On 5/2/2010 10:53 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> Omelet wrote:
>
>>> I find the positive reward tone to be just as effective as the
>>> negative shock. He gets a "beep" reward for turning in the right
>>> direction and more for moving in the right direction, and then the
>>> real treat when he comes back to me.
>>
>> Have you tried a Clicker?
>
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> You haven't seen this guy run. Within seconds he is too far away to hear
> a clicker. FWIW, I have trained a lot of different types of animals and
> have always had well trained dogs. I got this guy at the age of 5 and he
> had been spoiled. The previous owner led him run free all summer at
> their cottage.
>
>
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>>> This guy amazes me. His strength speed and agility is amazing. We
>>> have had some interesting encounters with geese. A few weeks ago my
>>> brother was over and we took the dog for a walk. There were some
>>> geese walking by the neighbour's pond and the neighbours don't want
>>> them around. I let Sonny go to chase the geese away. The sort of took
>>> off and half swam, half flew to the far side of the pond. I guess it
>>> never occurred to them that he would run around the pond and beat
>>> them to the far side, from which he jumped close to 12 feet and
>>> almost landed on one.
>>
>> <lol> Bet that was fun for him!
>
> It's hard to be mad at him when he is having so much fun. The down side
> is that running is his big pleasure. It's hard to come up with positive
> reinforcement that is stronger than his love of running.

Sounds like the fast sooner hound--if you don't know that story you can
find it at <http://home.comcast.net/~larches/SoonerHound.html>.

>> They are amazingly fast from what I have seen.
>> I really do hope he works out for you. :-)
>>
>> Have you tried the "roll him over on his back and grab a handful of
>> throat fur" yet? That's a very dominating move and worked
>> fantastically for the Belgian Shepherd/Catahoula I had many moons ago.
>> And it does not hurt them.
>
> I did that early on when we were in the car and he tried to attack every
> dog and every person we drove past. It worked.... sort of. One thing he
> really hates is to have me grab him by the back of the neck and force
> him down.
>
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>> I used it in combination with the "stay" command I was trying to teach
>> her. The dominance worked like a charm.
>
> It's all about dominance.
>