SkySoaringMagpie

Damn ssm, you beat me to it. I wasted time checking the spelling I have seen these irl, and they are fabulous A good size for people downsizing from the bigger sighthounds too. Just need someone to start importing them!

Yay! OK, this should be a doddle:

Circeno dell'Etna?

Don't chase, that makes it a fun game or in the case of timid dogs, freaks them out. Shut the door and ignore her if you haven't tried that already. If she comes reward her with a piece of food and praise. If you have tried shutting the door and she entertains herself with dog business in the yard that means that the yard is more rewarding than coming to you. Get yourself a copy of a booklet called "really reliable recall" and start training her. It's an easy training program. In the meantime a few things to do: - Don't call her to do unpleasant things like give her medicine, brush knots out of her ears, leave her when you go out, etc etc. Go and get her for unpleasant stuff instead. - Always reward (not bribe) her for coming until her recall is more solid. Don't wave the food at her first, give it to her after she comes. - Play recall games, call her, reward her, then release her again and throw a ball for her or play with her - this shows her that calling her doesn't mean "fun is over" - NEVER punish her if she comes to you after mucking around. Dogs don't understand your frustration and will associate coming to you with bad stuff so they'll avoid doing it.

http://www.cpsu.org.au/multiattachments/18019.html Compared to other federal departments and agencies it does alright for a medium sized agency - over the average at least. No idea how it compares to state regulators.

Not a simple answer sort of question. Resource guarding behaviours can be taught by owners who don't know what they are doing. So it is not always genetic. Resource guarding behaviours also vary a lot. I would not breed from a dog that challenged humans for resources despite good training. Is that what you are asking? Edited to say that sometimes resource guarding behaviours are taught by humans who are poorly executing training programs to prevent resource guarding behaviours. That's particularly unfortunate and sad. While I think a human should be able to take something off a dog anywhere, anytime, doing it to a dog too often and in the wrong way can train in a world of trouble.

Actually, none of the dogs get paid. They get great feedback tho'!

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local...rs/1963355.aspx Five Australian Federal Police firearm and explosive detection dog teams graduated yesterday and will be deployed to three of Australia's biggest international airports - Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The labradors and their handlers were the first of 17 new canine teams funded by the Gillard Government under a $17.8 million package. The teams represent a 50 per cent increase in firearm and explosive detection dogs in Australia. After their 13-week course, all teams are expected to be patrolling Australia's airports by mid-next year. The Community and Public Sector Union used the graduation ceremony to highlight the pay gaps between dog handlers in different government agencies. Despite performing similar duties, Customs dog handlers earn up to $8000 a year less than dog handlers in Quarantine and the AFP. CPSU national secretary Nadine Flood said the AFP's graduation ceremony yesterday was a reminder that some dogs were more equal than others. ''After three years and two consultants' reports, Customs management is still refusing to address their pay and conditions issue,'' Ms Flood said. ''Customs dog handlers love their dogs and they love their jobs. But they can't understand why management are treating them like second-class citizens.'' Customs dog handlers have refused to take part in Channel Seven's new border security program Dog Unit because of management's failure to address workplace concerns.

Actually, the point I made, and others make, is that if the poster chooses to describe the act of cruelty in the subject line then you do see it, whether or not you even open the In The News forum, because the most recent topic sits in the Discussion Forums area.

Hi Bluestaff, if you taught him to sit with treats you can also teach him to stand with treats. Just stop rewarding any sits and start rewarding stands. My only other advice is to get someone to video you, and ask yourself whether you look confident and happy when in the ring. If you aren't, there's no hope of the dog getting there.

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Just by to say to polecatty and nekhbet for explaining ferrets to us all. It's really interesting.

I'm not a fan, but that looks like BS to me. This is the most recent credible article i could find on him, and in some ways, it is a little scarier. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family...article1704648/

I don't necessarily have an issue with them being posted but as I mentioned in the Doberman thread, because you can see the most recent topic "In The News" when you look at the DOL forums page I think it would be more courteous for people not to describe the cruelty in graphic detail in the heading. The Doberman one could have been rendered "Doberman cruelty case". The horse one "Horse dies after attack in paddock" etc I guess the other thing is, what are people going to say? About 10 posts calling the perp a sick f*** and then 5 posts commenting that they won't get a sufficient penalty and then another 5 posts calling for an eye for an eye. It never changes. At least with the scientific breakthrough stories or opinion pieces about feeding and training there's an opportunity for more of a discussion.

Our house yard is 6 foot chain mesh - expensive but we haven't had an escape yet. Leaping is more of a problem than digging for us and I selected it after seeing it at another Saluki owner's property. The hot wire is on the outside to stop stock rubbing the fence and ruining it. I'd listen to whatever other rural Stafford people do. Our fencing is in the background of this pic

Outta the way Howie Those fat rabbits are mine!!!

But BYB's are just fine I guess

That's a sobering thought!! After the 4 day weekend in Canberra recently you could smell when a bin had been opened even if you were a ring away. I like the idea of supplying poo bags.

And again, the point being made here is not that you can't rehab a dog if you are sufficiently skilled and physically capable. The point is that many dogs are owned by people who are NOT physically or mentally capable of the things Milan does. Some dogs are always going to go wind up dead because there are not enough average homes for dogs who behave, much less highly skilled, well resourced and capable homes for dogs who don't.

Can you identify anyone in this thread who says they never punish or correct? This whole forum is pretty pro-correction for a dog training forum compared to a number of other forums out there. It's also pro-hunting, pro-schutzhund and pro a number of other things that don't get a lot of mainstream support. This is not a bunch of shmackos ladies sitting behind their computers. I think it would be more helpful to be specific about what tools you're going to use in which situations rather than making broad statements based on extreme examples. Not all dog training problems are aggression problems. Some of them, like the housetraining problem in this forum, are boring, difficult, stressful problems without an opportunity to beat chests for the camera. Furthermore, a failure to fix those hard unglamorous problems also kills dogs on a regular basis. I get really sick of the red zone aggro dog being hauled out to win arguments about correction when almost no-one in this forum is anti-correction. I like Nekhbet a lot btw, I just think this time she should have been more specific.

This is so nifty, I hope it takes off.

This is a good example of a news story about cruelty where I wish the detail was not in the title of the post. For a good long period of time today this was sitting on the DOL homepage and I found it difficult to keep reading "man beat doberman with hammer", and I'm not a particularly delicate person. And yes by posting I've put it back up there so I'll go find some other news story to comment on now.

It is hard, but it can be done if the person looking at adopting is prepared to do house training 101 consistently with no exceptions when the dog arrives at their place. I'm talking about the kind of house training where you leash the dog to you at all times and monitor it when you are not on a surface where you are happy for them to pee. To use a bit of jargon, often the problem is that dogs associate a certain substrate (or surface) with safe elimination, and if that is carpet, or bedding, or something indoors as a result of a bad early start it can be very hard work to change. The longer the unwanted behaviour goes on, the more embedded it can get. However, if the person: - is prepared to sit outside until the dog goes on grass each and every time and then throw a treat party; - have the dog on a no excuses roster of going outside after meals, sleep and play; and - is watchful and has an "eye" for when a dog is about to go they should be able to do it. Overnight is an issue for these dogs but I would remove all the bedding, get them to eliminate before turning in for the night, and then unless it would be unsafe to do so (ie, very hot weather, medical issue) take up their water until the morning. That sounds harsh, but if you get them a trampoline bed with shadecloth or something similar it need not be. You really have to remove all surfaces they have peed on, give them heaps of opportunity to do the right thing and monitor like crazy until they learn the new rules. Some breeds pick up fast btw, but I have never been tested house training wise as much as I was with a Saluki that had been raised in a kennel then homed with a family who didn't understand what was necessary to house train. It felt like it took forever.

Nothing wrong with food and cuddles either - mine get them, they just don't get them on their terms all the time which I think is the point Milan makes about dogs being dogs anyway. Positive doesn't mean permissive. Results speak for themselves too. Daisy is a pretty awesome ambassador for hound training.

How old are they? I agree with the later post by Alyosha about young dogs. I have a serious question about whippet toplines too for whippets and anyone else who wants to chuck their oar in. To what extent does the topline change depending on the fitness and mental state of the whippet in question or the way you stack it?