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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 1, 2015 18:28:40 GMT
You can pick up a few tips from Cesar Milan
The Dog Whisperer is back on TV
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Post by Tim on Feb 1, 2015 20:23:52 GMT
Do I have dog problems? . . . . I'm not going to even try to answer this one  . . . (not so much these days!!!) |
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Post by Chris on Feb 1, 2015 21:02:50 GMT
Agreed he's good but I'm better.  I also used to like Mick from Dog Borstal as well. He knew what he was doing and he likes Staffies. |
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Post by Paul Barker on Feb 1, 2015 21:34:24 GMT
I turned up to a house last week with an Akita in charge. The female owner was 4ft nothing and the dog ignored everything she said. "my partner is his owner and he's at work."
Anyway it went alright.
I suspect smelling of dog myself helps. All customers dogs seem to really take to me and spend a long time enjoying the fragrance of Staffie bitch. It even disarmed this Akita dog.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 1, 2015 21:53:06 GMT
We've had dogs for many years and picked up many good pointers Wish I'd known more all those years ago Interesting programmes anyway if you don't have a dog or a problem (Tim !)  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 22:56:44 GMT
Never had any problems with cats; wild animals who deigns to live with you. Or sometimes not, if they think there is better lodgings with a neighbour.
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Post by Paul Barker on Feb 2, 2015 8:04:30 GMT
When I was a teen we had a cat that had a mad half hour every evening. Ran like a mad cat round the tops of all the furniture scratching anyone who got in the way.
It was also extremely cruel to wild life.
It has coloured my view on cats. Much wildlife would be a lot happier if we hadn't domesticated this efficient predator.
I'll not forget when I worked in the Tobermory Hotel, met an old woman in the town who had sat on a chair what looked like a large tabby. I was about to stroke it when she said "don't touch it, it's a wild cat!"
reminds me of the time I learned you don't lean down to a Jack Russel sat on a chair to stroke it. A dog for which safest assumption is it will put a hard bight in on it's forst interaction with any dog or human. Assume that and you'll lose less blood. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 2, 2015 8:08:39 GMT
Yes cats decimate wildlife. The figures are mind blowing
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Post by Chris on Feb 2, 2015 20:07:35 GMT
I don't get this letting a cat outside thing. Lee Roy is an inside cat so no probs with wildlife,folks gardens,other cats or getting run over or just leaving. Letting a cat outside,to me, is just asking for bother.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 3, 2015 9:14:39 GMT
The other thing about cats is the amount killed, especially in urban and semi urban areas.
I was upset to take one out some years ago
Driving home, saw a movement in peripheral vision, thought "animal' braked very hard, too late.
Apologised profusely to the owners, said I could not avoid it - they said - don't worry
How many others have they lost
THey live on a fairly busy, quite fast country road
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Post by jammy on Feb 3, 2015 18:32:47 GMT
Meet Bernie and Ozzy.  Ozzy's Problem aint so bad - He just wont stop sticking his tounge out at photographers...!! Bernie on the other hand is at a funny age (13 Months) and just wants to shag anything that moves...!! I WILL HAVE TO WAIT TILL HE IS 18 MONTHS OLD AND HIS PLATES STOP GROWING BEFORE HIS NUTS ARE HISTORY. Does this calm em down in general....any info apprieciated. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 4, 2015 8:11:19 GMT
Nut removal should help
Think it was Cesar that let me know for the first time that they live longer with no nuts. Wish I 'd know that as all my previous boys were intact.
Could have saved Bill, mini wire har Dachs from buggering his back and needing a major urgent op to save him.
He'd been humping constantly for days
Our Lily, Jackahuaha has her tongue out nearly all the time. Bottom jaw too far back (and breathing not clever either)
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Post by Pinch on Feb 4, 2015 9:30:12 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 4, 2015 9:51:39 GMT
Brilliant
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 22:51:12 GMT
Yes cats decimate wildlife. The figures are mind blowing The only significant wildlife my cat goes for are rats. And frankly she is welcome to them. Ones that I and my neighbour tried everything from humane traps to breakback traps to poison and failed, our old cat worked her way through the whole lot of them. Sure there is the very occasional mouse and vole, but no birds (maybe she is too old to catch them). Why a cat rather than a dog? Because we do not have a lifestyle that is good for a dog. I've seen too many neglected dogs whose masters sod off to work in the morning and come back in the evening. An Alsatian that my mother's neighours had eventually died before age 2 from colitis, because the poor darned animal felt it was being abandoned each and every day. I will not run the risk of putting a dog through that sort of hell. Hence cats. |
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Post by Paul Barker on Feb 4, 2015 23:14:34 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 5, 2015 8:28:15 GMT
Yes cats decimate wildlife. The figures are mind blowing The only significant wildlife my cat goes for are rats. And frankly she is welcome to them. Ones that I and my neighbour tried everything from humane traps to breakback traps to poison and failed, our old cat worked her way through the whole lot of them. Sure there is the very occasional mouse and vole, but no birds (maybe she is too old to catch them). Why a cat rather than a dog? Because we do not have a lifestyle that is good for a dog. I've seen too many neglected dogs whose masters sod off to work in the morning and come back in the evening. An Alsatian that my mother's neighours had eventually died before age 2 from colitis, because the poor darned animal felt it was being abandoned each and every day. I will not run the risk of putting a dog through that sort of hell. Hence cats. Odd it goes for rats and not birds Too many people take on dogs that really should not. Older dogs can be left for a while, but never younger dogs, like that poor guy |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 5, 2015 8:29:01 GMT
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Post by Chris on Feb 5, 2015 20:20:48 GMT
There's a fair chance neutering a dog won't solve the humping problem Jammy. Humping like that isn't always a sexual thing more a dominance issue which is THE big thing with males. Socialising him with bigger older dogs can calm that right down. Neutering will however remove the problem of testicular cancer which is what did my Staffie(Bronco/Bronx) in. He could have gotten treatment/pills etc etc but at 13 and leading the life he did that was never going to happen.
Not much but I hope this helps.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 5, 2015 21:25:28 GMT
Cesar is big on neutering.
I always identified with the dogs and thought about my nuts being chopped off.
When I was told they live longer without nuts I was sold
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