miccar96

Here's a funny link on Drive training....

Ouch

Ha ha ha :D :D

very funny ! Yes I have had the odd tooth mark and bruise too.

After the first two days of the training, the two that you do nothing to build frustation, my husband asked our GSD.....

- Shall we go outside?

And ,did he go crazy!!! He ran around the flat at breakneck speed, jumped up and down on couches twirling around like an idiot... So , yes I think he

was a bit excited.

Hi

I thought I would bump this discussion up to the first page .

We(my husband and I) are doing the distance course package "training in drive " that k9force is running. Is anyone else also using this method to train their dog?

It would be interesting to hear what you think about it......

We are having a lot of fun ,but it is much harder than we thought, Physically harder. We didn't think we were that unfit. especially my husband who thinks he is half an athlet

Yes he did.

He had started barking and lunging at people. Plus he was pulling a lot on the lead.

The lead pulling we saw a difference with straight away. Lunging as well but the fear aggression takes a bit longer to completely get rid of.

A few weeks after we had seen Steve, we moved to Germany with our dog. That did not really help, but then we knew how to help him and that made it so

much easier for us. :rolleyes:

I wish you good luck with your dog, and if anyone can help you it is steve I promise And so does all the other people that recommended him.

And to give you a kind of success story ... We take Henry with us now almost everywhere. He comes with us to Restaurants(even the fancy ones) , to the shops and he even has travelled on a ferry packed with people a few times.

Yes, please please contact Steve at k9 force. He helped us so much with our GSD. He is absoluty great !!

Wow miccar96, what a beautiful boy Henry has turned out to be

Thank you...

He is a pretty good boy, most of the time :D

hi

I know that paper tissues are more hygenic ;) , but could you use a cloth hanky ?

Wow Miccar, love the pic of your dog!!!!!!!! I agree, with my GSD she will work for treats no problem but when she works in drive, for a tug on her piece of hose, it's like looking at a different dog. Treats great, tug in prey drive EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

Thanks ! Yes Henry also turns into a "different" dog when we train him or play using his prey drive.

The rest of the world around him just does not exist anymore.....

Our GSD is not that interested in food at all. Not even his breakfast or dinner !!

But he loves to play with toys. Tugging is best.....

Hi

Is kapo always chewing stuff when you are not home ? or is it only sometimes. If so can you think of anything that might have gotten him into destruction mode.....

Our Henry is pretty good when he is home alone. The only time he has chewed something, when we were not there (my new shoes) was when my husband came home after being gone all day said hello to him quickly then we both left to go and have dinner at a restaurant. It was as if he wanted to say HEY, I missed you all day long and now you just come home and leave again!!! No playing or walking at all ??!!

I WILL SHOW YOU !!!!!

Well when we are home and play with him and he gets all hyper and we leave him and do something else when he still wants to play .... well thats a different story. we have gone through quite a few shoes ,the couch had to be fixed twice !!! and we now have a brand new telephone after he ate the old one....

oooups just read your post again ......

you are in nsw. The GSD club I was talking about was in Keilor Victoria.

yes my husband and I took our little gsd puppy to the keilor branch and we were not happy.

Its a long story but basically one trainer forced / pinned our 12 week old puppy down on the ground and screamed at him. We had to work hard after that to make him trust strangers again.

there was also many other things we were not happy with, but each branch is different I think so maybe go and have a look before, without your dog and see if you like it.

I myself would ignore him, if you go to him everytime he barks, he will know that whenever he wants your attention all he has to do is bark and you will come running. They're not dumb

Same thing goes for people who own cockatoos that squawk

Same thing goes for people who own cockatoos that squawk

Ha Ha yes that so funny.....

My inlaws are feeding a few wild cockatoos that come to their garden.

The cockatoos have got them well trained.

If they are not fast enough with their food the cockatoos will start eating on the wooden window frame, squawk, knock on the window with their beeks.

My inlaws will even get up from the dinner table to feed them......

Hi I would recommend 4paws as well. We took our Dog there.( Hello Kelpie-i )

All the trainers are really friendly and they know alot about dogs.

Thanks BC - I have tried many things with her mouthing/nipping, including walking away to signal that play time is over etc.

I just have to keep at it :-)

I do empathies with you .

It took us a long time to stop our little biter to nip and mouth us and

yes he did his fair share of teddy humping, Not our legs though.

Although he tried it once with a lady from a removalist company that came to our house so embarrassing.

With the nipping we did get results from using a water bottle and telling him no, enough! in a stern voice.

The humping well, we did not really do anything just ignored him.

I was just wondering this myself the other week when Henry got up after a longer nap on the floor.

He walked a bit funny for about a minute, then normal as if nothing had happened.

that is so cute

How long did he do that for ?

Soooo Sorrryyyy

Oh well......that's another thing that we don't have to clean.

We can add that to the list of things that he has wrecked

Just click on the link.

By the way he has been playing with that vase so often , and this time I decided to film him, and the vsae broke.... Hmmmmm

Uh oh Henry just did a big oops

Bear and Pearl are in the study sleeping and as soon as I played that video Caroline they both jumped up and barked back to their old friend They've now gone down the hallway in pursuit of Henry :D

Ha Ha so funny :D Yes Henry is saound a sleep too after a really long walk in the forest. :p

I guess will try again then .....

Upload the video onto yourtube.

OK I will try that...

sorry did not work

I will have to figure out how to post videos first !!!