Rough Collie as LGD?

Donna R. Raybon

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This is old timer trick to deal with misbehavior .... get a five gallon bucket and fill with empty plastic pop bottles. Into each bottle, drop about three or four gravel. You want enough weight to be easy to throw, make noise, but won't hurt anything. Put the bucket(s) of loaded bottles where handy. Catch dog doing something wrong and hurl bottle at him with 'NO!' Used this a lot on both the LGD puppies and in training BC sheep trialing. After a few days, it got so that all I had to do was shake a bottle with rocks in it and dog knew to stop doing whatever it was doing and go find something else to do.

Another, is to put about fifteen or more feet of light weight parachute cord on collar so you can easily catch pup and all they need is a quick jerk on the line if caught in the act of doing something wrong and again 'NO.'

It is all about timing and you have to actually catch the pup THINKING about doing something wrong right when they begin to act upon it.

If unsupervised, I would not leave a young dog where they can get to any type of poultry. Just too tempting a play toy!!
 

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This is old timer trick to deal with misbehavior .... get a five gallon bucket and fill with empty plastic pop bottles. Into each bottle, drop about three or four gravel. You want enough weight to be easy to throw, make noise, but won't hurt anything. Put the bucket(s) of loaded bottles where handy. Catch dog doing something wrong and hurl bottle at him with 'NO!' Used this a lot on both the LGD puppies and in training BC sheep trialing. After a few days, it got so that all I had to do was shake a bottle with rocks in it and dog knew to stop doing whatever it was doing and go find something else to do.

Another, is to put about fifteen or more feet of light weight parachute cord on collar so you can easily catch pup and all they need is a quick jerk on the line if caught in the act of doing something wrong and again 'NO.'

It is all about timing and you have to actually catch the pup THINKING about doing something wrong right when they begin to act upon it.

If unsupervised, I would not leave a young dog where they can get to any type of poultry. Just too tempting a play toy!!
 

Donna R. Raybon

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This is old timer trick to deal with misbehavior .... get a five gallon bucket and fill with empty plastic pop bottles. Into each bottle, drop about three or four gravel. You want enough weight to be easy to throw, make noise, but won't hurt anything. Put the bucket(s) of loaded bottles where handy. Catch dog doing something wrong and hurl bottle at him with 'NO!' Used this a lot on both the LGD puppies and in training BC sheep trialing. After a few days, it got so that all I had to do was shake a bottle with rocks in it and dog knew to stop doing whatever it was doing and go find something else to do.

Another, is to put about fifteen or more feet of light weight parachute cord on collar so you can easily catch pup and all they need is a quick jerk on the line if caught in the act of doing something wrong and again 'NO.'

It is all about timing and you have to actually catch the pup THINKING about doing something wrong right when they begin to act upon it.

If unsupervised, I would not leave a young dog where they can get to any type of poultry. Just too tempting a play toy!!
 

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Sorry for multiple posting??? Don't know what caused it.
Mine did the same thing. LOL I like the way you think. I like it so much that I liked all 3 of your multiple posts, LOL. Rocks in a water bottle--I like that. Better than the coffee can I threw at my GP over and over again for taking down a lamb and gnawing on it's head when he was a pup.
 

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When I raised GPs they went through a stage at about six to thirteen months where they loved the ducks to death. No skin broken, but would just find a duck that was totally sodden/slimey with dog spit. The females seemed to get over that phase quick and the males took forever. Not all the pups did this and they never bothered geese, guiena, or chickens. In cooler weather I often would find duck still alive and unharmed, but in summer they probably were killed due to overheating as much as being wooled about and slobbered on. GPs have puppy brains until about two years old on at least some things.
 
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