Not that these posts deserve my response, but I will address your arrogant and misplaces advice. For you to pretend that you know what is going on in my house with my dogs is ridiculous.

Connie: yes, this is about me and not my dogs. They live in my house and I set the boundaries. They fit into my life I do not fit into their lives. I love a pamper my dogs more than most people do, however I never forget that they are animals.

I have checked into dog walkers, I am not a moron, but I live in a very small community and will not intrust my dogs to inexperienced or young children. As I said, I do walk them. I am only able to walk them for about 10 min at a time about 5 times a day. I also play games with them in the house including tug, catch and hiding treats for them to find. Their minds are always being stimulated. Shiloh and I have been working on marker training for about two months now and Argos has sessions of basic obedience every day and we have a jump in the house for him, which he loves.

As I said previously, my husband returns from a 7 month deployment to Afghanistan in 6 days and I believe the dogs will survive untill then, even with my obvious (as you pointed out) neglect.

CJ: I dint even know where to start with you. You are about the most pompous person I have run across on this site. After reading your comment I swore I had logged onto the pedigreedatabase.com where know-it-all attitudes like yours drove me to this site.

I supervise my dogs every minute they are together or they are physically separated. I will not take the chance of them getting hurt.

Argos is a very happy energetic dog and doesn't need you to feel sorry for him.

I have Shiloh play with the Wolfhound because they play well together with absolutely no aggression. What I was referring to was that the Wolfhound is also a puppy and i feel it is good for Shiloh to play with dogs bigger than herself since my other two are so much smaller than her. She quickly figured out after several knocks from the other dog that she was much faster and agile and could easily get away. Lesson learned.

I make Argos get out from under the furniture because he is guarding it, he is not afraid. Most of the time he initiates it the game. I have put a dog bed under the kitchen table that is blocked by chairs so that he has a safe place to get away from Shiloh, but I will not have him squeezing under furniture and growling and snarling like a rabid dog. Not going to happen. That is why he is told to get out.

My decision to do the groundwork training was not made lightly. As I described in my first post, ARGOS WAS ATTACKING SHILOH UNPROVOCKED, most of the time she wasn't even looking his way. I did so only after researching many articles on this site and purchasing DVD's explaining step-by-step how to go about it. If you have a problem with this technique, take it up with Ed Frawley. Argos was displaying aggressive and dominate behavior, I know you think your the only one that can interoperate dog behavior, but I'm the only one that has been caring for these dogs for 7 months, not you.

I have emailed Leerburg requesting that my membership to this discussion board be terminated. I misunderstood that this was a professional and polite exchange of dog training ideas. I never expected to be verbally attacked and accused of basically abusing my dogs.

I just typed a long elequont responce and lost it for some unknown reason...Im back to typing on my phone which I hate.

Short and sweet, Connie and CJ know more about dog behavior and communication than the vast majority of folks.

I suggest instead of bailing, you reconsider and contemplate the fact that what you thought was going on may not be what is actually going on between your dogs... Just maybe, maybe, you misunderstood what is happening.

Cant hurt... Might help. No one knows you personally so PLEASE dont take comments so darn personally. Really, you have two of the most experienced folks trying to help. Take a deep breath and just read the info with no emotions.

we do want to help.

 Quote: dayna haines

Not that these posts deserve my response, but I will address your arrogant and misplaces advice. For you to pretend that you know what is going on in my house with my dogs is ridiculous. ... Connie: yes, this is about me and not my dogs. They live in my house and I set the boundaries. They fit into my life I do not fit into their lives. I love a pamper my dogs more than most people do, however I never forget that they are animals.

I have checked into dog walkers, I am not a moron, .... I never expected to be verbally attacked and accused of basically abusing my dogs.

What in the WORLD !?

How did "Dayna, please don't think any of this is about you. It's about the dogs."

become "Connie, yes, this is about me and not my dogs"

and "A dog-walker would be high on my list to help pick up some slack"

turned into "I have checked into dog walkers, I am not a moron."


???????



This started with you saying "I need help," and went into one dog launching himself off the chair and biting the other dog in the face, then turning on you with "bad bites where he broke the skin."

And now we are "arrogantly thinking we know what goes in your house" ..... and "I know you think your the only one that can interoperate dog behavior, but I'm the only one that has been caring for these dogs for 7 months, not you."

I just went back and re-read, and I still have not a clue about what the heck I said to trigger any of this .... but you have made it a sure bet that I will be verrrry slow to give any more "arrogant and misplaced advice" that "doesn't deserve your response" any time soon.

NONE OF THIS IS PERSONAL!

I would BEG you if I could see and talk to you in person to read the advice you get as exactly what it is: suggestions from long-experienced people who know nothing at all except what you told us, and who don't mean anything personal about you at all!

I even went back to the most recent threads look for clues about what might have festered to trigger this, and I am still completely lost.

http://leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/342205/page/0/fpart/1

All I see are posts from people giving freely of time and energy to help.

Actually, I wish this was what I had said (we were typing at the same time), so I'm going to follow my own post with this "I should've said."

 Quote: Barbara Schuler

.... what you thought was going on may not be what is actually going on between your dogs... Just maybe, maybe, you misunderstood what is happening.

Cant hurt... Might help. No one knows you personally so PLEASE dont take comments so darn personally. ..... Take a deep breath and just read the info with no emotions.

we do want to help.

Connie, I know you ment well and I owe you an apologie, but I guess I read your post directly after CJ's and was angry. Plus I didn't know what you mention by "read and head." When I saw this post going the wrong way I tried to end it, but it didn't work, but I would like to end it now. I don't think anything can be gained by continuing. I did take his comments personal and I challenge anyone not to. They were rude and offensive.




" I would like to end it now"

Done.

I disagree with what you say, but still closing it.