 Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Steve Patrick ]
#174503 - 01/11/2008 12:36 PM |
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But we all differ and who is to say what is right
I agree, although, I would never say that my way is the right way, it is just what I do. Maybe I should not have used the term "long" walks. They are under 3/4 of a mile.
However, I do believe that letting them do it on their own is much better than having them on lead the whole time.
Ember spends a lot of the time exploring rather than walking, which I feel is good for them to do as well. She likes to go check stuff out.
Also, if the weather is really cold and windy, we do not go out for that long. We work on more "focus" stuff with food reward in the house or at the fire station.
If she is cooped up for too long without something to wear her out, she is a monster. 
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Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Carol Boche ]
#174511 - 01/11/2008 01:45 PM |
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We are in the city, so i cant let him loose, but i do let him explore and look and sniff and do his thing, i just go with him.
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Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Jennifer Lee ]
#174625 - 01/12/2008 01:04 AM |
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I have never let my Dogs loose unless they are in an enclosed Field, Not knowing what your areas are like with wide open spaces i cannot comment,
But i have never believed it right to let Dogs loose in a open area, I would rather drive 30 miles to a training ground where it is closed in from any other Dogs or people and let the Dogs have a run there, and we do this sometimes before any one gets there for Training,
Other than this they are let out to run in the Garden before going for a walk, and we also train then in Obedinance in a Car Park which is empty the time we go, in the Mornings they have 20 minutes Obedinance in there, or on the way back home we use a Field lined in rows with Tall Trees we use these Avenues of Trees for Obediance Training and for making turns with the Dogs, Good Practise for the Scutzund obedinace work
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Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Steve Patrick ]
#174668 - 01/12/2008 11:01 AM |
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I agree especially in the city, even at a park that is empty except for us i dont let any of them loose except for Nico, but she has without a doubt proved to me that she will not take off,
she has the run of 20 acres in the summer on the weekends and comes back everytime with only a single whistle.
The Elementary school playground that is fenced in is the only place in the city where I let them run loose, other than our yard or a friends yard when we are visiting, and that is only when we are the only ones there. Often at night with the big
lights on.
At the Lake Loki is allowed to run but i keep a line on him and a close eye.
Fargo's ability to do even that is yet to be determined, being a husky off lead is a risky risky proposition, and Im not willing to risk losing another one to a senseless accident.
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Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Jennifer Lee ]
#174692 - 01/12/2008 11:59 AM |
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I wish we had a field which is closed in near us, Although we live in the country all the fields have cattle in them, but it is not, so we have to travel,
By the way thats a Little Cracker of a Dog you have there in the Photo
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Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Steve Patrick ]
#174805 - 01/12/2008 07:35 PM |
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We dont have a dog park, fenced in park, or fenced in open field that i know of other than the elementary schools and friends on the outskirts of town that have some room.
At the lake there are 24 available acres, but there is no fence and its heavil scrubby and wooded and not really fencable.
I am looking into getting one of those invisible boundary things that signal to the collar dont require any sort of in ground system. From what i read the create an adjustable radius of boundary and give the dog a serious beeps before the actual Shock.
P.S. what is a little cracker of a Dog...as in firecracker? or somewhat plain and good with soup for the flu?
But i dont know much about them so i am doing research
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Re: I bit the puppy
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#174869 - 01/13/2008 12:32 AM |
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Hello Jennifer
The term in England , 'A little Cracker' means its a Great looking Dog' or its a 'Smashing looking Dog'
Just the way i say it when i write
I write a Monthly article for a Big Pigeon Paper in England , telling the Fanciers of our Methods and how we get on living over here, including the Two Pups.
Old Dog Charlie now gone was probably the most famous Dog in England He was known by 35.000 readers as 'The Mad Dog'
When i write if i cannot just bang away on the key board without having to think of what to write then i stop. If it does not come straight out of my head to put into the article then i cannot continue
and i may add i can only use one finger to type with, But i have made 40 articles of four A4 size pages of writing in each article
So the term i used for your Dog came right out of my head but its a Complimentry term
Of course i use a spell check after each time i write for them
Sorry for going off the Subject in hand
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Re: I bit the puppy
[Re: Steve Patrick ]
#174871 - 01/13/2008 12:44 AM |
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that is totally fine I tend to ramble on and go off on tangents myself, I just wasnt sure what it meant lol
My grandmother is from england, she came over as a teenager on her own with other Kodak kids during the war, but she still has some distinctly english phrases in her speech, and therefore my mom and eventually Me inherited them.
But the cracker one is good to know!
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