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Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Wed Jan 23, '13 3:35pm PST  The dogs I have now mostly tolerate each other, not much playing to speak of. When Boomer was still alive, she hated Lola but she knew better than to act on it. The few times they got into it, Lola started it but Boomer was damn sure she'd finish it . Part of my job involves regularly staying with a rotating cast of Havanese plus one cressted and the occasional frenchie. My boss is a breeder and some of the dogs are off at handlers but there are always at least Eight at the house. Their age range is anywhere from 10 weeks to 7 years with the occasional litter of puppies. Mostly bitches, with one male crested that is a permanent resident and usually an adolescent male hav hanging around. Those dogs have the least amount of training on them that they can and still live inside. Somehow, they ALL get along, no squabbles with toys and bones all over the place. I haven't figured out how it works yet and I've been staying extended periods with them for well over a year. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Tue Jan 1, '13 8:42pm PST  And you are most welcome for the song lyrics. I wouldn't have named him Ice if I'd know I'd be singing that and Ice Ice Baby for the rest of his life. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Bitey Poodle.

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Tue Jan 1, '13 8:40pm PST  It isn't just when the bumper is in my hands Rexy, in dockdiving the bumper is in the pool. Thanks for your response Trigger, Ice was with his breeder and at least one littermate until he was a year old, so I doubt that's it. His mother and grandmother both pull the bitey hand crap though. My training style is largely positive with a healthy dose of whatever works. I think your last option sounds like the most realistic, as he is desperate to please. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Bitey Poodle.

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Tue Jan 1, '13 5:29pm PST  Ice is an amazingly biddable dog, would do anything for a bumper throw or a good rough pat. His only behavioral issue is his inability to close his mouth when he's excited. He's bitten my thigh pretty badly, going for a tennis ball, and gets my hands all the time when we're playing with the bumper. I'm not willing to stop playing tug or anything like that, since that's a fairly big part of his training. Another mouthy issue is that sometimes he's just really excited and swings his head around with his mouth open. At our last dockdiving event, he got so wound up on the dock that he was spinning and screaming with his mouth wide and I had to pull him from finals because I really didn't want him to slice me open on the dock. This REALLY isn't an aggressive bite thing, much more that he is just so incredibly excited. Right now, I remove him from the source of excitement and make him calm down before he is allowed to do anything else. I'm working with a trainer, obviously, but I was looking for some outside input. I love his drive and excitement, and I'd rather not cut down on that. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > An Article on Walking Your Dog

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Tue Aug 28, '12 1:55pm PST  First of all, the word reactive drives me bonkers. Do we not want our dogs to react to stimuli? Everybody and their brother has a "reactive" dog. I was walking the poodles the other day and a small dog ran out barking at us. His owner followed and she said "Oh, he's reactive. I'll get him". No... your dog was being a jerk and picking him up and taking him back into the house isn't doing a damn thing for him As for the article, It's one of the better ones. Just get out there and do stuff with your dog. Common Sense,I'd say, nothing revolutionary. I can't count how many people have said "Well we try to walk him but... he's scared" or "he pulls" or "he won't walk." If you can't walk your dog in your neighbourhood but you have time to take them to do other things? That's great. But if you live with the dogs I do, you'd have to go do something everyday. Driving the dogs to the lake or to the park every day just isn't possible. So they suck it up and we go for walks. Boomer too, she was my dog that had issues with other dogs on walks. Eventually, she got over it. Dogs are great like that, if we don't coddle them. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Fri Aug 24, '12 12:47pm PST  I try not to force gender stereotypes on my dogs. They really could care less. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Choosing the Right Dog > Designer Crosses

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Mon Jul 2, '12 8:30pm PST  I'm confused about people that "hate" poodles or the way they look. All you get is a doofier looking version with less smarts when you mix them... Maybe I'm biased. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Choosing the Right Dog > question about red spoodles

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Tue Apr 24, '12 2:14pm PST  Once upon a time, True Red Standard poodles had gone extinct and the land wept. By the land, I mean people that like red poodles. Around 1980 Shangri La and Palmares started breeding large Red minis with small apricot standards in order to reintroduce the Red color in standards. So, all red standards today can be traced back to those two kennels. Check out Shangri La, Marquis Diamond and Louter Creek Hunting Poodles. Blacks and Whites have the best coat, and are the most common in the show ring because of that. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Behavior & Training > Drinking up the ocean

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Sun Apr 8, '12 8:47pm PST  First off... stop using Leave it unless you are willing to go enforce it. You are just making it meaningless. Just stop. Second... you have three choices here. You can let your dog have fun and make himself sick so that you have a mess to clean up. You can leash the dog and stop his fun. OR you can put a check line on him and he can have his fun and still be healthy. Dogs CAN run with check lines, you know. All of your threads reflect that you want this puppy to be an adult dog now. If you wanted that, you should have gotten an adult. Calm down, let him be a puppy and with letting him be a puppy you are going to have to give him some guidance so if that means leaving a check line on him for a little while? Do it. Or stop going to the beach until he has a solid leave it. I mean a REAL solid leave it... not one that works sometimes. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Ice What's Cooler- Than Being Cool?- Ice Cold!     Barked: Wed Mar 21, '12 7:59pm PST  http://smartdog.typepad.com/smart_dog/2012/03/dog-body-language-how- to-tell-if-a-dog-is-happy-frustrated-scared-annoyed.html Try that to see everything that is wrong with this situation, OP. That poor dog is being yanked around by the little girl. There is a reason that they couln't go through a proper agency. She is too young. I'm curious, he does that one task (carrying her oxygen tank around)... doesn't he need two more? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

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