Screaming Pita is silent! Today was great, not perfect, but we moved passed the embarassing blood curdling scream and onto... BIRDS! And i can handle birds, that is a situation i'm familiar with. Bring on the birds! Wheee.
Watch, tomorrow the birds will all be at some other park and we'll go back to screaming, but at least today was fun!
I've turned into some sort of dog blabbering idiot and we've always had dogs so my husband questioned me about it today. I really like Pita, and i think, to be honest, that i expected to be dissapointed with her. After our last Shepherd was PTS i just kind of figured that was it, Lexi was the best and every GSD after her would just be a shadow, but Pita does so many of the same things Lexi did (yeah it's prolly breed stuff) but it's really nice to have a dog thats FUN again.
This is good to hear Elizabeth! What did you change or try new which you think helped correct this behavior? Was it adding the marker training or your attitude or something else? It probably IS much easier to enjoy a dog which is not screaming at the top of her lungs too! LOL!
I took her brick along, when she was quiet she got to carry it, when she wasn't, i carried it. She is quite fond of carrying her brick so it worked well. Then she noticed all the geese and she forgot about the screaming all together.
I figure having a dog that carries a piece of brick is a step up from having a dog that screams.
lol, she's been doing the brick thing for so long i forgot it was strange. She doesn't eat them, just carries them around and drops them in the driveway. When she drops them they weeble wobble and she jumps around them like a nut. Sometimes when she drops them they break and then she leaves them.
She has zero interest in rocks but the broken bricks really get her going. She just carries them and drops them, and my vet was pretty confident that she wasn't going to break any teeth. (yes, the bricks have come to the vet, she's sneaky)
Liz,
I think it'd be good if you could start moving her to a tug and start getting her away from bricks.
Bricks? Very odd.
Anyways tugs are a lot easier to keep handy. That way you don't have to think about tearing the corner of a building out if you find yourself short of bricks.
Yeah, try explai'n that to the police officer, 'it was only because my dog needs them, sir'
I met a GSD a few months ago who also had a bizarre fascination with bricks: picked them up, carried them around, knocked them around with her paws. Sort of like the videos of dogs playing with the eGGes. I thought it was the weirdest thing in the world. In this particular dog's case I think it was mostly because she was bored. It was a very nice older dog with a mostly unknown history. She looked like a German show line to me, though. I was actually considering adopting her.
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It probably IS much easier to enjoy a dog which is not screaming at the top of her lungs too! LOL!
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