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Whats your favorite stock dog breed?
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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1342579" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I prefer them uncut. It does seem to give the males a little more punch and staying power plus if I have a good one I always want pups. If the drive is there they'll still work just fine if they are cut. </p><p>I don't like shock collars on a working dog. I want a dog that thinks for himself as quite a bit of the time they're out of collar range so I don't like one to be over trained where it's reliant on me for everything. I do submission training with all my dogs so that all I have to do is look at them funny and they quit whatever they're doing. Every so often just grab the dog, roll him on his back and get a handful of hide on his neck and hold it until they quit squirming and they wag real timid and won't look at you. A dog like most border collies needs that about once a month and they give up right away. A catahoula or queensland can do that daily and still be a handful but it keeps them in check. If you have a bunch of dogs swat the rest of them if they get close when you do that. You'll be amazed at how much better they listen after a few rounds of that.</p><p>MOST dogs feed off of you naturally. You can get a lot done just by praising them when they do something right. Most people tend to praise everything and then yell at the dog when it does something wrong and then praise it again when it stops doing something wrong... Just praise when they do it right and ignore the rest unless you have to correct them.</p><p>That being said, I'm down to two retired dogs and a couple of hounds and they're all fixed and the hounds don't listen. :dunce:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1342579, member: 14661"] I prefer them uncut. It does seem to give the males a little more punch and staying power plus if I have a good one I always want pups. If the drive is there they'll still work just fine if they are cut. I don't like shock collars on a working dog. I want a dog that thinks for himself as quite a bit of the time they're out of collar range so I don't like one to be over trained where it's reliant on me for everything. I do submission training with all my dogs so that all I have to do is look at them funny and they quit whatever they're doing. Every so often just grab the dog, roll him on his back and get a handful of hide on his neck and hold it until they quit squirming and they wag real timid and won't look at you. A dog like most border collies needs that about once a month and they give up right away. A catahoula or queensland can do that daily and still be a handful but it keeps them in check. If you have a bunch of dogs swat the rest of them if they get close when you do that. You'll be amazed at how much better they listen after a few rounds of that. MOST dogs feed off of you naturally. You can get a lot done just by praising them when they do something right. Most people tend to praise everything and then yell at the dog when it does something wrong and then praise it again when it stops doing something wrong... Just praise when they do it right and ignore the rest unless you have to correct them. That being said, I'm down to two retired dogs and a couple of hounds and they're all fixed and the hounds don't listen. :dunce: [/QUOTE]
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