Hello, I look forward to getting to know everyone and their beloved dogs.
We have an almost 3 year old mix breed dog named Scout. His name is the only thing that the children could agree on. The vet thinks he's a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, French Bulldog, Basenji mix. He has height that the 1st two breeds don't have. His ears and lack of tail line up nicely with the 1st two breeds named. So am going with what the vet thinks. lol
He's very quiet unless the situation demands it. He has an interesting quirk of making a very distinct vocalization that he uses only in specific situations. We can't get him to make it independently of another situation. The only time he makes it is usually just prior to a little bit of time prior to my oldest having a medical problem of sorts. It's been tracked as lining up but we don't have an official diagnosis to prove it yet.
I don't know his history prior to his coming to us. He found us and because of his interesting quirk he got to stay with us. I do know that he doesn't like not having his collar removed and he doesn't like us being out of his site.
He has some of the basics down but we have hit a road block with a couple of the basics that brings me here. There are a couple of things I need help correcting in him (the desire to chase rabbits & gophers) There are a few tricks that he needs to learn but I'm unsure how to train him to do them. Last I am interested in getting him to do some fun things as well.
I'm extremely rusty in training a dog. It's been over 20 years since I have had to train a dog and it's been over 15 since I have had to run a dog through its paces to help it maintain its training. He is of breeds that I am not very familiar with although I can understand why he does some things (ex. rabbits/gophers) We also have had too many trainers in too short of time with the program that we were involved with. It left us both highly confused. I am amazed that he picked up anything out of it at all. lol
Mic
We have an almost 3 year old mix breed dog named Scout. His name is the only thing that the children could agree on. The vet thinks he's a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, French Bulldog, Basenji mix. He has height that the 1st two breeds don't have. His ears and lack of tail line up nicely with the 1st two breeds named. So am going with what the vet thinks. lol
He's very quiet unless the situation demands it. He has an interesting quirk of making a very distinct vocalization that he uses only in specific situations. We can't get him to make it independently of another situation. The only time he makes it is usually just prior to a little bit of time prior to my oldest having a medical problem of sorts. It's been tracked as lining up but we don't have an official diagnosis to prove it yet.
I don't know his history prior to his coming to us. He found us and because of his interesting quirk he got to stay with us. I do know that he doesn't like not having his collar removed and he doesn't like us being out of his site.
He has some of the basics down but we have hit a road block with a couple of the basics that brings me here. There are a couple of things I need help correcting in him (the desire to chase rabbits & gophers) There are a few tricks that he needs to learn but I'm unsure how to train him to do them. Last I am interested in getting him to do some fun things as well.
I'm extremely rusty in training a dog. It's been over 20 years since I have had to train a dog and it's been over 15 since I have had to run a dog through its paces to help it maintain its training. He is of breeds that I am not very familiar with although I can understand why he does some things (ex. rabbits/gophers) We also have had too many trainers in too short of time with the program that we were involved with. It left us both highly confused. I am amazed that he picked up anything out of it at all. lol
Mic
