Purple Julie

Haven posted some directions before. Click here to read them. Don't understand the whole cross-posting issue, so just linking it.

Where do we go when we get there? Will it be obvious? Does anyone know?

I will be there with Jyra.

What a shame, I didn't notice this until now! I probably would've gone too!

My foster grey didn't get anything other than his Coprice and 30g of fat trimmings a day. (Beef stock with the coprice too). He literally took all day to eat it. I did leave it out for more than 10 minutes sometimes, but he hadn't learnt about getting better food later, so stick with KitKat's 10 minutes. When my dog was around, he only had it out for as long as he was interested in eating then it went back out of reach of both dogs. It was rather time consuming. I also found that he ate more if I stayed there with him. I kept putting it out and taking it in, but he eventually got through it all.

I am going. I should be on your list. Lysterfield is not too far from me, so that's good. But I'll still have to look up the map on how to get there!!

Nekhbet, last time at Diamond Creek, Nillumbik Pet Expo, there was fixed fencing on one side (I think, if I remember correctly), and they had that orange temporary fencing around the rest of the area. Edit to add picture. This picture was taken at the event last year. Jyra watching the lure coursing from behind the orange fencing, just to show you what the fencing is like. You just queue up and all the dogs are together, so it can help to have someone else with you if you have a nutcase like mine (and yours?), then you can queue up and have someone keep the dog away until you get to the front of the queue.

Do you have a house yard where there is no cow poo? Assuming that you do, I suggest that you keep her on the lead when she is out in the paddock until you have the poo eating issue resolved. That way you can give her a correction when she goes to eat the poo and she will soon get the idea that she is not supposed to do it.

I'd come to the twilight ones too, but I do work every second Sunday night, so I could only come if it were on a Sunday that I wasn't working.

Didn't he say that it was indoors in a place that would hold 50 people? I guess that doesn't necessarily mean that 50 people will be able to attend.

Where did you get yours from? Horseland in Lilydale?

I think I'll be there. Can't deprive the poor girl!

Panic! Try to help her, call the vet. It's Jyra that is amiss! She is excited about all food and eats her chicken, beef, lamb and pork, etc. But she won't eat raw fish or raw turkey (or spleen or intestines! Would you? ). I could take raw fish out for her and make her wait for it, and she would get all worked up and excited and then once she is released to eat it, she'll just give it a lick or two and leave it.

Also, you say "yes" and then "okay", is it alright if the dog is not still looking at you when you say "okay" and when you increase the length of time, is it the length of the look that you are increasing, so that by the end of it the dog is looking at you for the whole three minutes? For me, I find it quite clumsy undoing the back tie and releasing Jyra, the timing just doesn't work. What sort of back ties does everyone use? Maybe mine is just backwards.

Hi, just a few questions. In your instructions, you say to go inside while the dog is eating. Why is that? I like to supervise Jyra while she is eating, just to make sure she doesn't choke or anything. So, if the dog doesn't mind being on a tie out, you can do the TOT without a tie out? What do you do if there is no viable distance where the dog is not going to lose a bit of interest in the food. Jyra wouldn't lose her interest unless the food was 100 metres away I reckon, and I've only got about 10 metres now! As I increase the time, Jyra begins to whine and howl in frustration and makes an awful racket. Would it be better to do it with small food treats rather than her meals? About the issue of not eating food, putting it down for 10 minutes and taking it away if they don't eat it, I have done that with Jyra for several days with both raw turkey and raw fish, and she still wouldn't eat them. When I seared the turkey, she ate a little then vomited it back up, obviously didn't agree with her and she knew it!

Count me in for numbers. I will try to get there. It's local to me in comparison to KCC park! I am moving house that weekend, and am out all day Saturday at college, but I think I'll be moving on the Friday mainly anyway. I am so busy with assignments and they are the priority over everything at the moment, but when it comes to Jyra going lure coursing, suddenly that becomes the priority!! Jeff, how come you hear about these things? Is the area where the dogs run fenced?

Oh that's great! I'm sure you'll have a great time with him Lablover! Thanks, Sardog for posting.

Just curious to see what sort of standards people have for their dogs when they are just walking them, not heeling them. How do you require your dog to walk? How do you expect your dog to walk? What standard of walking do you accept? (What you accept may be below what you expect). Possible answers could be: "I expect my dog to: Walk on a loose lead at all times, in any position Walk on a loose lead at all times, in any position towards my left Walk on a loose lead at all times, but never in front of me Walk right next to me at all times, but not as perfectly as a heel Drag me at all times"

I agree with others, that it's a drive thing. Jyra is just like Ned when it comes to cats and birds or any other situation where she's in high drive. At my friend's house, the cat used to take refuge under the VW Beetle and Jyra would be crawling under the car to get to the cat. When they were both inside, Jyra would just sit and stare at the cat for hours like a scientist observing feline behaviour. I think you're in a great situation to do drive training as he already has the high drive for the ball. Whilst this doesn't cure the problem, just manages it, I would suggest putting Ned inside while you are using the whipper snipper or tethering him somewhere safe outside.

That's dog's body language looked like he was rather scared.

I couldn't vote as there weren't the right options. I needed 'none of the above' for the first and second question and the ability to choose more than one of the choice in the third question. Jyra gets boiling chickens, chicken carcasses, lamb necks, pork bones, lamb or ox heart, ox cheek, ox tongue, pet quality beef or kangaroo steak, tinned sardines, tinned mackeral, egg, liver, brains, kidneys, chicken giblets. Everything except the fish is raw and most of it is human grade except where specified.

I second that! 28th of March is a while away, and I'm bound to forget about it by then, so we'll need a reminder closer to the time!

I would suggest that you don't give him the bone and then go out and leave him, especially if you are paranoid that he will choke on one. If the bones you bought are soft bones, then it should take him only 5 minutes to get through one anyway. I always supervise Jyra with her bones and I have had to assist her twice when the bones have got stuck in her teeth, she has never choked on one. Just restating that I have only had to help Jyra twice in 1.5 years of feeding raw bones every day. That is not very often (don't let it put you off giving bones), but makes it worth supervising anyway.

What was the thing about a gruff voice? Was he saying to use a gruff voice or not to use a gruff voice?

Like the others have said, what you are giving him for breakfast is what you would give a human for breakfast, it is not what a dog should have for breakfast. I don't think chicken necks smell any different to any other part of chicken, but if you'd rather not use them, then would your partner be happy with you giving the dog raw chicken wings, they're a human food when cooked, so you'd still be giving him human food, albeit raw. Never give cooked bones. When I make up Jyra's meals for a month, some of the stuff does smell bad, worse than chicken necks. We put up with it. I live with my parents too and they allow it. When was the last time your partner smelt chicken necks? Something cheap you could buy him for breakfast - tinned sardines (Home brand/Generic: 50c) or tinned mackeral (cheap brand: $1.23). Being a small dog one tin sardines would probably do for his breakfast. Jyra eats fish once a week though, not daily.