GSD on an old HD

[Joe A.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZ_-Ijsv9E

[Lannis]

  :D :D :D :D

 Of course , the grandchildren of the guy wearing the German Shepard as a hat may not be all that amused  ;D

  Dusty

That's one well-trained dog, I can tell you that.   Our Jack would have been humping that guy's neck so hard he'd get a sprain before he was done.   Some instincts just can't be overcome ... !

Lannis

[redrider90]

That's one well-trained dog, I can tell you that.   Our Jack would have been humping that guy's neck so hard he'd get a sprain before he was done.   Some instincts just can't be overcome ... !

Lannis

Isn't Jack a Border Collie?  An untrained BC is sacrilegious...  :o :o :o :

[Lannis]

Isn't Jack a Border Collie?  An untrained BC is sacrilegious...  :o :o :o :

That's true.   Jack only has a couple of areas where he doesn't mind his manners.

On the plus side, he does everything he's told.   He comes to you (or "by" you) when he's called.   He knows what to do when he's told to "check the garden" or "squirrel in the feeder!" or "get your (ball, rope, squeaktoy, big ball, treat ball, etc; he knows them all by name) from your basket" or "Put your toy back in the basket!" or "Let's go to the pen" or "Go see Laurie" (she's at the other house on our farm).

He pees on command, "potties" at the edge of the woods, sits, lies down, rolls over, can hold his bladder for 10 hours or more if need be, and he's completely familiar with "what belongs to Lannis" and "What belongs to Jack", and he never touches my stuff - he spends hours disassembling anything that belongs to him with judicious use of teeth and claws.

He plays "stair ball", where he pushes a ball down the stairs to you and catches it when you throw it back up.   He puts us to bed every night, and gets us up in the morning like a BC should.   He protected Fay once in Colorado from an attacking coyote (female defending its den).   He's wonderful around the grandchildren; they all love him and he knows how to play with them without getting a finger in his eye or knocking them down.

He's an ideal dog except for two things.  One is that he acts like he was never neutered.   Female dogs hate him, although he's very friendly and submissive.   He marks his territory everywhere when we're on a walk (but never in a store or at the vet or inside any building).   And if he gets anything between his front legs (blanket, towel, playful child) he begins operating at a spinal level and humps away.   We have a deal where I promise to kick his behind every time he does it, and he'll quit, but he always does it next time.

And he's mad about small motors.   If he sees you getting ready to start a lawnmower or string trimmer or chainsaw, his eyes glaze over and he crouches down and as soon as it fires, he jumps at it and chases it.   He pays no attention to me when the motor is ready to be fired up, so I have to put him up somewhere.

I could probably fix those two problems with a shock collar, but he's so good and so biddable on everything else I have trained him to do that I hate to do that to him.   He demands that you be up-front with him - no "tricking" him into taking a bath or taking a pill hidden in food - you have to be honest with him and he'll go along with it.   If he senses that you're lying to him or fooling him, he gives you a look and attitude of withering scorn.

He'll be 6 on his next birthday in October so I'll probably just put up with the foibles ....

Lannis

[Bob Wegman]

Joe,  When did Mike start riding!  ;D

[redrider90]

That's true.   Jack only has a couple of areas where he doesn't mind his manners.

On the plus side, he does everything he's told.   He comes to you (or "by" you) when he's called.   He knows what to do when he's told to "check the garden" or "squirrel in the feeder!" or "get your (ball, rope, squeaktoy, big ball, treat ball, etc; he knows them all by name) from your basket" or "Put your toy back in the basket!" or "Let's go to the pen" or "Go see Laurie" (she's at the other house on our farm).

He pees on command, "potties" at the edge of the woods, sits, lies down, rolls over, can hold his bladder for 10 hours or more if need be, and he's completely familiar with "what belongs to Lannis" and "What belongs to Jack", and he never touches my stuff - he spends hours disassembling anything that belongs to him with judicious use of teeth and claws.

He plays "stair ball", where he pushes a ball down the stairs to you and catches it when you throw it back up.   He puts us to bed every night, and gets us up in the morning like a BC should.   He protected Fay once in Colorado from an attacking coyote (female defending its den).   He's wonderful around the grandchildren; they all love him and he knows how to play with them without getting a finger in his eye or knocking them down.

He's an ideal dog except for two things.  One is that he acts like he was never neutered.   Female dogs hate him, although he's very friendly and submissive.   He marks his territory everywhere when we're on a walk (but never in a store or at the vet or inside any building).   And if he gets anything between his front legs (blanket, towel, playful child) he begins operating at a spinal level and humps away.   We have a deal where I promise to kick his behind every time he does it, and he'll quit, but he always does it next time.

And he's mad about small motors.   If he sees you getting ready to start a lawnmower or string trimmer or chainsaw, his eyes glaze over and he crouches down and as soon as it fires, he jumps at it and chases it.   He pays no attention to me when the motor is ready to be fired up, so I have to put him up somewhere.

I could probably fix those two problems with a shock collar, but he's so good and so biddable on everything else I have trained him to do that I hate to do that to him.   He demands that you be up-front with him - no "tricking" him into taking a bath or taking a pill hidden in food - you have to be honest with him and he'll go along with it.   If he senses that you're lying to him or fooling him, he gives you a look and attitude of withering scorn.

He'll be 6 on his next birthday in October so I'll probably just put up with the foibles ....

Lannis

I just lost this border collie a few weeks ago. He was just 8 years old. Cancer took him out in a month.


This is him just a few days before we put him down. He was still going at it like a crazy border collie just day before. I know its awful but the plastic in the back round is his covering grave which we already had dug. And he could still do this sick as shit as he was.

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And the prize is catching the toy.

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[Lannis]

I just lost this border collie a few weeks ago. He was just 8 years old. Cancer took him out in a month.

Sometimes I don't know why we do it, getting a dog.  We KNOW we're going to lose them in 10 or 15 years, maybe less, and what we'll go through, but we do it anyway.

Cancer got my last two collies at 10 and 15 years respectively ....

Lannis

[redrider90]

Sometimes I don't know why we do it, getting a dog.  We KNOW we're going to lose them in 10 or 15 years, maybe less, and what we'll go through, but we do it anyway.

Cancer got my last two collies at 10 and 15 years respectively ....

Lannis

We do it cause dogs are so freaking smart and they give unconditional love all the time. What other animal give unconditional love?  Dogs rule. ;-T ;-T
 My wife is already looking but I am still weeping.  :( :'(