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2 hours ago, cleatis said:

I don’t mind the dogs at the park but the people I could do without.  

VERY cliquish. It's like you walked into their backyard uninvited.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd

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2 mins ago, Joe said:

VERY cliquish. It's like you walked into their backyard uninvited.

I had a lady ask me to take my dog off his leash within 30 seconds of us entering the park.  

Them that gots gets

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Wow!  I would have never guessed that a Brittany would behave that way.  Never saw a hyper one or a pup that would bounce off walls. 
This was to be  expected of a youngster. New sights and sounds.But rest easy,by time he six years old he’ll outgrow this behavior.

 

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best way to train a dog how to behave is with another dog. Always felt like our Bella taught Rebel how to be a good dog and Rebel has trained Brooke 

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

 

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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On 6/9/2023 at 9:10 AM, HugeDinghy said:

My Frenchie is a straight up ****. My wife makes excuses for him. Lol. He’s basically feral. 

Our ****zoo is dumb as a rock, just plain stupid

how lucky am i

to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard


Shooting a coon in a 60ft tree out of a boat in the dark holding a flashlight can be tricky. ..
 

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Took my previous Springer a bunch of years ago. Class was 100% treat driven. Do this, get a treat. Over and over. After a couple she gave zero effs about getting a treat. Just wanted to play with the other dogs. I gave up after the second one went the same way.

 

Obedience school dropout. Oh the shame. 

I'll have mine on the rocks.

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34 mins ago, Eagles Dare said:

Took my previous Springer a bunch of years ago. Class was 100% treat driven. Do this, get a treat. Over and over. After a couple she gave zero effs about getting a treat. Just wanted to play with the other dogs. I gave up after the second one went the same way.

 

Obedience school dropout. Oh the shame. 

Reduce the treat giving rate to 50%. It boggled their mind.

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1 hour ago, Eagles Dare said:

Took my previous Springer a bunch of years ago. Class was 100% treat driven. Do this, get a treat. Over and over. After a couple she gave zero effs about getting a treat. Just wanted to play with the other dogs. I gave up after the second one went the same way.

 

Obedience school dropout. Oh the shame. 

 

Positive reinforcement works best with food motivated dogs like Labs, that will scarf down anything, and can never eat enough.

Dogs not as food oriented have to find other way to to reinforce desired behavior, maybe with a toy, or game the dog likes.

Ultimately, the goal is to make doing what you want a more favorable option than whatever is going through Fido's mind at the time.

 

Ot, you can beat the dog like a rented mule every time it acts like a dog.

Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
-Thomas Jefferson
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
-Soren Kierkegaard

 

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19 hours ago, dena said:

 

Positive reinforcement works best with food motivated dogs like Labs, that will scarf down anything, and can never eat enough.

Dogs not as food oriented have to find other way to to reinforce desired behavior, maybe with a toy, or game the dog likes.

Ultimately, the goal is to make doing what you want a more favorable option than whatever is going through Fido's mind at the time.

 

Ot, you can beat the dog like a rented mule every time it acts like a dog.

Had a lab/pointer mix , great dog, could find a bird, tree squirrels, rabbits and retrieve,  but when he pointed a bird he would turn his head  look at you , turn his head back and flush the birds then jump after them, once. you had to wait until he landed to shoot.

 

Other thanthat he Was perfect in every other way, if you turned the key in the gun case at 4am he'd be behind you before you got the gun out, if I was going to go dear hunting I'd have to put the gun in the truck the night before lol

 

No amount of giving him treats or  beating him in the head would make him stop lol

how lucky am i

to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard


Shooting a coon in a 60ft tree out of a boat in the dark holding a flashlight can be tricky. ..
 

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3 mins ago, Kbetts said:

Waiting too long.  Obedience starts day 1 and is worked on every day.

I got him when he was 6weeks old, had him sitting and all that in a few days, he was house broke in a week or so,  smartest dog I ever seen,  he would go to the back door and pretend he was going to puke if you didn't let him out lol

how lucky am i

to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard


Shooting a coon in a 60ft tree out of a boat in the dark holding a flashlight can be tricky. ..
 

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My lab/Brittany mix is smart as ****. One on one she's fine. Listens, retrieves, etc. In the house she's great.  Super affectionate but she forgets she's 65lb so it can rough for new people   lol  Bring in another dog and it's as if she has literally never been trained. She's not aggressive but might as well be a a 10lb cat that just drank a coffee that has redbull in it.  She can smell, stalk, and hunt down a pheasant but if a squirrel or rabbit runs by...she gone! 

Lol. 

It's maddening. 

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Had a boxer that got expelled from two puppy schools.  There was no training that dog, never saw anything so stubborn.  Tried crate training and he would mash his face into the crate until his whole snout was raw and bleeding.  Turned out to be one of the best dogs I've ever had but it was his way or the highway from day one lol

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever~Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

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13 mins ago, LBI SurfRat said:

My lab/Brittany mix is smart as ****. One on one she's fine. Listens, retrieves, etc. In the house she's great.  Super affectionate but she forgets she's 65lb so it can rough for new people   lol  Bring in another dog and it's as if she has literally never been trained. She's not aggressive but might as well be a a 10lb cat that just drank a coffee that has redbull in it.  She can smell, stalk, and hunt down a pheasant but if a squirrel or rabbit runs by...she gone! 

Lol. 

It's maddening. 

I used to take the bird jumper to work with me, we built custom houses,    one day my buddy John sees him burying something in the mason's sand pile, we go out there and it's a half cooked big ass steak, so we start looking around and there was a guy at least a hundred yards down the road standing next to a grill just looking around lol , we locked brownie  up in the house lol

how lucky am i

to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard


Shooting a coon in a 60ft tree out of a boat in the dark holding a flashlight can be tricky. ..
 

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