Dog lovers - post pics of your dogs!

[Starfire669]

Here is a photo of my agility demo team mates. I am holding the 2 Siberians. Sasha is the black and white girl, and Dawn is the light copper girl.

 

[rachpatterson]

Here are my babies

Sugar

And Winchester

 

[jerrey]

Foster my Aussie

Sadie, my old girl. 12 years old, a rescued border collie cross had her sense she was 7months

My dogs and one of my sons at bath time

how sweet

 

[mossyroo]

Embla, Trixie, & Blondie being introduced to their first chickens.

 

[dekel18042]

Here is a photo of my agility demo team mates. I am holding the 2 Siberians. Sasha is the black and white girl, and Dawn is the light copper girl.

You are very brave doing agility with Siberians. Do they get along with your chickens? Here is Piper practicing jumping. He has many chicken friends.

 

[Starfire669]

You are very brave doing agility with Siberians. Do they get along with your chickens? Here is Piper practicing jumping. He has many chicken friends.

I have never been brave enough to let them near the chickens, ducks, and geese. I know that Sasha will and has killed chickens in the past, she is a 4 year old rescued stray. Dawn, Phantom, and Cheyenne had never seen chickens before but just act way too interested for my comfort. Rascal, my 5 year old rescued Belgian Malinois could be trained to leave them alone, but I want to get him through higher obedience training before I try, he is doing well in novice obedience work so there is hope he could become the flock guardian. The Siberians are doing amazingly well, you just need lots of patience! Dawn, who is 2 years old, is ready to start competition level agility training, and she just earned her CGC title. Dawn is the demo teams top equipment dog, she rarely gets the zoomies and always delivers a good run. Phantom got his CGC at the same time Dawn did, but he is only 11 months old and needs more maturing. He does all the equipment and is amazingly fast, but he needs control, so I am waiting before stepping up his training. Sasha loves agility, and is my best jumper, but she don't have the drive needed for competition levels. She is one of our better social dogs though. She is very peaceful and composed around crowds and has an amazing ability to calm other dogs. 1 year old Cheyenne is another rescue, and she has major fear issues. She pee herself around strange people, and turns aggressive around strange dogs. For her basic obedience/agility is a confidence builder, something to try and help her become a real dog instead of this fearful mess. I have seen improvements already, she went willingly with the strange lady vet to get spayed, without peeing or having to be dragged! Was a major breakthrough for her! Rascal don't care for agility at all, but he loves obedience work, so that's what he does. Siberians can do anything other dogs can do, they just need patience and a different way of training. You have to understand your breed, what it was bred for, and how it thinks, then you can do amazing things with them. I have some great dogs, not all of them had good starts in life. Rascal was found beaten, starved, and very man aggressive as a pup, I couldn't even collar him because of what had been done to him. Cheyenne was from a puppy mill, no contact with humans, dogs, even grass. Her eyes were crusted shut and she was so full of worms there was no poop in her stools. Sasha ran the streets and had a litter at 10 months old. We don't know if she was intentionally bred that young or if she was on the streets and got pregnant. Dawn and Phantom I got from reputable breeders. But Dawn was heavily spoiled, and out of control, this has set rules for her and made her easier to handle and live with. Phantom just needs his energy drained, he is by far the most hyper dog in the house. And yet, all of them have passed basic obedience and are doing basic agility, and it has helped them all in some way. After the basic intro classes, the dogs "tell me" what they like / are good at and that's were I take them. Siberians are a moving breed, no surprise they all do better at agility than obedience! Lol. Yet all of them did a "down, stay" to pass the basic obedience class before moving into basic agility. And now Rascal has moved to novice obedience and Dawn moves to competition agility in the new year. I don't know where we will end up, but we have fun doing our thing together, and it has helped my dogs with their respective issues.

 

[dekel18042]

I admire your persistence in training your Siberians and some of the other more difficult breeds. My husband got one once. and she could have gotten a CD inside a fenced area. Outside of one, she was gone....(She would come back...eventually...) As for the fence.....it had three different locks and fasteners on it. The neighborhood kids couldn't get in and out but the Siberian could. When we let her out in the yard I would have to watch. The minute she went near the gate, I had five minutes to bring her in before she would have the locks all opened. unbelievable but true. She was also the only dog who ever killed poultry or couldn't be trained to leave them alone.
Even the cats and terrier were no treat to the chickens and ducks.
I had a Siberian breeder who competed in sled races tell me he couldn't believe she let the cats alone because usually they won't.

 

[Starfire669]

   I admire your persistence in training your Siberians and some of the other more difficult breeds. My husband got one once. and she could have gotten a CD inside a fenced area.  Outside of one, she was gone....(She would come back...eventually...)    As for the fence.....it had three different locks and fasteners on it.  The neighborhood kids couldn't get in and out but the Siberian could.  When we let her out in the yard I would have to watch.  The minute she went near the gate, I had five minutes to bring her in before she would have the locks all opened.  unbelievable but true.  She was also the only dog who ever killed poultry or couldn't be trained to leave them alone.
      Even the cats and terrier were no treat to the chickens and ducks.
       I had a Siberian breeder who competed in sled races tell me he couldn't believe she let the cats alone because usually they won't. 

I have 5 personal cats, 4 are inside only cats, and I currently have 2 foster kittens staying with me while they recover from spay surgery. So 6 cats living and running around indoors. None of my Siberians bother the cats. Sasha and Cheyenne try to mother the cats, and Dawn has her own personal cat. I don't understand the bond between Dawn and Kagura, but I couldn't separate them if I wanted to. And it is not just my dogs, I for fostered a 18 month old Rottweiler for 10 months, she had never seen cats before and she also learned to love them. My dogs get curious when a foster cat comes in, but they don't ever try to hurt it, just smell it, see if it will play or snuggle and if not, then they leave it alone.

As for doors and gates, Dawn and Phantom know how to open door knobs and handles. Rascal, my Belgian Malinois used to escape regularly. I built a special dog pen for him and so far it has worked. But I believe they could escape if they truly wanted to, I see 2 points that would be easy for them to get out. But I don't stress over it, last year an A/C repairman left their gate open and I didn't know it for 20 minutes. When I realized what happened, I grabbed my keys to go look for them, opened the front door, and zoom Dawn and Sasha ran in, followed by Rascal (this was before Phantom and Cheyenne joined our family). If they didn't take off then, I don't think they want to, I think I am meeting their needs and they are happy/content with me.

 

[leanna1120]

This is Murphy. He's a 1 year old English Cream Golden Retriever. As you can see...he's not spoiled, extremely high-strung, and hates both my chickens and children

 

[torilovessmiles]

Duchess the white German Shepherd (2 years)





Nina the Chihuahua (4 years)




Charlie the Brussels Griffon (11 years)



Daisy the Beagle (10 years)

Love my fur babies <3