In article >,
Ryan Case > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> > In article . com>,
> > "SD" > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Doug Kanter wrote:
> >>
> >>>"Goomba38" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>>
> >>>>Doug Kanter wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Good parents, good dog owners. I suspect that the opposite would be dogs
> >>>>>which slobber all over new visitors, even as the visitors gently (or
> >>>>>harder) knee them in the face. What the hell's wrong with people like
> >>>>>that, pretending not to notice that people don't want to be slobbered?
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm a good parent and a good dog owner. My dogs do lick plates and
> >>>>cookware yet never slobber on visitors.
> >>>>Goomba
> >>>
> >>>Good for you. I once entered a relative's house, and her stupid border
> >>>collie leapt onto my chest, got her claw stuck in the chest pocket of a
> >>>$600
> >>>suit, and tore the left panel right off the jacket. Big learning
> >>>experience
> >>>for the lady. Expensive, too.
> >>
> >>It wasn't her stupid border collie. I was HER STUPIDITY in not properly
> >>training the dog. Most dog "problems" originate with the owners
> >>inability to be responsible dog owners. You're blaming the dog for the
> >>failings of it's owner.
> >>
> >>SD
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes... and no.
> >
> > I have a Border collie and it's taken me two years of patient and
> > vigilant training to teach her NOT to jump up! <sigh> There is just
> > something about that breed of dog that makes that specific act difficult
> > to train out! They DO so love to do that! And to "mouth" the hand.
> >
> > What finally worked for Jewely was to "allow" her to jump up on me with
> > a SPECIFIC command/permission to do so.
> >
> > Once I started doing that, making her "sit" when she wanted so badly to
> > jump up on me, then commanding her to jump up on me now and then, the
> > problem went away. My housekeeper and her kids are my test subjects for
> > this as her kids (4 and 6 years of age) just adore Jewels and help me
> > "work" with her for stranger behavior. It's been a tough thing.
> >
> > Jewely is a dog pound adoptee at about 9 months of age, and I've had her
> > for a little over 2 years now. I'm new to BC's and this has been a real
> > training challenge. ;-) I'm used to Shelties and Australian shepard type
> > dogs that are not quite so hyperactive.
> >
> > I've spoken with other BC owners on dog lists and this is a very common
> > and difficult problem with this breed.
> >
> > Cheers!
>
>
> Sheltie/Eskimo mix
>
> http://www.jamesrobert.us/images/sammy1.jpg
> http://www.jamesrobert.us/images/sammy2.jpg
>
> And a who knows what mix
>
> http://www.jamesrobert.us/images/riley1.jpg
> http://www.jamesrobert.us/images/riley2.jpg
>
> both pound rescues.
>
> The sheltie mix did the campus mail deliveries every day with me for two
> years of college. She was welcome in all the buildings and well known
> across the campus. They even had food and water for her in the campus
> security office of the "no-pets" campus.
>
> When I first got her she was so terrified of people that reaching to pet
> her would cause her to drop into a fetal position and wet herself.
>
> Ryan
>

Great shots! :-)
Dog noses are always cute...

Jewels still rolls over and piddles from time to time but is drastically
improved over what she was when I adopted her. She's still pretty
submissive and I'm fairly sure she was abused.

Cheers and thanks for sharing the pics!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson