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Funny you should post this CC, I was admiring Chessy do it going flat out after her ball this morning :) Love watching dogs at full sprint.

Chess wants to know where she can submit her resume :)

I bought some roast chicken in your honour today snappy turtle. Sorry I didn't get to give you one last pocketful x

I'm not sure what the definition of high risk is, but there hasn't been a major fire in that area since Ash Wednesday in 1983. And the one before that was about 30 years back again.

Jemmy something similar happened yesterday where people started taking horses without the knowledge or consent of the owners :/ Meant one more thing for the police to sort out when the owners reported the horses had been taken.

Yes, and we've had a post from someone who was there and she said it was completely unexpected for the fire to get from where it started to almost the suburban fringe overnight. It didn't seem to have even gone through a lot of the area in between, just popped up in weird places. I am super paranoid about fire and went to bed the night before fully expecting to meet someone for breakfast up in that same township. Obviously they should have been more cautious in hindsight, but hindsight is the easy part.

Happy gotcha day beautiful girl! Your fellow 'background dog' Weez sends wags (he had his 4yr adoptaversary 3 days ago too :) ) x

I'm not so sure about the vet bit, but being able to find doggy places without trawling through council websites would be handy :)

I think it's an incredible disservice to farmers to suggest they only care about the deaths and mauling of their animals because it hurts their profits. These are people who come out in the morning, sometimes every morning for days, to find the animals they are responsible for opened up and spread out across the grass, sometimes still alive. Hard to look at dingoes the same way after that. I'm not pro or anti dingo, but I do see the argument play out a lot where each side accuses the other side of not caring about animals. Where in reality, each side is just choosing to care about the animal they are closest to. There's no winner here.

Hit & run nose pokes. :D

I'm impressed by anyone who manages to complete and pass a PhD, they're bloody hard. Then handing that research over to journalists to distill into 10 minutes of cute footage is a whole 'nother fraught process :/

I think I have one of each too - if Weez sees something new he barks and it and runs away. If Chess sees something new she brings it a ball to see if it wants a game :laugh:

There's one on Ashley Ave in Modbury/Redwood Park area, has some jumps, weaves, a kind of tunnel and dog walks, but also has an open oval area for fetch and a treed/creek area for sniffs :) Not too bad. Edit - it's not fenced in (which I prefer because then people actually have to watch their dogs)

I got a second dog who does fetch, and the non-fetchy dog just chases her :laugh: Sorry not very helpful

Might need to start carrying a loaded cat on our walks :)

I think in a previous year he demanded a rescue stall take down their posters for some equally stupid reason. I managed to catch a segment once where he said that because a kelpie is an 'eye dog' you have to glare at it to fix behavioural problems. Which is just embarrasing really.

It's bullshit Hazy, I am so angry for you and the hounds All our thoughts are with you, kelpies send licks xx

They got some chasing in in the early days before we moved next to the sheep, especially Weez. I used management, interruption and DRI, the incompatible in this case being chasing a ball.

By that stage they never chased the sheep without cue because we'd spent 2 years teaching the rules for approaching a flock, and that unless that cue is given the sheep are not available, but the ball IS available. Management was a huge part of that in the beginning but not once it was trained and proofed. Our older dog will frequently duck into the sheep paddock to retrieve a ball then come straight back. Again it wasn't a quick process but it's a thing that works on some dogs.

My dogs lived next to sheep for 10 months behind the world's crappiest fences without issue. And they do not lack interest in sheep. So it sometimes works which is why I suggested HD can look into it as an option if she wants to. Edit - I think the idea behind "woof and shush" is to give you a chance to teach the "shush" at low arousal. But if you're around your dogs a lot you can generally find opportunities to teach the "shush" without teaching the "woof"

Have you googled differential reinforcement of an incompatible behaviour? Also "why cigarettes are more addictive than heroin dog training" brings up an article about how frequent small rewards can trump infrequent big ones. Not saying it isn't a PITA though!

Oh so sorry to hear about Saaba I took Chessy for some casual agility classes there last year until I got sick, and at the off-leash play at the end she would get a bit fun-policey so I'd take her into the corner to do some focus and counter-conditioning, and Amy's huskies would create a kind of wall around her to keep the bouncy dogs away :) Gorgeous dog, run free Saaba xx

Fwiw I switched my 2 from Holistic Select to Black Hawk lamb & rice late last year because the BH was cheaper & easier to get, and didn't notice any change in their coat, poop or energy. They are pretty robust dogs though :)

I always pronounced it tie-ter (as in tie-tration) in undergrad chem, but I've heard tee-ter in relation to the dog tests too