Wish I had been there...

[CorvusCorax]

Took a phonecall last night.

Me: Hello?
Mum: Does your bitch do rag training or bitework?
Me: No, she isn't interested.
Mum: Well you should, I think she might me interested now.
Me: Why?
Mum: Because I've just spent the last ten minutes trying to get my tea towel back off her and she isn't having any of it.

So apparently Mum left her tea towel on Bella's crate, dog pulled it into the crate and wouldn't give it back, hence a tug of war began.
I really wish I had been there and that someone was there to take photos - maybe my little wuss will make a schutzhund dog after all!!!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

And I hope you bring the camera when you turn up on the schutzhund training with Bella and your mothers tea towel!

 

[ridebumble]

Well get yourself a (strong) tea towel and away you go ... Sch III round the corner

 

[CorvusCorax]

Psst - I wouldn't be the only one...I think there are quite a few puzzled wives and mothers making Sunday lunch, not knowing that their missing tea towels are being dragged around a field and being mauled by dogs

 

[ridebumble]

True, we use a Hessian sack to start them off, but my long walking socks and towels both make suitable tugs when a pup takes a liking to them

 

[CorvusCorax]

Bodo is already a tea-towel pro!

(Excuse the coat, he'd just had a bath...)

And my fave ' "It's MY TURN to dry!"

Anyone want to start an 'I'm too tight to buy proper training equipment for my dog' clique?

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I've never been really involved in any similar training over here, but I still know that it's pretty much anything goes here too. If it gets the dog started they use it.

 

[CAYLA]

Take ther to training , u may both enjoy it, there is a good trainer near me, that breeds shepherds for the police and trains them.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Oh Bodo does go every week, we have three forces dogs trainers too! He is always pretty knackered by the time bitework comes around though, they always leave it til last.

Bella gets to go occassionally, I have a feeling it will be her turn this week! Ironically I just tried her with a rag, nothing!!!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I don't mean to offend your mothers cleanliness, but maybe if her tea towel had been used a while it smelled something interesting (cooking dinner related) ? If so maybe Bella thought it was more worth keeping?
Also maybe Bella felt more confident inside her crate?

 

[CorvusCorax]

It was salmon apparently so yeah, probably tasted yummy. And she LOVES the crate, and the house, she has to be forcibly removed at night. We would leave her in, if we could trust her with towels, carpets, rugs etc

 

[FinnishLapphund]

There you go, wrap your rag around a fish of some sort, get rid of the fish and try again!

Then bring Bella, her crate and a tea towel that stinks old fish to the next practise. And to be on the safe side, bring your mother too.

 

[MurphysMinder]

Bet your Mum was impressed really

Evie's favourite tug of war item is the oven gloves, usually when I am trying to get something hot out of the oven, bless her! She is the only dog I have had that doesn't back off when you open the oven door and the hot air blasts out, she tries to climb in and pinch whatever is cooking!

Would love to see the reaction when you turn up at training with the list FLH suggests

 

[CorvusCorax]

Oh, don't tempt me, they already think I'm barking (pardon the pun

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