CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[frustratedearthmother]

Her ear looks great today. Boiled eggs are crack for my dogs, lol.

 

[Mike CHS]

How is she doing on her training?

I give the outside dogs an occasional boiled egg but never the inside two. I did once and thought I needed to put up a HAZMAT sign when their stomachs started acting up.

 

[CntryBoy777]

She is doing well....we have sit, stay, come, wait, and Gabbie's room down pat....working on shake, get, and lay down....her reflexes have really improved and it is difficult to get the frisbee past her within her range....she can stop it with her paw inside the frisbee as it slides past and can catch about 10-15% in the air over her head....as long as it isn't really zipped fast.....she has been off lead for both of us for a little over a week now.....and we are narrowing down on a routine for each day...time wise.....

 

[Pastor Dave]

We used to do a training technique using two tennis balls. Throw one, and as the dog is going after it, call it off, and focus their attention on the second one you throw. Ours were trained for protection, so it had a lot to do with their focus, aggression, and obeying commands. It was a game until the commands become real time scenario.

 

[Mike CHS]

You are training her like we do the herding dogs which makes sense and it makes it sooooo much easier.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well Dave....I'll tell ya....there are more distractions for her outside that I don't have to throw another ball into the focus....every chicken poop wad....every limb and branch in the yard....leaves that twitch with the wind....songbirds and doves on the ground...squirrels in the trees....and every mole run she can get a whiff of.....and that doesn't even count the sounds.....but, may get to something similar after she is about 1yr old and the puppy is much much less....I really would like to get her to follow a scent and may start working on some of that as weather permits......figured she could help me track something if it comes up missing....like a chicken or duck....I wouldn't mind getting her to shepherd a small flock, but it depends on whether we stay here or not.....never know what the next phone call or car in the drive might bring, so even mulling what to do about the animals except for Gabbie and Calli.....just in case....those 2 will be with us for as long as 1of us is still living and they are too.....

 

[CntryBoy777]

How is she doing on her training?

I give the outside dogs an occasional boiled egg but never the inside two. I did once and thought I needed to put up a HAZMAT sign when their stomachs started acting up.

Yeh, Mike that was also a concern of mine and it seems she can handle 1 a day, or every other day so they don't get to backing up the system..........and then, finding out about that....slow is Good.....

 

[Pastor Dave]

I guess I forgot that the training we did was once they were older too. Pups don't have long attention spans do they?

We too live in an unknown setting. Obviously for different reasons, but...Ministers here have had some longevity living here, but we understand this is temporary and indefinite. Or maybe I should say definite. It is not permanent. The location goes with the position. We will be moving at some point. One minister was here 23 years! That's a long time, but he now lives in Indianapolis.

Home is where the heart is, not a set location.

 

[Bruce]

Gabbie's starting to lose a little of the puppy look with the ear, tail and color changes. And she's still just a youngin'!

 

[CntryBoy777]

There is something funny that I need to share with ya....I don't know if y'all remember me mentioning about the neighbor's dog or not....but, he has given our animals fits for several yrs now. When we got Gabbie and have been taking her out, there have been a few occassions that he has charged Gabbie and Joyce in the dark, from the top of the hill....the house sits lower than their trlr and they just open the door and let him run without any monitoring. Gabbie has been scared and after the last time of him charging her on the back porch as soon as they got out the door, she has been very tenative about going in that direction when it gets dark....he is a black lab. Last night, however, there was a change....he was outside when I took her out and he was down the hill behind the goat yard....the hair on the back of ber neck atood straight up and she began to growl and bark....she has developed a really deep and echoing bark amongst our hills here....she moved forward in her position and he tucked tail and ran back to their porch....I gave her a treat........Tonight she was out on the front porch and he was out running around, the same scenario took place and he stayed on their porch, parked at the door and waited for them to open it...the whole while with Gabbie's booming bark echoing around. I'm not saying she would stand up to a confrontation....but, I surely like the growling and barking over her whimpering and running to the door....
Something else has changed also, she has learned to use both paws to dig.....
She has been working on this hole for close to a week now, I believe it is a rabbit run at the ditch and it is in a wash where water flows to the ditch....I have to do something to it anyway, so she really isn't hurting anything....there is plenty of dirt on 20acres to fill a few holes now and then. Oh, I almost forgot, I have been working on Gabbie doing tasks and here as of late I have given her things to bring in the house to give to Joyce...here is a pic of something I gave her to challenge her....it used to be in 1 solid piece.... ....I was thinking of the commercial with the collie and long piece of wood at a bridge, but this was a long piece of wood thru the door and up the stairwell and then give it to Joyce....as ya can see she made it with it and never balked....she grabbed it at one end and drug it in the door up the steps and to Joyce's feet....laid down and gnawed it into 2 pcs......
On another note, the temps have really set-back the rye grass, but the warmer temps and moisture have helped it to recover just a bit.... ....as ya can see the goats were enjoying soaking up some rays today.....temps were nice, but it was pretty windy....rain coming thru tomorrow and another temp drop for a couple of days....before more rain.....