Re: being unkind to your dog?! Okay I have to admit this post has made me Google both Wombles and Fenton..... "Fenton....Fenton...Fenton......FENTONNNNN!!!" ;D ;D ;D
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Fenton? ;D ;D ;D ;D What a treat for you Lisa. "There but for the Grace of God.........." ;D ;D I have decided though, that its mostly pheasants that get Lilly going. Wondering who might shoot among my neighbors to see if our dummy could have a wee ride in their game bag. Or maybe just go for the pheasant scent off ebay.
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Truly the one thing I have little control over, is when Poppy smells fox. FOX = ENEMY to her, for some reason. She goes mad!
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=drjs@5 link=topic=4711.msg58383#msg58383 date=1393859340] Or maybe just go for the pheasant scent off ebay. [/quote] Charlie chewed and gobbled up the trainer's pheasant scent stick on his first ever lesson! It gave him very runny, and very odd smelling poo.
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=JulieT link=topic=4711.msg58401#msg58401 date=1393862094] Charlie chewed and gobbled up the trainer's pheasant scent stick on his first ever lesson! It gave him very runny, and very odd smelling poo. [/quote] I will bear that in mind Julie ;D
Re: being unkind to your dog?! I feel that this thread has strayed a little. ;D Anyway, picking up on the current theme of chasing stuff, Lady shot off through the flood water in the field this morning and headed for the bridge over the river, on the other side of which was the flock of around 50 sheep. Stop whistle stopped her my side of the bridge, but then she shot over to the other side anyway into the sheep. Aaaaaargh! Oh well nothing much I can do whilst wading through the water. Sheep galloped off left down the field. Lady trotted off right up the river bank in search of smells. Phew! So the stop training failed, and the DON'T CHASE SHEEP training seems to have stuck. ;D
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=David link=topic=4711.msg58404#msg58404 date=1393863882] I feel that this thread has strayed a little. ;D [/quote] Really how unusual !!!
Re: being unkind to your dog?! arrg yes Pheasants for Brodick too Jac....there is no way my tactic with the squirrels would have worked with a pheasant. I don't think he knows his own name when he smells Pheasant... Thanks for making me feel better everyone, I did know in my heart it wasn't a good idea to allow chasing, but you know that feeling when everyone around you tells you to lighten up with your dog...I felt a bit like the mum that stops her kids from playing with other kids cos they are too rough... :
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=Karen link=topic=4711.msg58317#msg58317 date=1393840070] We regularly have red squirrels in our garden; they steal food from the bird table. Poppy hates them. I will have to see if I can get a photo and post it. They are soooooo sweet… [/quote] ... And here is one of our little darlings, taken out of the kitchen window last summer: No wombles though!
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Lovely! Lady went on alert this evening on our walk. Prancing with ears up and forward and head up. Hmmmm! Couldn't see anything then she swooped. A rabbit in the grass. She wasn't quite quick enough otherwise we would be having rabbit pie!
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Wow, interesting!! They sure are red!! A little different from ours: http://www.pbase.com/image/77799627
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Karen, your squirrel is gorgeous. Lisa, I didn't know you had a red version too! Glad you are feeling better, Debsie.
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=Karen link=topic=4711.msg58438#msg58438 date=1393873395] [quote author=Karen link=topic=4711.msg58317#msg58317 date=1393840070] We regularly have red squirrels in our garden; they steal food from the bird table. Poppy hates them. I will have to see if I can get a photo and post it. They are soooooo sweet… [/quote] ... And here is one of our little darlings, taken out of the kitchen window last summer: No wombles though! [/quote] Oh, how I miss the red squirrels in Germany! Before I moved to the UK I only knew red squirrels and had never seen a grey one! Thanks for posting that photo, Karen.
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=JulieT link=topic=4711.msg58443#msg58443 date=1393874053] Look at that tail! [/quote] They make great Salmon Flies, LOL. Before you all shoot me down saying they are protected and all that, MOH found one dead on a road in Speyside Scotland a couple of years back. He thought it was a good opportunity not to be missed. They are just beautiful unlike their Grey cousin's, Vermin!
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Hey. I'd have been delighted with that! Brilliant I constantly get told I'm cruel to use a slip lead-despite the fact that Vespa is trotting along with the lead so loose it's hanging right down and their dogs are pulling on their 'kind' leads so much they must be in considerably more discomfort. I don't care. I know how much work it took to get Vespa to walk properly so they can say what they like. Someone who looked after Vespa once refused to use the slip lead 'on principle'. The same person is constantly fretting because her cocker chases deer..
Re: being unkind to your dog?! [quote author=Rosamund link=topic=4711.msg58473#msg58473 date=1393879135] Someone who looked after Vespa once refused to use the slip lead 'on principle'. [/quote] I refuse to use a slip lead because they are a choke device, and I recently refused to allow a vet nurse to use one on my dog. It may be a view you disagree with, but it's not an unreasonable view.
Re: being unkind to your dog?! Fair enough! Just for the record-I've never used it as a choke device as such. There's no yanking about involved. I totally respect your point of view but I think they've had a bad press because of people like Cesar Milan using them the way he does. I can assure you there's none of that.
