purplepulse

Hi all I haven't been to dogzonline for ages due to work commitments. Is it to late to sign up to your workshop in Perth Steve????

This is where I go Northern suburbs Training & Obedience Dog Club

Tilly is only 7 months old Your dog's drives Prey = 35 Pack = 55 Defense - Fight = 40 Defense - Flight = 25

I'm in!!! No problems with the pup, but I'm sure I could learn a thing or 3

Someone posted a link here to petfare so I thought I might give it a go. With the wet food, I split the 5kg container up into 18 bags (270 grams) & dropped them in the freezer. She gets 1 cup of dry food & lamb off cuts/shanks daily & one bag wet food every second day plus egg nog poured over dry food twice a week. Now my Tilly 2 shoe’s is a fussy little cow & she would like to survive on raw chicken wings & nothing else, but she won’t chew them appropriately so they are out. Bad Tilly My old dog would turn in his grave if he knew how pampered this pup is.

I have just switched to petfare home delivery & I'm happy with the price & product http://www.petfare.com.au/

I brought a big bag (18kg) of IAMS 10 weeks ago & my pups hates it. The only way I can get her to eat it is to make a egg nog a pour it over the top. She also gets a lamb shank after her dry food (topped with egg nog of course.) Her coat is beautiful & dodo's are small & firm unlike my last dog, he lived cans of pal. Egg nog: 1/3 of a cup of milk, 1 raw egg & beat it.

Don’t worry people; I’m not going to suddenly start “zapping” my pup to teach her a lesson. I had never heard of “e-collars” until 6 weeks ago. I’m just interested in learning about them, I enjoy learning about K9 force’s methods of dog training..ok In one of K9 force posts he was talking about “focus” & making dogs waiting for their food, well after 3 days I can now place the food down & walk away. The pup will not touch the food until I give the command.

I would like her to have more “voice” a bit of bluff, not lick intruders to death. It sounds like I’m disappointed with this pup but I’m not…. I’m enjoying her & enjoy training her. My daughter & I both look forward to dog training every Sunday morning.

The bad: Purplepulse doesn’t express himself very well :{ The bad: Pulls a bit on the lead but with further training we will over come this. Shows no aggression should be…….. lacks natural aggression…… ummm ….. has temperament more like a kelpie…. Does that make sense? K9 Force: I have copied & printed lots of his posts. I wish I was armed with all this info 4 months ago but I cant turn back the clock so I will just have to try harder in the future.

Lots of people own “normal” dogs but I want more than that, so I will spend the time (& money if I have to) to achieve the best I can, with the dog I have.

My pup: Female 20 weeks German Shepherd X The good: Will sit, drop, roll over & high fives * WITH TREATS * Recall is excellent most of the time. (see the ugly) The bad: Pulls a bit on the lead. Shows no aggression, if a stranger was to walk through the side gate she would bark twice then start waging her tail. The ugly: Absolute lunatic when other dogs are around, RECALL ZILCH, just wants to play, zoomies all around the yard at 300 kph. Drives me NUTS!!! *Sorry to hijack the thread, didn’t want to start a new one*

ChelseasMum, at what age (the dog) did you start training with the e-collar?

I will definitely keep going for the sake of the pup & myself but some days I just feeling this girl (20 weeks) is a bit of a couch potato. Having said that, this method of training is new to me as well (as opposed to working with sheep dogs) I look at it as a trial run for when I get a working GSD in a year or so.

I'm loving this thread but some days I feel like I'm preparing for Bathurst with a hyundai Getz.

I have been expecting too much to soon so I have gone back to treats every 2nd command with good results.

Yes, 18 weeks old & I regularly slap myself, take a few deep breaths, stop training, have a nice drink (beer) but how do I think like a dog? I some times cock my leg behide the shed.

It could be, I’m too predictable. There are times when I call her its like “Yawn” wonders over & goes straight to “drop” position at my feet. I’m going “No, get up I haven’t given the command yet” :rolleyes:

http://www.k9force.net/ecollarlc.html

I haven’t used fear on her, quite the opposite.

Yes…probably getting ahead of myself a bit. Back to dog training on Sunday (no training last week)

Treats are strictly for training………..toys, um…well we do like to have a game of tug with the rope for play time & yes I do give her a pat & a scratch every time I walk past her.

I have been using treat & toys but would like to move away from bribes. Some days I’m amazed how well she’s doing & then the next day she just shoots me down in flames so I go back to bribes. Yesterday she was walking on a loose lead, today pulling like mad.