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That same thing can happen with a deer suddenly jumping up and running. Their prey drive is strongly triggered. Thats what the e collar is for, set on a 7. I have never had to use it like that (yet).
Well that sounds really exemplary, Melissa. I suceeded to keep my dogs calm around the here very commonly free running chicken,also succeeded with horse, but when we meet a group o little monkeys on a phone wire or a flock of Urubus (type of vultures) which fly suddenly up into the air, the dogs get crazy. I'm not sure, but I think the reason is because I can not stay before the threshold, I cannot even find out where it is, because it happens all too quickly.
You know that the monkeys and the vultures are going to trigger excitement.
Don't wait for them to get excited. The second the dogs notice them then give the correction.
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Then the dogs will laugh their heads off because of my corrections. I don't get it to make them impressive enough. Will have to restart muscle training, I guess.
Can it not work with engagement exercises? Or I find a place where the vultures often are, then I could at least find out where the threshold is. With the monkeys it would be more difficult.
I also thought about buying paper dragons which flutter in the wind and make noises which will certainly excite them. So someone could walk with a dragon far enough from dog and me and I could gradually desentize them.
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I actually do have a dragon. Its a 6' female Water Monitor. She lives in the garage. They eat meat and have teeth like pointed razors. They have a grab and slash style of biting. The lizard is certainly not a training aid! Inga does bark when she goes to watch while I feed her.
Day 2-Inga has been heeling past the calf pen and downing quietly next to the fence. Next I am going to let the calf out but not the cow. The mama cow will complicate things at this point I think. I will correct Inga for even looking at the calf and immediately give Inga something else to do. Is this right?
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No, lol, I didn't mean a living dragon. I meant PAPER dragons. Just something which gives a similar impression for the dogs, e.g. movements iwhen vultures fly up , the noises when they take off is for the dogs certainly irritating when fluttering in strong wind.
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My lizard (name. BigAss), escaped earlier this year. Tropical lizards die in the winter in Texas. Its a good thing she came back two days later to look at the chickens.
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Heck yes BigAss was looking at chicken meals. I got some meat on some tongs and led her right back into the garage. Candi, does Harvey get funny in the breeding season? Do you have to supply him with a 'love sock'?
Today for a start Inga got a lesson in NOT looking at chickens. I heeled her past the loose chickens and if she looked at them she got a size 1 tingle. This caused her to instantly jerk her head away from the chickens. At the end of this walk she got a down and reward. Three trips past the chickens she looked at me the whole time. Same with the calf. So far so good.
Heck yes BigAss was looking at chicken meals. I got some meat on some tongs and led her right back into the garage. Candi, does Harvey get funny in the breeding season? Do you have to supply him with a 'love sock'?
Today for a start Inga got a lesson in NOT looking at chickens. I heeled her past the loose chickens and if she looked at them she got a size 1 tingle. This caused her to instantly jerk her head away from the chickens. At the end of this walk she got a down and reward. Three trips past the chickens she looked at me the whole time. Same with the calf. So far so good.
Outstanding!
Keep it up until the chickens trigger a programed response without the "tingle" but be sure to.......here it comes....RANDOMLY re enforce the behavor.
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