I am back and a GSD puppy on the way

emm0r

emm0r

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Well it has been a while!! For those that remember me and the rottbag - a lot has happened. A break-up which was a long time coming - training went on hold and I never did get round to doing rottbags BH. However onwards and upwards! I am back training like a loon and have a GSD puppy being imported on Sunday! Could I be a convert?!!

I have learnt a lot about my dog this year however I have to say I am chuffed to pieces with her heel work and tracking. I had a few issues with her protection work and haven't done any since. She went completely off it and appears to have lost the prey drive she had...

I am just a bit excited about the pup arriving! :)
 
Good to see you back, I'm sorry to read about the break up. Dogs can be super sensitive I bet she was picking up on things from you and that's why training went a bit off. Plenty of time to go for BH , a friend has just got IPO 1 with her 8.5 year old GSD after a "career" change last year. More details of puppy and obligatory pictures necessary of course!
 
Thank you! :) I don't know.... She was worked in defence and since then she won't even play with a ball on a rope or a tug! If I throw a ball she will play fetch but that's it and I don't really know where to go with it!
Princess looking a bit grown up!
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She is looking great, strange she has lost the drive, would you be able to do some work with Mick T to see if he has any ideas. Lovely looking pup, kind of guessed he? might be a sable :)
 
Yes I ought to take a trip down and see him really! And thank you! She is a she and I am just a tad excited :)
 
Oops, sorry, blame the fact I was looking on my phone. Now I can see her better she looks to have a lovely coat, some of the working lines are a bit dry and lacking furnishings for me (a legacy of years in the show world :p) .
 
emm0r said:
Thank you! :) I don't know.... She was worked in defence and since then she won't even play with a ball on a rope or a tug! If I throw a ball she will play fetch but that's it and I don't really know where to go with it!

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Very smart pics of the Rotts, especially as we move through your album. Not a suspect hip in sight! Rotts, like Dobermans, with full length tails actually look alright!

Man-work can be a tricky issue with some dogs. It starts (or should) as a game, and the play aspect continues right up to and beyond the stage of a sleeve. There are those dogs which when aggression-tested (I hate those words), fold up and refuse to actually "attack" the sleeve. I'm not saying that this will be the case, but it sounds to be the most likely reason, and if I'm right, then the dog has been over faced and questions asked which she's unable to face up to. Aggression in a dog should be monitored by observation rather than "testing", and to persevere with "testing" such a dog, is generally pointless, and if the other aspect of her work, tracking, is her forte then there's as much fun to be had at that as at any other aspect of the sport. As she grows and matures, so your Rott may well come to accept man-work, but it will have to be in her own time. So often aggression is lacking in those dogs which lack confidence, and as (or if) they grow in confidence, then they will gradually become aware of their own abilities. Similarly, the super confident dog often sees little point in aggression!!

Your GSD, if it ever grows in to it's skin, will be the size of a pony! Good luck, that's a smart looking pup, and I do like sable!

Alec.
 
Ermagerd! Welcome to the dark side! Lovely pup, do PM me her breeding, is there some Javir in there? Nice strong female.

You should still do your BH and the Upr and Fpr or whatever the obedience and tracking are called now, if she enjoys it, while your young one is coming up, bitework isn't for every dog and she might come right eventually. Rotties apparently don't have a great deal of prey drive to begin with in the bitework?
My own dog is a total prey monster but he definitely changed when he was worked in defence.
My older dog as Alec says, would have just collapsed under that sort of pressure, so I never went there with him, I just stuck to the tracking as he wasn't exactly dynamic in the heelwork either!!
 
Thank you for the lovely comments! :) I think I am just going to leave the protection with the rott monster and start from scratch in the spring!

CC have sent you her breeding for inspection! :)
 
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