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I have seen this pictur on another forum, and a soon as the picture was posted these ones were added Papillon puppy dishwasher [img]http://www.doglover.to/dishwasher1.jpg[/img] Irish Wolfhound puppy dishwasher [img]http://www.svivk.com/fotoalbum/albums/userpics/hj%E4lpsamma.jpg[/img]

i learnd the foot behind the back leg thing from a GSD breed here when I was handeling a GSD for a friend of mine who has been breeding GSD for over 12 years, I off course want the dog to hold the stance him self but I was handeling a dog for a friend and could not do the training for the show I would have liked and do with my dogs. I do the foot thing to keep the dog still for the judge to judge him. This dog is currently one of the Icelandic police dogs [img]http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/pictures/116142.jpg[/img] Here you can see a good show stance from a female GSD that lives here. The show stance most used here are like this. The handler can also stand behind like this [img]http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/pictures/116136.jpg[/img] One question, how do you run with the GSD in the show ring, how do you get the dogs to drag with out second handling??

Well I am guessing that he is a GSD (I remeber him from other posts), the GSD has a very special show stance, unlike other breeds it is supposed tohave the inner back leg (the one further away from the judge) under the body and the other streched out. First you teach your dog to stand still and alow you to mess with his legs, then you move his inner back leg (the one closer to you) a bit under the body and it is very usefull to place your foot behind it to keep him from replacing it. then you use your hand to slide the outer back leg a bit back and keep it there. Then you practise and try an keep in the stance for a longer period of time, but dont go over a couple of minutes or he will get very boared. To keep his attetnion focused forward it is usefull to place/toss a toy/tidbit in front of him and it will probabl help in keeping him still, when he is done he can get the toy or tidbit as a reward.

I have been meaning to post this here for some time now but I haven't found time until now, some weeks ago there was an avalance that took the life of a man. The avalance hit a small farm where the guy lived and completely burried it and most of the livestock and houses. Eight days later the rescue workers are cleaning up when they find a dog, alive, burried under the roof of the house. He had survived burried under an avalance for 8 days :o :o The dog is a two years old border collie that was at the farm for a visit for a couple of days [img]http://www.hvuttar.net/db/f-v.0.9-eu-400f1cd4d620e400f1cd4d7129.jpg[/img] There was another dog on the farm, the father of this one but he didn't survive the avalance. Can you imagine the resilience of this amazing little dog.

I realy do think that this guy is a liar, I doubt if he breeds dogs, I even doubt if he owns a dog, the puppy in the picture with him is defenetly not a golden. This is most likely a scam (well I do hope that this is a scam, because else people like him need to be castrated so they dont breed and multiply :wink: )

I sure hope they will let her move with you, I only asked about the world junior handler becose a friend of mine is going to compete for Iceland and I was helping here the other day with handling Dobermanns if she were to get that breed. I think that they should make a special tape of the agility and obedience, because that is the most fun to look at, but since it is a world championship they must make a special tape for that event, I know they make a tape for the World Agility Championships. I am going to start saving upp some money to be able to go to Crufts some day, but I will defenetly not be going this time since we have an international show in the same time and I am going to try and get the last cc for my dobie boy S

You can do some mental work and nose work to help to tire him indoors, like looking for tidbits, or even a part of his meal, let him search for things in the house (i did this with my dog, put here in a room and hid something and she would look for it). Mental stimulation can realy tire a dog out

Wow what an amazing dog *sniffles* she reminds me a bit of my owm BC mix :wink: Are you competing in general comformation or are you competing in world junior handler??? Do you know if they relies a tape/dvd of crufts and the main events when it is over??? if they do I would love to have it and see you and Meg there :) Ohh and one point about your article, you never mention when or if you own her, you talk about the old couple and then on to training, just a point :)

:o :o :o :o Is this guy for real??? common I mean what a great advice "get studdogs!!" If this is not a puppymill kind of situation I dont know what is, to be able to make a lot of money selling and breeding dogs you have to have a lot of dogs and put little or no money into training, showing, working, healttesting, and even registering the pups because come on people what on earth do you think every real breeder is spending the money they get from selling dogs (and in most cases lots of their own money as well) on??? And if you have 10 studdogs how on earth are you going to promote them, this is severly stupid :stupid:

For some reason there isn't very much interest in agility here, an people who train tend to take a long brake during the summer and we dont get any new people until in november, the winter training has only been in fact aimed to get new people in. It looks like we will have to change our training area and pehaps train only outside.

Ohhh deam no one seems to want to reply my post :niewiem: Well I am going to reniew the question about where you train agility in the winter, what kind of housing do you train in ???

yes I am a trainer, and I am currently one of two agility trainers here in Iceland, the other trainer is a guy who has two BC mixes that are the only dogs I have been able to compete with for the last four years, So in advanced open large breeds it is either me or him who takes first place (well now mostly me since his older dog (7 yrs) is loosing interest and his younger dog (5 yrs) is currently way to fat :o ) So my motivation is not very high :) But I do teach and have been teaching for four years now. We only have classes once a week, and we might be losing our training place and are looking for another. We have been training in a horse arena and it is an exelent place to train because the footing is soft and it is heated and large :) Where do you guys train in the winter? What kind of housing do you train in?? I have been folowing your posts about crufts and that you are going to be competing and I so envy you, but in a good way, because that is what I want to do, dog training is a pasion. Agility is not the only thing I do with Fluga, she herds horses and I use her a lot, she also knows a lot of tricks, like counting (she will bark the number of fingers I am holding upp, we are upp to three fingers) weeve through my legs, roll over, jump throug and over my hands an all the tricks I have been able to come up with, she is very smart and when we are working together the world could fall apart and she would not notice :) I Have also been playing with her to teach her tracking, and we do that once in a while, but since she is not a purebred she can not take part in working tests and obedience tests, and we dont have enough people training obedience here to be able to compete. When you have a mixed breed here you options for training are very limited, you can do agility, or train obedience or tracking with out ever beeing able to compete with the pure bred dogs (and they hardly even compete) Yes we are under FCI regulations since we are an agility club that works under the Icelandic Kennel Club. We have all the regular obstacles, jumps, tunnels, shute, A-frame, teeter, bridge, tire, weeve, table and broad jump. My dog is very fast an I have timed her in a 12 pole weeve going trough in 2.1 seconds 8)

Well, my older dog, she is 5 and 1/2 now, is the current agility champion here in iceland (second year running). she is a BC mix and we have been doing agility together since she was one year old. Well my dilema is this, she is by far the best dog here and competing with her is no longer a competition because the other few dogs are not half as good, and there are only two other dogs (large not small) currently that can do the weave without a problem. Training her now is becoming a replication, there doesn't seem to be anything else in agility that I can find, to teach her so we just run for the fun of it (she LOVES agility). I am stuck in Iceland and dogs must be quarenteend if they want to come to Iceland so my chances of competing with my dog against other dogs is limited to IAL, and the last IAL course we used (we changed it a little bit for the Icelandic agility championships) she ran it clean in 33,15 seconds I think, but we will not be sending the results in (since we changed the course a bit). It is sad that I might have a dog good enough to compete in the world championchips but I will never go there because of the quarenteen laws here. Do you have any ideas of things I can teach here in agility???? And as a side note, in what kind of housing do you train agility in, because we have to find a new place and we are running out of horse arenas that we can afford :) I will include some pictures of my dog Fluga here, the first one is the table (this is on our website to introduce the obstacles) [img]http://www.hrfi.is/agility/images/Bord.jpg[/img] and one in action at a show :) [url]http://www.bestivinur.com/spjall/album_pic.php?pic_id=841[/url] Well youl just have to follow the link if you want to see that one, since all I got was a bloody red X when I previewed it.

Awww I am very sorry for you loss. She reminds me a bit of of my own dobermann, she has even got the a bit crooked ear like he does :) I hope you will some day have a nother dog like her.

The Beagles that I have met are very stubborn, very very stubborn, and there are easyer things you can do than to train a Beagle. They are on the whole very nice dogs and have a very good personality, but they tend to be a bit of a tease, many of those that I have met would just as well walk around and sniff the ground than work with you on the course (but my view of the breed may bee a bit obscured since all the beagles here come from a puppy mill). If you want to have the best oppertunity to advance in the sport of agility I would reccomend a nother, faster breed, but if you are on the same mind as one of the best brittish agility handler, she says "I have this breed because I like them, I like their personality and I share my life with them, Agility is something we do together" I would say go for it, they are very wonderfull dogs :)

Dogs also rais their hackles when they need to let heat out and it is accosiated with adrenalin and many of them do it whilst playing, you can see it very well on dogs with long hair on their back, like GSD, that they sometimes raise it a bit. A dog that is going to attack always gives of a warning, and his hackles would be raise from the top of the head all the way to the root of his tail.

From my point of view I do not condone docking or cropping. I have a uncropped, docked male dobie and I personaly can't see that it has any effect on his balance. Where I live I fall under the rules of the FCI and that I know of all the breed standards there have been changed to acompany the natural ear and tale of all the breeds recognised. For example the doberman standard was last reviewed in 1994 so there is no 80 year old breed standard that is unfallable. Cropping and docking is illegal here and breeds like the rottie have of course been fairly poppular with the wrong tipe of people and I know of some incedents where the owners have tried to dock the tale them selves with awfull consequenses. So the whole cropping and docking issue has of course two sides.

How wonderfull of you to take them in, I admire you. I sure do hope that these dogs will get better, because they sure deserve a good life.

well by border collie knows basic obedience, all agility comands (well the ones I know but she is the current icelandic agility champion), she knows herdin comands, and of trix: weave trough my legs and figur eights, play dead (with a bang too), crawl, fetch anything, bark on comand, count my fingers (we are upp to tree fingers now, it goes like this, I show her one finger and she barks once,two fingers and she barks twice), jump trough my hands, jump over my hands, spin, beg, back up, give me a kiss, roll over, open and close doors, and we are working on tracking now. I havent thougt of any more tricks to teach for now but this is a fine collection dont you think :)

I have 1 BC mix 1 Dobermann some fishies And lots and lots of Icelandic horses (have you tried them??)

On the issue of military and police dogs, the tail should not interfer because they do use GSD and belgian sheepdogs, and those dogs are not docked (althoug I know it is infact much easyier to grab them than a sleek docked dobermann or rottweiler). Docking and cropping has been banned here in Iceland for two years and I doubt if they will change the rules. Most of the dogs, that are of working breeds, are kept as pets, showdogs or in training, I dont know of any rottweiler that is used for cowherding (although my Dobermann enjoys herding my horses but he is more just running than herding) and I know plenty of orking farmdogs that dont bruse their tail because it is dirty. We will have to see what influence the taildocking bann in many countries does to the breeds, and if it is for the best or not.

I do agree with Black GSD, I have personaly seen numerus GSD that would rather run and hide than face the danger. Of course I have seen numerus other dogs of other breeds do the same. I am working in a group wich is involved in the scandinavian mentality test, wich is a test especialy made to test the mentality and natural responces of the working breeds in varius surcomstances. I have seen police dogs, breeding dogs, pets and the responces are quite different, some are brave but most are quite afraid and run away. Not all GSD are that brave that they would defend their families to the death but some are.