Feel really sad
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Collies are not good pets, not unless you are a marathon runner in your spare time and the dog goes training with you, They can be stress heads in the best of situations. That photo of him speaks volumes to me. He's stressing in that photo.
We had a collie. We used to do agility with him and run him wild on the beach most days. Then I got pregnant with my first and we didn't have the same time fôr the dog. We gave him to a friend ( a sheep farmer) who trained him up to work sheep and said he was one of the best dogs he'd ever had. Collies are very sharp dogs. If they don't have a job to do they get stressed and bored and that's when things start to go wrong.
A retired vet friend of mine reckons the vast majority of cases they had where the dog was brought in following an attack were down to the owner's handling of the dog. She also says that she performed surgery to remove blockages in dogs who'd eaten something they shouldn't on far more Labradors than any other breed!
A retired vet friend of mine reckons the vast majority of cases they had where the dog was brought in following an attack were down to the owner's handling of the dog. She also says that she performed surgery to remove blockages in dogs who'd eaten something they shouldn't on far more Labradors than any other breed!
Without wanting so sound harsh it sounds like the home he's going to will be much more suited to him.
I'm glad Wally said something about the photo, because as soon as I saw it I thought "that dog looks very unhappy", and I do not know a lot about dogs! I do know that they very rarely bite for "no reason" and with "no warning" - they give plenty of warnings, we just don't understand what they are when we see them.
I'm glad Wally said something about the photo, because as soon as I saw it I thought "that dog looks very unhappy", and I do not know a lot about dogs! I do know that they very rarely bite for "no reason" and with "no warning" - they give plenty of warnings, we just don't understand what they are when we see them.
That's very good. I was always insistent that my kids did not treat Daisy like a living teddy bear.
That is a good video. And amazing how even someone with no kids and 3 dogs focuses on the children's faces before the dogs' faces. We take their bite inhibition for granted.
Glad to hear he's been re-homed to a better environment for him.
We've got 2 rescue greyhounds & one of ours bites (he's done it maybe 2-3 times in the last 6 months) - but, he was a very good racing dog so had very little interaction with animal or humans. He was 5 years old when we got him & he's never lived in a family environment - apparently, he was treated quite roughly & used to be handled by slinging a metal hook around his neck to hoist him place
Is it any wonder he gets nervous when one of us (who he has lived with for less than a year) gets too close to him whilst he's half asleep? Or leant in to give him a kiss & momentarily forgotten his past? Every single time he's gone to bite, one of us has been at fault for not recognising the (sometimes subtle) warning signs.
He's no more dangerous than any other dog out there - he's actually very soppy, but he's just reacting like a dog with his past would. We've learnt to recognise what might trigger him & not put him in that situation. If it means giving him a wide berth if he's lying down or not leaning over him when he comes to greet you, so be it - it's completely our fault if he feels he needs to react like that to a human set up situation.
Interestingly, the other greyhound doesn't do it - but she's never been trained to race.
We've got 2 rescue greyhounds & one of ours bites (he's done it maybe 2-3 times in the last 6 months) - but, he was a very good racing dog so had very little interaction with animal or humans. He was 5 years old when we got him & he's never lived in a family environment - apparently, he was treated quite roughly & used to be handled by slinging a metal hook around his neck to hoist him place
Is it any wonder he gets nervous when one of us (who he has lived with for less than a year) gets too close to him whilst he's half asleep? Or leant in to give him a kiss & momentarily forgotten his past? Every single time he's gone to bite, one of us has been at fault for not recognising the (sometimes subtle) warning signs.
He's no more dangerous than any other dog out there - he's actually very soppy, but he's just reacting like a dog with his past would. We've learnt to recognise what might trigger him & not put him in that situation. If it means giving him a wide berth if he's lying down or not leaning over him when he comes to greet you, so be it - it's completely our fault if he feels he needs to react like that to a human set up situation.
Interestingly, the other greyhound doesn't do it - but she's never been trained to race.
I spent today with the company of 5 dogs from the pound, awaiting rehoming ...hopefully. Four where absolute dotes......clingy in a heartbreaking and longing to just be loved and wanted sort of way......one scruffy little hairy gangly legged reprobate found dancing with the motorway traffic yesterday has not eaten since arrival - sat sadly in the back of his travel cage and clearly unable to come out and face the crowds at the Agri show. No micro chip, obviously less than a year old, terrified and bewildered, extremely long claws from lack of any exercise. I hate the human race sometimes - well most of the time actually.
Four where absolute dotes......clingy in a heartbreaking and longing to just be loved and wanted sort of way......one scruffy little hairy gangly legged reprobate found dancing with the motorway traffic yesterday has not eaten since arrival - sat sadly in the back of his travel cage and clearly unable to come out and face the crowds at the Agri show. No micro chip, obviously less than a year old, terrified and bewildered, extremely long claws from lack of any exercise. I hate the human race sometimes - well most of the time actually. newrider.com