The more I read about various vets (on these here internets, haha) the more grateful I am for mine. She knows her stuff and respects that I know (at least sort of!) what I'm doing and that I've done my research so if I have an idea or I'm switching foods or whatever she listens, and the entire office - she's in a practice of six women - endorses only truly awesome boarding kennels, only positive training training facilities, etcetc. It doesn't hurt that Darce adores her!
Anyway, I hear you. My parents' next-door neighbor that I wrote about? Their dog, Guinness, is ALWAYS on a prong. Not only that, but he's on a chain leash. Like, you'd think you were on a city block with an unneutered bully with a guy at the end of the leash trying to look as badass as possible when in reality it's a Chocolate Lab who's basically still a puppy (maybe almost two years old?) who they just haven't bothered to train.
Luckily now that things have cooled off between us a bit, she's taking me up on my offer to bring Guinness out to the tie-out I have for Darce in my parents' backyard (yeah, yeah, I know your opinion on tie-outs, too. :P He's only ever out there on it when I'm mowing the lawn for them or something and can't keep an eye on him off-leash.) so he can romp around in the snow with Darce. She actually asked me, when we were planning on having me pick him up the next time I'm over, if she should put him on the pinch or his leather collar - for a TIE-OUT. Good lord, lady. Anyway, I'm going to bring my clicker and see if she'd be down with me using some chicken to teach him a few manners when I have him for an hour or so. Of course I can't word it like that because she'd be horribly offended, but whatever. I'm just hoping he's like most labs - dopey and strong but intelligent under it all with good bidability - so that he learns quick and she asks for some at-home help.
I mean, it's just common sense to me (and probably to you) - if you see a dog doing something your dog doesn't do that you want it to do, even if it's as basic as behaving nicely on a leash, or being off-leash in your own yard, or, I don't know, whatever! - why wouldn't you ask the owner of that dog how they did it? In other words (to sound really snotty) - why don't my parents' next-door neighbors ask me for training help when their method clearly isn't working and why doesn't your neighbor ask you for help with Krieger when her techniques clearly aren't working. It boggles the mind.
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Date: 2010-01-09 07:19 pm (UTC)Anyway, I hear you. My parents' next-door neighbor that I wrote about? Their dog, Guinness, is ALWAYS on a prong. Not only that, but he's on a chain leash. Like, you'd think you were on a city block with an unneutered bully with a guy at the end of the leash trying to look as badass as possible when in reality it's a Chocolate Lab who's basically still a puppy (maybe almost two years old?) who they just haven't bothered to train.
Luckily now that things have cooled off between us a bit, she's taking me up on my offer to bring Guinness out to the tie-out I have for Darce in my parents' backyard (yeah, yeah, I know your opinion on tie-outs, too. :P He's only ever out there on it when I'm mowing the lawn for them or something and can't keep an eye on him off-leash.) so he can romp around in the snow with Darce.
She actually asked me, when we were planning on having me pick him up the next time I'm over, if she should put him on the pinch or his leather collar - for a TIE-OUT. Good lord, lady. Anyway, I'm going to bring my clicker and see if she'd be down with me using some chicken to teach him a few manners when I have him for an hour or so. Of course I can't word it like that because she'd be horribly offended, but whatever. I'm just hoping he's like most labs - dopey and strong but intelligent under it all with good bidability - so that he learns quick and she asks for some at-home help.
I mean, it's just common sense to me (and probably to you) - if you see a dog doing something your dog doesn't do that you want it to do, even if it's as basic as behaving nicely on a leash, or being off-leash in your own yard, or, I don't know, whatever! - why wouldn't you ask the owner of that dog how they did it? In other words (to sound really snotty) - why don't my parents' next-door neighbors ask me for training help when their method clearly isn't working and why doesn't your neighbor ask you for help with Krieger when her techniques clearly aren't working. It boggles the mind.