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Ruphus
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RE: Paco - our new dog - (in reply to gerundino63)
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Congratulations, amigo! May you have all conditions to allow for a beautiful unfolding of this little critter! ... I know you don´t mind if I may be smart-assing a little ... If possible allow him four additioonal weeks with his old lady (3 months altogether), though I know how hard it is to wait the time through. (I was counting every single day when waiting for my last cat.) People, specially around here where I live, believe that the earlier in life the dog be adapted the more affectionate he would become. (Accordingly taking them away at the age of 2-3 weeks, which makes for quite a guarantee for a neurotically developing dog.)This is not true. Allowed to stay in his family for the first 12 weeks, you get a well educated and prepared pet that will be much more attentive and willing to learn. Precondition however being that the breeder will be taking the right measures for to socialize the puppies correctly. Hence introducing them to any kind of creature the dog is supposed to accept / tolerate later, hence babies, elderly, handicapped, stranger dogs and especially for hunting breeds: all kinds of small animals you would like to be staying alive and healthy, hence cats, rabbits, chicken etc. Only if you don´t see the breeder providing a broad socialization would I be taking the puppy earlier, at maybe those 8 weeks of age. Sorry if been telling you old hats! Anyway, enjoy your new family member. Such a pleasure to have! Ruphus
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Date Sep. 24 2015 14:28:51
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Ruphus
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RE: Paco - our new dog - (in reply to gerundino63)
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Hey Peter, thanks for the info and the appreciation! :O) On a German dog forum I read a saying that goes like: "One can live without dog, but it isn´t worth it." For minds that are a bit open to the beauty in life, adn I know you certainly are, this saying seems no exaggeration. Being actual owner for the first time (= without anyone coming and taking it away from me), and even though under totally unnatural, miserable conditions, the experience with my pack shows me what my old lady did to me when she strictly prohibited a dog in my childhood. Already with the feedback and dearness that I see with theses animals under pent-up and terror conditions, the sensations for me are already indescribable. How must it be yet, when you are allowed to raise as you like, taking the critter with you, letting him socialize, teaching him all the things you want and once he knows you and your habits in and out, becoming a compagnion of heart that nurishes your soul on top of all the sympathetic sensations given otherwise. From year to year now science is encreasingly discovering how healthy pets are for their people (less allergies, less infections and most of all psychic health), and dogs maybe most of all, as you can take them with you / prolong the mutual daily time. The love that comes with it is worth the disadvanatages, which are not small at all. Difficulties with travelling, finding sincerely caring baby sitters, etc.pp. In view of education there is still a vast and sturdy didactical fraction going who considers the dog kind of a robot that needs restrictive methods. They don´t understand that the dog will be at its hight as a democratic and cognitively capable mate. If you are interested in most efficient methods (and lasting ones, as they function with the comprehension of the animal) that work all with positive motivation, I would like to point out to you 2 DVDs on dog training from David Dikeman. They have been discontinued and apparently can only be found second-hand in the USA (sometimes on Amazon), but are definitly worth it. (I asked Andy to fetch me some, hope he has done so.) In the opposite, one should never engage methods with startling or shouting. Each and every terrifiying will reduce the animals self-confidence and result in a whatsoever subtle measure of fear from you. Whereas the magic is lying in a trained chap´s total trust into you and in a fearless approach towards the world. The more brisk / loud the order the louder your voice will have to be anyway, ending in yelling owners and reluctant obeying. Good methods get through with calm / enthusiast voicing, and even in just gestures, or finally with just mimics and eye sign. That way he will be eager to follow your wishes, even if not obeying as promptly like a soldier (some 10 seconds max of response time should always be alright between friends, except for the alarm call. <- Very worth teaching that one to prevent accidents outside!). Finally, the old saying that puppies should not be overtaxed with teaching isn´t true either. The earlier you start getting attention the better. Only that with intensity and challenge of exercise adapted to the dogs age, naturally. Anyway, I know, your new compagnion will be having a great life. Ruphus PS: Don´t let him use stairs too early, specially not downwards. PS: On Simon´s photos his dog demonstrates a great example for walking on the leash. With the leash just dangling betwen him and Simon´s wiife.
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Date Sep. 25 2015 12:36:00
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Ruphus
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RE: Paco - our new dog - (in reply to gerundino63)
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A little pet story. Not really too fitting in here, but I don´t want to pimp my own thread while certain that Peter won´t mind me spoiling a bit in here. Saw a well-made quietly narrating Arab movie with French subtitles, last night. It starts with a young guy waking up from siesta nap with his dog guarding at his bed. He gets up, puts his chap on a leash and heads for the beach. On the way some kids approach, pestering, startling the dog and throwing stones. The guy tries to chase them away and moves on. The dog now overly happy, tenderly pretending to be going after his masters heels while they walk. At the beach the young man puts down his cape and ties the dog to a garbage bin. (Crazy to do, but I know how it is when you risk something hoping for an encouraging exception.) Then he goes for a swim. On return he finds the dog and his jellaba gone. He runs towards diverse groups of people asking whether they´ve seen anything. All blankly denying. He runs further inland to a kiosk asking around, noone cares, and is rather taken buy dress, looking at him in his swimming shorts like at a lunatic. Having grabbed another cape at home he rushes to where the kids hang out and tries to interrogate. A relative of theirs then enters the scene grabs him at the collar, shoving him away and tells him to get lost. Reluctantly leaving, another guy follows him and offers him help for cash. They take the main character´s car and drive to a quarter where shady guys crouch at walls, offering dogs. To no avail. Next they make it to the backroom of a dive where a local pimp says that he has no clue, bu that his own lap dog was hijacked too and that he will let them have a pack of bills if they find and return it. They then head for where the low-life resides that are into dog fighting. On the way however a patrol car comes in sight and the helper panics, jumps out of the car and runs. Our guy follows and tries to help him, so both get cuffed and driven away. But then the cops let them run again. Getting back on foot our guy only sees his car towed off. The helper then takes a p!ss. But our guy has a name now. It´s a youngster working at a butchery. He takes a cab and manages to persuad the youngster in the know who then takes him on the back of a motorized bycicle to the scum. The guys there won´t alow the bike driver to come with them, then they take the main character underground. In the meantime the original helper appears and joins the bike driver outside. Down there in the darkness it has shabby partitions with dogs inside. At one point our guy thinks to have found his pet, and the dog released indeed comes running straight towards him, instinctively realizing that this is a humane individual who could free him of the misery. But it isn´t his dog. Then he mentions the pimp´s lap dog. They pull out a battered, inert little dog and hang him up on its collar. Our guy, seeing how the little dog is irretrievable, now wants to leave. But they put a knife at his throat and empty what´s left in his pockets first. That minute someone alarms a cops coming and the scum runs away. Down the stair come his helpers. One just takes a rock and frees the pet dog from its agony, then puts the body into a plastic bag. The scum returns and our three guys run for their lives. Back to the dive, the pimp won´t allow any feelings to be shown when he pulls out the tattered body from the plastic bag suspended on its leash. He hands out the promissed money to the helper and tells them to just p!ss off. Then he leans against a wall. Our guy however returns to his quarter, fleeced and on foot and now finds his chap in front of his door, killed. Meanwhile in the early morning hours, his friends start digging a grave for the dog. He then takes the hoe from their hands and hits the earth with the soundless rage of his heart. Ruphus PS: About editing the uploaded text, I hear a motor generator started before my house, at the same moment already seeing how a muncipality crew is spraying the trees before my estate and densly fogging in the whole of my yard, with two of the dogs in there. Don´t know whether rushing down, taking the dogs inside and rinsing the yard with water may have helped preventing from what I think to have seen already as effects of pesticides on dogs, or not. After all the poisonous solution ought to be water resistant, and the dogs will have inhaled quite some already. Curious how the crew started their posion gun out of all at my gate while the whol street is evenly having municipal trees, and while I am known for being friendly to animals / going through corresponding repercussions. - I think what above film and my experience convey is that displaying empathy before berserks, to them only means to be presented with their ogre-being, which again makes them sabotaging and terrorizing animal friends, instead of ever thinking over their retard state of emotional intelligence.
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