Tha art of communicating with your dog, respecting his/her personality and developing talents through training.
вторник, 23 октября 2012 г.
суббота, 20 октября 2012 г.
What is it - the healthy life of your dog?
Most
of the dog owners answering this question will put on the first place good
quality food. Of course, good food with necessary vitamins, and minerals is an
important precondition for maintaining health of a dog. A lot of responsible
dog owners will be surprised to know that regular quality meals, being of
course very important, are not the main thing that keep your dog in good physical
form.
Let’s
not forget that dogs, our pets, are predators. And predators are not always lucky at a hunt. No, I do
not think that our pets should starve, for God’s sake! But feeling hunger from
time to time will cause them no harm. By the way, a lot diseases of our
pets are provoqued by overeating.
As experienced
dog owners consider that the best formula of dog’s health is the following:
good walk and biting once a week.
A
good walk doesn’t mean that your dog walk quietly on a leach. A dog should run
at least four times more than his owner walk. The dog should run and jump and fight playfully. If there is no space for
running it is possible to play with your
dog, for example with disks or balls.
Biting.
A lot of people are afraid of dogs’ aggression. However, aggression is a normal
instinct of dogs as predators. Practically
every dog irrespective of the breed becomes aggressive when protect heir food or
toy. It is possible to suppress the
aggression but it seems more effective to give the dog possibilities to drop
down the aggression. For large breed – shepherd dogs (German shepherd dogs, malinois, herders and a lot of others), dogs, Dobermans etc. - it
can be training with a decoy on a training ground, for medium and small breeds –
active games when they can bite rubber toys, for example.
These
three components – good physical exercises, training or games that increase adrenalin
and help to drop down aggression,
quality food – will provide health and energy of your dog.
The finish of a healthy day: it seems I'll sleep this night on a mat :))
вторник, 16 октября 2012 г.
Malinois: protection of the object – advanced stage
The goal of the next step of the
protection-of-the-object-training is to protect the thing from the decoy who
tries to take the object (a bag, chair, etc.).
The decoy is moving around the dog at the distance of two meters.
The dog bites the decoy only when he
steps inside the circle (remember - the radius of 2 meters?). Once the decoy
tries to go away from that distance, the dog should return to the object.
The most difficult thing in this
training is to teach the dog to come to
the object when the decoy is going away with the dog biting his costume.
суббота, 13 октября 2012 г.
Our malinois. Defense training in Belgrade
When
we came to Serbia one of the priority issue we faced was to find a new
instructor and decoy for our dogs. It’s not no easy task as mondioring is not
very popular in Serbia. However we were lucky to meet a professional instructor
and decoy, an owner of a sport dog center “Balkanika” Dushko Jovanovich. We resumed our training
and our mali made the next step in defense education – attack on the arm.
Mondioring is a very dynamic and exciting kind of cynological sport, which develops many useful skills. Hope it'll gain popularity in Serbia.
воскресенье, 7 октября 2012 г.
A radio collar: to use it or not to use?
My
experience tells me that a rare dog-lover will support using of a radio-collar.
The most popular argument: oh, no! It hurts the dog! Few years ago I was also
strongly against this instrument of education. However, with my new dog – a
strong Alpha Canaan male – I faced the big problem: he was too intolerant
towards male dogs and – unfortunately – he picked from the ground. I met with a
dilemma: either I had difficulties with other dog masters, or I found some
method to make him more civilized. It also necessary to bear in mind that
picking from the ground can be rather dangerous for dogs’ health. I bought a
simple radio collar, got instructions from my trainer and took my dog for a
walk. That collar had seven levels, I never used high ones, only up to the
third level. I pushed the button twice to stop picking and three times to stop
fights. It was enough!
The
next step of my experience with the radio collar was during defense training. I
would not say that it was always successful and produced the best results.
Indeed,
the effect of training with radio collars can very good, however it depends
upon too many factors. It was very effective for some training of my elder dog.
As for my younger one – a malinois – it gives rather poor results, and I prefer
to use usual collars.
Today
I always put on my dogs radio collar while walking in the forest or in the
mountains to have an additional instrument to keep them under control. Low
levels do not hurt at all but it prevent a lot of troubles if you walk with
your dogs in places where there many wild animals, foxes in particular.
I'll appreciate your view on using radio collars. Please, share your experience.
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