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D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Thu May 2, '13 9:51am PST  D'artagnan isn't reactive, but he will growl and snap/ tell off a strange dog that wants to play and jumps on his head. Most of these owners think he is mean and aggressive. Unfortunatly the definition is in the landlords hands not yours. You could ask exactly what they mean- dog that has bit someone before versus a dog that may growl in a certain circumstance- but it seems like they weren't giving you a good vibe about it, so best idea is to find a new place. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Mon Apr 22, '13 8:18am PST  Even with a 15 pound dog I get adults that are scared. I have just ignored them and kept going. I don't think I have ever had a person scream though. That would get at least a dirty look. The dog is on a leash right next to me so stop being ridiculous. If he is on a flexi I do always reel him in when people walk by just in case and then they don't have to worry about an 'uncontrolled' dog. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Have you ever shouted at your dog?

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Sat Mar 16, '13 7:45pm PST  I don't generally have too(and try not to), but lately I think Dar has been trying to push my buttons. I was picking him up at my parents house and I took him out back to pee. He was all excited, ran around, spotted a kid playing basketball on the street and charged all barking and growling. He didn't pass the fence (post and rail) thank god, but I was SO MAD.I just yelled 'GET OVER HERE NOW!' which I think half the neighborhood heard. But Dar thought he was all awesome and stuff and took off in the other direction around the house. I followed him until he realized I wasn't giving up and when he sat his butt down, he got yelled at again and told to go into the house.inside, I was ignoring him and still fuming, but he just grabbed his bully stick and sat in my lap my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Is Your Dog a Protection Dog?

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Sat Mar 16, '13 7:22pm PST  D'artagnan is my little guard dog. I don't know what he would do if we weren't home, but when we are he will go after a person and try and chase them away or does a kind of 'guard' where he will bark and circle the person. He won't bite though. I learned of his protectiveness the hard way when the maintenance guy came to let me know our new AC was in. It was fine until he left and then Dar chased him down the stairs...oops. Now if someone comes to the door we have to tell Dar to back off or sit/stay because the second you open the door he WILL charge the person. If we let the person in he is fine, but if someone broke in he would definitely have a problem with that. Anywhere else, he is friendly or ignores people. I have had people walk by me that I didn't know where there and not even a peep from him. I don't know if it would be different if I was actually attacked though. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > dog study, diet related, different from wolves

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Sun Jan 27, '13 8:34pm PST  I think some people took the cake analogy a little too literally.... Maybe I should have said 'as part of a balanced diet'? Do people really believe that just because you can digest something it is the best for you? This study proves ONLY that dogs have a better ability than wolves to digest starch. It proves that dogs are not obligate carnivorous which many people already know. It does NOT prove that dogs NEED starch in their diet. It states that dogs 'thrived' on high starch diets, which there is no proof or any evidence of in the study. The only proven fact is that they SURVIVED on a high starch diet. The study also does NOT prove that a dog cannot get all of its needed nutrients from a raw diet, and therefore needs starch. And yet this is a quote from an article about the study: "Robert Wayne, a geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is also studying ancient dog genomes, says that starch metabolism could have been an important adaptation for dogs.... Nevertheless, the study adds to evidence that dogs should not eat the same food as wolves, says Wayne, who points out that dog food is rich in carbohydrates and low in protein compared with plain meat. “Every day I get an email from a dog owner who asks, should they feed their dog like a wolf," says Wayne. "I think this paper answers that question: no.”" http://www.nature.com/news/dog-s-dinner-was-key-to-domestication-1.1 2280. Where is the specific evidentiary PROOF that a dog (in general) CANNOT eat and thrive on the same diet as a wolf? Because it doesn't come from this article. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Thu Jan 24, '13 9:00am PST  In this article I didn't see anything say it is BETTER for dogs to eat starch just that they have a better survivability if they can't eat protein. This quote said it all for me: "More copies means more protein, and test-tube studies indicate that dogs should be fivefold better than wolves at digesting starch, the chief nutrient in agricultural grains such as wheat and rice. The number of copies of this gene also varies in people: Those eating high carbohydrate diets -- such as the Japanese and European Americans -- have more copies than people with starch-poor diets, such as the Mbuti in Africa." It is showing that bodies adjust to survive and get more nutrients out of what is being forced onto the body, not that it is overall what their body needs. Wouldn't people all have the same amount of the gene if that was the case? Or are people in Mbuti evolving into carnivores? In other words, I can digest sugar perfectly fine but eating cake and ice cream as part of my diet is probably not the best way to go. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Dog to Dog Corrections

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Wed Jan 16, '13 8:44am PST  Asher, I was thinking 'growling is a first correction' instead of 'correction is the snap or bite'. your posts make more sense now I find is that if the dog keeps chewing (this does not include chewing more frantically!) while growling, that is likely all he will do" - Tiller He did keep chewing and he didn't tense at all (and I don't think he chewed any faster) which is why I didn't feel it was a resource aggression thing like the SBF did. My mom is watching them both today (apparently they were both chewing and now they are sleeping all cuddly) so I think today when I pick him up if there is an issue I will just move to the couch with Dar. Short little corgi puppy legs can't jump up there yet If sister & SBF don't want Dar to correct that's fine, but If I just keep moving Dar and my sister and/or SBF don't do anything with the pup I feel like it will be a bigger problem in the future. If it was my puppy, I think I would let Dar continue to correct unless it had the potential to get out of hand. I trust Dar and he didn't give any sign that he had any intention to actually hurt Atreyu. I can help the puppy learn the rules, but I think 2 dogs should learn to communicate without me involved if they are going to live together. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Dog to Dog Corrections

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Tue Jan 15, '13 4:18pm PST  I do believe that a dog should be able to communicate its feelings and speak for itself when it needs to. I don't understand why I should be able to tell a child/ person to quite it but a dog can't. In the case that he seemed overwhelmed or over stressed I will gladly step in, but in this case, to me Dar seemed more in just a 'knock it off' mood. He didn't mind when Trey jumped on his back and I would think that would cause problems also if felt overly stressed about the situation. Asher, removing the puppy was actually what I was hoping the owner would do, whether by crate or redirection. But since he didn't I felt it was better to let the dog to dog communication continue instead of me 'training' their puppy. You mentioned that you never let your dogs get to a point where they feel the need to correct, but Dar corrected pretty quickly with a growl. It wasn't a situation where the puppy harassed him for 10 minutes, then he started growling. I'm just a little confused between this and correcting immediately, as in Nare's post you seemed to be okay with that immediate correction. Plus there is not time to remove a dog if it growl/snaps/nips immediately. Tiller, I never thought about a timeout or redirection having an affect on social dynamics (in this type of case anyway). It makes a lot of sense to me. I was/am concerned about what Atreyu learned as well because Dar growled and snapped but Dar ended up playing with him after I took the bone away. I feel like Atreyu is going to learn that if he keeps pushing he gets what he wants.... Obviously this has only happened once but... And poor Chester my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Dog to Dog Corrections

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Sat Jan 12, '13 2:29pm PST  Thanks, It nice to know I wasn't just being completely biased. I can see the bone being part of it, but I didn't feel it was 'aggression' just 'please get out of my face while I chew this'. The bully sticks(there were 3 of them) were on the floor when I came over, I think the sticks were on the floor most of the day, they were just to busy beating each other up to care about chewing them. Atreyu seemed a little interested in the chew but most of the time it was more of a dive on to Dar's face instead of focusing on the bone (He likes faces- got my sister on the lip a couple days ago).I was trying to distract him, but apparently he likes Dar better than me . I did take the bone away cause I didn't want to start a bigger human fight, and while Trey did go over and try to sniff it (on top of a table) he then barked and jumped on top of Dar and they wrestled some more. Now I just need to figure out what to do next time. I'll probably ens up taking the bone away again, I'm just afraid Atreyu isn't going to learn anything...which I'm sure will cause future problems with new dogs. And I'm a little frustrated that my dog has to supposedly take the 'abuse'. But since he is adorable, if even if he is a pain in the butt puppy... Little Porker my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

D'artagnan I'm not lazy,- I'm just waiting- to play..     Barked: Fri Jan 11, '13 11:26am PST  So I got into a small argument with my sister's BF the other day about D'artagnan and his correction to their three month old puppy. Dar was over their house having an all day play date with the puppy (Atreyu). Whenever I come home Dar gets excited and grabs a bully stick to chew. So when I picked him up his time it was no different and he sat on my lap and was chewing his stick. Trey wanted to play and kept jumping on Dar's face. Dar was getting upset by this and at first started whining. Then he graduated to growling, which he did at least 5 times, and only when Trey jumped in Dar's face ( Atreyu tried to climb on Dar's back a couple times and Dar didn't care at all). And since the growling didn't work he started to snap. ...Which where the argument began. The BF said that I need to take the bone away because Dar was getting aggressive. I said that Dar was correcting Atreyu, and the BF responded by saying Atreyu was already corrected by the first growl (which obviously taught him nothing). The BF asked the trainer he works with and she was kind of in the middle. She said a snap for a correction is okay but you should remove the problem so it doesn't escalate into a bite or fight. Of course, HE sees the problem as the bone and I see the problem as the puppy. So I wanted to know what your opinions on correcting were? I think that Dar was being pretty patient and gentle with Atreyu and had the right to nip/bite if it came down to it. The BF seemed to think Dar had to take whatever Trey did to him because he didn't think it important enough to try and remove the pup from a growling dog. That's kind of frustrating for me, but I would also like to make sure I'm not out of line with allowing Dar to correct. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become pals [notify]

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