Kanae

Photos !

He looks ready for a job :D

Hai!! Ezio has grown a lot, I need to get some better photos of him, he has grown so much.

Not sure how legit this site is, but they claim they are reputable? http://www.aussiebulldogclub.com they have a for sale page? Maybe someone can clarify if this club is responsible?

Wonderful and beautiful photos everyone! I love seeing them all grow up :) Thought I would give update on food aggression issue. I didn'tend up calling aanyone, instead I just stuck with a strict program and I am happy to say his resource guarding behavior has subsided. I am able to handle him and even get him to drop the food with no problems, he is still I tiny bit stiff but he now will walk away from his chicken frame and calmly take food from my hand when I approach, his behavioural response when I approach is now with interest and anticipation and he will walk towards me instead of freezing and hovering over the bone/chicken frame. I still have a way to go and this may be a lifelong thing but I am happy with the quick progress he has made. Another upside, I taught ezio to weave through my legs in 2 training sessions :D so happy!!

Sorry to hijack, but I hear ppl say make treats small, but how small is too small? I have a corgi and I am clueless how small I should have them. I am worried if they are too small he won't v even know he got a treat in his mouth?

I started with the crate in my room and when our puppy could sleep the night with no toilet breaks his crate was moved into the laundry, he is still locked in crate at night. When we aren't home we leave the crate open in the laundry, there is a doggy door in the laundry that gives him free access to the yard which is secure. Thankfully he toilets outside and has never soiled his crate or laundry. My concern would be your puppy learning to toilet indoors and does not learn the difference between outside and inside.

sash he is so beautiful!

After reading numerous publications and reports by Ronald D Schultz who is the professor and chair of pathobiological sciences at School of Veterinary Medicine advising that annual vaccines are unnecessary and his push towards the veterinary board to stop annual vaccinations in 1992 I decided I will not be vaccinating annually after the first 12 month vaccine. Instead I will be doing annual titre tests and if there is a drop in the tests only then will I vaccinate. The AVA only recently changed vaccination requirements to every 3 years in 2009 but there has been no pressure for individual practices to comply, so many still pressure annual vaccines.

we had a serious behaviour pop up, bf accidentally/unknowingly caused food aggression/resource guarding, he was poking Ezio's chicken frame to get him to eat it (I wasn't outside at the time but I heard the first warning bark), what he didn't realise was he was making him upset and nervous because he thought he was taking his bone and teasing him. Ezio suddenly changed and became super aggressive when you approached, he would growl and run off with the bone, was snapping and even when given treats his entire behaviour was urgent, stiff and aggressive when taking the food and he would snap back over the frame and hover over it very stiffly. That was 2 days ago, I have reverted back to the triangle of temptation with him waiting on lead, and I kept him chained on a seperate chain to prevent him running off to trigger the resource guarding behaviour as it seems to start when he runs off, then just treated him every time I approached with a higher value food (he finds his barf dinner a higher value than bones), day 2 and he is completely relaxed, no guarding behaviour, instead he would stop eating the bone and run over to see what I had and would ignore his bone for the food in my hand. Will just have to keep repeating to make sure we don't have a relapse. I haven't given him another chicken frame yet, just regular meaty bone tonight, but I will wait until I am comfortable with his behaviour before giving another chicken frame and working on that.

aliwake - that is horrible I hope it doesn't affect your pup long term! steph - jealous! Looks like it was a tonne of fun lisa- great work on the weaves! It is great when the dog shows enjoyment of a task luvsdogs - nice work! We just got back from our first day working together at the obedience club, he did awesome and I was able to distract him away from other dogs even when he was sniffing them. I am super happy with the results, I was expecting far less from him but he gave me more than I could have hoped, his attention even with dogs of all ages and barking levels was awesome.

Random question, is playing tug bad when the puppy is teething? Ezio is losing some teeth now and is chewing a lot more, I am wondering if tug is too painful during this time as he is less happy about playing tug at the moment?

Success, I decided to introduce some more tricks for Ezio to learn as I didn't want to bore him with just sit, drop and touch. It took only 3 sessions to train paw (run to a flat item and put his paw on it) and shake. Shake is a little confusing, as I was reinforcing any form of him putting his foot on my hand, he got the impression he should lie down to shake, so now I am shaping a sit/shake. We have also begun on grab it (grabs and holds whatever I ask) and stand is still a bit of a tough one for him, I assumed stand would be harder to grasp so I am trying to take it slowly. Ezio is an absolute gem on lead, I only have a few moments where he will go ahead, but he will easily return when I encourage him and have no issues. He quickly learned when I say "stop!" it means stop and sit, like an emergency cue and he is doing well with sits/downs on walks. People and dogs are still a distraction but we are working on it and he ignores barking dogs behind a fence. I am pretty happy with how his training is tracking and I am amazed at how easy going he is. I attended the first day of obedience today, it was an orientation only so no dogs on first day, next week we begin our journey to obedience and that should be interesting. I learned there is a few dogs over a year old in his class so this will be new for him and no doubt a complete restart on his training with distractions. I look forward to it :) no photos but here is a video of Ezio with the zoomies playing with one of our cats

After politely asking the person to wait until my puppy was sitting before patting and to move away if he broke it - "Oh I know I shouldn't let you do this but it won't hurt" and proceeds to do everything opposite to what I asked and lets him start jumping all over her It won't hurt her, but it sure hurts our training and just makes it harder for me in the long run

Ezio knows it is there, and now and then it looks like he is sitting and watching it but he bores easy and I think most of his staring at the screen is because he is reacting to the noise and not the images. I could be wrong, but to me his interest seems to peak when he finds a sound worth listening to, then he will go back to whatever he is doing.