Maisey's Halo has slipped

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Bl0000dy dog has taken an unhealthy liking to sheep!! :mad:

Never before has she taken an interest! Dad was out walking yesterday morning with all ten dogs (all off the lead!) and she buggered off after 2 lambs which darted out the hedge 20 yards in front :o and caught one :o pinned it to the floor and was playing with it! Poor Dad has poorly knees so is in complete agony now :mad: he gave her a severe telling off, straight on the lead and back to the kennel!

I took her out on the chain and longline last night. A friend rounded the sheep up in the corner of the field for me and i walked through the middle of them ... sheep bolted ... what did Maisey do????? Sat down and looked at me! Didn't pay one bit of attention to them :mad::mad::mad::rolleyes: WTF?!

I'm going to repeat this every night until she cracks .... her halo will slip again i'm sure ... :rolleyes:
 
So has Henry's:mad: He has been so, SO good on his recall for the last few weeks (well, picnics notwithstanding), he has really been **** hot, then he's just buggered off across a HUGE field and off, I thought he was heading straight for the dual carriageway about a mile off:eek::mad: Goodness knows what he smelt, but he was paying no attention to me at all:mad: BAD DOG:mad:
 
WHY WHY WHY do we bother?!

I'm hoping tonight she will give in to temptation! I can run a lot faster than Dad ... :D

I must look like a right idiot walking through a field o sheep with a squirty bottle hanging off one side of my belt and a big black lab on a pink long line in hand! :rolleyes:
 
Goodness only knows why we bother with the vile little creatures:mad: Of course, once I had calmed down (:o) I started retraining YET AGAIN (didn't want to leave it with his last memory of the recall whistle being one of heading in totally the wrong direction:rolleyes:) and he was **** hot once again:rolleyes: He puts me in mind of the little girl with the curl - when he's good, he's very very good, but when he's bad, he's HORRID:eek:
 
I feel your pain! Tinks recall is usually rather good, and will even come back off a scent if you sound angry enough ;)
Two weeks wild in ireland and she is feral! :mad: had her in the field and as soon as she was off lead, nose down and off she went. Not even at speed but would NOT come back and was miles away before I decided I'd better leg it after her :o took me about 20 mins to catch the flipping creature! Grr. Not been off lead since!
 
Maisey can join The Moo:cool: on the sheep chasing naughty step:mad:

Having ignored them for about a year and half he has chased them twice so is now on his lead when walking through their field:rolleyes: tonight he walked past them on a slack lead as if they weren't there - that was probably 'cos he was knackered from chasing hares and had a full tummy from the baby rabbit he ate....:rolleyes:
 
SHE CRACKED!!!

i knew she would!! :rolleyes:

Out on the long line again and all of a sudden went into 'collie style stealth mode' and off she went ... all the way to the end of the long line! I then met her at the end of the long line - so not only does she now hate me for screaming, shouting, blowing stop whistle and having a face full of water, she now hates the sight of the long line!

Don't think she will be doing it again! :rolleyes:

Maisey Mae is now on naughty step with The Moo .... :D

Tinks the wee beggar! I don't know why we bother!!
 
Haha that'll teach her! :D

I had a real heart in mouth moment this morning :( walking along the side of a rape field when half a dozen deer sprang up infront. With my 2 in hot pursuit towards the road :eek: manic whistling and screaming totally ignored but thank god they followed the headland and didn't go through the gap in the hedge!

They soon gave up but it has made me determined to crack the stop whistle. They looked very apologetic for about 30 seconds at my pointy finger and red face before gleefully skipping off together :mad:
 
Spudlet said:
LOL you big meanie mummy!:eek:
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Yep, i know!

Bit of a shock to the system TBH as after 'training' Jake, even raising my voice to a dog makes me feel mean! You literally have to whisper with him LOL

Going out tonight, again! Lets see if it's worked. I was a bit worried about her reaching the end of the long line TBH, she was flying, thought she would break her neck stopping so suddenly :eek: but she didn't :p:D She's only got herself to blame - the stop whistle was sounding from the moment she legged it to the moment she stopped! :rolleyes:
 
I am having stop issues too, he'll stop when we're playing our little game, but when he's out and about and I try it, he comes back instead of just stopping:rolleyes: Even if I shout sit before the whistle, he STILL comes back and then sits about 6 feet away:rolleyes:

Henry and I had a Discussion about the ownership of a dead fish head that he was rolling in today:mad: Turned out it was mine after all....:D he has not quite forgiven me for chucking it into a huge bank of six foot tall nettles yet (in fact he was looking for a way through half an hour later when we came back that way... I think the head will make a reappearance come autumn when the nettles die off!:eek:)
 
If you sit him up, make him wait. walk away (a fair distance). Turn to face him, recall and then when he is about half way blast the stop whistle and put your hand up ... he still continues to run/creep towards you???

If so ... run towards him, hand up, blasting stop whistle. If he stops (albeit late) then fine, keep practising this.

If you run and he continues to run so you meet each other and he has shown no sign of stopping, pick him up, carry him back to the spot in which he was when you first blew the stop whistle, when you place him back on the floor, make him sit and blast stop whistle command again. Walk off to heel, try again. No eye contact, no fuss, no games...
 
Anything that's a set up situation like that, he's fine - it takes him a moment to arrange his legs from a run into the appropriate sitting position:rolleyes:, but he does do it. It's when we try it for real that he seems to forget himself. Sometimes he stops (though doesn't sit), but then sometimes he turns back. If he does come back, I step towards him and tell him to sit firmly, and he will sit... but it does take it a while to sink in.
 
Spudlet said:
Anything that's a set up situation like that, he's fine - it takes him a moment to arrange his legs from a run into the appropriate sitting position:rolleyes:, but he does do it. It's when we try it for real that he seems to forget himself. Sometimes he stops (though doesn't sit), but then sometimes he turns back. If he does come back, I step towards him and tell him to sit firmly, and he will sit... but it does take it a while to sink in.
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A real situation as in when you're out beating? Or just when other dogs are around? (when you're out with friends etc)

One thing i will say, when you're out beating; use it as a training exercise. That's basically what i do (and what most people do if they're honest!)

Don't be afraid to 'train' whilst on the shoot, or even with others, friends etc.

Every shoot i go on (usually about 30 a season) at some point during the day, i'm training, improving the dog some how! :)

As for the 'taking a moment to arrange his legs' that's fine :D he knows what you are asking, he clearly wants to please :D same goes for stopping and not sitting, the basic principle is there - Kensa will sit every time 'at home' but with the excitement of the shoot she will stop and look at me but not sit - i ignore that.

If you stop him, he stops and then turns back then (IMO) when i have blown whistle, dog stops for a second and attention goes and dog runs towards something, etc, blow whistle again ... if still turned away and i was being ignored i would run to dog, catch, pick up, place back in spot the dog stopped first, firm blast on stop whistle, hand up and make dog sit and wait for at least a minute. Don't make eye contact (but still keeping the beady eye in the back of my head on them!) and then walk off with a simple 'heel' command. You've ended on a positive note, they have 'sat and waited'. Walk off and try the entire thing again. Once you get a successful ending, end session. If you feel you are not going to crack it that day, keep dog to heel for some time, on lead and praise. tomorrow is another day! :)
 
Scranny-Ann can you come and live with my dogs please?!?
They are JRT's. OH's bitch us fab, he can take her beating and she is sn angel although she us tiny so isn't allowed to pick up unless he is just out shooting himself then she 'helps'
My two are in dire need of boot camp..... I suppose you have inspired me to pull my finger out and get training.
 
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