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here are my moms vidoes Blair has his first leg toward his title and Perky has her first title. Blair: Perky:

yup springloaded is a great team, they have the records for both regular and multi breed. when I still competed I was on the slow team(why is beyond me when I ran the fastest dog in the club lol) and with Happy were were hoding back to keep from breaking out of 18 seconds, the fast team currently runs in the 16 second range, but when my mom did the calculations, if that had been willing to sub out Happys dad(the slowest on the team) and replaced him with Happy, we could have feasably run in the 14 second range, but noooooo, the slow dog just HAD to belong to the club leader who had no intention of knocking his dog off that team lol

lol Happy had no problem learning roll over luring with a treat. Misty is a whole nuther story... lol when is a normal down she lays down straight and square, so square that there aint NOTHING that can knock her over, she lays comfortabley on her side and roll onto her back, but one she is on her back she will NOT finnish rolling over, she will only back back to the side she started on, you cant push this dog or lure her, and I cant condition it it she never under any circumstances rolls onto the other side I havent given up though.. I have been trying to get her to roll over since she was a pup and she is 4 years old, why stop attempting now lol

she is on a raw diet, she is only fed once a day, and the food only takes 2 minutes to finish off, she usally eats some of it without me ordering her too, but I usually have to order her to eat the rest, if I didnt she would litterally be emaciated, as it is she is abnormaly slight at only 25lbs, and a fully grown 21" tall BC. but I did try the TOT with a ball, and it worked as described though

ok, how the heck would this work with a dog who has absolutly zero interest in food? I have always used play training with my fear agressive dog because she could not care less about food, she is 6 years old and I have had since since she was 10 weeks old, to this day I still have to convince her that eating is crucial to her survival(I acrually had to train her to eat lol) , I give her a treat and she drops it and looks at me like I am the worst mom ever, how dare I give her a treat lol the only time she seems like she is in food drive is when the other 4 dogs are leaping around barking for their food, then Happy behaves all crazy and yappy as if she wants food, but as soon as you hand her the food she just looks at it, as far as she is concernd that juicy raw meat could sit in front of her in her crate with her for hours and she doesent care, I actually have to sit in front of her and encourage her to eat, we took her to the vet thinking something was medicaly wrong, that eating was painfull or something, but the vet said Happy is the healthiest dog she has ever met. without other dogs around she just sits there. I tried fasting her for a day and a half, put her on the tie out, went inside preapred her some food, when I walked out she was just laying there like "whatever" I brought out food, she looked mildly interested, I set it down near her, and walked beside her, she just sat there looking at me so I said yes, gave her the ok and she just wandered over slowly with the hang dog look, like ill eat it I HAVE to... its kinda difficult to teach in food drive when the dog has no food drive. now WORK drive is another story, I used(before, not for this TOT thing) a mechanical treat training thingy that made a beep and spit out a treat(I use it for another dog) rather then go for the treats she walked around to the back studying where the beep was comming from lol. would the whole thing still work if I replaced the food with toys?

clicker training and otherwise giving Happy positive experineces with the things she was afraid of works wonders for her. , she used to try to attack any adult or child she saw, children were the worst, with kids when had them play with her, after lots of kids playing with her she decided that kids are the greatest creatures known to man, and she is more trustworthy then a lab when around them. she loves adults too, but not as much as kids because adults prefer to pet her, and she has no intrest in cuddles. dogs she is getting better with, but its taking longer as she is motivated by nothing but fetch, so until dogs start throwing toys for her.... she is getting better with exposure though, the more I take her out and the more she comes accross strange dogs, the better she gets, I still have to be very carefull though as there are some breeds that she is not fear aggressive with but actually tries to kill.

I actually encourage Misty to pull when biking ;) but Misty is also trained not to go chasing after everything in her path, and she listens to my breaking and stops, I do this on purpose with her because it builds lots of muscle, and keeps her in fabulous shape not to mention it gives her an outlet to her love of pulling, and its really fun for me! as for pad care I use paw balm with shea butter, and give her a 10mg zinc tablet every other day or so(I was told it would help stregthen her pads) and its must be working seeing as her pads are no longer ripping and blistering with every ride. my other dog I do road work with needs nothing for her pads, she ripped em up twice as a pup, got over it and they never got hurt again, I actually had to start putting lotion on her pads when one day she stepped on my foot and left a cut!

lol maybe you should give it a try and see just how funny it is! I agree it would be rather funny to watch, but cripes its frusterating!

lol stand is the demon command in my house! I have resolved that every puppy I have from here on out will be tought "stand" months before sit lol Misty is actually getting pretty good at it, but Happy... I swear she knows what I want and avoids doing it at all costs! if I so much as touch her she turnes herself into a dead weight, if I use a treat to guide her into a stand she will move in a sit around the entire house, refusing to lift her butt from the ground, if I walk into her she scoots backwards on her butt its not that she does not know what I want, it more that she knows exactly what I want and avoids doing at at all costs!

both. Happy is aggressive, she was well socialized, trained using positive methodes, but she is still aggressive, look at her mom and suddenly you will nod your head in understanding lol if you watch the way Happys mom reacts in situations, Happy reacts EXACTLY the same way. then look at other pups from the same bitch, all differnt owners and handlers, and almost every last one of them is agressive, one was even declaired a dangerous dog and banned from her town! her owners had to move. but its just as easy to take a compleyly happy friendlys dog and with abuse and neglect and training, they can be made aggressive. with lots of training however, NOT consitant training I might add, Happy has improved a HUGE degree, she used to attack any adult, child, or dog she saw. as it stands she thinks kids are gods gift to her. I can safly leave her alone with toddlers and babys, yanking her tails and ears, and rough housing with her and throwing toys into the street, I leave her with the naighborhood kids all the time when I run to my house to do something, and she is the only dog allowed in the house while my 3 month old nephew is over. adults are ball throwing machines. dogs has taken longer, but she is improved so much. latly I have been able to walk her past strange dogs without her giving them a second glance, the other day when I saw a dog approaching at an odd angle, I sent Happy a few metres ahead, had her lay down over there and wait(I walk her off lead) it was perfect, she was fine. now I only have to watch out for Shiba's, Pointers, and Schnauzers, as she has an unexplained hatred from these 3 breeds lol

lol this just reminded me of something! I know clicker training Happy is completly usless, if she does something that gets her a treat why the heck should she try something else? it makes it impossable to "shape" behaviours, I have to give her the treat for doing the while behaviour or no treat at all, because the second she gets that treat, thats the behaviour, think abot it from her veiw, just why should she fool around trying a bunch of cr*p she likley wont get anything for, when she knows the first time what the reward was for? lol the "anouther way of doing it" is what reminded me of some things Happy has done, like when I told her "sit. stay" so she sat and stayed in the sit. she moved around wherever the heck she pleased but she stayed in the sit! I was not sure what to do about that one, afterall, in all technicality she did exactly what I asked, I never told her to stay sitting in that spot, I just told her to stay sitting..and she did.

trainability is compliance. I have the dumbest dog on the planet and he is an agility dog, flyball, dog and freestyle dog. he loves to learn, he is a very compliant learner but he has like 1 brain cell lol it is not possable to convince me that a perfectly sighted dog who continually rams his head into the back of his kennel trying to find the door , and runs halfway to the toy while playing fetch before forgetting what he was doing is intelligent. Misty knows a lot of complictaed tricks, I tought her to kick a ball clear accross the room in 5 minuts flat and she had it solid. she is not smart, out of my 5 dogs she ranks about 3rd for intelligence, but she LOVES to learn. Happy on the other hand is extremly intelligent, just this morning the mail fell out of tjhe mailbox, my front door does not open so I picked Happy up, tossed her out the window and had her hand me the mail and jump back through the window. did I teach her this? nope, actually I have NEVER had her do anything even remotly silmiler before in her entire life. whenever my old naighbores dog ran off she came knockong on my door, because Happy and I were the only once who could catch him. once I was standing in the ally with Happy, the naighbores dog took off, Happy suddenly peeled off after him, and the next thing I knew Happy had Maxx correlled in the naighbores back yard. when I placed a ball under a 5 gallon pail, all th eother dogs circled the pale sniffing, Happy walked up grabbed the handle, flipped the pail, and took the ball as if it were the most obvious answer in the planet. she is extremly intelligent, but try training her! she wont have any part in it, I tried teaching her to wipe her face once by placing tape above her eye, she walked up to me and straed at me, pressering me till I took it off myself lol she does not find training fun, she is extremly well bahaved, but its her intelligence not her trainablity, she simply DOES what I ask her, weather or not I "trained" her to do it.

after Happy near death from vaccinating we no longer vaccinate, with the expetion of Parvo, we will NEVER take a chance with Parvo. we always request the breeder not to vaccinate our puppy, at 16 weeks they recvieve a Parvo shot, dead virus only, then for 10 days they are not allowed to set foot near strange dogs, and when the older dogs go near strange dogs, they are carried from the driveway(because it outside the gate) to the bathtub, where they get their feet scrubbed and disinfected, and the puppy is given colidial silver. we of coarse watch our own feet as well. its a hassle for the 10 days, but I know way to many people who's puppys have died of Parvo and we wont take the chance

Happy nearly died from her vaccinations when she was pup, luckily for her we got her to the vet soon enugh to counteract the vaccines, I am not sure what it was the vet gave Happy, as my mom had to rush her to the vet while I was at school, but we always keep nosodes on hand to avoid reactions from their Parvo shots. although its tricky cuz you cant touch the things with your hands lol but my moms boss who lives and owns a buisness on his farm propertie takes in dogs that people have abandend on the highway, the one, Buddy, a border collie X Collie died of vaccinosis last year she was such a sweetheart

I have used GL and Halti, I like Halti WAAAAYYY better, the extra straps along the muzzle make is much more difficult to remove, all my dogs can get a properly fit GL off in 2 seconds flat. I have never even heard of a blackdog halter..

I have fed BARF for 5 years and LOVE it, I would never gp back to kibble. I have never heard of any type of raw that figers you should feed more veggies then meat though lol that does not back any sence at all I do not feed premade. breakfast is pulped veggies mixed with some sort of meat or fish or organ meat, and possably some yogurt or eggs, supper is whole raw meaty bones, deptimes with fur still intact lol it depends on which butcher we go to. when Misty is in season she gets a whole deer head to herself to keep her occupied...and sleeps on the floor! lol chewing THAT much makes her REALLY gassy from all the air she inhales while she chews. the results are incredable their coats are very pretty and very glossy, I always hear peopel talking about using whiting agents etc on therir dogs, the white on all my dogs coats are pure snowy white, I use zero whiting agents and they will come in from rolling in the mud, the mud dries off and the coat is once again pure white. their teeth so sparkling clean, and in the 5 years I have fed raw not one of the 6 dogs fed it to have ever been sick, and all injurys have healed incredably fast, they have completly natural immunity to common dog illnesses with no shots at all. they have never had dandrudd, fleas, mites, or any sort of skin problem, ears always look like they have been professionally cleaned, although no cleaning agent has ever touched their ears. Shadow, was 4 years old when we started on raw, we had been ready to put her down as her arthitus was so bad she litterally should not even stand up, and only certain parts of her body could be touched at all and as a result of her spay she threw up at leatst once every single day. currently she is 9 years old, wrestles with her new dad, keeps up with her young GR brother, and has not thrown up in 5 years. and of coarse there is Ripley, when we adopted him at 8 months old, we got him only as a pet, he was very fat, very lazy, and just kind of "blah", 2 days after the switch the idea of him being simpley a "pet" went out the window, that dog outlasts my border collies, and his reflexes are incredable, when he goes to the dog park, he is the fastest one there, the dogs always try to keep up with him at first...they always wind up giving up on that idea lol Happy is the reason we switched, she was not doing well on kibble at all, she was very weak, and very sick, I spent several days giving her water through a turkey baster, she was skin and bones, her coat dull and grey and flaky. when we came back to the dog club after the switch nobody could believe that this was the same dog, that "weak" sickley dog, is now the most athletic dog you will ever meet, never gets sick, and her pain tolerance is incredable, I have yet to meet another dog that gets their nail cought, twisted and torn from their foot and not even wince, the blood pooling on the floor was the only indication that anything was wrong.

I do both, and I know tones of people who do both, I peronally prefere flyball, I enjoy the thrill of racing for a tenth of a second..and I suppose it helps that my dog runs mid 3 second times lol I just saw the other posts lol it always annoys me how many people think Flyball is dangerous, I mean it IS, but not to the dogs! lol I have been competing for 2 years and in the flyball scene for 5 years, I have seen a total of 3 dog injurys, 1 was to my own dog, a new dog crossed over causing mine to skid slam into a jump, the jump snapped in half and she bruised her hip, this was the first race of the tourny, she continued to race without problems the rest of the weekend. and her sister collided with her brother and got a concussion, that was a handler error, the males handler did not think to grab her dog before he turned around to run again. and the 3rd was a dog that crashed into the barrier, he was fine as well. now the human injuries.... you will rarly see a tourny where a handler does not get bit by his dog whilethe dog was grabbing the tug, or watching a judge go flying accross the room lol