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[quote name='Kat']Rowie (hugs to you first). I am so sorry you had to go through the trauma of witnessing this act. Yes you must call the police and report these kids. If you know where they live then thats even better. If they can do this at 6 years old..what are they capable of doing when they are 16?... :o I hate the so called human race too for the record. They aren't all bad but my goodness the concentration factor of asswangs to good people is far too strong for my liking...[/quote] if they are capable of this at 6, they are likely to, and could become, the next set of John Wayne Gacy's and Jeffrey Dahmers....serial killers who started their "careers" by abusing animals.... call the police Rowie. definitely. :evil: :evil:

true lightning story... when I was about 9, my mom took all 3 kids to a resort in WI, at the time called "The Abbey"...they had these beautiful suites with ceiling to floor sliding glass doors that took up one whole wall, with drapes fromceiling to floor. so mom is running me a bath, and a thundestorm starts up. Now I love thunderstorms, I can watch them for hours. So I am standing in the living room type area in front of the sliding glass doors when mom comes out of the bathroom. sees me standing there. grabs my arm and yells"dont EVER stand in a window in a thunderstorm!" and yanks me away. at that PRECISE instant, a lightning bolt came THROUGH the window and hit the floor where I had been standing...actually smoked the carpet. burn mark. she hauled the drapes shut, drained the tub and told me to go to bed. She never mentioned it again. scroll forward 33 years. my mom is in her room, terminal from colon cance, and mostly just sleeping. one day while I was there, she woke up, looked me straight in the eye (something she had not done for weeks)and said "remember what I told you. NEVER stand in a window during a thunderstorm"...she died two days later, without ever recovering conciousness. is that weird, or what? :o

well I'll be...you mean to tell us that after her husband has just come home from 8 months in the field, we gave her all the suggestions she needed about the re-meet, and she cant come here to tell us herself? I feel insulted.... NOT!! welcome home Billy. thank you for looking after us.... 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

is this pertinent to certain types of dogs? I have NEVER had it done, and wouldnt know how to do it if asked... :oops: :oops:

the only thing I see missing is rabies (and absolute MUST here, they will not allow Kes in the country without a rabies shot) and Bortadella (kennel cough, and I'm sure thats spelled wrong). I would do kennel cough simply because there may be other dogs in cargo on the plane. better safe than sorry. when are you coming here and where are you going? Did I miss an important thread somehow? :lol:

[quote name='K']Holy crap...there are some people walking free out there in this world that dont deserve the air they are breathing...yet if we take the law unto ourselves and do the human race a favour by eliminating them we would be in the wrong...how is this possible?[/quote] I have a dear friend at work who says they ought to take the warnings off of appliances, like on the radio and curling irons that say "Do not use in the bathtub...." he says that way natural selection would weed out the truly stupid and they wouldnt be able to breed... 8)

ok this is just a theory of mine... I have had multiple dogs, but only one that was afraid of thunderstorms, and we get some doozies here in the midwest...tornado's too. my Golden was scared of them, but so was my sister and my mom. they would go into 'lockdown' when a stormwas coming, closing blinds and drapes, etc. now I LIKE thunderstorms. I will sit on the porch and watch them roll thru. I find them calming in their power and intensity, reminding me that there is a power greater than all of mankind out there. so...are YOU afraid of them? because since I moved out I have not had a single dog that reacted to them, and I believe its because I dont. they can fell your fear. my theory is that if you fear them,. they will too, no matter how you behave, because they can feel below the surface you are showing them... 8)

oh no, you misunderstood, I dont think its bad. I am a big believer in letting nature take its course when it comes to natural selection in predators and prey. my concern is that the coyotes will be hunted and driven off like the wolves were. like Alan said, there is a natural symmetry to everything if we would just leave it alone. 8)

[quote name='tx2478']Hey as you know my husband is coming home after 8 months of being gone and i am so scared that my dog will forget him...Star is a 3 year old GSD and her and him had such a bond when he left and i have showed him to her on the web cam but i am so scared about her first meet with him...i keep picturing her just jumping on him and recognizing him or growling.....she is very protective since he left about people coming into the house...any tips on how to introduce them without my husbands feelings getting hurt cuz his baby girl might not remember him[/quote] her reaction will depend on yours. if he walks in and you are suddenly afraid of a confrontation, a confrontation could take place. they remember smells, but they live day-to-day.....her role has been to protect you all this time, if you are afraid of her reaction to him that reaction may well happen. throw your arms around him, scream in pure joy he's back, and she'll be fine. 8) and hubby...welcome home! 8)

the "little prey". raccoons, rabbits, possums, rabbits...were driven out by houses and strip malls and stores. they now feed on peoples garbage and live in neighborhoods under stoops and patio's....they too are affected.its hard for a coyote to enter neighborhoods,being well lit and not forestlike. or it was....like their prey, they are now emboldenedby need. also, the deer who were not normally their prey (except for young fawns) are now enormously overpopulated. we helped change their lifestyles, but Ma Nature stepped in and let them know somehow that there is safety in numbers. they now replace wolves as the deers most common predator. they were always more adaptable, which is why they have survived when the wolves almost died out. and now they are the "wolves"...they are packing and hunting like wolves, something they never did before we stepped in and took their living areas and prey away from them. does that help?

exactly. thanks. we killed and drove off all the wolves, the deer's natural predator. people and deer get killed in car accidents every day. the coyotes have returned, and are now packing, to take down deer. Please, no Bambi posts, this is natural selection, outside of man... coytoes packing? unheard of. they have always been solitary. we changed the course of the coyotes lifestyle, forcing them to pack to eat, when they were loners before. when there was more little prey. now the prey is big, they have to pack to survive... when there is a food source as large as deer are here, and they are destroying the forestlands, nature stepped in. coyotes came back, packed and now hunt them... hmmm....did we stick out foot in our mouths, or what? we changed the order of natural selection....and now coyotes are no longer shy loners who hang on the outskirts and pick up possum. they are pack hunters, as wolves were... and getting bolder by the minute..when do we realize that nature controls this, not us? :evil:

[quote name='Sharpeigirl']I hate them. I truely hate them. Zeus is a good 95lbs. Well behaved at times & other times he can be a bit stuborn. But the problem is him & Sassy do have problems with each other in each others space. So I'd either have to crate Sassy for awhile while I let him in. What makes this even more complicated is that my grandpa has been declineing in health. And everytime Zeus see him, he barks at him. A "don't come near me" bark. Which is highly unusal. So they think he might bite. I'm going to have to make a descion on his future.. I don't know what to do.[/quote] who wants him out more, Gram or Grandpa? I would bet Grandpa. dogs sense the way people feel, and that may be why Zeus is barking at him. he can sense some dislike there.... to keepZeus in, you may have to rein Sassy in as well.also, the roundworm warning is a good one. people can get roundworm, its messy, itchy and scaly....dont want that now do they? It rarely happens to inside dogs...(ok, so exaggerate a little....) Laurel can sense that Kyle really doesnt like her (he thinks she's a wimp, and yes, she is. I love her anyway) and she barks at him everytime he comes near her. because she senses how he feels. slowly he is responding, but its taken a long time, and the influence of his girlfriend who just adores her, and Laurel likes her too...... so some mat training inside is necessary.dogs come in, dogs lay down on beds/mats. its their spot and they have to stay there. it willmake the GP's feel better if both are calm when inside. goodluck 8)

I spent a summer on a farm with a breeder who was friends with my dad. he bred Goldens, and I wanted a dog. my dad said the only wayI cold get one would be to work with this man, and learn how to raise and train them first. this guy bred Goldens for show, for pets and for the Seeing Eye, and that aspect fascinated me.....how do you train a dog to ignore his natural instincts and sit completely still when a squirrel runs by? How do you teach a dog "intelligent disobedience"? the ability to completely ignore an owners command because compliance would endanger the owner? How the heck do you teach a mostly color-blind animal when the light has turned green? I worked, extremely hard. I learned everything he (and the lady from the seeing eye who came and stayed a week) could teach. I didnt know it at the time, but he was one of the first (we're talking 30 years ago) trainers to believe in reward instead of punishment. he would not release a dog to a family (except the Seeing Eye) for three months, and in that time the dog was trained in all forms of basic obedience. by him (and by me the summer I was there)Seeing Eye training starts at 8 weeks, and he'd have doing basic obedience as well. it was done on a rewards basis. the sharpest command we were allowed to say was BAD DOG!! followed by a training session and a reward. if he ever found an employee raising a hand to an animal they were fired instantly, and told that upfront. (he rode his horses bareback. didnt like saddles). anyway, I got my dog, and learned some very valuable lessons. after college I started helping people train their dogs (unpaid) when they had become problem children. Michael always said that if you treat a dog like a member of a pack, expecting obedience and rewarding for it, you'll never go wrong. I also read a book called "Why Does My Dog....? trying to figure out some obscure behavior my dog was showing.... then in College I wrote a thesis on wolf family/pack life. I have always loved wolves and read all the Jack London books about wolves and wolf dogs and dogs that turned wild. stuff fascinated me. eventually I had to start making money, so I took a job at a computer company and there I still am.But if I ever get enough money together, I willget myself certified and work to be a trainer and behaviorist, cuz thats where my heart still lies. 8) 8)

probably wont be too hard. The first time I took it I was wrong the first three times......and I have had dogs of all kinds for 32 years.... 8)

you may be making the same mistake I did cutting mats out of Jarvis. the long haired dog-from-hell.... 8) are you grabbing the skin and trying to get as close as possible? if so, dont. think of trying to brush a knot out of your hair. the closer to the head, the more it hurts. cut in "half-mats"....then let it go for a while and cut in "quarter-mats"....each time pull very gently on the skin, and actually place your hand down on the fur (like you were holding a cup) around the mat and cut with the other. dont lift the skin up until you absolutley have to. this gets the dog used to the cutting. also, dog hair grows fairly fast. if you leave just a little bit of the mat close to the skin for a few days, it may grow out enough that you can cut it without lifitng the skin at all. 8)

Alan may be dead-on about the alcohol. the test would be to hold Kavik and have that same guy try to recreate his actions while he was not drinking, and see what Kavik does. They can smell alcoholmuch sronger than we can, obviously, and the smell added to the strange-seeming actions may have been what set him off. 8)

tomato juice does work (coming fromexperience) but you have to wash multiple times (really multiple times) on long haired dog to get the smell out. there are skunk remedies you can buy that work faster I believe, and someone here once posted a skunk recipe that was supposed towork really well. and I have to agree with K...I would just cut the mats out. her fur will grow back in just fine afterwards... 8)

[quote name='DivineOblivion19'][quote name='rotten_two']DO -- what did i tell you bout trying to scare the preacher? you have to go up and ring the bell then streak![/quote] :lol: [color=indigo]I guess streaking isn't that bad. ONe time I was in my room having *ahem* sexual relations and my bedroom window was open. I had an intense orgasm and was screaming louder than ever. Oh, did I mention it was on a Sunday morning right as church was getting out??? I'm sure they all liked that![/color] :lol:[/quote] *screaming in laughter* and wishing I could do that..no significant other..bummer... 8)

I think a lot of it depends on the humans reactions..we have severe thunderstorms here every summer. I am used to them, we had one today. (severe to the point of hail, possible tornado's, etc) I put my car in the garage. that was my only response. they do not frighten me, so possibly thats why they dont frighten my dogs...I have a basement, and tornado evacution supplies down there. so for me, if it gets bad. take the cell and go to the basement. stay calm. and staying calm is a big part of the issue IMO. they can feel these things..

awww c'mon HF..the thought of a pack of hounds baying at the moon, the squirrels, the racoons, the foxes, the neighbors..it doesnt intrigue you? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: (I am relatively CERTAIN I'll get blasted for this....) 8)

like any hunting/sporting dog, they need exercise (lots of it) and training (lots of it). sporting dogs have minds (and noses) of their own. they want to run, to chase, to hunt. unless very well trained they are not good offleash. when very well trained they are quite reliable. but they do need running time, walks wont do it if the dog is very young. if you want a more settled one, try an older dog. oh, they start to settle down about 6....in most cases, not all. not to put you off, but I am very glad you asked. it breaks my heart to see so many labs, hounds and sporting dogs being given up because their owners did not understand their needs. it doesnt matter what kind of home you have the dog in, a studio apartment or a mansion..what matters is that the dog get the things it requires to stay healthy, happy, stiimulated and exercised. thanks for checking first. 8)

if he was 'spaz-dancing' his movements may have seemed threatening. does he normally react normally around this person? its never a good idea to go spazzy around a dog, they dont understand the affects of alcohol, and it puts the dogs more on their guard when someone who usually doesnt act that way suddenly starts to....

in the last 10 years the coyotes and foxes have come back to the suburban areas around here. near me they are in the woods and sometimes by the river, but the farther west you go the land is more open and there are more of them. now there are houses being built on that land, and the coyotes are face to face with people on what was once their home...now I like having them here. the incidents of car accidents caused by deer have declined as the coyote population has increased. I think thats a good thing. there is also a decline in roadkill of possums and squirrels and raccoons... anyway, about 15 miles west of me a Pom that was loose in its large unfenced yard got snatched by a coyote. the teenage son heard the dog yelp and ran up to the coyote, who dropped the dog and ran off. they are generally afraid of people. the dog was injured, with puncture wounds survived and is fine. of course, now the dogs owner is up in arms about the coyotes being there and wants "something done". (which to me, translates into a witch hunt for the coyotes) now the real kicker? he KNEW the coyotes were there when he bought the house! he SEES them now and then! so knowing you have coyotes around your house, do you let your little fluffball dog loose in an unfenced yard with no one watching him? :o :roll: :evil:

they will bay when they scent prey, and when they miss their senior person...is there another dog this pup is close to? hounds do not bond to people per se, they bond to other dogs....especially if hunted... this dog will be happier, in the beginning, with another dog to bond to. over time you can train to bond to humans...

are you referring to Alan? he has posted a bunch of stuff, but its worth your time to read them. he has an inquisitive mind, but his questions are good and really do make you think.... 8)