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    Is this resource guarding?

    in Training and Behavior discussion

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    But maybe we are doing more harm than good. 

    It's a dilemma.  At least you've been able to alert the kennel that the problem isn't limited to the ex-owner.   

    Maybe the NILIF will work.  Just brainstorming -- are there other ways you could try to destress him?  Long walks in quiet places without taking him home?  Does he like being brushed?  Keep taking him to your home for visits, but make the human furniture completely off-limits?  (Back in the old days, many people who fostered hounds were advised not to let fosters on the furniture as the permanent adopters might not allow that and would not appreciate having to train a dog out of that behavior.) 

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    plays and wriggles his bum around for Britain

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    In Memory of Max

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    I am so sorry.  It is such a terrible loss when you have built a wonderful life together.  :grouphug 

    May the happy memories that hurt so much now gradually bring you comfort and even happiness again.  

    May your spirit run with the wind, beloved Max.  

    Is this resource guarding?

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    They said they hadn’t seen any of the behaviour that had been described by the owner b

    I was thinking that at the kennel he is in a crate by himself so he would never feel a need to guard his bed as a resource?  So training as a weekend foster would be occasional rather than consistent.

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    Is this resource guarding?

    in Training and Behavior discussion

    Posted · Edited by EllenEveBaz

    No, that pic doesn't look like a dog in pain.  :)  He does look like a lovely boy.  

    I am not a training expert.  My background is having adopted 2 dogs who were returned for developing dangerous behaviors with children, and 1 new adoption who turned out to have sleep startle.  I managed all conditions by not allowing any situations to occur.  I kept the first 2 away from young children always, and only gradually allowed petting from older children under restricted circumstances.  Interestingly, one of them started developing other fear behaviors years later, after his super-confident "sister" died and he had to face new people without her being first to check things out, as it were.  We went to a behaviorist, who trained me how to take the confident sister's place and make him feel safe.  I feel that fits into the NILIF philosophy -- the human is in charge.  The sleep startle dog was managed by never allowing him on the human bed, and the couch only with me and only when he was reasonably awake.  He was a total lovebug, but that startle reaction was strong and scary.  

    In all cases, the treatment behavior was consistent.  I am wondering how him being with you only on an occasional basis will play into this.  I totally support the NILIF suggestions, but maybe you could be able to add some baseline maximum restrictions that work.  I feel that any work toward relaxing those maximum restrictions should be done by people who will be with him on a permanent basis.  

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    Poor Willa

    in Cute and Funny things Greyhounds do

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    :lol  That pic does look like one of those of a preserved baby goat fetus with significant birth defects.  

    And what a great running space for Willa to show those boys how it's done!  What a beautiful girl she is -- both lying still and in action.  

     

    PS:  You can tell Nate's dad that his whistle at least got two raised head responses here.  :)  

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    Foster update

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    Congreytulations to Buster and his new family!

    Lookit the leg muscles on Merlin -- wow.  Also noted is his anticipatory alert stage in the forest walk pic as he sights an oncoming victim petting friend.

    Lapdog pic :rofl   My dear Bazzy raced at 90 pounds/40.8 kilos and was absolutely convinced that if I would just stop  laughing and moving and screeching that he could fit perfectly well on my lap.  

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    Happy Birthday Mark!

    in Cute and Funny things Greyhounds do

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    Mark, how nice of one of your Aunties to make sure you were treated appropriately for your birthday!  Plusalso, as noted above, you are entitled to a second round of celebration when your dad gets back.  

    There is a town near us named Fries, although they pronounce it "freeze".   I think of greyhounds every time I see the road sign.  

    Doolin got a rabbit

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    FWIW -- I don't know what time of day Doolin caught his rabbit, but most of Milo's catches have been at night and the early morning.  (Rabbits evidently have to eat almost 24 hours a day to keep their digestive systems working.)  One thing I did that seemed to reduce the numbers was set up several motion detector lights in the back yard, focused on the outside door and porch, on the theory that would give critters in the yard a visual alert that trouble was coming.  Numbers did go down, but I don't know what other factors may have been.  

     

    On another tack -- what do you call a bunch of rabbits hopping backwards?

     

    a receding hare line

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