attractive look!

My dogs this week have got me into trouble at work. Ok, now you are all doggy people and you all know that sometimes strange things can happen, things that are hard to explain to non doggy people? You still with me? Ok the beginning of the week, my older dog, Jaeger, leapt up under me as I was leaning over to pick up his food bowl..............his nose went straight into my neck and just about winded me................... Later that day at work (Where I am the only female in an office full of 30 year old men.........) they all kept giving me funny looks. After ascertaining that I was not having a wardrobe malfunction, I went to the bathroom, and there on my neck is a large bruise which looked EXACTLY like a hicky!!! Now when I tried to explain to the guys that it WASN'T a hicky, it was a Dobe nose bruise..............they didn't beleive me!!! :p ;)

Awwww I'm cruising this at work and can't see half the pictures!! GRRR Thankfully could see the ones of FD with his shirt off tho.....*drool* I'll have to try and get some good teeth shots, the boys look terrible when they are playing together.................. :D

Just a quick reminder for everyone that PM'd me to say they'd be coming to the seminar............can you drop K9 Force a quick email, so he has your email addy's? The one thing I forgot to ask you all........... Thanks!

I think the dog would get the point don't you?! Whenever it's bath time, or he's at the beach, or a dam, there's no way in hell he'll be digging anywhere near them...............because logically he'll connect his owner trying to drown him in a hole of water, with him digging!

The problem is that usually when I come home and see the dogs, I am in shock over what they have been up to during the day. The state of shock means that I do not have the presence of mind to reach for a camera (Doesn't translate to being unable to open the fridge door and reach for an alcoholic beverage however ;) ) This means that I never get photo's of the destruction, I only have 'happy snaps' when they actually stay still long enough for me to take a picture

Good to hear! Hope you can make it! If only to laugh at me and my dogs................. ;)

What she MEANT to say was this "Are any of you stupid enough to want to put up with a dozen or more people and their insane dogs, not just for a day or two, but for an entire WEEK?!"

Sunday 15.10? ;) Yes well, assuming that I have managed not to kill my dog by that stage, that would be fun! LOL

You would have to have them deal with problems in training too. i.e several dogs at the IPO club I'm at have had previous handling problems which have affected their ability to compete well, so any trainer would have to cover those topics as well (Handler stress, mouthing grip or dumbell etc etc) Maybe we should come up with a list of possible sites and people and organise it from there! LOL and a list of what subjects people would be interested in?? Maybe we could have a 'fun' day which would just cover training tricks or agility etc as well?