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About Lynn Terry
I'm best known online for my Internet Marketing Blog and my Low Carb Diet blog (where I also talk about my fun travel adventures). But there is SO much more to me than work, food & travel. Which is why we're here. ;-) So let your hair down and let's have some REAL fun! *cheers*
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Hey Lynn,
Great video! Slim seemed SO interested in what you were saying. LOL!
Sounds like a win – win – win. Slim wins, you win and you both win. (win – win – win)
You have to LOVE it when you can get a “win – win – win”
I hope you both are having an AWESOME training the trainee day!
Whichever way round it ends up to be. (Slim, Lynn – trainer, trainee)
smiles,
p.s It is great to see you smiling, happy and in control of life. Happy pair – bonding…
Slim is so gorgeous I can’t imagine him being anything other than a total gentleman so this is a surprise. But I know what you mean about having a large dog. You already know I have a Great Pyrenees, and he easily outweighs me. But he’s a gentle angel towards buggies, bikes, babies, dogs of any size and even cats! His breed is a natural-born protector of innocent ones (people or animals).
He does bark at horses though but doesn’t go after them, just barks. (That’s funny though because our family has horses, just not here at the house. But he has an inate (sp?) sense of when person or canine is dangerous or sending out negative vibes.
Only then does he move into protector mode – for me or another person or to protect another animal. Then he only does the bare minimum necessary to send the misbehaving one scampering away.
My only problem with Wolf is he has a 3″-4″ coat of hair and it’s so hard to keep him clean and smelling nice since he’s outside the majority of the time, standing guard. I could even walk him with a thin cord if needed. Vets are continually surprised that he’s so well behaved and ‘mannerly’ anywhere he is. But that’s not from training. We’ve never done any training with him. It’s just his nature (thankfully!)
So glad you and Slim are having fun. I still hope to meet him one day. I’m such a huge dog lover, I’d probably ask for ‘paw’-tograph! LOL Keep us posted on the training.
You should spray Wolf with Febreze?
Great video, even though Slm didn’t show his face much.
He looked very pretty though, you must’ve bathed him lately.
The freak magnet thing is weird. Online you come across like a normal person…
I guess I’m not a freak magnet because I rarely get bothered. I probaly come across an angry middle-aged woman or something…
Am very interested to hear more of how the training goes.
I’m sure Slim seems quite docile considering you guys only see photos of him sleeping, being lazy, or lounging around the house & deck. LOL. It’s when we’re out walking, and mainly on the leash, that he acts out.
He’s a rescue as you know, and he was already more than a year old when I adopted him. He had all sorts of issues – serious separation anxiety (tore my house apart! lol), etc.
I’m finding that making changes in myself, what I project and how I respond to my surroundings, is making the biggest difference in his behavior. This issue I have walking Slim, is the SAME issue I have with creeps and weirdos – so the whole training thing was seriously enlightening. I’m learning a lot, and working on making some major changes…
WTG Lynn (and Slim!) Sounds like your trainer belongs to the Cesar Millan school, which I think is awesome. You get can get his DVDs and I think pretty much anywhere his shows are on TV. He’s all about the owner’s energy and how it affects the dog, and how the dog wants you to take control and be pack leader. You did a great job for your lesson!
I hear Cesar is very good. I don’t do well with video instruction, but we are really enjoying the hands-on.
Lynn,
I am a two dog owner. I have been very much enjoying a TV show (on CBS, I think called “Dogs In The City.”, Look for it. I’ve learned a lot just watching.
Jerry Nielsen
Thanks, I’ll look it up!
Kelli and I recently started training with our new rescue Clyde. Although rather small, he sounds like Slim in that he can appear sweet, docile and laid back, but out in public he can be a crazy man, aggressive, head strong and a little scary.
Of course this trainer walks in the door the dogs are immediately drawn to her. All the problems we described to her she could not replicate because Clyde listened to her immediately. It was kind of embarrasing, but funny at the same time.
So we learned that both of us have issues in leading him, and not communicating clearly. And yes, it IS amazing what can happen in that hour.
So now we refer to it as “our training” rather “dog training”!
Good luck with it, and keep us all posted as to how its going.
Best–
AM
It’s really enlightening isn’t it? LOL. I thought Slim and I did very well together, until the trainer put me to shame – making me look and feel clumsy about the way I was doing things. Simple things even, like trying to walk him. LOL.
Hope you & Kelli continue to enjoy dog training, and here’s to us both learning heaps in the process!
*cheers*