Mrs Rusty Bucket

frustration - different dogs (and humans) have different responses to frustration... But you can work on increasing tolerance to frustration (not being able to get what you want), and work on enthusiasm for training. Some dogs are born with the desire to try new things and a high tolerance for frustration and willingness to please their humans and other dogs are more independent thinkers who sometimes have trouble seeing the point of some training efforts (you threw that - you fetch it). And most dogs (like humans) are lazy and would rather just eat treats than work for them. But sometimes - if you're very good at training - you can get the training to be like the treats. Ie the opportunity to try - is as joyful as your dog's favourite thing. A bit like ordering something off the net - and all the joy is in getting the box and opening it. Never mind what was in it (dog treats excepted).

Some people call what I know as a "bull terrier" - with the lovely roman nose and fondness for bananas (hey Pele)... "English Bull Terriers" Just to make further confusion. And there is one Amstaff (American Staffordshire (no bull) terrier) - on youtube that is registered with the AKC as an Amstaff and on another registry as a Pitbull (or American Pit Bull Terrier). Don't tell the victorian govt. Which looks a bit like a Staffordshire bull terrier but sort of taller. Desperately confused yet? They probably do have a common ancestry. I suspect most pet dogs in America originated first in the UK and then also Europe (as the dogs went with the humans). Not sure if the Native Americans had pet (or camp) dogs before the Europeans arrived or not.

Yeah most autistic people I know - get along better with animals than people. Animals tend to evaluate people based on what they see right now. People are often looking for hidden agendas and read things into what other people do that were never intended. But I also know two autistic people who are very specific to their own dog and their own people - and get upset if dogs or people they don't know get too close. But I know some dogs that are like that too - they only like their own people and dog friends.

Yes but the escapee had no id on him and now they can't find his family. Sad.

My dog has spey incontinence now. So she's on medication for it. Letting her drip a bit - causes other problems. Like 4am slurp fests and inflamation. I think entire dogs - just have another distraction. I suspect if my dog wasn't desexed - she'd still find hot chippies and fresh cooked sausages way more exciting than anything the boys had to offer. personally I don't like the mess of seasons. I'd have desexed me if I thought my bones wouldn't suffer more in old age.

it would depend what I gave the dog for dinner. dry food - then yes I'd give water. But she isn't crated - she normally sleeps in a dog bed next to my bed and she doesn't get up to have a drink.

lemme see - Susan Garrett has been working on pushing out the boundary of "too aroused to respond" for hmm, 20+ years now. And you've just figured it out? Got nothing to do with whether your dog is on heat or not. Tho other male dogs who are excited by this and not so obedient or able to work when excited may stuff everything up. literally. Ie you can be the best driver but some other nut case can still get you.

I someone who has imported a dog from NSW to WA - no specific requirements - and her dog arrived very sick. But turned out dog had eaten a rock ($$$$ to remove), and was covered fleas and needed worming. There was also that thing with the pet shop selling puppies from a NSW? puppy farm - that were arriving in poor health. So while WA (and SA) are pretty strict about plants - I don't think they do anything about animals - unless there is a sort of national quarantine eg horse flu and hendra virus (which have been lifted - provided horses are vaccinated - but I don't know if anyone checks - never seen any signs to that effect when I'm crossing borders).

I secure my dog - with tradies I don't know. And with tradies I do know depending what they're doing. And always locked in the house when the lawn mowing man is here. He winds her up something special and she thinks he's a toy just for her. She's nipped him (no blood or scratch but pinched good). And I don't think it's worth the risk. She's had the opportunity to eat a couple of gas meter readers... the first one - she was pretty young and just barked at him all the way to the meter and back. The second one - I managed to catch her before he got through the second gate... And I locked her up and scolded the hell out of him. He said I'll put a note - I said WHY DON'T YOU READ THE NOTE THAT'S ALREADY THERE. And I locked the gate for the next two reads. But the latest guy has always knocked first - phew. Someone today - left a boot print in a fresh turd. Do not know who that was. but Karma. Not many turds out there usually but they found the only one on the lawn. We were out.

I dunno. I can't bear to watch that video again - the noise and seasick making camera action is too much for me.

it's important not to keep the nasty ones... but I like to have an electric fence between me and them most of the time... just in case one gets stung by a wasp and blames me.

Owner has been stupid so far... will this be enough to change her.

My uncle would do this. Like the boys club. Because he sold his bulls as breeding stock. So he'd have about 15 to 20 of various ages - usually sold them about 2 years old and had the next generations coming on... And get this - had a guy come in and teach them the bovine equivalent of loose lead walking and show stacking - with reward based training - same as zoo critters. Ie you want your bulls to be friendly with people and easy to handle.

i've had so much fun with them over the years... Played bagpipes. Wow - all the farm dogs joined in too. Got my best crowd ever. Dad used to play clarinet - that got them in too. And one time - I did the Mr Bean Busker dance (no music) - they really enjoyed that too. I dare Willem to do Mr Bean busking...

I know that bulls will come and check out weird things like dog trainers with square boxes on their heads and whistles. So the bulls were far away at the start of the video and right up against the fence by the end of it. Here is a much more interesting video of what happens when you play wind instruments in front of bovines.

I would just tie the dog up where it can't get into trouble. sheesh. If she doesn't know what her dog is doing - she won't know it's tied up either. The boss should really take his workers off site until the owner does the right thing. OH&S - he's been warned. And I would definitely be using the stinky stuff on the trouser legs (has anyone been washing their work clothes with bleach? Maybe don't do that - it smells like dog pee).

4 grand would buy a very nice secure run with a concrete floor and someone to install it too. I'm surprised that nobody on council has sent him the specifications for a secure dog run. Taller ladders (disguised as fences) are not going to do it for this dog. It would be a brilliant agility dog. Not scared of heights at all.

I think I'd want a crane and a drool containment system to live with one of them. I do like afghan hounds but I don't like the idea of trying to de-burr them. And not sure if I'm good enough to train recall for them.

PTS - kill with drug vets use for pain killer overdose (I think). I dunno what Greyhound people mean. Hopefully they mean as humanely as possible but in NSW - clearly not quite. I think that in the last 100 years or so - how we kill animals and what is "socially acceptable" (in the city at least) has changed a lot. even as recently as the 1980s and maybe still happens - Saturday night fun was to go "spotlighting" and a clean kill was optional. Personally even then I preferred a clean kill. But I wasn't the one with the guns. And people used to dump or drown their excess "pets". cattle and sheep would starve to death in their paddocks during droughts. Times have changed a lot. But we still have appalling conditions for puppy farms and the chicken industry and the pork industry. Not all of them but a significant number. The fact that the supermarkets can manipulate the definition of free range for their own benefit so the term remains meaningless - 10,000 hens per hectare - and many never get outside - that's not free range in my book. I don't think greyhound people can touch them for appalling behaviour and animal cruelty. Tho there might be some battery egg farmers who also race greyhounds. I don't know.

Interesting. It is usual to respond to a question like that in the thread where it was asked - but sometimes - you can't - if the thread hasn't been updated in ages (like more than a year). Maybe it's something we could try as a sort of scientific study... I suspect with my dog - it would make no difference. Tho she does like it when I feed her - whether I've chewed the food first or not makes no difference to her (or how obedient she is).

With most dogs - I just hold the collar one hand and away from me (and my dog), once they notice (way quicker than waiting for a dog to pass out), they tend to back up a bit and you can reward by letting go. That's the way too friendly ones. The aggressive ones, I grab whatever I can, if I can get both hands on the collar - I pull their front feet off the ground. Most dogs (including really fat labs and malamutes) I can do this with. Great dane not so sure. But so far not had to do that with one that's trying to attack me - all their aggression had been directed at another dog. Not sure what I'd do if the other dog was still trying to attack. But that hasn't happened yet. Usually only one dog wants a fight and that's the one I grab. It's hard if the other dog isn't wearing a collar. That one - I grabbed a leg or tail or both I think. Enough to get it thinking properly again and it stopped being aggressive. Fortunately - it's not something that I have to do every day or even every week or month.

A puppy will lick an adult dog's mouth - as a "gimme food" thing or to indicate "pleased to see you" greeting or to show submission/greeting. I've not seen the mother dog lick the puppy's mouth - but more lick the whole puppy - in much the same movements as we pat a dog. long strokes from head to tail. Which usually does a good job of calming a dog, also ear strokes. Haven't seem drooly dog mums in action (eg blood hound or dogue de bordeaux) - maybe they spit in their puppies' mouths more?

We're not going to agree with everything you (or anyone else) posts. If that was the case - we'd all be blowing smoke up your ar$e - and that would be crap. I reckon I could share food / feed my dog from my mouth. I almost do - ie if I find something chewy in my food I don't want to eat - the dog gets it (eventually). But I'm not interested tongue kisses with my dog - too many germ phobes (medical practicioners) in my ancestry. Tho I've probably got less change of getting a disease from my dog than another human. My trusted source has no info on the Australian Greyhound racing people. That's a whole nother problem. What I do think is that we should not punish everyone for the bad behaviour of a few - not farmers, greyhound owners, dog breeders, agility trainers... The idea that the whole sport should be shut down because a few are atrocious or even a lot - smacks of the work of PETA - and they won't say how many healthy pets they PTS every year. They want us all to be vegan with no pets. The ultimate result of that will be no animals on the planet other than humans.

I don't think I'd want to put my face that close to an angry dog. But when I'm desperate - I will grab any bit I can get. Had a boisterous and big puppy charging up to me and my dog. I saw it coming and my dog was too busy sniffing to do anything I told her (she really wanted to toilet - perfect timing with big puppy and its friend charging up). I was worried that my dog would scold them and there would be trouble but she didn't. One of them nearly got poop on its head. The puppy was big and a bit scary but I pretended it wasn't. I think it was trying to cadge treats and I was starting to get annoyed with the owner for letting it charge up to every dog on the park and us repeatedly. If it had offered any kind of behaviour other than "where's the treat" - like a sit? I would have given it some and "owned it". So it was a relief to find out that my dog wasn't interested in beating them up. Today. And the big puppy lost interest in us almost instantly - no treats and no chase opportunity. It looked a bit like a greyhound x kelpie. Really liked chasing things.

You've seen how dog fights start most of the time? One dog scolds another dog for being "rude" and the other dog instead of apologising - gives it right back. And if neither dog backs down - it escalates into a serious fight. So scolding a dog or saying "no" at it - is step one towards a dog fight. Fine if the dog backs down but not so good if you set it off. With a collar grab - you know as soon as you put your hand towards the dog's neck if there's going to be trouble. If the dog is humping your leg - it's not going to notice straight away that you've grabbed it.