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As Pers. said, puppies do not know what NO means. The best way I have found to stop a pup from barking is get onto it very early & use either a squirt water bottle at the same time as your growly sharp "no" or one of those hand held ultrasonic devices & use it the same way. They learn pretty quick with the UD & with my guys one or two barks & they never nuisance barked again. Now they only bark in play or if something is serious. You can only use the UD if you only have the one dog present for obvious reasons & make sure the cat is not in the room. It doesn't hurt them & only they can hear it. It distracts them & they don't like it so they learn to stop pretty quickly. You can get them off Ebay for around $20.

My two BC's zoom together in the back yard & they have my lawn & yard looking like a BMX track. Two tracks...the one that the leading dog takes & there is another one that the herding dog takes, Always the same way & sometimes they will swap. They are not allowed to zoom in the house though

Yep...that s the one I bought from HomeArt & it is good. Another BC owner on DOL bought one too & her dogs like it

I have tried it myself, & it really does stay cool. Not sure if I would trust it with a dog that might chew, but they look fairly tough for a normal dog. They say the gel is non toxic, but it could probably make a big mess :laugh: I think they would be great for crates.

Well done.....a word of warning though...it does become adictive Just remember it doesn't happen overnight, so sit back & enjoy the journey... you wont be disapointed. Every dog is different & IMO that's what makes it so much fun. :)

I bought one the same as this Gel Cooling Mat 50 x 90 from HomeArt for just $30 & it came with a smaller bonus one. No filling with water, it contains a nontoxic gel that cools when your dog lies on it. They also had them for humans.

I would like my agility class to be doing some regular, without fail, warm up excercises before their training session. Unfortunately, some of them just want to get into the sexy stuff, so the pressure is always on, to "get on with it". I am going to put my foot down & I have the support of the head instructor. Does your club do regular flat work before a training session, & if so what do you do. My class is mixed with most being just intermediate (novice) but a couple are advanced they are the ones who want to skip the warm up session.

Amazing isn't it We use a $180 brush on our dogs & $2 comb on ourselves. I can understand why some people think us "dog" people are completely nuts :laugh:

My Mason Pearson brush arrived....but it is too good to use on the dogs I might have to order another one :D

Is she on Advantix ??? Advantix is supposed to repel mozzies & biting flies.

You NEVER know when you might have an emergency & need an ambulance. You may be attending to someone inside your house who has had a heart attack or been electrocuted or anything & you wont be able to leave the patient after calling the ambulance to clear your front yard of a dog who MIGHT be perseaved as aggressive by an emergency worker. Might be far fetched example, but it does happen, so people with authority should have unobstructed access to your front door. So putting a lock on the front gate is not going to help either in an emergency. I can fully understand the concerns of the little girl's mother. Her concerns for her little girl have nothing to do with her own two dogs behaviour....that is a completely seperate issue. Did the lady with the lab file a complaint against her two dogs??

As others have said...ask your breeder what they recommend. I raised my Border Collie pup on Black Hawk Adult food from the time I got him at 10 weeks. He is now nearly two years old & has grown well & is fit & healthy

must check them out :)

I never buy meat from woolies, they are always double the price of any butchers I can find. Unfortunately, when you live in a rural area, you don't have much choice. Woolies is the only place/butcher in our region that I can get it from. I don't mind paying Woolies prices for it...I am only glad that they stock it :) I rarely buy my meat from Woolies as I have a wholesale butcher I get our meat from, or we cut up our own cow...it's just turkey necks from Woolies.

He'd try to and I had to pull it from his mouth and he's not very happy about that. Haven't tried frozen so I'll do that and also try the chicken frames, thanks :) Can you find turkey at Woolies? I don't think I've ever seen those at my local butcher's. I get my turkey from Woolies, that's the only place I have seen it.

She is soooooo pretty & looks very happy. Is she hard to keep clean or do JS have a teflon coat. :) Love the name too, that was a name I had picked out for my last puppy, till we decided to get a boy.

Not sure, but in NSW I think the minimum age is 12, but you could look up the Dogs NSW web page & it should tell you.

Have you given any thought to learning how to clicker train...it is easy & the best way to train new things :)

Not real sure why you would choose Milan methods of training. I havn't seen much of his that I would be inclined to use. Why would you teach non-verbal cues. so when your puppy sits & waits for his bowl to be put down, how do you release him if you hve no verbal cue Also, what are you doing when you say you are "maintaining boundaries". I agree that saying "no" to a puppy a thousand times a day, could mean anything to the pup. You normally put a cue word on a behaviour after the pup learns the behaviour. EG. when teaching it to sit, you shape the behviour first then put the cue word "sit" to it. I would recommend to anyone with a new pup, that they get into "clicker training". Also there are some great books & DVD's around for puppies..."the Focused Puppy" is great. All of them use "positive" training methods only.

You could always get a border collie breeder to choose a pup especially to suit your circumstances. I couldn't live without my BC's & wouldn't go for any other breed. I like Paps, for a small breed.

Advantix applied religiously every fortnight & daily searching

Agree Luvsdogs..it would be pretty hard for a BC or JS to choke on a turkey neck. I cut my large ones in half with a butchers cleaver & give half each. The smaller necks are about twice the size of a chicken neck & even my vacuum girl chews hers up.

Papillion ....small, robust, pretty, smart. Great little agility dogs

Yeah...I agree...they must be referring to cooked turkey. When I googled it, plenty of sites came up but they were all American & they eat a lot of cooked turkey over there. Most of the sites said skin & bones cause they can bring on a sudden attack of pancreitis. I am not about to stop giving my dogs raw turkey...they love it. If I give them raw chicken, they will turn their noses up at it, if I try to give it to them two days in a row. I would be more worried about my bloke getting bloat from all the water he swallows when swimming in the pool I have to wait 1/2 hour after his swim, for him to have a good chuck, before he gets his turkey neck. RSA...those last ones you bought would have been the part of the wing that joins the body...Looks like a small turkey drumstick.

I was telling someone today that I feed my dogs turkey necks daily & they promptly told me that I shouldn't feed anything turkey to my dogs. I did read a while ago that turkey skin was listed along with all the other baddies, like chocolate & grapes etc, but the article didn't say why. They don't often get skin unless I can't buy the necks & they get wings for a few days. Anyone else heard of this.