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haha :lol: no.....wait wait...........NOW

what were Jack Russels bred for? I heard it's sole purpose was to kill rats, hard for me to believe, is this true?

[quote]threatened to drop my dog's leashes if the owner did not leash his dog up[/quote] that is the best one!! :D I cant wait till I can say that :lol:

I guess I can look at it like, for instance the Dogo/Presa canario, for the next 10 years these dogs will be bought because they are "killers" and bred to make them "meaner" this will be done in back yards and trailers all over america. this hurts the breed and eventually someone will have to clean up, and I feel being able to clone that one good dog and have it make good babies would be beneficial for the breed

well said mei mei guest I certainly do not agree with your definition of dominance and as much of a limb this is, just because it's in a couple books, really doesn't mean sh!t to me, sorry but it doesnt! my dogs love me and they never cower in fear, but they know when they dissobey and they know when they are doing the right thing. I'm perfectly happy with them the way I raised them and would not do anything differant if givin the chance. my definition of dominance lies in the dogs mind, and can be translated as follows....Dad

hey I'm addicted 3 times already :D

off subject, I just relized your picture is of two dogs, this hole time I thought it was of your dark dog with a stuffed animal in his mouth :lol: but congrats on the sig :D

hobbit you have alot of insight, that was a very nice read for me. I never knew some of those behaviors were dominant related. makes total sense know, thank you and[size=6][color=red][b] please please become a member![/b][/color][/size]

I would play rough with him, show him that you can throw him around and that he cant do anything about it, you can make it fun for both of you but you'll get a little scratched up :D I think playing is very important in establishing an Alpha bond I mean look at pups they wrestle right until they leave eachother

like lime marmelade? :D

sounds alot better than what I see being fed to the animals around here. I want to feed my dogs BARF someday too when I can afford it

for the most part just sounds like a pup who is testing his boundries, he's a good looking dog thats for sure. do you feed him BARF?

well said, expertly put, its just to bad those guys never respond after the first time you talk back, punks

my last was long and a bit garbled so sorry if it doesnt read smooth :oops:

careful, you know best, but those kids must be scared for a reason and though your dogs are good, sounds like the others aren't and you dont want to go instilling false confidence in a young child about a real bad dog

I cant agree with you more carol, my dog and me definatly have stop commands and actually all I usually have to do is stop, and be completely still, then oscar and nikki relize I'm not playing anymore and usually start at eachother. I didn't read the other posts in regaurd to this dog so maybe there is an issue here. I cant stress how important it is to be alpha in these wrestling matches, but since I always win the dog knows even though we are playing that I'm still boss. givin golden retreivers aren't known for challenging your alpha status, it does still happen and my oscar did it frequently until about 18 months. I enjoy the challenge because it means I get to roll in the mud with my dog and after about half a second of my loud growling biting and lifting the dog up, the tension is dropped and it goes right back to game status. Now I know this is much more dangerous to do with my friends akita as puff (the akita) will bite you first thing, she has no tolerance for contact. If your too close the teeth come out. when I scolded this dog it was fast and furious against the wall or floor and that respect was givin to me. If your dog is too rough with you then yes work on calming him down communicate to him that dad plays mom pets and after some training the dog should relize who does what in the house. but you do have a big dog and he is gonna get bigger, so be ready to be knocked around and beat up a little. its in the nature of the dog to be excited and love you. just ask newfiemom about the shades of purple her legs are :lol: dont ever play with him like your boyfriend does be consistant, and dont let him bother you when you are doing something, cooking, cleaning, tring to get out the door. make your boyfriend play rough as much as you possibly can make him, cuz the dog loves it. Dont worry the dog will run out of steem this way to. my dogs and the other dogs I'm around know when its playtime and when its not (not including the akitas) and none of our dogs have ever bit anyone. a few nips at the dog park but they were always merrited. if you are worried that the dog might bite than stop everything and reevaluate. I have suffered a few bite here and there while playing, but only a few have drawn blood and have never required medical attention. All these "play" bites were my fault (I'm not implying you said otherwise, just telling you my view) as I am the one who wound the dog up. I do not consider them real bites because there was no visiousness behind any of them, remember we have alot more to play with than our dogs and we always say dont bite so its like were taking away both their hands. at least thats how I look at it when I get bit. also it gives me an idea of how excited one must get before he forgets the basics this is usefull when raising pups as you can watch their maturity come along

I love to act like a dog with the dogs bite, scratch, howl, bark I do it all it;s like I'm contacting my animal instinct or something. Malina tried playing (playing like I play) with oscar once, and she was just kinda standing there getting him excited but not really playing. so I told her she needed to get on her knees and blow in his face (that is my wrestle command) so she blew into his big retreiver smile and before she could draw in her next breath she had been flattened and oscar had her pinned, she couldnt move her arms legs or head, and oscar just kept licking her face over and over and over, I could practically hear him thinking "I won I won I won I won I won I won" I was laughing so hard I couldnt get up to help her for a couple seconds so she was just pinned taking the onslought of slobber like a champ......oh that is a mental picture I'll never forget I think its a healthy thing for a man to have a large dog to compete in full contact sports with. its very medicating for both man and animal and brings us together like nothing else :D

this is an old one but I missed it so I'm gonna bring it back up I'm gonna play devil's advocate on this one and say yes, if I was a breeder that was trying to improve my breed or undue what other bad breeders have done to it I think cloning is a great tool and one that we could use to fix opinions of people on pit bulls and other contraversy dogs but I think cloning a pet is weak, because by cloning a new one your killing the one in the rescue that you should have picked up

I've always contered aggresion with aggresion to, just didn't want to say anything cuz I know someone will object. but I found you REALLY must be confident in your yelling back to be effective cuz if youve a shred of doubt that you could not take the dog he's gonna smell it! I'll usually make like I'm gonna rush them be real loud and think real big. it almost always works probably 90% of the time

I have never seen this before so I really have no idea but heres what I think that is a behavior I WISH my dogs would have, I LOVE to play rough with them, even though I always win and usually I get to rough and have to call them back, and do the "ohh its okay" and then they come back for hugs and are all better thereafter, but hey thats goldens for ya all love no wrestle. I would tend to think its his way of playing with you. I would get down and crouched when he does, and rush eachother. Hit low so he falls over then come back around on top of the downed dog to control the dogs limbs, use your hands to grab his legs, make sure you dont make any joints go the wrong way though and put your face into his neck like you would if in a dog fight then growl, grrrr, grrrr, this will make him growl, right before he stops wrestling back jump off him, set up, and go again. this is very close to my favorite game to play with my dogs, they love it, especially smooshed face dogs. like I said the retreivers will play for a couple rounds and really like it but then think I'm mad at them, funny dogs. it sounds to me like you could have a fun doggy moment here. :D I wish mine would stalk me :cry:

then yeah, I think a kiddie door would be prefact, add a fan for hot days and a HUGE water bowl that she cant knock over, throw her some toys and you should have a happy pup. but you should be able to let her out all night, all the time after a few months with good training.

Hobbit, if you could please go to "GSP/red Doberman mix" thread under the Everything about dogs forum, there are some girls, velcroing their Aussies to the ceiling, for "training" :wink:

Hobbit, if you could please go to "GSP/red Doberman mix" thread under the Everything about dogs forum, there are some girls, velcroing their Aussies to the ceiling, for "training" :wink:

well thats what I thought......but I guess not :-?

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