I dont like dogs

splashgirl45 said:
i like all dogs its the people i have a problem with mostly......but i dont pet other peoples dogs but everyone pets mine!!!!! and i have had a devil of a job to stop random people giving them treats,,i would never give someone else's dog a treat i cant see the point, i only use treats to get my little wretch of a terrier to recall and wouldnt otherwise use them...
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I don’t get everyone’s absolute obsession with treats, whether they are dog owners or not! Even my vet was giving my dogs treats this week, mainly because George was a good boy and didn’t bite her 😂

I don’t give my dogs treats. There is no reason to give dogs treats. I don’t want anyone else to give my dogs treats. So why does everyone insist on doing so?

And before someone points out that I’m a miserable sod, yes absolutely I am and I don’t actually care lol 😂 My dogs are healthy well balanced and reasonably obedient (apart from Millie chasing deer!) and treats ain’t gonna change that 😄
 
luckily my terrier loves treats so they have been a useful tool to take his mind off other things. he is the first dog i have ever used them for apart from training puppies at the beginning of their time with me., although any lurcher puppies were not really interested...
 
Clodagh said:
Sash was a saluki x something, a bit of an allsort, but not very big so there could well have been some whippet in there. She was definitely more cat than dog, slightly aloof and on her own terms, ignored you when it suited but totally affectionate when so inclined. :)
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My bitch who was collie x saluki x whippet of some sort sounds just like that.

If there was no treats here there would be a mutiny. I clicker train so treats are par for the course for us.
 
DabDab said:
I like other people's dogs, and other people's children, and other people's horses. I just love watching people with their dogs and horses (have never felt the need to pet them though), and children are funny little critters, especially when you can give them back at the end of the day.

Other people's cats annoy me though, skulking around and randomly jumping on you or scowling at you.
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That's what I love about cats. They don't give a f*ck 😂
 
It just occurred to me that disliking dogs is frowned on but disliking cats 😼 is acceptable.
I wonder why🤔
 
mule said:
It just occurred to me that disliking dogs is frowned on but disliking cats 😼 is acceptable.
I wonder why🤔
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I wonder if it's because on the while, dogs are friendly and want to be loved whereas cats can be aloof and independent. So not loving dogs seems wrong as all they want is to be loved, but cats couldn't give a shit.
 
JennBags said:
I wonder if it's because on the while, dogs are friendly and want to be loved whereas cats can be aloof and independent. So not loving dogs seems wrong as all they want is to be loved, but cats couldn't give a shit.
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Yup this. My cat couldnt care less if you like him. The dogs really want you to love them.
 
I am not much interested in other people's dogs unless they are puppies. sometimes I give my dogs treats, sometimes I dont-they seem to be able to cope.Quarrie will not take treats from strangers or the vet-he spits them out and looks at them suspiciously. Fitz sticks his tongue out like an anteater and they go straight down, no crunching, no investigation,no touching the sides, very gently but gone in a nanosecond :eek:
 
I will say hello to a well mannered dog but just cannot stand ill mannered loud, bolshy and in your face, badly trained jumpy up dogs belonging to other people.

By the same measure my fella is well trained, has good recall and knows how to keep his manners. For me anyway.

He is boisterous at times, and full of beans and the joys of life, and I am conscious that people meeting him might not appreciate this. He is an unusual colour for his breed which draws a lot of attentions so I have him trained to sit when approached by anyone and kids absolutely adore him.

So no OP I don't think you are weird. Each to their own, and you have your reasons, so who are any of us to judge?
 
I think it can be explained like this: your dogs are your pack and you love them. Other dogs are outsiders to your pack. :)
That would also explain why some people only like their children and nobody else’s.
 
My sadly departed motley crew of hounds were not in the slightest bit interested in treats. I thought treats were more for the neurotic owners benefit than the dogs but my new venture (a GSD x Mali) is very responsive to treats and training her has been a breeze using food treats as a reward.
 
In a town near me there sometimes sits an older guy. He has treats for dogs and treats aka sweets for children. I guess he's lonely and it's his way of making contact.
 
After spending days and weeks trying to understand what made various foster dogs tick in order to get them to respond to me and whatever training I could do with them I now find myself watching all dogs' body language closely and being more intrigued by anti social behaviour than emotionally affected by it. You could say I am prepared to like all dogs but know it is not always easy.

PS. And I do use treats with food motivated dogs. They can shorten considerably the learning process and make it a lot smoother.
 
planete said:
PS. And I do use treats with food motivated dogs. They can shorten considerably the learning process and make it a lot smoother.
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I always despised treat based training having seen some hideously behaved gold citizen dogs produced by village hall trainers with pockets full of choc drops. Then I realised that it is horses for courses and my labs like a retrieve as their ultimate reward, so really that is only a treat for a retrieve driven dog. So, a dog that preferred food above all else I can see that giving it a treat will only speed the learning process.
 
My younger dog will climb up people and go in their pockets for food :p and has just done a super track through cut barley for bits of Cheesestrings and chicken breast lol.
However the vast majority of training is just working for his normal kibble. Feeding 'treats' on top of normal food just makes most pet dogs picky and devalues their normal food - there's nothing you can do if you hit a training problem if you've already given them caviar instead of gruel for doing the simplest of tasks.
 
I like other peoples dogs in general but only certain ones. I really dislike dogs that jump up, what ever their size I hate that and think its just awful. I don't fuss those! There is currently a dog at my work who is incredibly lovely and I'd not kick her out if she happened to hop in my car on a Friday afternoon ;)
 
CorvusCorax said:
My younger dog will climb up people and go in their pockets for food :p and has just done a super track through cut barley for bits of Cheesestrings and chicken breast lol.
However the vast majority of training is just working for his normal kibble. Feeding 'treats' on top of normal food just makes most pet dogs picky and devalues their normal food - there's nothing you can do if you hit a training problem if you've already given them caviar instead of gruel for doing the simplest of tasks.
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Exactly - mine get a pat on the head and that’s enough for them 😊

ETA - your younger dog would get a kick in the b***s from me for doing that 😂😂😂😂 And yes of course I’m only joking, and no of course I wouldn’t dream of doing that to any dog for all the fluffies.....
 
CorvusCorax said:
My younger dog will climb up people and go in their pockets for food :p and has just done a super track through cut barley for bits of Cheesestrings and chicken breast lol.
However the vast majority of training is just working for his normal kibble. Feeding 'treats' on top of normal food just makes most pet dogs picky and devalues their normal food - there's nothing you can do if you hit a training problem if you've already given them caviar instead of gruel for doing the simplest of tasks.
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We have a scale in the treats given, from ordinary kibble to...not quite caviar, but the dog equivalent. Dogs can also appreciate differences in quantity. A slow recall gets an ordinary reward, a fast, immediate recall gets a higher value reward or a larger one and the rewards become intermittent until treats can be dispensed with altogether as training progresses. The uncertainty seems to make some dogs work much harder while it may discourage others but indiscriminate feeding of treats is certainly not the right way to motivate a dog. And many dogs will not work for food rewards anyway but will for a game. Some exceptional ones will work for just praise but I have not yet found a lurcher who will.
 
mule said:
That's what I love about cats. They don't give a f*ck 😂
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You haven't met my westie, she takes aloof to a whole new level....

I never understand the cats are independent thing, because they're just not. They're always getting under your feet and demanding to be fed
 
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