Thank you for all your replies - glad it's not just Ripple and collies. Also because we are stuck at bronze and everyone else has come up from...
Just posted for a moan really. Ripple is on his 3rd go at the KC Bronze class, despite attending virtually every week he is unable to maintain a...
Charlie has probably been giving her lessons when you haven't been looking :rofl:.
How lovely - you must be so proud :).
Ripple does touching a square with his paw and disc paws (so I can teach left and right), so I thought the target stick was the next move. I...
I'm looking to buy a target stick as I'm working my way through 'learning games for dogs'. Karen Pryor sells a lollipop one which I quite like...
:D Cross post @Hollysdad
Every post on the forum today seems to have me saying 'Ripple does that' :D. This is something Ripple does on occasions - sometimes he's had a...
Yup, playing - had this with Ripple, it was a really miserable time for me as I had to endure it on nearly every walk ( and I wasn't even trying...
I shall be no help at all apart from to say Ripple is 14 months old and behaves almost exactly the same - he just LOVES everybody and all dogs...
I've always wondered about the 'three strikes', that must be for human benefit as surely a puppy (or adult dog) can't understand the principal of...
I only really started using the 'time outs' as Ripple became a teenager and we had enormous trouble with biting, and this tired human certainly...
I understand this and tried other isolation methods such as shutting him in the kitchen but he was generally so over the top that he would just...
I went through this with Ripple, he went straight from puppy biting to teenage biting with his big teeth. I did get a behaviourist in and we...
You have made a very brave decision, I really feel for you. Labrador puppies very rarely fulfil the 'Andrex' puppy image that is sometimes...
My previous lab got this - not from swimming but from a week of constantly wagging his tail when we had visitors staying :rolleyes:. He was very...
My last lab would dart in people's houses as we walked past if they opened the door - I always had him on the lead when we went along the street....
I think you're right @JulieT . I have trained the 'switch off' very successfully with my tug toy, so perhaps that is the way to go. I have...
Oh love it! Charlie's face :D.
Apart from the worry he might break them, I usually only play a very controlled tug game with one toy which Ripple knows is my toy and it is a...
