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Would You Give Her Up?

Alan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:57:43 +0000

I have a boxer mix that keeps running away from home. We can’t afford to fence in our yard, and we try to keep her on a chain when she’s outside, but she still escapes often. In January when she escaped the house she was shot twice by our gun happy neighbors.
I’m trying to obedience train her and working hard on her recall, but I get so scared that the next time she runs off she will not come home. I really care about her and don’t want to give her up, but I want her to be safe.
I recently found someone that is looking for a large dog and emailed her. She is interested in possibly adopting. They have a fenced yard and say that they will walk her and dote on her.
Would you give her up to a new home? If so, what questions would you ask a stranger to ensure it is a good home??

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Ever Noticed How Many Rescue Volunteers Know Nothing About Dogs?

Alan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:55:18 +0000

I have found that the vast majority, in fact pretty much all the rescue volunteers I have met here in Ireland, on website and in person, know little or nothing about the breeds they deal with and nothing about pack structure and training. In fact I have had a whole forum of people tell me that pack structure dosn’t exsist when I gave sound advice to someone. Seriously.
I have been told that prong collars are… (let me try and remember) Somthing like “unbelievably cruel” and the word torture was used a lot.
This was when I told someone the correct way to use one on a dog that dragged them down the street on walks. They reccommended a halti, which can actually do a lot more damage to a dogs neck than a prong, as well as being not as effective!
Someone was rehoming a Weimaraner because it was not an effective guard dog, and the rescuers were all saying that the person was stupid to expect a Weim to guard, they are nothing but softies, that they would never be a good guard dog. Anyone who knows anything knows that a Weim has quite a strong protective instinct and can be a hard dog like many German breeds.
When I even mentioned the word e-collar for training (correctly and responibly after learning how to use them, obviously) I was hit with a torrent of abuse and actually banned from that particular forum. These were well known dog rescuers in Ireland.
When I volunteered to do some basic obedience with the dogs in the local centre here to make them easier to rehome,the essence of what I said was basically ignored, and I was told yeah, they really need people to help out and clean out the dogs pens or walk them. I said I would train them, like I am volunteering to train the dogs, I don’t have to do it, and they tell me I can clean out their pens? No thanks.
I have given a lot of money to the ISPCA and strongly support animal rescue, but the attitude of the volunteers would really put you off.
On another note about animal welfare in Ireland – Before when I went to do some volunteer work at the local SPCA holding spot located at the vets, a van full of lovely healthy but sad looking collies, crosses and some greyhounds and lurchers came pulled up. I was talking to them, assuming they were going onto the rescue to be rehomed. They were led into the vets, a few at a time, I heard the most awful screams I have ever heard (I’m not exaggerating) and they came out in green bags. In my county its still legal to put down dogs with bolt guns.
But anyway back to the attitude of recuers -
Has anyone else found this with them?

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Hunting With An Undocked Dog?

Alan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:15:53 +0000

I own a Springer from working stock and recently, I’ve been doing basic gun dog training with her, she’s picking it up quickly and doing really well.
I’ve just returned from training classes. The classes are for obedience and agility but one of the trainers has fully trained gun dogs that he competes, trains, works and demonstrates with, so he takes me aside to do gun dog work while the other dogs do the agility. Today I was asking about competing in field trials with her if she completes all her training and he said the only problem would be her tail, so now I’m looking more towards the YKC junior handler field trials because of her tail.
My question is, does anyone have any experience working an undocked dog?

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