Beautiful photo Kate. I wonder if Tess was actually watching and waiting for those doves to come and play. ;)
Hi Liz. My two are brothers and are five years old. A handful at times but they are calming down and yes they sometimes sound like they are...
I didn't proof my old lab murphy against anything it just happened. He was the complete opposite to S&S. The traditional way of keeping working...
I should have added I would also follow Kate's advice on trying to take him to the vets to desensitise him. The more stress you can take out of...
Hi Lin. Welcome to the forum. I'm sure Finn will love his new home with you. Don't worry about having to use a muzzle at the vet. It's a very...
Basically then if I'm calm the dogs will pick this up and become calm ? I just have to stay calm when they are going loopy. Oh if only it was that...
Need to read up on this PMR but sounds good. :) I'm starting to visualise my happy place as I type Rosemary. We are just off for a walk and from...
How do you project calm energy ? :confused: All behaviour and training advice tells you a dog can read your body language and pick up on how you...
@snowbunny as you have a really good settle on a mat Fiona would it not be possible to start having one settle on a mat while you work the other....
Unfortunately there does seem to be quite a lot of out of control little dogs. If big dogs were allowed to behave like some little dogs there'd be...
Pongo it very handsome.:) My dogs would be laughed out of a show ring. In fact I'd probably be asked what breed they are. A lot of you would...
At the risk of getting into something I admit to not knowing enough about do you think that maybe breeding to create the 'perfect' dog, creating...
Is the technical stuff (very technical ;)) different for show and working lines then? The health and performance is presumably the same but the...
I don't know about all the technical stuff which I know is what matters when it comes to showing but that winning labrador didn't look right. I...
I'm glad everything went well off lead. Put it down to a blip and maybe next time it's very windy and wet just do a lead walk. Who knows maybe...
Yes let him off, let him know you've got a tube of squished pilchards, work on recall, keep calling him back, make it fun, you know the drill. It...
I'm just catching up. Don't know how I missed your latest visit I've been waiting for an update. o_O It sounds like they were all very happy to...
Thanks Fiona. Obviously it's been even more tricky with gloves. Can't wait until I don't need gloves. That's why I'm really looking into this now....
@snowbunny thanks Fiona that's great advice and I could do to work on a settle indoors more. When one moves the other tends to or if I move they...
@Newbie Lab Owner I've always walked my two with a friend who has Rottweilers. Very well behaved rottweillers. I do think it helped my two when...
