Sooo much pooping

[The Dogmother]

I love this blog entry...

 

Can't possibly be a lurcher

 

When will people learn that you can't rain a dog by just shouting a command at it, like 'sit' or 'fetch'? they don't speak the same language as us and need to be shown.

[Redwing]

fab, I love the pics - they are great!

 

My dog short circuits sometimes

[Snowy]

Brilliant! i love the pictures.

Ruby thinks too hard about things - I tried to teach her to lie down. I thought it would be easy as she does a very good sit and gives a paw. But that's all she does. I've shown her and shown her and all she does is sit up again and give me her paw. With a very intent look that says "I KNOW this is what i need to do to get that treat!"

And she keeps getting lost on our walks - she disappears into the hedge and emerges further down the field. I can see her and i can shout her, but she still panics and runs round as if she's lost us!

[The Dogmother]

she's a springie, what do you expect?!

[Lesley]

Brilliant! i love the pictures.

Ruby thinks too hard about things - I tried to teach her to lie down. I thought it would be easy as she does a very good sit and gives a paw. But that's all she does. I've shown her and shown her and all she does is sit up again and give me her paw. With a very intent look that says "I KNOW this is what i need to do to get that treat!"

And she keeps getting lost on our walks - she disappears into the hedge and emerges further down the field. I can see her and i can shout her, but she still panics and runs round as if she's lost us!

 

At least she's innocent in it all - we have two dogs who you can see thinking "I can hear you but I'm not even going to turn roud........ "

[Lavenders_Blue]

And she keeps getting lost on our walks - she disappears into the hedge and emerges further down the field. I can see her and i can shout her, but she still panics and runs round as if she's lost us!

 

I used to have a collie x springer that did this. We were convinced he had a terrible sense of direction as he was always leaping out of hedges/long grass and looking confused/panicked about where we were. He never seemed to be able to follow the direction of our voices when we called him.

 

It's clearly a springer thing then!