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Pixie nailed her first bunny this morning.



Pending a decision on cook or freeze it’s hanging in the shed, or as it’s now known, The Shrine of St. Bugs the Martyr, where the relics are subject to a period of perpetual adoration and grateful thanksgiving by Pixie.

 

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I have trouble picking up in the garden. Some leaves pretending to be shit, and some shit pretending to be leaves.
Dog’s well trained. Pees if no alternative in the garden (but avoids as he’s walked/taken out several times a day), only 💩’d a couple of times, our fault. Fields and woodlands start from across the road so it was easy.
 

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We were puppy walkers for Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Dogs are all trained to piddle or defecate on command. It's simply training. Do it consistently, and it becomes ingrained.
There's absolutely no need for a healthy dog to shit in any public space.

Contentious ?
Why ?
It's true. Every single guide dog does this.
 

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Ours is growing into a twat!
She has now been banned from daycare for snapping at other dogs for no particular reason.

She only goes in a couple of times a month when my wife needs to go onto campus for work. Going to be problematic for a while, while we sort a behaviourist and a new daycare/dogwalker_
 

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Ours is growing into a twat!
She has now been banned from daycare for snapping at other dogs for no particular reason.

She only goes in a couple of times a month when my wife needs to go onto campus for work. Going to be problematic for a while, while we sort a behaviourist and a new daycare/dogwalker_
Missy, who is now a professor of dog training c/o the university of YouTube has taken charge of Pixie's "training" and walks/indoctrinates her three times a day. She informed me that Pixie is now really aggressive to other dogs when they are out and it really scares her. Instead of taking the dog out to the middle of nowhere and the allotment, I started walking her round the village and on the local beach last week, met loads of dogs, not a moment's grief and much mutual arse and genital sniffing. One owner who Bev refers to as "That pinch faced bitch with a spaniel" said to me, "she's so different with you." I have a suspicion that all the "sit, stay, good girl, place, break Pixie come, Pixie no" bollix is interpreted by the dog as the human's anxiety and is mirrored in her behaviour.
Not saying any of the above is related to your situation, but it could be that it ain't always the dog's fault. :)
 
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Missy, who is now a professor of dog training c/o the university of YouTube has taken charge of Pixie's "training" and walks/indoctrinates her three times a day. She informed me that Pixie is now really aggressive to other dogs when they are out and it really scares her. Instead of taking the dog out to the middle of nowhere and the allotment, I started walking her round the village and on the local beach last week, met loads of dogs, not a moment's grief and much mutual arse and genital sniffing. One owner who Bev refers to as "That pinch faced bitch with a spaniel" said to me, "she's so different with you." I have a suspicion that all the "sit, stay, good girl, place, break Pixie come, Pixie no" bollix is interpreted by the dog as the human's anxiety and is mirrored in her behaviour.
Not saying any of the above is related to your situation, but it could be that it ain't always the dog's fault. :)
Could well be that. She certainly behaves differently with me compared to Sam. Still doesnt help the daycare issue though.
 

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Did you do the classes too? and refresher courses are not always boring things.

I know, I'm old fashioned about dogs. Dogs ought to know their place, and it isn't in charge.

Character is wonderful, and they are superb companions, but, they aren't children.
 
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