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i walked him today 3 times i tried over and over to go back, and he got so good, looking ahead, listening to me, no whining and pulling only a little, and thenhe got excited gain so i turned around and he caught me of balance, ran over to the fence and bit a dog before i pulled him back. they both had their heads through the fence thoug and it was only a nip really, and even despite that... : he still had a breakthrough

why would people frown upon it, just interested, oh yeah i walk my dog with just his usual collar (which now matches his leash) :fetch:

ok, but when you say walk it about 10 times, do you mean in the one day or over 10 days

thats a good idea except that to even get out of my street i have to pass dogs, so it would mean a lot of time just walking up and down my street.

thanks, I started teaching him "focus" roday and he grasped the concept really well. He is still getting the idea, but so far he figures that if he looks up at me when i ask him to, he gets a treat. And taht brings me to the next breakthrough, usually he is too stressed to be bothered by treats, i will try to reward him and he will just spit them out and keep going. Today he really looked forward to them, they are different from what i usually use (and more expensive) but they are getting reselts also, at the start of our walk we had a lot of problems with dogs, in a ddition to walking past the 5 fenced dogs, there was a woman walking by with her two and also a GSD came out just to say hi, i dodnt want to but i yelled at it to go home, i didnt want buster to start something he couldnt finish. So after all that stress, i took him off the track a little and did some basic obediance, just sitting him and telling him to drop, rewarding him and then off we would go im so happy about today

lol, cant do it with buster because he sits on his bum not his legs, so if you go up he just falls backwards, lol

thanks, ill buy that book this week when i say excited, i mean if i let him off the leash he would bolt to the fence and attack the dogs on the other side with everything he had

in no way does he sit calmly when the dogs are in a fencem he sits just off the ground ready to shoot out again, whining and getting even more excited. and in some places i cant stay far enough away from the dogs, the space on the path i walk is about 2 or 2 and a half metres across. its bad when other dogs come because i have to get as far off into the scrub ias a can, but i know it is too close, should i just try turning around and walking the other way untill i get a chance to head back.? but thanks for the help

ok, first a note to vpzn I know that that is not what agility is about. It is because we dont have agility in our town, but what we do have is high jump, a flat wall for which the dog is to jump over, landing in a ute with hay stacks in the tray on the other side. He just kept clearing them. ok, now to Amhailte, I also know that dominance is not about hitting him, i can get him to sit and stay when there are fenced dogs all around (i have to walk past them when i walk him) I get him to stop and sit whenever he gets aggressive at dogs through the fene, but when dogs walk by, there is only so much i can do, so i have to get off the track as far as i can without going through a fence or falling down a rivver bank, sit him, grab his collar as it is the better chice to holding the lead, I dont want to yell at him otherwise he is disobeying and getting away with it, so i wait it out, wait for him to calm down then i say "look away" and walk on, whenevr he looks back, i keep walking and say "look away" I know about NILIF dont worry, he has to drop for his food and I am constantly training him through hoops, barrels over jumps and tricks (spin, rolloever etc)

im in the NT, basically, the only kennel im aware of is one that is owned by horrible peple. we took our dogs there a coupl of year ago. just meaan. but Buster wasnt around then. And we do have dog obediance classes. Should I ring the person that does them and see if i can organise private classes. As for the domination thing, im pretty sure he knows im the boss. He is SO protective about food, yet you have to encourage him to eat it and he stops as soon as you get any where near him. This may seem a little submissive but it is mainly my dad, he is the only one that has ever hit him properly.

well done Bodie.

he is pretty good most of the time. But if you dont grab him before he takes of he gets tunnel vision. There are no professional trainers in the area that I know of... (small town) but there are obediance classes. he is so obediant at home, but typical of his breeding also (hunting/working dog) he just has to go. Got any ideas for how i can make him see it as a job... so he knows that it is more important than the dogs? he is very good though, he knows a lot of tricks and helpful comands ie wait and heal. but once he is outside he just goes macho and has to be in the lead. So i am working on him letting me out the door first so that he doesnt get that dominance thing going

whats a prong collar, same as a choke chain?

I would love to get my dog buster (the ACD mix in my avatar) going on Agility. i jump him and train him at home. so far he can get about 1.61metres or there abouts maybe 1.9 but im not sure, but this is a biga acheivment for him considering he is only 44cm tall. Anyway. He HATES other dogs, eventhough we have two others at home. I know I can't do any form of sport with him untill he doesnt act so aggressively towards other dogs. because he will just become completley dostracted and wont listen to a word i say. PLEASE HELP