FestiveSpirit
Well-Known Member
You have a lovely dog in, someone nags and nags you saying they want to give it a home, then finally you give in and let them have the dog.
Then a few weeks later you get a message on your phone... "hi it's X, I think you can have this ******* dog back, I have taken it for a walk and now I cant ******** catch it, the little ******** is standing about 8 feet away from me just staying out of reach all the time, I have been in this ********* wood about 2 hours now, I dont know what to ********* do, I cannot catch the little ********* at all, can you ring me if you get this message please"
Luckily Cala was very nice to me and calmed me down when she phoned me back
and suggested lots of possible ideas on how I might catch Amy Sadly none of them worked, so we ended up walking 1/4 mile down the lane to get home with Amy trotting about 8 feet in front of me off the lead, glancing over her shoulder every so often to check I was still the same distance away, and me having hysterics the whole time as the lane is very twisty and I was convinced a car was going to come round the corner too fast and hit her....
We got back safe and sound, Amy trotted in through the front door after me and lay down on her bed like nothing had ever happened
The moral of this story: when your three greyhounds take off after a roe deer (which they nearly caught) dont be too pleased when they come back to call pretty much straight away. The real challenge is to get them all back ON THE LEAD
I was due for an appt at the local beauty salon so I had to ring them and say I might be late, they were laughing their socks off when I turned up
So, lots of treats, walks on leads for the next couple of weeks, and some one-to-one long line training around the woods for Amy....
Then a few weeks later you get a message on your phone... "hi it's X, I think you can have this ******* dog back, I have taken it for a walk and now I cant ******** catch it, the little ******** is standing about 8 feet away from me just staying out of reach all the time, I have been in this ********* wood about 2 hours now, I dont know what to ********* do, I cannot catch the little ********* at all, can you ring me if you get this message please"
Luckily Cala was very nice to me and calmed me down when she phoned me back
and suggested lots of possible ideas on how I might catch Amy Sadly none of them worked, so we ended up walking 1/4 mile down the lane to get home with Amy trotting about 8 feet in front of me off the lead, glancing over her shoulder every so often to check I was still the same distance away, and me having hysterics the whole time as the lane is very twisty and I was convinced a car was going to come round the corner too fast and hit her....We got back safe and sound, Amy trotted in through the front door after me and lay down on her bed like nothing had ever happened
The moral of this story: when your three greyhounds take off after a roe deer (which they nearly caught
) dont be too pleased when they come back to call pretty much straight away. The real challenge is to get them all back ON THE LEAD I was due for an appt at the local beauty salon so I had to ring them and say I might be late, they were laughing their socks off when I turned up
So, lots of treats, walks on leads for the next couple of weeks, and some one-to-one long line training around the woods for Amy....
Also don't know how easy it is to teach skinny dogs to go down, but sometimes you can get a dog to go down at a distance and stay, even if it won't come back to you.
