Sheepdog or goat?
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| Sadly, normal I guess. Clyde is 8 months old and his favorite treat is still paper products: napkins, paper towels, toilet paper... Yum. |
| You said something about trying to get your sheepie to come to you. Well, I think a lot of this is just puppy behavior, and unfortunately we just have to wait for them to outgrow it, but if you really want to get an early start, maybe you should work on simple walking on a leash. In my opinion, that is the first step in getting a dog to listen to you. My Maggie would always go spontaneously deaf when I started yelling at her to stop or come to me, and I started leash training. She was really bad about pulling, and I've never felt too wonderful about choke chains, so I would highly suggest a Gentle Leader. It's great because you are not the one giving the correction; rather it's more of a consequence for their behavior...when Maggie goes too far from me, her head gets pulled. And it's completely humane because the level of correction is up to her.
So maybe you might take your baby outside on a leash, and actually try keeping the leash on her at all times, so when they do actually do something bad, you can give a correction (but don't forget, gentle leaders are for when you're constantly leash training the dog - otherwise you should probably use a buckle collar for house corrections). Ok, I hope that helps! |
| When Bailey was younger we had to keep him on the leash in the yard because he loved to eat rocks and dirt. The yard was one big buffet to him! He's a little better now at 20 weeks, but he still likes to lick dirt when he thinks he can get away with it, and will chew on the grass when I take him to the park. You'd think we weren't feeding him. |
| I lost my first sheepdog to gravel eating. She was bored and took to this nasty behavior......which eventually cost her her life. So keep the kid occupied, her brain active and perhaps she will forget about the buffet. |
Murphy eats anything that isn't moving on the ground, and if it is he will chase it  He has learned 2 very important words, LEAVE IT. Those 2 words have been a great help, When on his leash outside, and goes for something we give a correction, and then the leave it command, and it works almost always. Hope I could help |
Panda doesnt eat the "normal" yard stuff....she eats anything metal...screen door, sprinkler heads, bbq grill, water spigot, etc...we have had to pen off the yard and use a lot of pepper flakes...she is much better,in fact, I thought she had out grown the chewing stage, and then yesterday, I found the metal part of the grill lighter chewed up  she still needs to be watched 24/7!!! |
loried wrote: Murphy eats anything that isn't moving on the ground, and if it is he will chase it
He has learned 2 very important words, LEAVE IT. Those 2 words have been a great help, When on his leash outside, and goes for something we give a correction, and then the leave it command, and it works almost always. Hope I could helpClyde will drop anything EXCEPT his paper products. The funniest part is, now that he's gotten older, I think he realizes that they don't really taste so good so, instead, he chews them up into little wet balls and leaves them in places where we step or sit. Hmmm, when I put it that way, maybe he's just trying to play jokes on us or something.  |
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