Charlie's Thread

rjohns39 · May 24, 2022

I love pictures of your babies :love

Glad you got meds for both worms and eyes.

HuffleClaw · May 24, 2022

rjohns39 said:
I love pictures of your babies Glad you got meds for both worms and eyes.

Her eyes already look SO much better this morning. I did her eyes and wormed her this morning. She surprisingly did pretty good! She liked the wormer :lol:

rjohns39 · May 24, 2022

HuffleClaw said:
Her eyes already look SO much better this morning. I did her eyes and wormed her this morning. She surprisingly did pretty good! She liked the wormer

That's really good

DobieLover · May 24, 2022

HuffleClaw said:
Her eyes already look SO much better this morning. I did her eyes and wormed her this morning. She surprisingly did pretty good! She liked the wormer

I would get the Safeguard dog wormer and de-worm Charlie too. I doubt that he hasn't been exposed to the roundworm eggs. Poor little Trixie was loaded. :hugs

@HuffleClaw I just finished reading the thread. You're doing a great job with Charlie. Regardless of the strongly suspected bad genetics, I think you will eventually get to a good, consistent place with him. He'll never be "perfect" but what dog or person is?

Every dog I've ever owned has been an adopted rescue. Six Dobermans, 2 min pins and a rat TERRIER mix! (He's a great little guy!) The rehabs are A LOT of work. I've dealt with extreme separation anxiety, extreme insecurity/fearfulness and aggression. All came around with lots of consistent handling.

Some more reinforcement of what you've already read and been advised that has worked for me and my dogs:

Never feel bad for the dog. That shows you are not a confident leader. All dogs need a confident calm leader.
Always give them the exercise they need to burn off energy before training sessions. You've done very well at this.
A stable, well adjusted confident dog will do far more to help an insecure/fearful dog than a person ever could. I learned this with my first two girls. I would hook my fearful dog to the collar of my secure dog and walk them together that way. Whenever we encountered something that my fearful dog was apprehensive about, my secure dog would just plow right ahead without a care in the world and the next thing I saw was my fearful dog approaching her object of terror and overcoming it.

I personally would not be so intent on loosing the e-collar. All my dogs have been trained to it. It is a security tool. It can save a dogs life on that ONE time they decide not to listen to you and take off when they shouldn't. And it is an enforcement tool. The dog knows you can backup your commands if they don't listen immediately. I can't remember the last time I've had to use the stim on my dogs collars. I just use the buzzer as a warning.

My dogs start going a little cuckoo at the sight, even the sound, of their e-collars because they know it means they are going for a run. Bella got so nutty about it and was leaping up into the air like a JRT that I had to train her to sit her fanny down and keep her head down so I could collar her. She almost bashed my face one day leaping around.

HuffleClaw · May 24, 2022

DobieLover said:
I would get the Safeguard dog wormer and de-worm Charlie too. I doubt that he hasn't been exposed to the roundworm eggs. Poor little Trixie was loaded.

@HuffleClaw I just finished reading the thread. You're doing a great job with Charlie. Regardless of the strongly suspected bad genetics, I think you will eventually get to a good, consistent place with him. He'll never be "perfect" but what dog or person is?

Every dog I've ever owned has been an adopted rescue. Six Dobermans, 2 min pins and a rat TERRIER mix! (He's a great little guy!) The rehabs are A LOT of work. I've dealt with extreme separation anxiety, extreme insecurity/fearfulness and aggression. All came around with lots of consistent handling.

Some more reinforcement of what you've already read and been advised that has worked for me and my dogs:

Never feel bad for the dog. That shows you are not a confident leader. All dogs need a confident calm leader.

Always give them the exercise they need to burn off energy before training sessions. You've done very well at this.

A stable, well adjusted confident dog will do far more to help an insecure/fearful dog than a person ever could. I learned this with my first two girls. I would hook my fearful dog to the collar of my secure dog and walk them together that way. Whenever we encountered something that my fearful dog was apprehensive about, my secure dog would just plow right ahead without a care in the world and the next thing I saw was my fearful dog approaching her object of terror and overcoming it.

I personally would not be so intent on loosing the e-collar. All my dogs have been trained to it. It is a security tool. It can save a dogs life on that ONE time they decide not to listen to you and take off when they shouldn't. And it is an enforcement tool. The dog knows you can backup your commands if they don't listen immediately. I can't remember the last time I've had to use the stim on my dogs collars. I just use the buzzer as a warning.

My dogs start going a little cuckoo at the sight, even the sound, of their e-collars because they know it means they are going for a run. Bella got so nutty about it and was leaping up into the air like a JRT that I had to train her to sit her fanny down and keep her head down so I could collar her. She almost bashed my face one day leaping around.

Thank you. I’ve actually been “reconditioning” him to wearing his ecollar for situations outside of home. I just don’t think I can let go of the one thing that may be able to save him from an emergency situation, like you said. And you’re right, no dog or person is perfect. :hugs

I’ve still gotta get wormer for Charlie. Luckily I had wormer at the house for cats.