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Old 18-05-2008, 08:17 PM
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Talking Re: New Dog Owner

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Originally Posted by Sitmus View Post
Today as a interesting day.

It was his first time alone in the house today, he was alone for 2 hours. He was OK, he spent the time sleeping, as of what we know, and nothing broke.

We also took him to the beach. He was OK there, got a bit pulling on the lead. He barked at 2 people, and a rotweiler but was fine with everyone else and people's dogs.

We was going to let him take a dip in the sea, but didn't do it because there had been an oil spillage.

He was really good in the car, he was a bit scared when the boot lid went down. The only bad thing he did was he let one go with the windows up!

I have also been watching the Dog Whisperer. And on there, Ceaser said it's best to stroke the dog under his mouth because if it's above it makes them think they did something wrong. Is this true?

We did a bit of name call trainning. Me and my dad was with him at the beach with the flexi lead. I ran off a bit with him, dad called him and sunny responded and ran back to him straight away........ and I was running slowly behind him. He's helping me loose weight though.

stroking a dog who is not 100% confident on top of the head lowers the self asteem and it makes their confidence even lower, but if you stoke underneath the dogs chin then the head becomes higher making his self asteem and confidence higher.

the higher the head and tail the more confident the dog is. the lower the head and tail is the lower the self asteem and confidence.
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