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Rally Hess

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So Fiver, your saying you did put some beef stock on the cats tail? LOL
Oh, and what kind of puppy did you get, just so I can get an idea of the life of the cat? LOL
 

fiver

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well she is umm black and brown striped with a black face. [like perfectly camouflaged]
I think her mom was a lab-chessie cross.
and her dad was either real good at jumping or a boxer-pug mix, not real sure, but I'm leaning towards the pug mix.
she acts like a chessie or a pug most of the time, but is too smart to be either one.
sneaky too, I need to get her a bell or some jingly tags.
 
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Had a chessie growing up, he was a very mean dog. He almost learned the hard way not to bite the hand that feeds him.

Sneaky is our current lab, he's black. Few months back he got in the trash. Came running out & jumped on my chair. The garbage bit back as he had a hanger that was in the trash hooked up on his tags/collar. He looked at me all scared with a white hanger hooked on & tucked up under his leg as if to say "it got me, please help, I didn't do it".
 

fiver

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reminds me of Littlegirls big dumb dog. [COKI]
she was over here visiting [the dog] when she was about 7-8 months old.
I called her in from getting some water in the kitchen because it was too quiet.
she comes half trotting into the front room with a bag of chips swinging in her mouth by the rolled over top.
I was like umm what are you doing.
she stops and looks at me then looks back in the kitchen then back at me again like uhh someone in there said I could have these.
even at that age she was tall enough to stand up and get stuff off the counters, but not smart enough to just eat them real quick.

I have been around a few Chessies.
they take some training and a lot of repetition, but once they got it, they got it and don't need a whole lot of follow up training just some reinforcement type work to maintain the relationship.
their biggest issue is they will get older and put themselves into retirement from hunting.
one day they just quit and that's it, but up until then they will fetch the titanic from the bottom if you give them good hand signals.
 

fiver

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thought for the day.

I'm starting to see why Mixed pair Curling is so popular.
almost all of the teams are man/wife.
that is the only place on the planet a man can criticize his wife's sweeping and be cheered by a large group of people.
 

Brad

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That may well be the best thing I have heard all year!
 

Jr.

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Got me a little border collie for the wife, Ruger was the runt and had 2 different colored eyes, which I guess is a defect somehow. But from the moment I brought him home he's been by my side.1518239911496-1800478815.jpg
 

fiver

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I see a lot of border collies around here, those and blue heelers are the most common dogs in the area.
many of the collies have the blue/brown eye thing like an English sheep dog.
but they will sure work the cow's.
 
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One of my favorites! Congratulations! Last dog was border mix. Tons of energy & can learn just about anything purty quick.

His name was Spooter. He was 125lb border mixed with ? maybe mastiff. We got him free at a classic car swap meet.
He could not be contained by a kennel. He learned to open doors. He really loved to eat my shoes & hats when he was a pup. When he hit 2yrs he became the best dog I've ever owned. He'd tag along pheasant hunting, just trying to drain his energy level. He learned to work at the right distance. Flusher with the best of them. He absolutely loved to retrieve and would retrieve anything he knew ya wanted. His collar to go out, the paper, your shoes, birds, just about anything. Quail were his favorite. You couldn't rack a shotgun without him coming running.

I really really miss him still. Like country song miss him.

After having our current little runt black lab(good dog but different) I think my next will be another border.
 

fiver

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I had a border/Lab mix.
she wasn't much of a retriever but could mark birds and find them with the best of them.
if I shot a grouse or chuckar she would go find it then stand on or over it until I got there.

but as far as having around when we had cows she earned her keep there.
our neighbor would run cows in on his hay field in the fall and ours and his liked to intermingle.
she knew all of our cows and would cut them out and send the appropriate ones back home where they belonged.
it was pretty amazing to watch her do that without hardly any direction.
 

fiver

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well Jax hit 2 months old today.
she has just about got 'sit' down pat and we have been working on 'sit-up'
she pulled sit-up off earlier today for a peanut, with just the one command, the wife just about flipped out when she seen her do it.
potty training is coming along too, I have been working on her whining at the door when she wants to go out.
we done a short session of fetch yesterday, 4 trips was her limit [first time for that] then she jerked the cat off the couch sideways and ended up with a mouth full of fur, and lost interest.
the poor cat is starting to look a little mangy in spots.
 
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I'd sit up for a cashew or pecan but not a peanut.:p

I have a super simple effective potty training solution. Rub their nose in it & takem outside, give the command wait as long as it takes then reward. Last 3 dogs only needed that twice, they never went in the house again unless health issues crept up. Same goes for #2 in house or on my concrete. They learn it almostimmediately. All of them would go 1 or 2 on command or at least try after that process. I don't recall a third time with any of them.

Congrats on fetch. Current lab will do it instinctively but simply haven't gotten to on command with that in 3yrs now:sigh:

If any pet owners here need carpet or fabric spotting advice let me know.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Neighbors had a mess of scrub Longhorns. Worthless cattle and wild as could be. They weren't big over there on supply their stock with things like feed and I spent a lot of time trying to fix 40 year old barb wire and keep them out. We had 2 Border Collies and an Australian Shepherd at the time and they were pretty fair for sheep, worthless in cattle. The only dog we had out of 10 or so (I owned one of the 10) that was helpful with the cattle was my wife Lab. He didn't herd for snot but he'd charge them and bark if I could bring him in from the right direction. Useless dog for hunting. He was fair at catching field rats when I'd pick up a round bale though. Neighbors lost the place for back taxes, abandoned the Longhorns. Then we had feral cattle. They lasted another couple years before the last one was hunted down or died.

New neighbors on the other side have Yaks. They're worse than Longhorns.
 

fiver

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I save the nose rub for when they are a little older.
right now I just show her I'm not happy about it and the right thing to do.
I have a feeling she went through some rough stuff before I got her.
she has issues with larger dogs and acts like she was hit a bunch.[by a male]
she is smart enough and smart dogs seem to remember and act on those memories.
once I work through that little bit of trust issue, things will smooth out, we have made a lot of progress in a month.
 
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Well, if ya think she was hit or such, it would be an over aggressive approach.
 

fiver

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I think she was.
she will come over to me and want to get on the couch or for me to pet her and as soon as I reach down to help her she backs away.
she does the same thing when she doesn't want to come to me, or when she wants to go out.
she will sit down until I get there then try to run away.
the funny thing is she will leave me after asking to get up and I reach for her and go to the daughter or the wife to get up and she will almost jump up into their arms to get on the couch then walk over and lay down by me.
 
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Definitely go with yer gut on that.

Our dog still does that to the wife. She'll call him over & he'll skirt just outside her arms reach & come to me. It cracks me up(not as amusing to her) as I'm 15-20 times scarier than my wife. She's the kindest, loving, & most peaceful of us.

He does the same to my mother & he can do no wrong in her eye. If he don't feel good he's right near going to one of them.

Got him at 7weeks, he hadn't been in a house before we adopted him & it's pretty unlikely anyone mistreated him.

I think he does that because he thinks he is the #2 & the wife be #3. Although if she uses a stern voice he will mind her. I dunno.