MolassesLass

Hello Southside peoples! Is intake night still on last Friday of the month (tonight) and can new members just arrive or do they have to call first?

Say you had someone who's never owned or lived with a dog who wanted to learn how to read dogs (behaviour between each other and with humans). How do you think it would be best for them to go about it? Also, do you agree with the descriptions of the diagrams on this page?

Oh Incurin sounds like it may be a goer (though it still has it's side effects) as it doesn't contain sythetic hormones.

- Source For those interested, the above treatment was tried and did nothing for my girl who has a very very small leak issue. I won't be wasting my money again.

Erny, did you get my email I sent? I'd still love to know of a good private trainer for future use. I met with the owners and Hudson at a dog park Monday afternoon and discovered that the problem was highly over-stated to them. Hudson does get way over-excited when he's on lead and there are other dogs running around. So he barks and growls and pulls towards them but it's excitement/frustration NOT aggression. This one is a leadership issue (I think) and will also ease as he grows up a bit. So they are working each afternoon on gradually sitting closer to the park fenced area while rewarding calm behaviour. He's also not aggressive with other dogs but overly reactive IMO. If a dog growls at him then he over-reacts to "protect" himself but in the whole hour we were meeting and greeting at the park he didn't once show any aggression meeting dogs that were friendly. The one (actually it was 3 Iggys or Whippets with one owner) that growled at him, caused Hudson to jump back and raise hackles but he didn't bark or growl and then he was whisked out of the situation. For this one, we are meeting twice a week at parks for doggy meetings and getting them to a good obedience club (they have agreed to drive to one I trust). Once I assured them that Hudson wouldn't die of cruelty if they used verbal corrections, they realised the problem is not insumountable at all. Good news is, Hudson graduated K9 Kindy last night and was noted to have a "marked improvement in behaviour overall but especially with other dogs" - I believe they didn't inform the numbnut instructor that it was due to giving up using their methods that allowed this.

Monthly in summer and less than that through winter. If they get stinky in between I will wash them with water only. Strangely enough, short coated Duke gets that doggy smell fairly quickly whereas the BCs never do.

From the DogsVictoria website:

Ohhh the Korea Frisbee Dog Association sent us an invite to send our best two team membes over for the 2007 Disc Dog World Cup Challenge. Damn quarentine, that could have been SO cool, maybe one day!

Purely positive training method means no punishment or corrections, you use 100% positive reinforcement 100% of the time. No exceptions. Traditional - Uses both positive reinforcement (rewards) and negative punishment (corrections). There are some people who call what they do "positive training" but unless it is 100% rewards only, it isn't purely positive.

About why I'm asking? I'll PM ya.

My dad is a lefty too. He can throw with either hand but is better throwing right handed - go figure!

It becomes clearer and clearer...

Yeah, I just meant that I want to be directly involved until this issue is fixed. I don't wanna just say "A private trainer will fix it. Good luck." The pup is still attending the 6 week puppy course but the instuctor believes Hudson is so bad that they've taken to letting all the other puppies off lead to socialise and keeping Hudson on lead in the corner. The class consists of 6 pups, with Hudson being one of the older and larger ones. They stopped going to dog parks because they encountered too many morons with untrained dogs that were giving Hudson actual reason to be fearful of other dogs. The only person they know with a dog is me. Maybe it's just me but I've always found private trainers to be really expensive and as such only used for really bad problems. Do you think fear aggression (only exhibited with dogs) at this age is that bad a problem? I don't know any trainers I could recommend. No socialisation with dogs outside my pack. I'm trying to find someone that lives close to them that could go with them to dog parks in the afternoons for socialisation. Hopefully someone a bit in the know will not only be able to make sure they are doing introductions etc. right but to also pick the safer dogs to meet.

Do you differtiante between Nutrience and Nutrience Holistic and where does it sit in your rankings list?

They don't go to an obedience club, they have been attending an RSPCA run puppy preschool (called "K9 Kindergarten") and I am not convinced of the instructors skills. I don't have any club I can recommend them to and besides this is a puppy I bred, I need to fix the issue. After the deafining silence this morning I have bought them some Pat McConnell books. See if that helps.

Makes perfect sense, thank you.

I'm not sure if I should have started another thread but this one seemed appropriate.... I need some help with a fear aggressive puppy (or one that's simply under socialised). The runt of my May litter Hudson has gone to brand new dog owners. Other than puppy preschool (at which they are now "in trouble" for his behaviour) and a few trips to the park (which they stopped due to aggression towards Hudson), Hudson hasn't met any other dogs since leaving me at 10 weeks old. I expected (and warned them) that he may have some issues due to being the runt of his litter but it's way more than that. He's a 4 month old desexed male BC. I am loathe to have them around because the two pups I kept will just want to dominate him and I think he's in need of godo experiences with lots of new dogs not ones he already knows and is familiar with. But they don't know anyone else who owns dogs. What's going to be the best way to approach this issue? Edit: Tried to make more sense

Pixel, do you think the intructors know about dogs (i.e. are they as clueless as some of the vet nurses who run puppy preschools)?

Has anyone been to any classes that they run? What were they like?

I recently reviewed the dry food I fed and came down to Nutrience, Nutro and Eagle Pack. I now feed Nutrience as I felt the ingredients were better than the other two (using recommendations from TheDogFoodProject), it's cheaper and easier to get.

Bloody southpaws! Glad the video helped.

I have lots of "mindless" achievements since I have two baby puppies atm. For the weekend, Logan impressed me by being a REALLY confident water dog. This is a good thing because it makes bathing easier, it's good exercise and it's such fun to take excursions out for swimming! Jazz retrieved like a pro with her first canine disc training session. Oh and just so Duke doesn't feel left out, he hasn't decided that the new couch in the dogs room is his and has stayed off it! ;)

Woohoo MrsD and Jarrah!

Carrathool, the sport came to Australia along with a couple returning from the US. The Australian Canine Disc Association was started and then the BARK club. Anyone looking for assistance to start an ACDA club, as stated, should get in contact with Damian Noud.

Sorry but BARK in Brisbane is currently the ONLY Australian Canine Disc club.