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my husband's old working dog (chester) was a canine good citizen. :heart: i think it's so cute and bonds the owner and dog. our dogs are BAD CANINE CITIZENS. lol. they would be like "you want me to do WHAT?! On COMMAND?" lol everyone thinks our dogs would be trained to hunt down criminals, narcotics, or explosives but the last thing my husband wants to do is train them too. they know basic commands but aren't exactly the best behaved dogs. :nogood: but we love them!
 
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Dawn said:
my husband's old working dog (chester) was a canine good citizen. :heart: i think it's so cute and bonds the owner and dog. our dogs are BAD CANINE CITIZENS. lol. they would be like "you want me to do WHAT?! On COMMAND?" lol everyone thinks our dogs would be trained to hunt down criminals, narcotics, or explosives but the last thing my husband wants to do is train them too. they know basic commands but aren't exactly the best behaved dogs. :nogood: but we love them!
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I seriously doubt they are bad citizens, LOL.

Well I have 3 dogs and they go like this:

  • "Panarella's Answered Prayers"(aka Truman) naj na re tdi cgc rl1
  • Roosevelt tdi cgc
  • Sookie, just Sookie :p
True is fancy, Roosevelt is a little fancy and Sookie is cute.
My so was asking me when I was going to start working with Sookie and I said I dont want to train her you train her! LOL I love Sookie but I am all trained out with these guys. She showed up pretty easy to live with anyway, she crate/house trained immediatly, she never takes her eyes off of me outside and she's perfect onleash so what does she really need to know.
 
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polar got her cgc and her tdi the summer i got her (aug 07), i was so proud to achieve that with her. she's a retired show dog, she came to me with a cd, so she is a very obedient girl. dusty is my shy boy, he was petrified when i took him to obedience class. lessons weren't fun for him, so we never got past the basics.
 
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Thanks ladies!
I have also decided to go back to school to work towards a phd in animal behavior. I know it will take me years but those years are going to happen anyway so why not work towards something.


gypsybiker59 said:
polar got her cgc and her tdi the summer i got her (aug 07), i was so proud to achieve that with her. she's a retired show dog, she came to me with a cd, so she is a very obedient girl. dusty is my shy boy, he was petrified when i took him to obedience class. lessons weren't fun for him, so we never got past the basics.
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Cool, Polar sounds like a wonderful dog and so does shy little Dusty, shelties are so sensitive. Truman was such a broken dog when I got him. He had given up all hope that he would ever be safe in this world. I am so amazed and proud of how brave he has been and that he learned to trust again.
 
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gooddog said:
Thanks ladies!
I have also decided to go back to school to work towards a phd in animal behavior. I know it will take me years but those years are going to happen anyway so why not work towards something.




Cool, Polar sounds like a wonderful dog and so does shy little Dusty, shelties are so sensitive. Truman was such a broken dog when I got him. He had given up all hope that he would ever be safe in this world. I am so amazed and proud of how brave he has been and that he learned to trust again.
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gooddog, that is so awesome! i think animal behavior is so fascinating! you should go work at Dog Town!!!!!!!!! :yes:
and truman sounds like he got a very lucky break with you. :heart:
 
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I got so lucky to have found True, he is such a wonderful friend. All 3 of my dogs are incredibly special but True is my working partner and my extra special boy.

Have I mentioned how much I love this gorgeousness. The only thing I would change about this clutch is to have it have a zipper closure on the top under the flap:

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gooddog, you are seriously my hero... good luck with your PHd, that is amazing. I have to ask your opinion, what do you think of Cesar Millan and his training methods? A lot of corgi people don't like him, and think his methods are archaic. would like to hear your thoughts

polar is great, nothing phases her. dusty grew up on the side of a mountain in tennessee with his breeder and never got socialized. i got him 5 years ago (on Christmas day, in fact), and he's come a long way since then but is incredibly sound sensitive and easily spooked (typical of the breed). i have to think that the lack of socialization at an early age is largely to do with his shyness. the first day we got him, he ran away from us at antietam national battleground in maryland... now I know he was terrified but back then, all I could do was pray and make deals with all kinds of deities. It worked, because he came back and let us "catch" him. I'm still under contract to lesser Indian gods till like, 2056. ;)

to those of you who don't know what antietam is, its a huge battle ground over i don't know how many acres, but if he had jumped the stonewall fence, it would have been all over. it was easily one of the scariest experiences in my life.

now, i know he would run back to me, but back then, he didn't know who we were, and he was absolutely terrified. he's taught me so much, and he's the gentlest soul ever.
 
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Congrats, Gooddog!

And can I just say that all I want to do right now is play Super Mario and Zelda - but only the originals. I am now humming both theme songs in my head. My sister, dad and I were OBSESSED back in the day. Used to drive my mom nuts, lol.

We just finished our fourth and FINAL Christmas celebration and I am sooo looking forward to some down time!! It was interesting b/c we met my DH's step-sister's hubby who is stationed in Iraq so he shared quite a bit with us about how things really are over there. He was in Afghanistan before that. I can't imagine having my DH gone for long stretches and in danger the whole time, especially since they have a two year old. Tough stuff.
 
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Dawn said:
gooddog, that is so awesome! i think animal behavior is so fascinating! you should go work at Dog Town!!!!!!!!! :yes:
and truman sounds like he got a very lucky break with you. :heart:
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dawn, funny you should post this... i actually do want to move to utah and work at dog town... in a really bad way, bad enough that i check their job board periodically. i love watching that show, and I have a huge crush on the trainer, john garcia.
 
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