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A strange thing just happened...when I clicked on the last photo to enlarge it...up came all this porno stuff.. ...I din't look...just clicked out of it.

I started with Easy Walk & found it good, but the first two got chewed up So then I bought a Sensible one from Clean Run & liked it so much I got another one for my other dog. The prices on Clean Run ATM on free shipping are less than half the price of the one on Ebay. Clean Run Harness I found it great for training my BC pup heeling & loose leash walking. Now I only use them when I need to walk both my BC's together...I tie the leads together so I have more control in an emergency. When I'm walking the pup on his own, I just use a flat collar, but if he tries to pull, then I pass the lead loosly around his chest & walk him with a "handle", like you see with assistance dogs. When I do this, he is like butter in my hand & he walks like an old pro

In my view? No. Salt water has bacteria too and I think it would dry their coats out too much. Don't clip them. You'll remove the water proofing that their coats have, and potentially compound the problem, in addition to making them prone to sunburn. Maybe it is different with my dogs, then, as the saltwater in the pool is passed through a chlorinator to produce chlorine, which kills the bacteria. I just give them a tablespoon of virgin coconut oil each day with their food & that keeps their coats nice.

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My two Border Collies swim daily in our salt water/chlorine pool. They are often out there for up to 1.5 hrs at a time, getting out & resting then jumping in & swimming when it suits them. This is usually in the morning as it takes the rest of the day to dry off...I don't bother rinsing them off. Reading this post made me think....hey...they don't smell after they have been in the pool & maybe that is because the salt water/chlorine kills off the bacteria on their skin. If they get wet from the rain, though....then they stink after. So maybe it might be best to leave the salt on your two labs...don't rinse it off with the fresh water. Try it & see :) because until you posted, I hadn't even given it a thought.

I will PM you with my personal email address cheers, Hi BC Crazy....I have PM you...your order is I tried to email you but gmail wouldn't recognize your bigpond address....so not sure whats going on there If anyone else is having trouble contacting us, just make sure you don't put an "au" on the end of the gmail address. The address should be [email protected] or you can contact Mark on 0412749499. thanks, Sheena

I will PM you with my personal email address cheers,

NewSensation-cleo...that is so lovely. I will have to forward this on to Mark. He & my daughter do all the work...I just handle the emails etc for them & of course, promote it with my two lovely dogs. Maybe I might get to meet your lovely dally one day at one of the dog shows. :)

I hope you find them safe...but if you are a bit rural, then I would suspect either a carpet snake or wedge tailed eagles could be possibilities, after they had gone walkabout

I have seen dogs do it on course, but never taken any notice of what the judge says. What made me think of it was your video, Vickie teaching your pup 2o2o & like a good little girl, she shuffled her feet back on the contact. Loved that video by the way, you must have had some yummy treats...she was all yours were you using a clicker as well??

In a trial, if a dog has been taught 2o 2o...it runs to the end & into position, but then it's back feet come off the obstacle. The dog shuffles it's feet back on cause that's what normally gets the treats. Now in a trial situation would that be considered "wrong course". I asume if the dog puts it's front feet back on & turns round, it definately would be DQ, but what if it sticks it's back feet back on. :)

Hi K & C, did you have a look on the Black Hawk website...it has a list of distributors for different states. You certainly can buy it on line. We send ours by courier & I am sure a lot of the others do too. You can also send Sherel an email (address on her website) & she will send you a sample. It would be pretty unusual if your dogs didn't like it. Of all the bags we have sold, people keep coming back for more. I have a friend up near Noosa who I gave some to & I am sure when I looked up the list of dist. I found one in Noosa for her. Clearly you didn't sell to me then. ;) No...I didn't sell to you...you should be able to remember who you bought it from. All I am saying is that I have had nothing but positive feedback & repeat orders all round. I am sure there will be some dogs out there who don't like it...I just havn't personally come across them yet. :) I am sure if we searched far enough we could find some dogs who turn their nose up at bar-b-q chicken ;) ETA...I wouldn't buy without trying first either, that is why I suggest K & C ask for a sample.

Hi K & C, did you have a look on the Black Hawk website...it has a list of distributors for different states. You certainly can buy it on line. We send ours by courier & I am sure a lot of the others do too. You can also send Sherel an email (address on her website) & she will send you a sample. It would be pretty unusual if your dogs didn't like it. Of all the bags we have sold, people keep coming back for more. I have a friend up near Noosa who I gave some to & I am sure when I looked up the list of dist. I found one in Noosa for her.

Hi Laneka, Is this Black Hawk themselves or the distributor that you buy off. Sometimes the distributors have a rush on supplies & it does take a couple of days to get more in depending on where they live. It is probably best to place your order with your distributor, well before you run out. When I used to feed VAN to my girl, Petstock was continuosly running out of it & sometimes I had to wait weeks for them to get it in. So it's not just confined to Black Hawk & it's distributors. :) I hope you can get some somewhere else.

I taught my girl a good reliable "backup" first using the clicker. Now I am teaching her to heel backwards with me, so I put her in the heel position & give the cue "backup" as I move the leg closest to her, clicking & treating when she takes a couple of steps. I am still doing it against a wall though & think that I will just gradually increase my distance from the wall, till she learns to stick close to my leg. She also knows "back under" meaning to go backwards between my legs when I step back, so it is still a little confusing for her but we are getting there. :)

I have just purchased a clicker. I haven't started using it yet. I was thinking of starting to retrain her with it. To show her that the clicker=treat. Do you think i should try it? or will it just confuse her introducing the clicker at 6 months of age? Thanks for your help :) I didn't start my older BC girl on clickers till she was nearly 3. It has been a godsend for training a very reactive border collie & she will do anything for me, if she thinks I have the clicker on me. As Tassie says, maybe start out with some close up....like the "In Ya Face" game, where you take 10 or so treats & have her sitting in front of you, call her name, click & treat & do this in rapid succession.

Here is a little video of me teaching Cricket the "Go" & the "Out", but before this I taught him without jumps to Go to a target, starting off close to the target & increasing the distance. Good to have someone loading the target for you, You release him with "go" cue & as he reaches the target, you say "get it", then call him back for another treat. Friend reloads target & you repeat at a greater distance, till you have him driving to the target from about 20 meters or more. Then introduce the jumps & backchain. Ie start with one jump before the target, then two etc., until you can stand at the end of the line & send him "Go" keeping your arm up & he will do all the jumps to get the target. Then to teach out, gradually move the middle couple of jumps out of the line until you have quite an arc.....does this make sence. Anyway here is the video Another exercise in Out is to have 4 jumps in a cartwheel formation. Start off with them close together & gradually move them out. You use your body to put "pressure" on the dogs space, stepping out & raising your arm & saying "out" between the jumps. Not sure if I have explained that all that well. But you must keep your arm up & the pressure on till he has taken the jump...if you drop your arm, it is a signal for the dog to come into you. An excellent distance DVD is Dial Up the Distance available from Clean Run.

Providing that she knows that click = treat everytime, to start training the recall you have her on a long lead, call her name & as soon as she turns to you, you click & treat, You can also do out & here by tossing a treat & as soon as she reaches it, before she picks it up...click..she eats...then call "here" or "come" or her name, whatever your recall is & she turns to you, you click, she comes running to you (hopefully) for the treat. I take my clicker & treats with me whenever I walk my two BC's off lead. They might run off a short distance, but as soon as one turns to look at me, I click & they both come running for the treat. It has become a favourite game with them & it's a race to see who can get to me the fastest & sit in front of me waiting for the treat. They can hear the click quite some distance away, up to aboout 50 meters. Mind you, they are probably listening for it, because they know that their behaviour of turning to look at me is going to get a click. My dogs love the clicker game, but as Megan says you have to put lots of value on it.

At our place we have GSDs, rotties, aussie sheps, jrt and frenchies and not one of them has an issue with the size of the kibble. :) Yes, neither does my Golden...it goes down whole regardless of the size, I'd much rather her eat small kibble whole than large kibble lol Neither of my Border Collies have trouble with the size of the kibble. One eats it slowly & carefully, savouring every mouthful & the other eats it fairly quickly & both lick their plates clean afterwards. I give mine a meaty bone, usually 1/2 turkey neck DAILY & they have beautiful teeth & gums. So Jim1 maybe you should be feeding the bones more regularly & make sure they are bones they have to chew. Not sure what size dogs you have, but maybe they are just scoffing their chicken necks & bypassing their teeth & gums. ;)

I've had a dog seek out & get into rotten eggs. It never seemed to do her any harm, I just couldn't understand WHY she would want to eat them. Of course kisses were definately not on for hours after.

Here's a link to lots of ideas for treats Irrisitable Treats

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I don't suppose you are feeding him liver treats, by any chance???? What has his breeder said about it, 4 months is a long time to have a problem like this.

I get their monthly magazine on-line & have no trouble reading it on the computer. Anything that I am really interested in, I will often print out. I do prefer a hard copy that I can take & lie down on the bed & read, but the benefit of the E-Magazine is they take up no storage space, they are stored on my computer & I can refer back to them anytime I like.

She does get a variety of marrow, brisket etc as well as chicken I think her diet is well balanced but am happy to hear of other dogs doing a similar thing :) I won't be giving extra calcuim at this stage anyway ;) She is the only one that I have seen eat dirt my other two as far as I know don't, they eat grass and just about anything else around :D I used to have a dog that ate dirt. At the time we had a nursery & it was always where we had watered the plants as if she were getting the nutrients from the soil.