Sled dog breeding

[Starfire669]

Do you think she would like pulling a little cart? It would be fun for both of you i bet.

She would do anything I asked her to do. She is a rott, through and through, she would work until she died. But she was diagnosed heartworm positive in December and so right now I am just walking her. She is overweight, and that plus possible heartworms means I need to take it easy on her. I have had her under treatment since I found out, but can't retest until this December. She is doing great though. She walked 3.5 miles and took a nice bath in the river to cool off on our last walk.

When I take Fiona out for walks I have to watch her carefully for signs of fatigue. Her first sign is that she don't keep as much tension on the leash. This is not alarming as it usually means we are past that first frisky bit of excitement and she has settled into the walk. Her next sign is she will start to lightly scuff her back feet a little. This sign has me turning her around to come back to the truck. Her third sign is she can't walk a straight line. She usually does this the last quarter mile before we are back to the truck. I always carry a backpack with water for her and the kids, we stop and drink a lot. And whenever we see an easy entrance to the river we take Fiona in to cool off. We let her in deep enough to get the bottom of her chest wet, but never enough to go swimming. She would keep going if I let her, but when I see signs that she is tired I turn her around and bring her home. The idea is to gently build muscle, and lose fat. Not work her until she collapses, which she would do. She is a great dog.

 

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She would do anything I asked her to do. She is a rott, through and through, she would work until she died. But she was diagnosed heartworm positive in December and so right now I am just walking her. She is overweight, and that plus possible heartworms means I need to take it easy on her. I have had her under treatment since I found out, but can't retest until this December. She is doing great though. She walked 3.5 miles and took a nice bath in the river to cool off on our last walk.

When I take Fiona out for walks I have to watch her carefully for signs of fatigue. Her first sign is that she don't keep as much tension on the leash. This is not alarming as it usually means we are past that first frisky bit of excitement and she has settled into the walk. Her next sign is she will start to lightly scuff her back feet a little. This sign has me turning her around to come back to the truck. Her third sign is she can't walk a straight line. She usually does this the last quarter mile before we are back to the truck. I always carry a backpack with water for her and the kids, we stop and drink a lot. And whenever we see an easy entrance to the river we take Fiona in to cool off. We let her in deep enough to get the bottom of her chest wet, but never enough to go swimming. She would keep going if I let her, but when I see signs that she is tired I turn her around and bring her home. The idea is to gently build muscle, and lose fat. Not work her until she collapses, which she would do. She is a great dog.

carting can help lose weight. my lab should cart, but i don't have one

. if you like to hike/camp, she would be a great packing dog.

 

[SternRose]

Hi people. My rabbit had her baby's 3 days ago.

 

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how do you get dogs to take food from you hands gently. when ever i try to hand feed my dog, like give it a treat, he will bite my hand in his attempts to get the treat

 

[Americano Blue]

how do you get dogs to take food from you hands gently. when ever i try to hand feed my dog, like give it a treat, he will bite my hand in his attempts to get the treat

even if i do a flat hand like when feeding a horse

 

[SternRose]

how do you get dogs to take food from you hands gently. when ever i try to hand feed my dog, like give it a treat, he will bite my hand in his attempts to get the treat

We teach ours "gentle" when there pups, but we had to retrain one cuz my brother moved out for 1year and then this year we had to get her back. But what we do is do it like you'd do to a horse, the months later introduce the word, the do it in a fist, and if they bite us we yell "GENTLE" and pop them on the nose, then we do finger tips after they mastered the fist, then if they bite the fingers we yell"GENTLE, GENTLE" and bite there nose, then when they mastered that we do it with the food in our mouths and the dog has to take it from our mouths. Then after that we can feed them without being bit. But if they bite us after our training we take a shoe and hit them 1 time on the head. Cuz one ***** bite me so bad that I was bleeding. So I hit her hard on her little butt and head then bit her nose. She hasn't bite me since. And none of our dogs are scared off hands shoes nothing. But the one ***** gates me cuz I ate her food( bacon) one morning. Lol.
But with the pups we NEVER HIT THEM. Just say gentle realy loud. Oyeah when your teaching them say "Gentle" the whole time. Try not to hit them to. When only hit on realy bad bites( blood bites)

 

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We teach ours "gentle" when there pups, but we had to retrain one cuz my brother moved out for 1year and then this year we had to get her back. But what we do is do it like you'd do to a horse, the months later introduce the word, the do it in a fist, and if they bite us we yell "GENTLE" and pop them on the nose, then we do finger tips after they mastered the fist, then if they bite the fingers we yell"GENTLE, GENTLE" and bite there nose, then when they mastered that we do it with the food in our mouths and the dog has to take it from our mouths. Then after that we can feed them without being bit. But if they bite us after our training we take a shoe and hit them 1 time on the head. Cuz one ***** bite me so bad that I was bleeding. So I hit her hard on her little butt and head then bit her nose. She hasn't bite me since. And none of our dogs are scared off hands shoes nothing. But the one ***** gates me cuz I ate her food( bacon) one morning. Lol.
But with the pups we NEVER HIT THEM. Just say gentle realy loud. Oyeah when your teaching them say "Gentle" the whole time. Try not to hit them to. When only hit on realy bad bites( blood bites)

i don't want to hit my dog while teaching him this, he will most likely take it as me saying "bad Checkers, your a bad dog if you eat food when people appear to be giving it to you. your a stupid dog if you think you can eat treats and food from hands". Checkers has really sharp teeth, almost like puppy teeth. he is 2

 

[SternRose]

i don't want to hit my dog while teaching him this, he will most likely take it as me saying "bad Checkers, your a bad dog if you eat food when people appear to be giving it to you. your a stupid dog if you think you can eat treats and food from hands". Checkers has really sharp teeth, almost like puppy teeth. he is 2

That's cute, just do the bite habilitation with him. Or yipe when he bites. Our dogs were mostly smart and only got corrected 1. But one is stupid and got piped 20 for biting as hard as a pitbull. She was a stray from birth to 8 months. So it took her a bit longer

 

[Starfire669]

I have never hit any of my dogs teaching bite inhibition, or training them to let me shove pills down their throats. (4 of my 6 dogs are able to spit the pill out and still eat the cheese or pill pocket the pill was in). I let them know they hurt me with a Ouch! If they get snappy with treats they don't get the treat, I use my hand and fingers to guard it from them. I always tell them "easy" if they get too excited for treats and make them settle before continuing to give them treats. If they don't settle down, they don't get treats. If they keep biting me, I stop giving treats. The dog will understand that biting you is not how to get what he wants, no need for hitting.

I also never teach a dog to take food from my mouth, i teach them the opposite. As the leader of my pack, no dog should ever think to take food from my mouth, in the dog world the alpha would fight over such an offense. The alpha can take food from lower ranked dogs, but no lower dog would ever steal from the alpha. Teaching your dog to take food in this way will confuse the dog, you are basically telling him he is higher rank than you are. Teaching your dog this behavior is setting yourself up for trouble. If a child is eating, the dog will have no problem stealing that child's food. When your eating, the dog may try and take your food because you taught him to have no respect for you while eating.

 

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I have never hit any of my dogs teaching bite inhibition, or training them to let me shove pills down their throats. (4 of my 6 dogs are able to spit the pill out and still eat the cheese or pill pocket the pill was in). I let them know they hurt me with a Ouch! If they get snappy with treats they don't get the treat, I use my hand and fingers to guard it from them. I always tell them "easy" if they get too excited for treats and make them settle before continuing to give them treats. If they don't settle down, they don't get treats. If they keep biting me, I stop giving treats. The dog will understand that biting you is not how to get what he wants, no need for hitting.

I also never teach a dog to take food from my mouth, i teach them the opposite. As the leader of my pack, no dog should ever think to take food from my mouth, in the dog world the alpha would fight over such an offense. The alpha can take food from lower ranked dogs, but no lower dog would ever steal from the alpha. Teaching your dog to take food in this way will confuse the dog, you are basically telling him he is higher rank than you are. Teaching your dog this behavior is setting yourself up for trouble. If a child is eating, the dog will have no problem stealing that child's food. When your eating, the dog may try and take your food because you taught him to have no respect for you while eating.

i will try that. he's a hyper dog