Re: treat website + Katie update- reply GH on traing for ALL

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

>  
> I found a website with LOADS of recipes for home made treats. It's
> http://members.home.net/mstraus/treatref.html 
> Haven't tried any recipes yet, but they look good.  Hope all are
> doing well and Katie sends her love to her sibs.
> Peggy

Hi Peggy and All,

Some great recipes on this site, thanks Peg!  A comment on treats
and training, the better the treat the better the result often.  So
I do suggest that those wanting exuberant remarkable results use extra
yummy treats.  Make up some of the liver bars on the first page and
you will be surprised at the response to these.  This is what we use
when showing the dogs.  The liver is very stinky and dogs just love
stinky... :-) 

To the One Litter: 

 Now is a time your pup's are probably going to start challenging
you for real.  Between 8 to 12 months dogs start to teeth for the
last time.  They have two back molars that come at this age, sort of
like our wisdom teeth and this is painful.  Often training seems to
go out the window and the bad evil puppy comes out, even good woobies
appear to b evil and may be punished by the evil puppy.  A soft hand
but keeping them busy is in order.  Don't let your guard down
now.  Know that pain is hard to work though and oral gratification
may be the only ting on "One's" mind... Yup bring back out
those crates and use them.  I have the walls to prove that oral
gratification is what they are looking for.  Though Ditto has not
slept in a crate for months she is yet again, and before she takes out
any walls.  

If you have the time enrolling in a second [or first if you have not gone
already] training class is a good diversion.  But try to take a
class that is fun as apposed to a formal jerk and pull  obedience
class.  Try to find a class that treat trains and uses less
corrections and more praise, who wants to have their neck jerked on when
their mouth hurts?  Or a beginning agility class with no jumping and
controlled landings, meaning no hard impact on the fronts of your
dogs.  Matted floors or soft ground at the base of the
equipment.  

To the Moon and Spice litters: 

Agility is great and your dogs are now of an age where some of their
personality is set and life is becoming mundane, find an activity! 
Winter is also coming and classes for such are going to fill up
fast.  Just walks and playing ball are great but you will be
surprised at how the extra stimulation of learning something new can
spark up and set in some good confidence. 

Gina 
God Bless America!