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Post by puppypal on May 17, 2013 19:12:04 GMT
i am guessing ages as dont ask little kids there ages, sounds creepy and stalkery
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Post by bextull on May 17, 2013 19:24:44 GMT
"Child's Best Friend".....................  |
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Post by BorderTerrier on May 19, 2013 14:30:46 GMT
"Child's Best Friend"..................... LOL, I think by 'Child's Best Friend' it actually means PP's Best Friend not just any old kid  |
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Post by bextull on May 19, 2013 15:59:15 GMT
"Child's Best Friend"..................... LOL, I think by 'Child's Best Friend' it actually means PP's Best Friend not just any old kid I wasn't making a joke. I was making a serious comment. |
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Post by BorderTerrier on May 19, 2013 16:02:29 GMT
Ok bextull, I was just commenting too. |
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Post by caz2golden on May 19, 2013 19:10:20 GMT
Barley is very strange with children, i dont know wether he is scared of them or just thinks it is fun but he likes to run up to them and knock them over, i have called him off of doing this but only a couple of times as he just gets 'in the zone' and no matter how much you shout he will not listen. he loves doing it so much cause they scream and make noises which makes it more fun for him, we have learnt from our mistakes and is not let of lead round children or people running/playing football for that matter. You said you were going to take Barley training for KC awards I think you should get your trainers advice ASAP! As Collie Slave put this is very serious in the eyes of the law. A friend told me of a dog they know that now has a dog control order on it where if its is outside of the owners front door it legally has to be on a lead. This was when the young dog accidentally knocked a kid over and parent complained. |
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Post by cazypops on May 19, 2013 19:43:44 GMT
Barley is very strange with children, i don't know whether he is scared of them or just thinks it is fun but he likes to run up to them and knock them over, i have called him off of doing this but only a couple of times as he just gets 'in the zone' and no matter how much you shout he will not listen. he loves doing it so much cause they scream and make noises which makes it more fun for him, we have learnt from our mistakes and is not let of lead round children or people running/playing football for that matter. You said you were going to take Barley training for KC awards I think you should get your trainers advice ASAP! As Collie Slave put this is very serious in the eyes of the law. A friend told me of a dog they know that now has a dog control order on it where if its is outside of the owners front door it legally has to be on a lead. This was when the young dog accidentally knocked a kid over and parent complained. I sometimes think that instead of a dog control order it would be more beneficial to have the owner go to training classes to teach them how to be a more responsible owner and keep their pets under control. After all it's not the dogs fault.  |
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Post by puppypal on May 19, 2013 19:44:51 GMT
he is going to training from the 31st of march for an 8 week course as that has now been confirmed, yes we will be asking for advice anyway, he on a lead round children since he has knocked 2 over
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Post by cazypops on May 19, 2013 19:48:21 GMT
Good luck with the training, and let us know how he gets on.  |
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Post by gladys on May 19, 2013 23:17:52 GMT
I take it you mean May not March?? What type of training course is it puppypal? |
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Post by puppypal on May 20, 2013 19:16:39 GMT
yes i mean may, it is general obedience
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Post by Pawsforthought on May 20, 2013 20:56:58 GMT
I think you need to get his bad behaviours sorted out. It sounds a bit like he thinks he rules the household, if you know what I mean.
He's possessive, sometimes dominant with other dogs, knocks kids over etc. He definitely needs to get to a behaviourist puppypal. Is that something you can talk to your parents about or are they the sort who will bury their heads and say there's no problem? (Mine could be like that)
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Post by puppypal on May 27, 2013 18:35:10 GMT
With a little help from a friend we have figured out the cause of barley's spooking, our next door neighbors, they moved here about a month or so ago and they had a dog, a french bulldog bitch. Talking with my friend who is studying animal behavior at college we worked out that it was our neighbors dog that was making him spook easier as he felt more threatened and insecure abut his surroundings, this all made sense when it was pointed out if anything in his surroundings has changed to cause this behavior. The reason he had been barking more was because the other dog was barking and if you listened carefully you could hear it. During this week we are putting up a new fence cause we don't trust the current one and barley could break it if he really wanted to and i don't want to think what he would do to there dog.
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Post by charlottte on May 27, 2013 19:07:10 GMT
You don't want to think what he would do to the dog?
In what way? That sounds awfully ominous to me...
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Post by caz2golden on May 27, 2013 19:17:18 GMT
You don't want to think what he would do to the dog? In what way? That sounds awfully ominous to me... I was going to say something similar Charlotte  . That last comment you made PP worries me!! |
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