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There's more proof to you that Turk is the less confident and more environmentally sensitive dog of the two -- I've been saying that all along.
yep.
now I just need to be the more dog-sensitive owner who can detect that in action and figure out what to do with it!
s'ok... I get better eyes all the time. the LGDs are somewhat different than what I'm used to. adjustments underway.
case in point on how they're different than other dogs I've worked with... the week I got them, we took a leashed walk around the property perimeter. blackberry hedge covers some of the fences. I reached into the hedge to pull off a blackberry, ate it, picked a second one, ate it, when I reached in to pick a third, both dogs reached in at the same time as I did and carefully bit off a blackberry and ate it. really paying attention, these dogs are. what I would expect, if they were tracking and typical of my experience, is they would go to my hand after I picked the blackberry to try to eat it. or go to where I was picking specifically to see if there was something tasty there. but instead they went to the hedge on their own and picked a blackberry - very deliberate action. that's a second level of reference that really surprised me. smart dogs.
There's more proof to you that Turk is the less confident and more environmentally sensitive dog of the two -- I've been saying that all along.
yep.
now I just need to be the more dog-sensitive owner who can detect that in action and figure out what to do with it!
s'ok... I get better eyes all the time. the LGDs are somewhat different than what I'm used to. adjustments underway.
case in point on how they're different than other dogs I've worked with... the week I got them, we took a leashed walk around the property perimeter. blackberry hedge covers some of the fences. I reached into the hedge to pull off a blackberry, ate it, picked a second one, ate it, when I reached in to pick a third, both dogs reached in at the same time as I did and carefully bit off a blackberry and ate it. really paying attention, these dogs are. what I would expect, if they were tracking and typical of my experience, is they would go to my hand after I picked the blackberry to try to eat it. or go to where I was picking specifically to see if there was something tasty there. but instead they went to the hedge on their own and picked a blackberry - very deliberate action. that's a second level of reference that really surprised me. smart dogs.
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