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My new dog, "Hero", came home today. It is Bastille Day, so I should be able to remember the date. 
He is pretty darn wonderful (and I should be able to put up pictures since I have mastered how a camera works, just not how to get the photos from it onto the computer). We only had one glitch so far. Our neighbors let their miniature something or other roam not only onto our property but into our fence enclosed area. (It is so small it can go under the fence.) Hero is very, very young, active, and strong, and although my daughter had him on a leash because they were about to leave to go for a walk, he seems to have taken the tiny dog in his mouth-although he did not draw blood-before his owner/mother rescued it from the jaws of death. She left our property screaming "I knew this wasn't going to work" (huh?) and "Bad dog!" at our dog. My daughter called after her, "This was on our property!".
I didn't think my daughter should have called anything after her. I wanted to go make sure their dog was OK (although they said he wasn't bleeding). But it was self-evident that the dog was on our property. No one had invited them. Their dogs (multiple and all tiny) often come here (under the fence) and poop on our lawn and they come running over chasing their dogs. I grew up in a town where dogs roamed freely and people were neighborly. I used to give heir little dogs treats, but send them home. And I watch my driveway when I back up my Jeep so as not to run them over!
But now my daughter is afraid to walk Hero. I am showing her that he just needs obedience classes and I started training him today in our enclosed front yard. He already knows "sit". If we are walking (and he is pulling like crazy on the leash, which he does) he will sit if I give him the command "sit". That stops the pulling. He is not ready for prime time, but I see that this is going to work. He is very smart and he wants to please. He just needs to learn.
So not only do I need to work with the dog (who is educable) but with my daughter (who is moody, stubborn, and prone to giving up at the first obstacle she encounters). The call for obedience training has already been placed. Please wish us all luck!
Deb/AGBF
Link to thread that came before this one...https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/prayers-good-wishes-and-dust-all-accepted.241594/
He is pretty darn wonderful (and I should be able to put up pictures since I have mastered how a camera works, just not how to get the photos from it onto the computer). We only had one glitch so far. Our neighbors let their miniature something or other roam not only onto our property but into our fence enclosed area. (It is so small it can go under the fence.) Hero is very, very young, active, and strong, and although my daughter had him on a leash because they were about to leave to go for a walk, he seems to have taken the tiny dog in his mouth-although he did not draw blood-before his owner/mother rescued it from the jaws of death. She left our property screaming "I knew this wasn't going to work" (huh?) and "Bad dog!" at our dog. My daughter called after her, "This was on our property!". I didn't think my daughter should have called anything after her. I wanted to go make sure their dog was OK (although they said he wasn't bleeding). But it was self-evident that the dog was on our property. No one had invited them. Their dogs (multiple and all tiny) often come here (under the fence) and poop on our lawn and they come running over chasing their dogs. I grew up in a town where dogs roamed freely and people were neighborly. I used to give heir little dogs treats, but send them home. And I watch my driveway when I back up my Jeep so as not to run them over!
But now my daughter is afraid to walk Hero. I am showing her that he just needs obedience classes and I started training him today in our enclosed front yard. He already knows "sit". If we are walking (and he is pulling like crazy on the leash, which he does) he will sit if I give him the command "sit". That stops the pulling. He is not ready for prime time, but I see that this is going to work. He is very smart and he wants to please. He just needs to learn.
So not only do I need to work with the dog (who is educable) but with my daughter (who is moody, stubborn, and prone to giving up at the first obstacle she encounters). The call for obedience training has already been placed. Please wish us all luck!
Deb/AGBF
Link to thread that came before this one...https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/prayers-good-wishes-and-dust-all-accepted.241594/
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Congrats on your new addition to the family. 
no big loss. maybe she'll control her dog now.
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