tigerlily46514
Honored Member
My dog Buddy and me, were out in the yard last nite, and Buddy was nosing among our wall of pine trees, no growling, no warning, just poking his head in there the way he does.........he suddenly leaned into the trees super fast, and one moment later, he pulled his head out, and trotted over to me proudly with a kinda-large bunny hanging from his jaws from it's neck. The bunny stopped kicking his legs pretty soon...
I told Buddy "NO!" --a word i dont use very often to Buddy, so it usually carries big clout to Buddy, and told him to drop it, leave it, he would not.....He then ran to the door, to show Craig, too, and wanted to bring it into the house in the worst way. Craig, surprised, then messed up and exclaimed "Good boy!" to Buddy, (Craig can be harder to train then Buddy...) Eventually, i got Buddy to release his 'trophy'...took a long long time...
I'm guessing Buddy would probably kill a cat, now, too... He's never been off-leash around a cat--not since i've had Buddy, anyway--- but he totally stares at them with palpable intent, he does not pull on his leash, nor growl, but he fixates on cats when he gets a chance to see one...
Anything i can do to curb this? (I'm hoping Craig NOW understands he should NOT praise this behaviour!) Any new health problems i should worry over?
I told Buddy "NO!" --a word i dont use very often to Buddy, so it usually carries big clout to Buddy, and told him to drop it, leave it, he would not.....He then ran to the door, to show Craig, too, and wanted to bring it into the house in the worst way. Craig, surprised, then messed up and exclaimed "Good boy!" to Buddy, (Craig can be harder to train then Buddy...) Eventually, i got Buddy to release his 'trophy'...took a long long time...
I'm guessing Buddy would probably kill a cat, now, too... He's never been off-leash around a cat--not since i've had Buddy, anyway--- but he totally stares at them with palpable intent, he does not pull on his leash, nor growl, but he fixates on cats when he gets a chance to see one...
Anything i can do to curb this? (I'm hoping Craig NOW understands he should NOT praise this behaviour!) Any new health problems i should worry over?