Dogs and bitches
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@siam Thanks. Absolutely what I have done WRT not getting excited when you see her. Wife hasn't done that so well and it shows in behaviour (dog, not wife, again).
@Siam . I am training her to hate the Irish today. Unfortunately they don't have hand signal - so using "potato famine" as a hate thing.
Any tips on training a wife would also be useful.
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@siam said in Dogs and bitches:
Apparently the human is supposed to go through the door/gate first and you should insist they come back and you go first. Had a dog trainer once explain that every time you step over a dog ( usually on a door threshold), the dog thinks " pussy, go on step over pussy, I'm the boss I'm not moving for you". Trainer said shoo him out of the way everytime
That's the sort of info I need. Thanks.
We had our second night of "school" on Thursday. Dogs are amazing. Humans don't give enough credit to the intelligence of animals.
Now if I could just get the cat to behave...
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@snowy from experience you absolutely MUST entice the dog to come at the slightest whistle or click or noise. Use heaps of treats and do this in secret from the wife.
Then one evening, all is peaceful and dog is snuggled on a contented wife when all of a sudden you trigger the dog, it jumps up and immediately trots over to you, jumps in your lap and settles in.The foul look on the wife's face and the pure betrayal in her eyes gets you through a month of normal marital hardship....and all the while her beloved dog snoozes in your lap. It's fricken priceless!
Last thing is, I have a theory that dogs love the human that takes them out and walking more than the human that feeds them
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good to socialise them with other people and dogs too, both at home and out.
Our cat/dog is the wifes dog without a doubt, he sits and stares out the window for her when she goes out.
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@taniwharugby said in Dogs and bitches:
he sits and stares out the window for her when she goes out.
That is the bit I am trying to avoid. Seems to be going O.K.but they really want to be a part of a pack and if an important person is missing they pine.
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@snowy he will follow me about and play if I want to, but once I stop he goes back to the staring spot.
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@taniwharugby Yeah, quite happy for the puppy to be wife's, just want her to listen to me (both of them).
Dog is now eating my shoe.
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@snowy good luck with that....there is only 1 in our household that does what I say, and it aint the wife or 2 kids!
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@taniwharugby You have someone that listens to you? Well done.
I can make the cat run away. Chickens ignore me -I'm no threat. The fuckers should know that I eat them several times a week.
I would like to have one "being" that will respond, at some stage of my life. Hence the thread.
WTF is this white male patriarchy shit? I'm a downtrodden minion and am determined to have one bitch under my control.
She is eating my paperwork as I type, but it is O.K. I said she could and they are bills. Well I didn't say that she could, really. It is quite hard to argue with a puppy. I'd rather take on the Baron.
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@snowy dont get me started on chickens!!
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@taniwharugby said in Dogs and bitches:
@snowy dont get me started on chickens!!
Do you have a problem one? I have a completely loopy chook that I love. Mad as a hatter, runs around the garden chasing nothing. Very entertaining.
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@snowy nah I had to get rid of the 'good one' last week; she was about 6 or 7 and was a rescue hen, blind in one eye, so when she followed you it was amusing, she used to always escape the enclosure, come in the house if doors were open, jump up on window legde and peck window to get your attention, loopy as too...we lost 3 in last month, so wife replaces 3 with 6 more....new lot are ok though, 5 eggs a day, lazy free loading 6 we have had for years giving us 0!!
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@taniwharugby Ha. We are a hen sanctuary. Really not the correct space for them at our current house, but, wife. Eggs are a bonus, we have 2 freeloaders.
Dog is now thrashing a car wash bush. Funny as fuck. Looking forward to an AB doing that to the Irish.
