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dav1965
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I am thinking about getting a female German Sheppard. My friend raises them and i can get it for free so the price is right. His Dogs has good hips. Some of his retired dogs are 12 and up and get around fine.
My ? is which German Shepard is hyper. Someone mentioned it but i cant remember who or what was said. I know the dogs are black and tan and the other brindle colored i think.
Just looking for someone to hand out with. LOL
My ? is which German Shepard is hyper. Someone mentioned it but i cant remember who or what was said. I know the dogs are black and tan and the other brindle colored i think.
Just looking for someone to hand out with. LOL
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If i lay across the bed and read or watch tv she will follow me to the bed and lay beside or on me. I cant get away from her.
Any ideas?
Firm no does no good. What next?
They both have been fixed. For some reason that i can not understand the lab/pit has always messed with my dirty clothes. Mostly my socks. I can not feel my face and drool a lot and i keep a wash rag with me to wipe my face all the time and she loves to get that also.
Every time she takes something she will take it and put it by my wife. I have tried everything i know besides spanking her and i will not do that.
Any idea how to make her stop? I tried fly swatter, water, talking firm and nothing works.
She is solid black and sometimes out of the corner of my eye i will see something white going by and she has my sock again.
What is worse sometimes they play tug of war with my sock or underware and then they are trashed. She never messes with clean clothes just dirty.
We bought a new clothes hamper with a lid and she will turn it over to get my clothes.
I just do not know why she will not mess with my wifes clothes. Any ideas?
So i put her in the bathroom which is about 24 ft x 30 ft. I put pee pads around the tub. 4 of them. She peed 3 times and never hit a pad yet. Same thing the next night. Any idea except getting up every 3 hours to take her out.
She is funny though every time i take her out and she pees or poops and we come in she runs straight to the treats. She has that down pat.
I am still paying off my lab that died this year. She cost me almost 4000.00 and didnt make it.[:(] With Christmas coming i cant really afford to take her to the vet but will if she throws up tomorrow or Thursday.
All my other dogs run around the property with shock collars. I have my pen set up where my dogs can get in the pen but i have to let them out. My pen has a doggy door that will only go one way in not out. Scared Haily will get gone.
Any ideas?
My wife and i have a king size bed. Bear will get on the bed once and a while. When he does he will get on the end of the bed and curl up. After about 45 minuets he will get up and go lay in his bed.
Daisey is a black lab/pit bull and she weighs 50 pounds. She has to sleep beside me every night. If i go to bed before my wife Daisy will go to bed with me. She sleeps by my knees and sometimes will use my knee for a pillow.
I am going to have to figure out a way to get Daisy out of the bedroom while my knees heal.
I go Tuesday for the first of my knee replacemnts.
Only thing i can think of is a baby gate to keep her out of the room. I am just hoping she does not whine all night.
Any other ideas?
The family moved and they could not take him. He loves kids to death. He is 100 pounds and will lick the skin off of a baby and never touch the baby.
We remodeled our bedroom right before Christmas and we are still getting the bedroom back like it should be.
After Christmas Bear has been acting crazy. He hates to be outside. He will go out and use the bathroom and be back in the house in less than 5 minuets.
Now he will go outside and not come back in for hours. He is also shaking real bad.
I think he thinks we are moving and he is scared we will leave him. Either that or he misses the grand babys. After all when the people moved last time they dropped him off at the pound.
I hate to see my buddy shaking and thinking we are leaving him.
I have no idea of how to make him understand we are not moving. We have put our furniture back in the bedroom. So there was no reason to act out today like he did.
My wife let the dogs out before she went to the store and Bear would not come back inside. When she came home he still would not come in.
When i got home he was whining to come in before i could get inside.
Only thing i can think of is dog valium.
Any ideas. I hate to see him shaking and upset.
Bear will take my dirty clothes out of the dirty hamper and make a bed when i am gone.
Daisy just does not care and she will take my socks and under ware and run around the house with them. She will tear them into pieces.
Bear is gentle and never hurts my clothes. Daisy is wide open and does not care.
For some reason they love my clothes and will not touch my wifes clothes at all.
Why? LOL
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Cool i am getting a dog Sat. She will be 8 weeks old when i get her.
I've had great success with clicker training. My dog knew all the above by 8weeks (we got it at 7weeks). You should be able to start right away.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Make sure the whole family is working off of the same page. Using the same commands and doing things in the same way.
Basic commands, you can start them young. Complicated tasks and more age is better. Pups get sidetracked easy and often have short attention span.
I usually pick one command, like sit and work on that really hard. It can save you having a pup flattened by a car.
Here he is sitting down the day after I got him ...
By 9 weeks old he knew how to sit, stay, lay down, and come using verbal and signal commands.
By 10 weeks he learned to roll left/right, and play dead using verbal and signal command.
By 12 weeks he learned to speak (bark), jump to give hugs and kisses using verbal and signal commands. He also walk next to me with or without least without leading me, and will automatically sit when I stop.
In my area, the minimum they will take a dog for an obedience class is 6 months. I enrolled him at 4-months anyways (just in case I am missing something) and made arrangement with the trainer/owner that I will pull him off if he does not perform to their expectations. I had to show them what I have trained him before they'll accept him. Luckily, he excelled.
Thor's breed is known to be very independent and does not wait for their human counterpart's command.
The recall command is by far the hardest for me. Last week, my wife and I were out for a quick 6-mile hike by the river's edge trail. We ran into 3 muley does and Thor immediately went after them. I told him "NO", he managed about 20 yards but held and stayed ... PRICELESS!
Training is never too early. Be patient and you'll be rewarded.
Good luck!
I started training Thor at 7 weeks old because that when I got him.
Here he is sitting down the day after I got him ...
By 9 weeks old he knew how to sit, stay, lay down, and come using verbal and signal commands.
By 10 weeks he learned to roll left/right, and play dead using verbal and signal command.
By 12 weeks he learned to speak (bark), jump to give hugs and kisses using verbal and signal commands. He also walk next to me with or without least without leading me, and will automatically sit when I stop.
In my area, the minimum they will take a dog for an obedience class is 6 months. I enrolled him at 4-months anyways (just in case I am missing something) and made arrangement with the trainer/owner that I will pull him off if he does not perform to their expectations. I had to show them what I have trained him before they'll accept him. Luckily, he excelled.
Thor's breed is known to be very independent and does not wait for their human counterpart's command.
The recall command is by far the hardest for me. Last week, my wife and I were out for a quick 6-mile hike by the river's edge trail. We ran into 3 muley does and Thor immediately went after them. I told him "NO", he managed about 20 yards but held and stayed ... PRICELESS!
Training is never too early. Be patient and you'll be rewarded.
Good luck!
I'm sending Jack your way!!! He is a sweetie, but all we have taught him is to sit and shake hands....which has turned into a constant thing he tries to do, so most of the time if I'm just sitting here you can bet I'm holding a sweet blonde dog paw!
L[:p]L! I was on him everyday. Thor is a lot smarter than I am in training him. [:D]
Ed
feenix; that is a beautiful dog. what breed?
Thanks! Thor is a Karelian Bear Dog (http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/dogs-101/videos/karelian-bear-dog.htm) and he'll be 3 years old next month. Here he is at 2 1/2 years old.