It was one of those days for me and my dogs. You know? One of those days where every thing goes perfect and you get cocky and you go that extra bit , almost showboating?

I would like to think that I would not stoop so low as to showboat, but we all know where the truth lies


I have no clubs or instructors, where I live. My training pals are the people at leerburg. So, if I have to showboat, who better to do it in front of other than my training pals?

here it is . It is your duty to indulge my ego

Bommi gives undivided attention

Real world sit stay

Kaiser send away

real world down stay

Kaiser retrieve

Kaiser In motion exercises

Bommi - squeaky toy is my b!tch

Scent work and showboating

Congrats! I checked out some of your other videos, beautiful dogs.
I loved the puppy videos, naturally.

Appreciated the one about Bommi not heeling properly. As a beginner, seeing how somebody works on a problem helps me more than watching a perfect dog.

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Bommi - squeaky toy is my b!tch

AWESOME!


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All great, but Squeaky Toy is my Bitch was definitely a triumph!

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Ram, those were really fun to watch.

The sea of commands must have been fairly entertaining to the boat load of people hanging out that day. Bommi and Kaiser understood them all perfectly - I'll bet most of the spectators thought you must have been speaking in a foreign tongue.

Your training really shows and show your training you do. Very nice and all good - just playing with your title.

Hey a little OT but besides the motorcycle riders really knowing where their horns are it doesn’t look like anyone wears helmets. In BC here, you can’t ride a bicycle let alone something motorized without a helmet. We get fined big time - oh for the good old days.

Again though, great videos. Always fun to watch you and your pack in action.

Jody Steel>> Thank you for your encouraging words. The people at leerburg are my virtual training pals. So when ever I have a problem, I video tape it and post it here. if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a thousand pictures.

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Appreciated the one about Bommi not heeling properly

That should read, Appreciated the one about you not teaching bommi to heel properly .

I have 100s of videos which show case my inability to teach certain things. And yes you can learn a lot more from them than the perfect ones.

CJ>> Yesterday it seemed like my dogs did not care about any thing else other than me. In India , if you ask your dog to sit and it sits, you are Dr.Doo freaking little. Some people out there think I am some circus trainer. I will not be surprised if people started throwing coins at me , thinking that I am a street performer with animals.

Yes , people may or may not wear helmets. There may or may not be a law needing you to wear helmets. You may or may not go home alive today. This is India, where we eat , breathe and sleep pure chaos. The honking is like a sonar. have you seen those huge schools of fish all turn and twist like they all have one mind. They way they do it is to signal their intent to move to the fish to the front, left, right, top and bottom of it, that is it. That is all they care about. The other fish have to react to this and move and inform their intent to their neighbours. Some times the other fish can push back and this fish has to give.This passes up and down the entire school like a nuclear fission reaction and it looks like every one knows what to do. But the reality is at any given time all of them are reacting to stimulus and pressure from just the fish next to it. There seems to be order, but it is throttled chaos.

Honking is sort of like that. Honking can mean, hey you are too close to me or I am too close to you, it is more of an on road language than just a honk. That is the way we are.

When personal air cars come in the future, every Indian will be like the blue angels. Dare devil formation flyer.

It has nothing to do with culture or people, and every thing to do with population pressure. If the west wants to preserve it's way of life, then there are lessons to be learnt from India. As my maths teacher used to say "Maths does not care about your feelings, it is cold and factual"

If you have more pups to sell it shouldn't be hard with Bommi behaving like that!

Kaiser is really a gentleman too, but Bommi steals my heart. She seems to be trying so hard. She is just a beautiful dog, such a gentle way and such concentration.

Betty>> I love bommi, in the true sense of the word. She demands your attention and affection with her attention and focus. I did not train her or any of my dogs to pay attention to me. It is in her nature.

I have two more pups to sell. I do not think that people who are looking for pups are watching her . Yesterday a guy approached me and asked if I had pups to sell, and I said yes, but only for loving caring homes. He promptly walked away!!


I wish I could sell them soon. I spend a huge part of my time, taking care of them. I will give them two more weeks. If there are no takers, I will give them for free. Even then finding good homes may be difficult. Some times a free puppy attracts the wrong crowd.

Yes, Bommi is unique. That is why I thought breeding her would be a good idea. Now I know better .

I have become the breeding nazi . "Bommi! No more breeding for you".

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All great, but Squeaky Toy is my Bitch was definitely a triumph!

Connie, my girls are more motivated, more focused and more demonstrative than my boys.

When it comes to obedience, Both Bommi and helga can kick kaiser's ass round the block with out even getting out of bed.

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In India , if you ask your dog to sit and it sits, you are Dr.Doo freaking little. Some people out there think I am some circus trainer. I will not be surprised if people started throwing coins at me , thinking that I am a street performer with animals.

Okay, now that's just funny.

And wow, how interesting about the mind set of your people. Along the lines of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Some great insight. Thank you for that.

And you know, much like building a boat (back to your subject again ), instead of recruiting people to nail boards together, teach them a love for the sea and they will passionately help you. Continue to show your people your love for your dogs and what can be accomplished with a little patience and instruction, I'm sure the passion can't help but spread.

What a great teacher you are. Your math teachers sounded pretty smart but I don't think they have anything on you.

Hoping for the best for the remaining two pups. It's good to hear that Bommi won't be adding any more to the population pressure you got going on there.

Ram, wow, you are truly an inspiration to me. I really enjoy watching you train and learning a little bit about Indian culture along the way. I believe you are setting a wonderful example of showing people, number one, the training that can be accomplished with hard work and patience, and, more importantly, what it means to love and care so deeply for a dog. I know you've mentioned before that a love of dogs is not so deeply ingrained in the Indian culture as it is in the US, but we change the world one person at a time, and you are certainly doing more than your share.