What is he on about???

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I am just reading 'A Dog Year' by an American author named Jon Katz. It is about how he adopted a Border Collie.

I have to be honest, I am starting to wonder what planet he is on!

He had two Labs when he got the collie, and I have just read a bit where he says that his walks with the Labs only lasted 15 minutes or so, as heat, flies or cold got to them. WHAT?????:eek::eek: This bears no resemblance to any Lab I have owned or known! They are working dogs, and should be able to be out in the field all day! (Mind you there is a pic of them on the back cover of the book and MY GOD they were fat):eek: But seriously, 15 minutes? Cold, getting to a Lab? What utter tosh!

What with that and his *ahem* interesting training methods (basically, every time the dog misbehaved, he threw a choke chain at it:rolleyes:) I really do wonder about some people. He keeps going on about this marvellous trainer he worked with who was apparently 'so authoratative' that he made dogs wet the floor...

Not sure I'll make it to the end of the book at this rate!
 
Always amazes me when people with questionable abilities want to write about them and share them with the unsuspecting public. To scare a dog into wetting itself is not being authoratative it is bullying. Poor dogs.
 
Precisely Mattilda. A dog I know that was an RSPCA cruelty case used to wet itself in fear - how is bringing a dog to that point anything to be proud of?

Gazey, I will have to put it in the kindling basket ready for a chilly day:D

Just been onto this guys website, and apparently the dog was PTS after biting several people. No comment...
 
HAHAHA! I know some dogs this guy should really meet.
"Here sir, just run to greet the dogs, shouting really loudly and hold this stick above your head. They LOVE that!"

So was the misbehaving...peeing, chewing, barking, getting excited, you know, stuff that dogs do, because they are...DOGS?!
 
Hardly anyone walks their dogs here. It makes me so mad!

Then they wonder why they are so hyper all the time.

We have small yards where i live and at least 7 dogs on our block and only 2 people walk them at all and even then its 5 minutes round the block once a day.

They must think i am nuts hiking out with mine everyday.
 
It was really sad, this collie had been sold for an obedience career and hadn't been good enough, sounded from what he said in the book (the dog would cower away from broom, sticks etc) like he'd been smacked about a bit. Then the breeder took him back, then shipped him off in a plane to this guy, that she had never met:mad: Who proceeded to train him using aversives and by the sounds of it no real praise or rewards, which I think totally wrong for a dog with such a background which was lacking in confidence. The dog was difficult by the sounds of it, bored as collies will be, would escape from the backyard and chased cars and so on - sounds to me as though it needed an experienced collie home that could channel that energy into something like agility, or even proper work.

He also got another collie, that he apparently ended up giving away...

Just been having a nose, and the collie forums seem to hate him!
 
Sure I got into a fight with that 'orrible woman who said I shouldn't have a dog, because my property wasn't fenced off so he could roam in it.
Er, so he could either lie in one spot all day, or fence-run? No, I like my dogs to actually be mentally and physically stimulated and have some sort of muscle tone....

Said woman was still in her pit when I was out at 6am and off out patronising other people when we were doing our 10k hikes.

No surprise the poor dog bit people, probably defending itself from humans!
 
CaveCanem said:
Sure I got into a fight with that 'orrible woman who said I shouldn't have a dog, because my property wasn't fenced off so he could roam in it.
Er, so he could either lie in one spot all day, or fence-run? No, I like my dogs to actually be mentally and physically stimulated and have some sort of muscle tone....
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The garden thing really winds me up, especially with rescue centres being so strict about it. I'm not going to pay for 6 foot fencing around 121 acres that I don't actually own. Tragically, the poor mutt will just have to be taken out and walked, when he would obviously be so much happier dumped in a garden the size of a postage stamp all day.

Sorry, rant over :o
 
There are very few 'doggy' books that I don't want to put in the kindling basket! Most of them talk so much garbage about their clearly spoilt, ill-mannered dog, I can't see the words through the red-haze that decends! :D
 
One of his labs was put down after developing heart problems and hip dysplasia. Given the size of it, I'm really not surprised!

A google search reveals that apparently he thinks dogs don't live past the age of 8, that all rescue dogs are dangerous and should be put down, and that if a dog is not trained from a baby, it will be untrainable (apparently, 9 months old is too late):mad:

So angry I bought the thing and contributed my money to this idiot!
 
Three words: Bad Book Bonfire!!
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There are some utter twonks out there, writing some absolute tripe (twipe?:p)
Let's have a sacrificial bonfire and some primal screaming to make us all feel better :D
 
numptynovice said:
Three words: Bad Book Bonfire!!
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There are some utter twonks out there, writing some absolute tripe (twipe?:p)
Let's have a sacrificial bonfire and some primal screaming to make us all feel better :D
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Good thinking:D

In fact, let's all get on a plane and go and save his current crop of dogs from him before he kills them off too!:p
 
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