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Jo Wolf expressed precisely :
Now..... If the dog is on a leash when being introduced to or greeting another dog it doesn't know well, you are making a HUGE MISTAKE if you hold your dog back by the leash or allow the leash to become tight at all and so is the other owner!!!!!!!!!! When dogs are trained to attack/act aggressively toward other dogs, the most common method is a tight leash on approach to another dog. Another good point. He normally walks on a full length and very slack lead. He never pulls, but I do certainly take in the slack near other dogs - which might sometimes be the trigger for his action. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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Another dog-language thing, Harry.... A dog walking out in front of the
owner is the one that is in charge of the situation.... To the dog's way of thinking. So unless we are alone in that landscape, my dog will be on a shortened leash... but still slack.... at my side. Not on a formal "heel" command necessarily, but certainly with the leash loose between the two of us. The two leashes I use most often are 4 feet (48 inches) and 31 inches, respectively. Of course, I am totally unable to convert those to the metric system (I took the minimum number of maths courses.... {grin}), except to comment that 1 meter is 39 or 39.5 inches. The most commonly used leash length used in the US is 6 feet (72 inches)....FWIW.... Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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On 13 jun, 19:47, (Jo Wolf) wrote:
Don't confuse Collies (rough or smooth) with Border Collies. *Very different personalities and temperaments.... *Very different intelligence levels (but Collies aren't dumb.... just not quite as mentally quick as the BC). We are divided by a common language. In the UK, border collies are common as muck. When a Brit says 'collie', we mean border collie. When an American says collie, you mean rough collie, (unless you are Donald McCaig, who is a collie specialist, and has no time for rough collies). When I write for a Brit, I use British usage. When I write for an American, I use American usage, unless it's for Donald. This dog was described as part border collie at the start. It is easier to write collie than border collie. Writing across cultures can be fraught with difficulties, and this is one of them! Alison, with two part collies (border) in Spain |
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On 13 jun, 22:05, Harry Bloomfield
wrote: I am able to interact with him very rarely, he normally doesn't want to know - he just ignores my best attempts most of the time. That may be frustrating. My late Rug, half collie and half spitz, would sometimes hide under the table when husband wanted to take him for a walk, maybe because husband had gout, so walking with him was less relaxing than walking with me. They were pretty much bonded in the house tho', Rug would gaze at him with total adoration when he came back from the pub and recited Gaelic poetry. The hiding under the table peeved husband a fair bit. I used to totally ignore dog in order to get him to come out from under the table. Just pretend I didn't know he was there and do something interesting to dogs like play with a ball, and then look really surprised when he came out to investigate. Some dogs can be manipulative and play hard to get, so it is a question of out-manipulating them. Rug sometimes used to attract attacks, because he was quite big, his hair stood out and his tail stood erect and curly, so dogs that couldn't understand spitz body language, especially smallish dogs, sometimes found him threatening. So it was a risk to let him go up in a friendly way to other dogs, especially if they were on the leash or in an enclosed space, in case they panicked and responded aggressively. Generally it was OK in the middle of a field, because a spooked dog could take evasive action, but I'd have to keep my eyes peeled for signs of possible conflict. Rug's nephew, Conor, now 12, has never been attacked in his life. He is less threatening, being smaller, having a more standardised body shape. So some of the defensive dog walking tactics I used with Rug aren't necessary with Conor. He is very sociable and a very easy dog to walk. Sometimes the dog culture of a walking place opines that all dogs should always get on with all other dogs, or they aren't 'normal', but that is expecting an awful lot of them, given that dogs vary so much in body type, size and temperament. Alison, in the middle of Spain |
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Jo Wolf has brought this to us :
Another dog-language thing, Harry.... A dog walking out in front of the owner is the one that is in charge of the situation.... To the dog's way of thinking. So unless we are alone in that landscape, my dog will be on a shortened leash... but still slack.... at my side. Not on a formal "heel" command necessarily, but certainly with the leash loose between the two of us. The two leashes I use most often are 4 feet (48 inches) and 31 inches, respectively. Of course, I am totally unable to convert those to the metric system (I took the minimum number of maths courses.... {grin}), except to comment that 1 meter is 39 or 39.5 inches. The most commonly used leash length used in the US is 6 feet (72 inches)....FWIW.... Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA Here the only choice seems to be the 48 inches (which is what we use) or the spring loaded ones which run out to 15 feet. He does walk out in front and I guide him verbally with commands he has picked up. Such as 'wait' if I'm stopping, 'this way' if he is going the wrong way, or 'off the road' if he wanders to far out, or 'over' to tell him we are crossing a road - never needs any leading, he just follows from the front. The same commands also work off the lead, but then he is usually way out in front. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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