spyke88

Can anyone help me out with training in the valley? We tried the obedience club but it didn't suit us or the dogs but would like to continue some formal training

What was the reason why you stopped training your dog? The only available training here was an obedience club that didn't seem to offer much in the way of training. Do you feel your dog is well trained enough? No but we,re working on it at home Did you not get results from previous training attempts?no. The sessions revolved around walking in a circle. Stopping and continuing... Same thing or months... Is training too far away/ too often/ too expensive? Other training is too far away Are you simply too busy? nope happy to spend a couple of hours a week training Did you find training boring? Yep What would prompt you to start training again or would you not start training again regardless? I would love to train again. If a suitable training should emerge

i have a whole hearted YES to dogs having nightmares. after adopting my boy 4 years ago we have seen his 'nightmares' go from daily, terrified whimpering yelping growling running things where he'd wake up terrified, be head shy and afraid of men all over again (after gaining his trust from an abusive past) to gradually reducing to maybe once a month/ two months and only takes about 10 minutes to come around and realise nope still in safe happy house no reason to be scared. it is heartbreaking to watch but good to know we have helped him.

hey melstar-36 any jobs going ;)

im wandering along the same path leelaa17. goodluck!

how is your ankle doing today?

id just like to say while this is an unfortunate situation to have happened, thankfully noone was more seriously injured and YES the man should be checking his equipment regulary, having a go at him for not "being bothered" to teach his dog good recall hits me rather personally. He may be in training with his dog, he may have been in training for some time. his dog may be unresponsive to training or have issues which make it difficult to train. i myself have a bordercollie x who has zero recall when another dog is around. this is not for lack of trying. we have been training with him for near on 4 years now with no luck. he does not come off lead full stop as i know that if he was to see another dog he's gone until i can catch up to where ever the other dog is and catch him. You do not know the circumstances behind this dog to make that sort of a conclusion on his owner. yes the lead broke. im sure this guy with double and triple check from now on. that is no reason to have a go at him in regards to his training of his dog. he did not purposely let it of lead, probably for the exact reason he had no recall.

urghhh i feel you pain. my partners nephew is 'terrified' of dogs... i put it like that cause im almost certain he does it to get a reaction from his parents, which he almost always does. it gets a bit ridiculous at times. kid comes over, dogs outside, kid wants to play outside, dogs inside, kid needs a drink, dogs outside, kid playing again dogs inside, kid needs to pee, dogs outside. IT DRIVES ME NUTS. one day i'll get entirely sick of it and say no. you want to be in my house you deal with my dogs. they both LOVEEEEEE kids and get on with his brother like a house on fire! i say- tell em to deal with it (with supervision of course) crate or shut dogs up at night and if they don't like those rules. HOTEL

my girl cost under $300 with ALL VET WORK. from the pound near me. and reg till this year.

it is indeed save a dog scheme that look after the latrobe pound. all dogs are safe. cats however, are another matter

i never get breed confusion.. mainly cause we don't particularly know what their breeds are but apparently spider is a scary looking dog as told to me by several people... see my signature.... TERRIFYING!

it was my impression that save a dog scheme rescue all dogs from latrobe(morwell) pound.

i flew my 4 year old dog from perth to melbourne without any drama last year. don't know about this sending them crazy in the head business.. he was crazy in the head to begin with :p

brilliant thanks!

i am actually on the hunt for patches/ shirts that state either DO NOT PAT ME or ASK TO PAT ME as luna is VERY fearful of people. while i don't think she would bite anyone- if ridiculously cornered it may happen, she prefers to back away. there are so many stupid people where i live that practically chase her trying to pat her that i think it will end up worsening the situation for her and sending us back rather than forward - if anyone here has a good link to somewhere i can buy aforementioned patches/shirts that would be great! we're trying to get her past it but we need people with patience and treats in the right setting not tools outside of foodworks lunging at her

*waves hiiiiiiii to a fellow rat love* the best way to get them would be : go for a drive or possibly find a breeder closer to home. better yet. RESCUE. sorry i cant be much more help than that. when we moved from perth to VIC we drove so we could bring our ratties.

my "casserole" - usually lasts 2 weeks fed 50/50 with biscuits mince rice mix veggies boil. stir! mince gets changed up - lamb-beef-pork(this one stinks!) and chicken. sometimes gets pasta instead of rice. pretty simple recipe but both dogs are doing well on it. luna gets fed twice as much as spider but still doesn't put on weight! any ideas to fatten her up more? i think she just burns off more. being 8 months old and all lol spider is a lazy ass

i believe it is illegal in VIC as it was on the radio recently about fines. i am glad everyone in this instance is ok. these are the reasons why a) my dogs are always strapped in, even when going to the corner shop, and b) i will be getting a ute with a canopy when i can buy a car as i shudder when i see people driving utes around with dogs open to everything on the back! if a canopy wasn't possible then ill be securing crates back there!

how did it go?

hmm LUNA - LOU, LooPA, LUNATIC, OOLA, OOF SPIDER- SPIDES SPID SPUTNIC BOOF SPOO, SPIDER FROM MARS ( as in ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars- our cat is ziggy, lol)

the boomerang tags wouldn't work for spider as he is currently toting a piece of chain as a collar. was the only way to keep his id on him as our pup luna ate 3 collars in 2 weeks..... one lasted just 20mins... :\

how do u become qualified - im in east vic and do the odd bit of vollie work for SADS but id love to be able to help more over here!

i thought about getting these but not sure if they would last long. so far all the dogs tags i have tried have ended up scratched to bits. think i may have to fork out for red dingo ones

ROFL!!! we need to get a new clam/kiddie pool, had to leave ours in perth when we moved. spider is precious too. he will go in it... but only to do a walk through to cool his paws.. no more than that lol. he thought it was very strange when his doggy friend buddy would come over and LIE DOWN in the pool.

spider WILL NOT poo anywhere but his yard, then will not go near that area. he also walks away from his poo... while he's doing it. quite hilarious to watch. luna still i presume is in pound mode and will only poo on a hard surface ie my bitumen car port!between the two spider now has only a tiny bit of yard he'll actually play in! spider will not play fetch. no matter how hard i try.. he's a tug of war guy. im trying to teach luna to play fetch so i can have at least one annoying fetch playing puppy!