Re: Buying A Dog : Sun May 12, 2013 2:51 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Every dog I have ever known has treasured a crisp packet and would sit patiently waiting for you to finish it before taking to their bed, splitting it so that it folded out into one piece and spending all night long licking it, the splitting down the seam and neatly folding it out must be genetic now because they've all known how to do it.

The current hound also covets used yoghurt pots.

my brothers Rottweiler/lab loves yoghurt pots too, I'd finished a muller corner and before I'd even put it down for him he had his face in it and bit straight through the pot.

He also seems to have a thing for takeaway chips, mainly the crunchy little ones, must be the same as the obsession with crisps all dogs have. He's still learning to behave so he gets the "sit, paw, high five, lie down, roll over" before he gets food and as I went to give him a chip last night he did the whole routine before I'd asked he was that excited

Re: Buying A Dog : Sun May 12, 2013 9:08 pm  

Hull White Star wrote:

You could try using a long house line on him. When he jumps on the sofa, gently grab the line and bring him down, using a cue word like "off" and once he is down treating and plenty of praise. I let my two on my sofa, but they know they have to be on their own "cushions", likewise with my bed, I have a throw which they lay on. I don't think he's pushing the boundaries, this is probably a learned and acceptable behaviour in a previous life and you want to now change the behaviour, which is ok, just going to take some work and patience with him and plenty of practise.

As with the shoe or cushion, is it that you want him to play but not with those items? If thats the case and you want him to play with an acceptable toy you need to get that toy when he comes to you and ask him to drop the unwanted item in favour of the acceptable toy. If he is more food orientated you could start with teaching him the "drop" using a treat first and when he gets this change the treat for his favourite toy. I wouldn't discourage play unless its not acceptable or the right time for you ie you are on the way out, to bed etc.

If you feel he has too much energy check the protein level in his food. For example feeding Bakers with all the e numbers (sunset yellow is banned in the UK for children) is like giving kids McDonalds for breakfast, dinner and tea 7 days a week. I use a working dog food but its only branded as that to get around the VAT. James Wellbeloved, Burns or Chappie are good commercial foods.

Thanks for the advice, I tried substituting his toy today and it worked quite well. I also used it to coax him off the couch with too so all in all quite a success.

He's got plenty of energy as you say and seems to need about two hours of walking a day which suits me quite well as I manage to combine it with a trip to the allotment. Foodwise the vet warned us about Bakers so we've been giving him Burns instead.

Re: Buying A Dog : Mon May 13, 2013 7:02 pm  

I must admit to secretly liking her black and white (probably why) border collie.
It's a bit of a fussy pain in the @rse but is a pleasure after the snarling horrible little Jack Russell typee thing she had.
Fooking horrible little rat that was.
I wasn't particularly unhappy when it popped it's clogs.

For someone who has made a point of never having anything to do with our 4 legged friends I've even started taking it out for the ocassional walk and even picking it's shoite up.

A new man?

Re: Buying A Dog : Mon May 13, 2013 8:42 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

I must admit to secretly liking her black and white (probably why) border collie.
It's a bit of a fussy pain in the @rse but is a pleasure after the snarling horrible little Jack Russell typee thing she had.
Fooking horrible little rat that was.
I wasn't particularly unhappy when it popped it's clogs.

For someone who has made a point of never having anything to do with our 4 legged friends I've even started taking it out for the ocassional walk and even picking it's shoite up.

A new man?

We should have play dates with the dogs on Rockford Green

Re: Buying A Dog : Tue May 14, 2013 9:51 am  

Hull White Star wrote:

We should have play dates with the dogs on Rockford Green

Not around Chamberlain area nowadays HWS.

[Matt_Horton]

Re: Buying A Dog : Tue May 14, 2013 4:56 pm  

Can you stop Sully from being a little oik?

Can you also stop Tilly from peeing on my pillow?

TIA

Re: Buying A Dog : Wed May 15, 2013 10:07 am  

Road To Nowhere wrote:

Can you stop Sully from being a little oik?

Can you also stop Tilly from peeing on my pillow?

TIA

1. No, I'm not Barbara Woodhouse, ffs

2. She's telling you she loves you, silly

Dear Tilly

If you leave me a love note on my pillow next week you will be sleeping in the shed. Love Aunty Steph. xxx

Re: Buying A Dog : Wed May 15, 2013 11:33 am  

Road To Nowhere wrote:

...

Can you also stop Tilly from peeing on my pillow?

TIA

Tilly is clearly only marking her territory. You need to keep off her territory.

[Matt_Horton]

Re: Buying A Dog : Wed May 15, 2013 2:30 pm  

Hull White Star wrote:

1. No, I'm not Barbara Woodhouse, ffs

You sounded like it earlier lol

Hull White Star wrote:

2. She's telling you she loves you, silly

I know she loves me and she did it in sheer excitement when seeing me

Hull White Star wrote:

Dear Tilly

If you leave me a love note on my pillow next week you will be sleeping in the shed. Love Aunty Steph. xxx

Noooooo!!!!!

[Matt_Horton]

Re: Buying A Dog : Wed May 15, 2013 2:32 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Tilly is clearly only marking her territory. You need to keep off her territory.

My pillow is not her territory. It's MINE!

She's also attempted the eat the SKY remote as well the little witch.