If you're from the Pacific Northwest, drive-up coffee stands are a must!
Oh god. YES. If the barista happens to comment on the pretty puppy in my passenger seat (85lb dog!) he'll literally crawl through the window to go say hi. Ugh.
If the barista happens to comment on the pretty puppy in my passenger seat (85lb dog!) he'll literally crawl through the window to go say hi. Ugh.
Ugh. I'm always trying to get Ripley to score us free stuff by being the cute canine passenger but he ignores the barista.
I did not know my dog during his puppy socialization period as I adopted him as a young adult. someone or something(he was a stray found running along a highway) did a remarkable job with him. Nothing environmental has ever thrown him for a loop.
He's cautious in new settings, but not scared. I can take him out in a boat and he'll be excited by prey, but there is no way he'd jump out of the boat.
He ignores strangers. Yesterday a cable guy tried for 5 minutes to get Ripley to approach him for pets. Nothing doing. He'll give a wag or 2, but he's just not interested in people he doesn't know.
I got so very, very lucky with this dog. I never forget it.
One of my clients has a rescue boxer who was originaly owned by a college girl who attempted to hide the puppy in her dorm room. Of course she was found out, and the puppy was evicted from the dorm. The girl then decided to keep the puppy at the park, tied to a tree and went to visit the puppy in between classes.
The puppy has grown up to be a wonderful, stable dog. Some dogs are just amazing that way.
I did not know my dog during his puppy socialization period as I adopted him as a young adult. someone or something(he was a stray found running along a highway) did a remarkable job with him. Nothing environmental has ever thrown him for a loop.
He's cautious in new settings, but not scared. I can take him out in a boat and he'll be excited by prey, but there is no way he'd jump out of the boat.
He ignores strangers. Yesterday a cable guy tried for 5 minutes to get Ripley to approach him for pets. Nothing doing. He'll give a wag or 2, but he's just not interested in people he doesn't know.
I got so very, very lucky with this dog. I never forget it.
What a good boy!! Quite possibly, it's just his nature. And dogs are very resilient provided their genetics aren't messed up.
Kenzi had very little human interaction in her fist 7 months - abandoned at 4 months, then rescued and adopted out, but then mostly tied up outside for the next 6 weeks. Yet she will readily try new things, go new places, greet new people. She's got some quirks, but nothing outside normal BC quirks.
Missy spent her first 3 years with little positive interaction and no outside socialization. It took a little work with her, but she turned out to be a dog that just loves to go places with me andhas literally traveled all over the country with me - I think she's been in 15-20 states! She also got her CGC.
I think I'm finally getting what people on Leerburg mean by dogs with weak nerves. Learning by opposite examples.
It's a joy to have a dog you can take absolutely anywhere with you. Ripley goes almost everywhere with me, and I've had people approach us later and say, "I didn't realize there was a dog here."
Mara, I love the phrase, "normal BC quirks." Please look me up if you're ever in central Ohio. I would love for you to come observe Ripley and his pack of collies. It is endless entertainment for human and canine, the games they invent. I love BCs, but I know I'm too soft and not quite smart enough to live with one.
Too soft!?! nah! I'm a huge softy. I have three. We all survive my dogs are all fairly soft in nature, they're just high drive.
If I'm ever going to be in your neck of the woods, I will look you up!! I'd love to meet you! (and a whole bunch of other people here)
ETA- I understand what you mean by learning about weak nerves. I used to think Missy was weak nerved because she hated to get out of her comfort zone. But in reality I think she had never learned to trust/never been exposed. She will try just about anything for me and if I make it a good experience, she'll do it again. I did therapy dog classes with her and she took the (new to her) medical facility part in stride. Equipment? no big deal. People with shaky movements in wheel chairs/on crutches? no big deal. First ride in an elevator? no big deal.
I sometimes wonder what she would have been like if I had gotten her as a pup instead of a 3 y/o.
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Nothing doing. He'll give a wag or 2, but he's just not interested in people he doesn't know. 
my dogs are all fairly soft in nature, they're just high drive. 
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