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@wyrddogs
I'm trying to keep my follower count down, so unless you are a pet blog or have pets clearly marked in your header, I will probably be blocking you. It's nothing personal. This does not pertain to longtime followers.
My pets:
Bindi, 4/25/10 - 12/16/22. Mixed breed. I miss you, Kid.
Kermit, 2/29/20. Dachshund. My handsomest and most manly of men.
Zaku, 2/14/23. Belgian tervuren. I wubs my bubs.
Spyro, 9/25/25. Dachshund. Girl, no.
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I think I need an award for owning a WL Belgian on hard mode. The dog himself is easy, it's just I put him in an extremely difficult environment. XD
Using tumblr to take notes for myself. My trainer came by today to check out the bunny situation.
Zaku is never unsupervised outside. Ever. He is always wearing his ecollar.
Work on Place on the kurunda beds. Lots of calm rewards to build up value. If I need to mess with the bunny cages for whatever reason, he should Place. If he starts getting amped, he should Place.
If he is too aroused to think, crate inside immediately. Then take outside to Place, then release calmly.
If he breaks Place, stim back to Place. This gives him a much more clear picture than just stimming him for looking at the bunnies. It gives him something to do and be rewarded for after the correction.
If the current location of the kurunda bed is too much, move it further from the bunnies. We want him to be successful.
My dogs tend to explode out the door to hunt for squirrels, and Zaku will sometimes displace onto the bunnies. No more exploding. Everyone calmly sits, I go outside to check gates, I open the door, calmly release. If Zaku explodes anyway, recall him to me, reward, and depending on his energy level, either release or Place.
Roommate agreed to put up a visual barrier on the bunny cages next to the door, which should help with arousal levels as the dogs are let outside.
The best thing about owning multiple dogs is watching their stupid drama.
Kermit, a resource guarder, has a chew. He hid in Spyro's crate for a while, then got tired of being in there. After looking for a suitable hiding spot, he decided to move to Zaku's crate. Zaku was already inside of Zaku's crate.
Kermit settled himself down and resumed working on his chew. After less than thirty seconds Zaku decided he didn't want to deal with the dragon and left his own crate to lay sadly on my pillows.
Now Kermit wants a drink of water, but he can't leave his chew because Spyro is waiting on the other side of the bed to steal it from him. He keeps growling at her to stay away (she is not close to him) and then making direct eye contact with me and doing his "I want something" squeak to come help him. Truly an existential conundrum for the man.
Training tips?
Hmmm... Anyone in dogblr compete in obedience with a little dog? Any tips on teaching stand for exam?
The judge has to lean way over to reach the dog, and it can be intimidating to a small. Kermit will never be able to handle stand for exam, but I'd like to train Spyro. She can do a confo exam, but that's on a table and I'm next to her and supporting her. Obedience exam is much harder.
I could just train her the way I did my big dog, but she still has to deal with some added looming pressure that he doesn't.
I did Fae's using Awesome Obedience + my rally mentor's advice for looming avoidance which was to reward as close to my shoes as possible and slowly build up her tolerance to looming behavior with a reward cue and then high energy release cue to a second, even better reward away from me, and then start the whole process over again until I could bend down to touch her- and then start *that* process over again with having someone else touch her without moving her feet *at all* as the overall goal.
Chihuahuas are NEVER intended to be handled or evaluated from the ground in conformation and so I have historically had very big feelings about advocating for my tiny dog and her need to move away from stompy feet and looming. It is possibly my least favorite exercise for her on the CD. But it is possible, with time and patience. We did this as positive reinforcement as possible- though a lot of body and social pressure exists with the looming avoidance because honestly I don't know how else I can help her with that besides slowly building up the pressure and letting her have a big emotional release about it physically away from said pressure.
I had to work through this same thing with Fiver, and a ton of the little dogs at work ( when you get known as the trainer who helps scared dogs, you get a lot of little dogs who don't want to be touched on the ground and owners who need to get them their CGC).
I second what Jaz did, and will add my own thing that really helped: use positive reinforcement to build a super proofed stay in every other way before adding too much pressure to it with the exam.
For Fiver, what that looked like was building a sit box behavior, and charging the daylights out of the sit box until he was excitedly flying unto it the second it hit the ground. From there, I proofed walking around him in a circle, dropping objects and making noises at a distance, etc. all with as close to errorless learning as possible, using very short sessions and frequent reinforcement. Once that was fluent, I layered in one or two reps of social pressure sandwiched between different distractions, or a bigger rep of social pressure at the end of a session followed by a release and jackpot. When he handled the pressure from me fine for a full exam, I added other people starting from just them walking into and out of the ring, only 2-4 reps with high value reinforcement. While working this, I was building his stand stay on the ground in separate sessions as a free stack. That stack would become his stand for exam once the easier sit for exam was fluent. Progress was very slow and steady, but we've hit the point that he has done the full stand for exam in a fun match.
I find especially with the terriers and the dachshunds that the more it feels like it's their idea that they can opt out of it anytime, the less resentment or fear you're going to have to deal with. If I focus exclusively on desensitizing, I risk the chance of accidentally sensitizing my dog. Versus if I build up the behavior enough that my dog is focusing on how intensely they're excited to do the behavior instead of worrying about the pressure, and they're already so used pressure being the gateway to reinforcement, then they are much more likely to be an active participant instead of simply tolerating what's happening to them.
If you are a book person, Competitive Obedience Training for the Small Dog by Barbara Cecil and Gerianne Darnell is an oldie-but-a-goodie that I have seen recommended often. It's in my tbr so I can't tell you my personal opinion yet, but it isn't a very long book and the blurb talks about training with joy and fun.
Thank you everyone who has offered advice! All of this is great stuff to work on.
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Training tips?
Hmmm... Anyone in dogblr compete in obedience with a little dog? Any tips on teaching stand for exam?
The judge has to lean way over to reach the dog, and it can be intimidating to a small. Kermit will never be able to handle stand for exam, but I'd like to train Spyro. She can do a confo exam, but that's on a table and I'm next to her and supporting her. Obedience exam is much harder.
I could just train her the way I did my big dog, but she still has to deal with some added looming pressure that he doesn't.
Get a white dog, it's fun.
Little girl.
Weight pull update (apologies to everyone's dashboards):
KERMIT
Been pulling three chains for the last couple months. I put him on the cart for the first time in like six months last night. He pulled 45 and then 65 pounds (20 and 30kg) with ease and, more importantly, enthusiasm. I'll keep him there a week or two before increasing weight.
LUCI
Lucille has been pulling three chains for months and she looks like a sled dog, she's driving so hard. The friction on the carpet really helps her stay in a straight line. Last week we put her on the cart (45 pounds/20kg) and she was scrambling back and forth again. So she's not ready for that yet. I don't want her wasting energy. So we'll stay on the chains for a bit.
SPYRO
Still bounding with great enthusiasm down the carpet in her harness with no weight. I've been standing in different places (both sides, in front, at the end, behind her) and last night I walked from the finish line towards the start line as she drove past me. This will help with agility later. Didn't even phase her.
ZAKU
This dog finally isn't injured so he was able to pull for the first time in months. I didn't want to overdo things so he pulled 140 and 180 pounds (63 and 82kg). I had two separate people watch him as he pulled. While they said he looked like he was bracing for remembered pain, once he realized he didn't hurt, he got right to business. By the end of the night, he was looking much more relaxed as he moved into the pull.
He was so excited and happy to be put back in harness. He's missed this.
Heelwork update
Club held another training day. I worked on rally with my crew.
I've been doing a warm up of sending Zaku and Spyro to my platform for Place/Up, then a fun food/toy toss, then back to platform. With Kermit I do some tricks and a fun short send to the platform. He's not really into food tosses, but he likes tricks. This gets them excited and engaged.
They aren't ready for most rally signs yet, but we went into the ring anyway to get used to being there. My only goal was lots of fun and enthusiasm with what we did know.
I only allowed myself one cheesestsick per training session to keep things short and sweet. Once I ran out of cheese, it was over, and they got to relax a bit before going back in the car. That keeps me from doing too many reps and burning them out.
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Man, I have spent the majority of today just bawling my eyes out. It is two hours past my bedtime and I have not stopped. Today sucked.
Also! What’s a dog sport you haven’t tried yet but would like to some day?
I’d like to give herding a shot! It looks very technical and requires a lot of pressure awareness and knowledge of herd mentality. I love watching sheepdogs at work.
I don’t think I should do it with Zaku, though. I’ve developed his prey drive so I can hunt hares and raccoons, and I don’t think it would be safe to put him in a pen with prey animals. The safety of the sheep is more important than me doing an activity with my dog.
Herding is also a lifestyle in the same way bitesports is. You have to really dedicate yourself to it, with both time and money. I don’t have either at the moment. Maybe in the future, if I’m in a different living situation, I might give hunting a rest and try a different lifestyle that is more conducive to herding.
A couple of the malinois breeders I’m looking at for Next Large Dog produce some herding dogs, so the instinct is there.
Thanks for asking!
Given the choice between a Kermit-sized Zaku or a Zaku-sized Kermit, which are you picking?
Kermit-sized Zaku, easy. A 60 pound Kerm would only use his size for evil.
He already climbs into my garbage can to pull out wrappers. Imagine if he could reach the table.
He’s also a very opinionated dog and there are some things he gets away with by being thirteen pounds. If he’s being a jackass I can just pick him up. Sixty pounds of Kermit would require some management. But people would also be less willing to barge into his space and pet him when he wants to be left alone. It’s tough being small and cute.
He’d also figure out how to get over my fence.
Thanks for asking!
1.5 years vs 6.5 years.
Everyone is on vacation so I’m one of the only people in my office building and I’ve had one (1) email in two hours and have caught up on all my tasks and am bored out of my mind. Ask me stuff?
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BREAKING NEWS: My son deigned to carry a stick for a few minutes.
This dog is so good. We were all sitting on the grass and hanging out when a middle-aged dude appeared out of nowhere, being dragged by his bully mix. The dog stopped about five feet away and was hard staring at my dogs.
I was able to throw some food down to distract Spyro, who is in the middle of a reactive phase, but was too late to do anything for the boys. The dog was very tall and stiff legged, and staring right at Zaku. I put my fingers through Bub's collar and lightly said, "Don't move. Don't move. Don't move." And he stayed still! He was laying on the ground with another dog posturing super close by and he didn't react.
The guy finally was able to get his dog moving again and I gave all three of my dogs a party.
Like holy shit. Zaku would have been well within his rights to tell that dog off and then we would have had a very real dog fight on our hands. I am under no illusions that the other guy would have been any help at all considering how he was stumbling as his dog yanked him around.
Anyway, everyone tell Zaku how good he is.
