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    Sand Boxes

    in Training and Behavior discussion

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    We have red clay here in NC so we went up. We used landscape timbers the size of railroad ties 2 high on 4 sides. I bring in 3/4 ton of sand each spring (they so love their new sand. They know that is their sandbox and don't try to pee in it only dig. We even have 2 large umbrella's over the sandbox. They really do love it. They will each one stop at the door so we can brush their bellies off before coming in the house.

    My hounds loved your sandbox! Princess keeps asking when she can come back over and visit. :D

    To Rename Or Not To Rename?

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    Dogs don't know they have a name - they just learn to look at us and come to us when we reinforce them paired with a certain sound. Names are a human thing - we identify ourselves by our names and our history, etc. Dogs do not. They identify each other by smell. They're smart and want to please us and want good things to happen, like affection and treats, so they learn that looking at us or coming to us when we say "Princess", for example, good things happen. Princess is the smartest of the five greyhounds I've had and she came to me responding to Princess, but she doesn't know it's her name or her identity. Dogs can learn what many different words (which are just sounds to them) mean pretty quickly and I don't think it stresses them out or confuses them to learn new ones.

     

    I had a collie X basset hound (Abby) years ago that learned the names of her different toys(ball, rope, tug) without me even making an effort to teach her. I realized later I must have reinforced it but it wasn't conscious at the time. And my beloved weimaraner, Hannah, knew lots of words and even knew when I said another dog's name that I was talking to or about them. I was stunned to realize one day that when I said Frosty (my first greyhound), she would look at him first , then at me, and back to him. She would also do that with 3 other dogs she saw on a regular basis. My next door neighbor had dogs named Montford and JD and if I said either of their names she would go to the window and look at their house and then look back at me. :lol

     

     

    If a dog comes to me named and I like the name, I keep it. If not, I change it.

    Are Chicken Based Foods Bad For Greyhounds

    in Food and dietary discussion

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    Have you tried him on a pro-biotic? This has helped immensely with my dogs' gas.

    Probiotics often help with gas. Another source of gas is parasites. My Princess has horrible gas and a very lose stool when I first adopted her. Changing food didn't help, so I took in a stool sample and it was positive for hookworms. It took two doses rounds of wormer to get rid of them, but when we got rid of them we got rid of the gas and the loose stool.

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