On Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:04:55 +0000, "DELL" <
csh...@yahoo.net> wrote:
> > > This is a channel check to see if any lurkers surface.
> > Surfacing... Looking around... Resume lurking...
> How'd your pup do?
https://bit.ly/3S7QufD
That picture's two years old.
I've had dogs all my life but never one who was such a problem to
train as Chicco. By "problem" I mean I have to conciously train him
using all the tricks in the book. (All my previous dogs more or less
naturally trained themselves.) One part of the problem is that I
started on him late: He was about a year old when I rescued him from
the shelter and his previous owners had never given him any sort of
training--including walking on leash--at all. Another part is that
I've never had a dog who was so intensely smell-focused. When he gets
a scent up his nose all his other senses seem to shut down: he seems
not to see or hear anything while he's tracking the scent. For this
reason I still can't reliably let him off leash although his recall
very much improved after I started using a referee's whistle.
Apparently he can't ignore that.
> Mine is having trouble with arthritis.
Sorry to hear that. I've been through that many times myself with
Chicco's predecessors. With them my only options were palliative care.
--
Bob
Sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est