Live Chat tonight {May 29th} - Page 6

If an original thought ever crosses your mind it will have had a long and lonely journey.  You are a pitiful fool.

If an original thought ever crosses your mind it will have had a long and lonely journey.

LMFAO!  I want that on a tee shirt.

YAAAwWWNNN! 

SSDD...

Wake me when the kindergarten class has finally gone home for the day!

You might have a long nap hun, lol.  It always gets like this and you know that.  Sorryyyy.  I will wake ya though.  See ya in chat next time.  Had a ball in there the other night.  Tina Camp was awesome.

SW, is that Nemo in one of your avatar pics, lying beside Chaos? (Cool avatar!)

I enjoyed the chat, and learned a lot about the differences between UKC and AKC/CKC. I also had a nice chat with CMCollies after the rest of you had gone to bed. REALLY nice lady!

Thank you for hosting the chat!  There are very, very few shepherd fanciers in my area. (There's a big all-breed show 20 minutes from where I live today, and only ONE GSD is entered!)  So, it's nice to be able to interact with other GSD owners, even if it's only online.

Oh yes, it's not like you aren't on the computer every day talking to GSD owners all over the net.  I'm gonna go work my dog.  Too bad you have nothing but an air head that can't work SW, but then it suits you.

Thanks Sunsilver.  The dog beside Chaos is my avator is our mix breed, Downy.  She's a rescue.  She's almost 8 years old  We got her when she was between 4 and 6 months old.  She was very badly abused before we got her and she has come a long way with tons of obedience training and a lot of love.  She did something that I never thought she would do in a million years, this past Oct.  She passed the CGC test.  She is very skitish and afraid of most noises still, but she did great with all of it.  My instructor does a lot of noise conditioning before each class and I do believe it's helped her tons.   We are told that she is German Shepherd / Chow / Sheltie.  We see a little bit of all of them in her too.  Expecially the dang sheltie bark!  LOL.  Thanks again for coming into the chat and I'll let ya know when we have the next one. 

That's GREAT, SW! (She looks like a dwarf GSD in that photo...)

It's amazing what our rescues can accomplish with lots of love and TLC. My rescue GSD was terrified of water as a result of having been thrown off the end of the dock as a pup. I worked with him, taking him a short distance out into the water, then after a brief period, back to shore. At first, we just went chest deep. Then, deep enough he had to swim for a very short distance. Lots of praise, of course!

After a short training session, I let him relax on shore while i swam for a bit. I'll be darned if he didn't swim out to me! It was only about  a 10 yard swim, but for a dog who'd been acting terrified of water a few minutes before, that was a tremendous accomplishment! I praised him to the skies, and swam right back in with him!

This was 2 years ago. Last summer, he and Star had a blast playing in the water in Georgian Bay! He still isn't crazy about swimming, but he's no longer afraid of water! Oh, and he'll duck his whole head under water to pick up a toy off the bottom of the lake!

That's awesome how you got him to not be afraid of the water as much any more.  Glad to hear he's having fun now with it.  A little bit of love and gentle handling does go a long way.  Kudos to you for taking your time with it too.

"Too bad you have nothing but an air head that can't work SW, but then it suits you."

Sue I'm confussed, are you reffering to her brain, or the dog?