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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 20/1/2019

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Quite coincidentally, on my walk across the park this morning I witnessed a small terrier running rings around a woman who had a larger dog on a lead. The larger dog was clearly getting upset and growling at the little dog. The owner could do nothing but stand there waiting for the owner of the terrier to catch it and get it under control and back on it's lead. The terrier was taking no notice of it's owner at all.

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Quote: Originally posted by Katieep on 06/2/2020

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Can I also caution those of you who think that it is ok to walk through areas with sheep with their dogs off the lead - cos they believe their dogs are really well behaved and don't chase sheep. It only takes one lapse of training or a dog not behaving as you expect it and your dog moving towards the livestock for a farmer to decide its hassling the sheep and for the farmer to shoot your dog.
100s of dogs get shot by farmers every year in Cumbria yet I see people all the time on the fells with dogs off the lead near sheep - it's really not worth the risk - it's not you who suffers the consequence for you arrogance it's the dog.

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Quote: Originally posted by Kiyasmum on 18/1/2019

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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 17/1/2019

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I didn't see the program but don't agree either with painful methods of training dogs. I would never even use a collar and lead on a dog, dragging it around by it's neck. I use a harness which is designed to stop a dog bolting by lifting it's front legs off the ground if it does.

On the other side of the coin though, a dog owner has to be the leader of the pack and you don't see the alpha male and female offering their pack titbit treats to behave...they have far more violent and painful methods than that.

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Bob you do not need to be leader of the pack. That theory was debunked by the writer many years ago. I can assure you no dog want to be alpha in a house, they get fed, get walked have a warm place to sleep without needing to lift a paw. That is why the wolves ended up as the dogs we have today, they know a good deal.

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