rastus_froggy

Not going to shoot you down because I believe you have provided yourself with the perfect reasons for not breeding your dog!! You don't have the time so I believe you are making the right choice!! There is nothing to stop you though from getting your prefix now and learning HEAPS more about your breed and then in the future getting another dog to breed from, just think how much wiser you will be in the years to come :D

I don't have kids as yet but this is just a couple of things I have heard in the past. It can be good to get a cd of a baby crying and play it before the baby comes home so the dogs can get use to the different type of sounds a baby makes. Also I have heard of people getting their partner to take a dirty nappy home from the hospital and leaving it in the house for a little while so that the dogs can get use to that smell too. As I said I don't have kids and have not tried these things so don't know how valid they actually are.

Hard call but it may be a matter of trial and error. Try one and if their methods sit well with you and appear be working stick with it, if not try another. But in saying that if you aren't familiar with much in that area you may be in a position where you know no different and just keep trying with the one trainer/behaviourist who may not be a good one. I have heard people who don't know much about dogs take their dog to a not so good trainer and the trainer tells them that their dog is just untrainable, I find these sort of cases to be very sad.

I suspect you are unlikely to effect any changes under these circumstances. Probably just see what other clubs in the area are like...... It was only a one off that I was in the obedience side of the club, the agility side is fine. If there were other agility clubs in that area I would leave and go to them just to show my total disapproval of the methods used within the club as a whole but I already travel 56km's each way to this club and the next closest club that offers agility would be at least 150km's each way. But if I don't even try to do something about it, well I feel I am just as bad as the person actually doing it.

I have been thinking about it and the letter will be signed as even if I did it anon they would know it was from me as I was the only one there who had not see this instructor in action before and think it would be pretty obvious who it was from anyway. I was thinking of maybe putting in it that I would hate to see the club end up having to take on the responsibility of the bills that may result from any injuries to the pup (and possibly other dogs) which have been sustained due to these training methods.

Yeah Cosmolo I do understand what you are referring to when you are talking about the foot on lead and what I saw was definately not that. I think I will still raise the issue with a letter. Also too I think the girl with the pup may have looked at me like, what would you know I have been coming here for a while and never seen you here before why should I listen to you. I guess instructor numbers are limited and if there were any other people interested in instructing in a nice manner they would probably just head over to the other club in town (which does not do agility).

I have just has a look at the newsletter and this instructor is the president of the club

Today we had our dog school Christmas Party, I do agility and it's on a different day to the obedience classes so have never seen this clubs obedience classes before. I got there before the fun stuff had started so went into the beginner class (the dog I had with me today has only ever done agility and has never been in an obedience class). Anyway we are going along and we were told to drop our dogs, the girl next to me (she was about 20ish) had a pup who was probably about 4 and a half months old, it wouldn't drop so the insturctor came over and took the pup and said "this is how you do it" held the lead got her foot and trod hard and fast on the lead crashing the pups head hard into the ground. The poor pup was thrashing aroung crying and yelping, eventually the pup did settle a little, and the instructor said "see". The poor pup then cowered everytime the instructor came near. So of course next time we were told to drop our dogs, the girl did this, the pup flopped itself around and eventually layed there. I was HORRIFIED to see that people still teach like this. I went to the girl later and said, if you like I can show you another way to get your dog to drop so that it wont be scared of you, she said "no thanks sometimes he just needs something like that to snap him into line" I spoke to my agility instructor about this and she said it is the way this woman teaches and they convince people that this is the way to train their dogs. Is there anywhere I can report this to? This honestly made me feel ill, needless to say I left early and didn't stick around for the Christmas celebrations. Chances are the instructor is a member here and will read this but I don't care.

Yaps, it must be terribly had to deal with but I think you need more help to release the anger you have and I think that may help with you being able to move on through the grieving process. Money will not bring back your dog or your happiness, and chances are it would do no damage to the vet or the business if you did sue. Hugs to you monique89, it is coming up to the 11th anniversary of my best friends death as a result of a horrible accident and at times it still hurts when I think about him but I can also laugh and smile when I think of him too, also now I have allowed myself to accept that he through his own stupidity caused his own death but he was doing something he loved at the time.

I too see it as a possible deterrent if someone happened to steal your dog with the purpose of breeding in mind. Both of my girls have it although you can't see Stimpy's anymore, you could when it was first done but her ears are black and it's faded right out. My dad was horrified when he was taking his girl in to be desexed and I told him she would be tattooed, he is so anti tattoos.

I thought I was in off topic. Nek, do you have a linky for the toys for zoo animals? My dogs are serial ball killers as well. aussiedog.com.au

I am of no help nut what breed and can we see pics??

My OH and I don't have any dogs together, I have 2 and he has 1 - all pre getting together dogs. One of mine loves his dog SO much more than she loves my other dog (litte Stimpy has a thing for boy dogs ) , but if we were ever to split we would keep our own dogs. I think you need to firstly talk to your OH and then wait and see how the accommodation situations pan out. Hugs to you.

It is a terrifying postition to be in, 2 of my large, determined and very strong dogs had a last year. Once one started the other gave it back tenfold. I was on my own, I got the other dog (who was not involved) out of the picture to begin with. Then tried grabbing legs but they were bloody hard to get hold of, then I tried a whole bunch of stupid shit I grabbed and twisted ears, I somehow stuck my arm in one dogs mouth in a split second that he let go grabbed his leg twisted it and pinned him to the ground - all while the other dog was still going him, I was further bitten on the arm and hands by the dog I had pinned and on the back by the other dog. Yes it was EXTREMELY stupid. I actually don't remember what happened after that. The neighbours daughter jumped the fence at some point and I was so relieved that I was no longer on my own. It is the most traumatic thing I have ever experienced and I am shaking and on the verge of throwing up now just writing this. I ended up in hospital and the doctors desperately wanted to record it as a dog attack but I refused to let them as it was NOT an attack on me, I put myself in there as a last resort and NONE of the aggression shown by the dogs was towards me. As I said VERY STUPID but I did the best I could at the time, in the mind set I was in and I am pretty bloody sure it would not have have stopped until one of the dogs was dead.

Sh*t that's funny. You little man stealer. She sure is! She is with a different guy every week too ETA Teebs we need to catch up I have goss for you.

No good goss about me but I hear that Teebs' Atlas is a super lazy dog.... Oh hang on that's not goss, it's true But I hear that sometimes she ends up carrying him home when he won't walk... Oh hang on that's true too, I got nothing :D

Desex your dog Teach you dog a RELIABLE recall

I'm quite lucky as my full time work involves 4 hours in the morning, then a 3 hour break and another 3 - 4 hours work in the evening. Plenty of dog time before work, during break then a little play time at night.

Also look at the possibility that your pup may now be thinking that you are rewarding it for crying. If he is crying and moving about and then gets to the position you want him in he may not actually realise that he is being rewarded for, it is possible that he hasn't even realised what he has done.

+ 1 but mine's not urgent.

Not sure of his name but he's the one who makes me melt when he sings Mr Wendal, his voice touches my soul, just like Stimpy has done since the day I found her. Stimpy is far from being a puli :D here she is

I honestly thought I was going to have to go back and keep going back to bidding on this one to win it but I haven't had to. Come on guys!!!

Froggy would probably be Marylin Manson or Ozzy Osborne, as she is a crazy lunatic who doesn't really think about what she's doing or any concequence it may have. Stimpy would be the lead singer of Arrested Development - perfect and always makes me smile.

I have never been in that situation and can't even imagine what it would be like. All my recent dogs (the ones in the last 10 years) have come to me when they were a minimum of 18 months old and I have seen them then felt some sort of automatic connection with them which has resulted in me adopting them. I can walk through the pound and see lots of beautiful and amazing dogs yet can easily walk away knowing that none of them were "meant" to be with me, sometimes there is just something about a dog that clicks with me. I guess that is a risk of taking on a puppy, it's personality isn't fully visible - if you get what I mean.

Bear = Rot :D NEVER