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Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 11 11:56 am Post subject: Brave Dog.

Chester (my dog) is so utterly desperate to please, he never does actually please because he's concentrating on wanting to please rather than learning or doing as asked, so he just ends up in a squirming mess. He is very intimidated by livestock, particularly cows.

BUT, I did manage to teach him one thing - to go mental when I say 'get 'em'. I figured because he looks like a scrapyard dog, even though he's soft as mush he would look the part were I ever to get mugged/carjacked/etc. and barking would help that. It works really well, he goes from a cringing coward to the bravest dog, jumping around barking, even taking on the dreaded geese if I give the word - but I didn't expect it would work on cows!

Well just now we had a bunch of limi calves from next door turn up, aiming through the yard and out to the fields, so I thought I'd get round them and use Chester barking to turn them back. When I told him to 'get them' he really did! This dog, who is pertrified of cows, ran up barking furiously and launched himself at the nearest animal, latching onto it's belly while it leapt 8ft in the air, thrashing with it's back legs, and he hung on! Just because I said so, bless him.

No damage to the beast; they all legged it back next door, tails in the air!

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 11 11:57 am Post subject:
Good dog!

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 11 10:05 am Post subject:
Well now I would like to see a picture of you dog, please?

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 11 11:44 am Post subject:
Here he is, looking uncharacteristically calm and noble He's put weight on sicne then too, this pic was pre raw diet...

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 11 11:45 am Post subject:
and another...

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 11 12:48 pm Post subject:
The first picture he looks quite manly. The second one he undoes it all as he looks like a great big soppy sod. Thanks for posting the pictures.

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 11 6:48 pm Post subject:
yeah the first picture was an absolute fluke!

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 11 6:52 pm Post subject:
He's lovely Mrs R! My two are really quite scared of the moos (thank goodness) if they are standing at the field gates, the girls avoid making eye contact and slink past at high speed... Bull Terrors that's what they is! Kate

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 11 11:15 am Post subject:

Ha Chester did it again yesterday - I bought a new flock of sheep recently and they're used to being worked with a dog, but not so used to electric fences! Anyway 4 of them had jumped out of the paddock and I'd already put them in so many times I just left them out

We went to walk past with the dog, who wouldn't calm down when I told him to chill while we went past the sheep (our sheep aren't worked with a dog and dont normally give a monkeys about him) - it set the sheep running and me and the dog just froze while I waited for the chaos of the whole flock and electric netting scattered across the countryside...

...but amazingly, the four escapees just barrelled over the fence back into the paddock! The dog looked back at me with eyes full of worry about what he'd done, and I just looked back at him and then said GOOD BOY!

seems the sheep have learnt their lesson as they've been in ever since!

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 11 12:29 pm Post subject:
I'd have him if he never needed re-homing. He's a lovely chap.

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 11 1:10 pm Post subject:
oh thats what everyone says, until we try to give him away

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