Roxy Lady

Hi, I'm going to have to do some research into this drive training. I live in a small country town there are no dog training facilities, or trainers. When the whipper snippers going Ned is put in either the front or back yard away from where its being used, but he still barks and tries to find out where it is. I think it is going to be hard to use his ball as a reward because he will forget everything else and concentrate on the ball, but i'll do some research into this and try it out.

Yep Neds one of those dogs! I threw his ball up onto the cubby house roof so i could take some photos of him but the only photos i could get was him at the bottom of the cubby house lookin up at the roof, he didn't move for probably 2 hours, just sat there lookin up waitin for it to drop down. I keep the ball away from Ned because i can't get any sense out of him when hes got it. He would easily go through 3 tennis balls a day if i let him. I talked to Neds old owner last night and he said he would of picked up the hatred for whipper snippers from their boxer who used to go mad on it. Ned doesn't mind the lawn mower he just follows me pushin it around with a concerned look on his face.

Thanks, well the ball is not so much of a problem unless he finds one. We keep balls away from him they are like his comforters, if one rolls under a car he will bark for ages or he will get himself stuck under the car trying to reach it! So we just keep them away from him as he doesn't like our other dog going near his ball and the whole time he has it its like "wheres my ball wheres my ball wheres my ball" But i'm a bit unsure what it is with the whipper snipper? He mainly wants to bite it i think i'm not sure if its out of fear, because he seems excited, i'm not sure if he just doesn't like the noise coz he stops barking as soon as it stops but then he'll start barking at it like he wants it to start up again? I live in a small country town and there is only 1 dog trainer around and thats in a different town 1 hour away, maybe i should call in Dr. Harry?

Oops did a double post so changed question. How do you stop dogs for attacking the whipper snipper when its going? Ned even hates it when the neighbours use theirs! Ned has 2 obsessive compulsives.... balls and whipper snippers. How do i get him to stop barking at them?

Hi, My mum has owned dogs ever since i was a kid at the moment she has 3 2 staffies and a bully and all she ever feeds them is dry food and kitchen scraps, when they were pups they got canned puppy food and puppy biscuits but as soon as theyre old enough they are onto dry food only, also this is the same with most of my friends, and all theyre dogs are very healthy dogs. With my bitch when she was a pup started her on canned puppy food and puppy biscuits then it was just canned food and biscuits, but i found if i ever changed the brand she would get the runs. Now she is on chicken necks and dry food which i think is heaps better then the canned food i was feeding her. Thats just my opinion.

I'm not sure about devon but meats that are salted aren't good, like ham. I'm not sure why but i've never given dogs ham because it makes them spew i think it is just too much salt in there for them