Dog topic... Indi Doing Great - Page 2

LOL LOL I am going to hijack my own thread for a minute.... but,  This is  SO funny I have to share it... Just because your story made me think of earlier tonight Jason....
I take Galan a couple of times a week for late night walks over to my friend's house down the block. There are usually at least three to five people there and we sit out in the dimly lit garage and I keep Galan on the lawn (most of the time) to practice his long down under distraction... And to keep him social.

My friend is an older gentleman in his mid 60s,  and adores Galan and Galan adores everyone...My friend's  nephew who lives with him, is a HUGE guy and young, about 25, but a real sweetheart...He's appropriately nicknamed BEAR and Bear is  very weary of my boy... So Bear had a couple of friends over that I had never met, and he actually introduced me (these are his words,  NOT my words:)
"This is my homegirl Stace, and man! She's a dog-tranin' mother f***r!!"
I almost died!!! 
Then he went on to say how my dog does this and that... And I am SO shameless, when they asked for a demo, I played it off and gave them a demo, hehehe... We fussed, I made him sitz, platz, did a nice recall (hey they were impressed, you guys would've been cringing!) LOL LOL
After my  performance, I put Galan back into a platz and he was somewhat hidden in the grassy area right outside the garage door, in the shadows.
One of the guys didn't see him and stepped back, right on Galan's tail and he yelped, but didn't get up.
So the guy (who I'll add is about 6'4" and 200+ pounds) starts apologizing profusely and I could see the sweat beading on his forehead and he had turned white as a sheet! He said "Ma'am his ears are back, he's not gonna attack me is he?" (Galan is 64 pounds and protection to him is all about a sleeve, or seeing someone in scratch pants- he was sulking)
I assured him he wasn't but man, the poor kid was terrified!
Unfortunately, he started asking me weird things like: How to make his 4 month old blue pit bull grow bigger.
The final straw was when he asked me if I could train his dog to ATTACK... He actually said," Hey could you teach my dog to attack just by me saying 'GET 'IM BOY! GET 'IM!"
Of course I told him NO, that I'm still learning Schutzhund and not qualified to be a trainer, but I would be happy to teach him and my friend's nephew's puppy (littermates) basic obedience. THAT I am well qualified to do, especially with pit bulls..So, I am going to do my BEST to assure this guy if I see him again that basic obedience is the most important thing he can teach his puppy. Sadly, if this kid doesn't take any help from me, things are going to end very bad for dog and owner.

P.S. Jason, Indi does Aus on command (usually anyway) and has since she was 5 months old. When I went to the Raino Fluegge seminar with my old club he had mentioned that his 5 month old will Aus... My training director from my old club told me not to Aus her, so I was confused, being new and being told two different things, so when I asked Raino, he said it was perfectly fine for me to teach her to Aus at 5 months.

I love the sweat beading on the forehead! I've seen that look before on other faces, LOL!

Oh yeah, sweating bullets hehe..
Hopefully he takes me up on my offer of teaching him to train his puppy in the basics. Both of the puppies are very good natured and very lovey and incredibly smart too! I'd just hate to see it end ugly. :-(

Stacy,

It depends on what kind of "aus". There is the "aus" you use to get her to release her toy when she is playing tug with you. That you can teach the pups at 5 months and they should get it pretty quickly. And then there is the "aus" in bitework, when the pups got the sleeve jammed all the way in the back of their mouth and they are doing that heavy rapid breathing through their nose and they are staring into space, looking kind of angry. For most young dogs, at the moment they are too high to "out" the sleeve (and that's a good thing!). Usually most people need to go and train the "aus" again in protection when the dog is older and the time is right.


 

Gotcha! The first was the kind of Aus we were doing. Although with Indi she always is staring into space with a tug OR sleeve stuffed in her mouth. She just has never been real "playful" with tugging, even as a puppy. She will wag her tail a few times but other than that she is very possessive.
Remember these pictures? LOL She doesn't like giving up her prizes. She'll look to see where I am but won't make eye contact with me. She doesn't growl but holds tight

See, with Indi in the last two pictures you just posted - there is no way is she going to obey an "aus" command there. She is kind of in a zone, lost in her own world. And there is a lot of aggression (puppy kind, but still) that she is channeling and trying to work through with the holding of the bite pillow. And that's where you have to be careful that she does not re-direct and try to bite you and if she does, I would not make a big deal out it. 

Other time when she is not THAT worked up, I would not let her put her teeth on you. 

I agree with Jason. Especially on the last pict. Her body language is speaking!

I got my Bomber pup from Raino.  Hm, small world. :)

Jason and Shady,
I chose those pictures because even people not really experienced with dogs can most likely read that look.
even when she is like that I can go up to her and take that pillow from her and she will not bite me, at least not right away. But when she is like that (which is most of the time) is when I take the opportunity to cradle her. And calmly stroke her.
In those bottom two pictures she is not mouthing that pillow at all. Just holding it there. That's what she does. So far she's not been a chewer and shows no sign of being the least bit nervous, but you can definitely see that look in her eye huh?

Her sire is also very possessive and a no nonsense dog. She has bitten me more times than I can count and I don't make a big deal about it, to her anyway lol. Afterwards of course I have a few choice words.. I have to work on being quicker than her I think LOL
Training was cancelled tonight, so I think I'm going to walk her to the park down the street and let her burn off some energy once it cools down and work on getting her to focus without popping me, and rewarding her a lot faster..

Oh wow Red!! Cool about Raino!
Does your pup happen to be about a year old now? If so, then it's probably the littermate to the one he was talking about back then..
Raino was a great guy and very helpful!

Stacy