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But a lot of you have been kind enough to take an interest in that Choccie Lab I picked up on the road.

We'll, we're in disgrace. We've been expelled from the obedience school...

She is SUCH a boisterous git!

I'm expecting her to be stealing cars next.



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Louis_Dobson said:
We'll, we're in disgrace. We've been expelled from the obedience
school...
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How can this be? My father's standard line was, "You've got to be smarter than the dog." Based on the quality of your posts, I would have thought you were clearly smarter than any dog that ever lived.
 
LOL
in your dreams - I know that look.

now then, you might think that this fellow is calm:



(sorry, wrong camera, but since we're OT)
but he's still completely bonkers at 5.

As for her being expelled from obedience class - I feel this is not a good reflection on your teacher!

On the other hand, I can certainly imagine that you might need to be expelled
:-P

kind regards
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Louis_Dobson said:
but she's more energetic. She has two modes - asleep or completely
manic. Ah well, she'll calm down when she gets older (they say).
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And then you'll miss her manicness. :-)

Very nice shot.

What did she do to get expelled from the school? Smoked joints in the lavatory? :-)
 
but she thinks running up to other dogs and barking in their face is a good way to ask for a game. And, with some dogs, it is a very BAD way of asking for a game...

And when your dog keep getting involved in canine punch ups...

It doesn't help that one of our other dogs is very growly and snarly (she was obviously picked on by bigger dogs as a pup) so Delphi is de-sensitised to being snarled at and growled at, she just takes no notice, and is then amazed and appalled when other dogs go for her (for about three seconds, after which she takes her jacket off, puts her glasses somewhere safe and piles right in).

She's never harmed another dog, but she's given a few a nasty fright alright.

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(which she did beautifully, under perfect control) by running up to the other dogs to be congratulated. And when one of them objected to 40 kilos of dog hurtling towards them and snapped at her, she snapped back. And then they all piled in. It was like a Glasgow pub on cup final night. I'm just glad none of them had a pool cue handy.

Unfortunately she did much the same last time, so she's Not Required Back.

Blasted canine hooligan.
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Louis asking if anyone knows a vet who can recover his newly refurbished 7-14mm lens from a dog's stomach..
 
Louis_Dobson said:
(which she did beautifully, under perfect control) by running up to
the other dogs to be congratulated. And when one of them objected to
40 kilos of dog hurtling towards them and snapped at her, she snapped
back. And then they all piled in. It was like a Glasgow pub on cup
final night. I'm just glad none of them had a pool cue handy.

Unfortunately she did much the same last time, so she's Not Required
Back.

Blasted canine hooligan.
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While we're off topic, I've read something about it. It seems that we, the humans, are to blame for that.

In nature dogs and dog-like creatures would come to unknown members of the same species carefully, kinda sidle to them so as not to seem to attack. Now, under the influence of humans and having lost a lot of their natural instincts, dogs often rush directly. It particularly happens with loved pets who interact mostly with humans. Other dogs might not object or it might result in a barroom brawl. (Love the image, BTW. :-))
 
She had a nasty bite on her nose when I found her, because of exactly the same thing I'm sure.

But, in the end, she LIKES fighting. It was notable today that when I hauled her out of the brawl by her scuff, while all the other dogs were frazzled or frightened or hysterical with rage, she was terribly pleased with herself. Her idea of a good time is really good punch up with as many other dogs as possible. She doesn't deliberately start it, but she's only too pleased to finish it.

Like I said, canine hooligan.
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Some dogs just like to get in first. The trick is to keep her distracted with her attention on you. Easier said than done. I show a weimaraner who has developed a 'taste for chinese food' (likes to nip Asians for some reason), so I have to be on my toes with her all the time.

Food is always the best trick with labs, fill your pockets with it and keep persevering.
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Ingrid M
 
Here's a pair of labs I sometimes get to handle at shows and they're nuts too. They just don't get the idea of standing still. The older (black) boy is the sweetest thing with the most beautiful head but didn't settle down until he was about 4 and as for the girl (yellow) she's only still when she's asleep! Wonderful temperaments, just busy. They are both exceptionally good tracking dogs. Maybe you need to harness the dog's natural skills and 'put it to work' as it were with a job for it to do based on what it was bred for. That usually makes them stop and think .... provided you have the time.

Hope you like these shots, the black boy is one of my favourite photographic subjects:





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nice shots!

She's not really a lab, she's crossed with something large and pointer like, which I think is where the energy and (excessive) bravery comes from - mix it with young lab nuttiness, and she's a real handful.

You're right though, I hadn't noticed, but I used to work her really hard, recently I've been a bit busy, and WITH ME she does as she's told, so I'd laid off a bit.

We've had some problems with her and the other dogs (them, not her, I have a psychotic husky / GSD cross we picked up on the road, and she's really not right in the head) and I've been putting time, energy and money into a physical solution (we've raised all the boundry walls and re-institued the husky's petsafe, so that they can be put into the garden together, where they don't fight, and get used to each other, which has more or less worked, they growl and grumble but they no longer take chunks out of each other), and in the process neglected her training. She comes when called, goes over jumps, walks off the lead, lies down when told, retrieves on command, so I'd more or less stopped doing anything with her. I should have remembered that training is an aid in itself, not just to make the dog perform functions.

I'll start putting more time into her. She's a clever, energetic dog, and she needs to work or she gets out of control. I'll start teaching her to track and search, and to sit for longer periods.

Here's the psycho dog. Looks cute, huh? Don't you believe it. Loves people, very aggressive with other dogs, and is never going to get the recall. She's been abused too much as a pup - the more you want her to come, the more she wants to keep her distance. Very loving and affectionate dog, she's my special pet, even though she's as mad as a box of spiders.



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Louis, you seem like a colorful character, so it would seem you dog(s) are too.

I was interrupted from reading this thread to the sound of my wife screaming OMG.

She was airing out the foam mattress pad from out bed outside at the back of our house.

Our 3 dogs found it very enjoyable. There is not a piece ant bigger than 3" left.

It's difficult to know at this point who started it but they are all embarrassed, and can't look us in the eye.

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Glenn Smith

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take... ~ Wayne Gretzky

 
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