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I'm trying to keep my follower count down, so unless you are a pet blog or have pets clearly marked in your header, I will probably be blocking you. It's nothing personal. This does not pertain to longtime followers.
My pets:
Bindi, 4/25/10 - 12/16/22. Mixed breed. I miss you, Kid.
Kermit, 2/29/20. Dachshund. My handsomest and most manly of men.
Zaku, 2/14/23. Belgian tervuren. I wubs my bubs.
Spyro, 9/25/25. Dachshund. Girl, no.
Anyway, found a Larry Krohn video on training a flip finish. So I did the first steps with all three dogs today. I also found a handful of Michael Ellis videos on teaching heeling so I'll kludge something together from that. I don't want to pay money lol.
Still gritting my teeth about teaching something that I don't personally enjoy, but my goal is for my dogs to have a great time. I want to get my novice obedience and rally titles with a joyful heel.
So our first session everyone had a good time. Spyro bit my fingers, Zaku brought me a toy, and Kermit actually deigned to trot.
Okay what other word for "heel" should I use while I teach heelwork? I'm already using "heel" as a stationary command where it can be reasonably sloppy. I need a different word for the clean movement.
one of the more frustrating about pet people and working with them is you can say things like "i've trained my dogs consent when it comes to handling" and they look at you like you are crazy for even thinking a dog needs to consent to being pet.
@darkwood-sleddog have to agree with your tags. And, realistically, a lot of people never consider this because it's not a problem. For THEM. They don't know how to recognize if their pet is uncomfortable when it isn't growling or biting them and so they don't even think about it. "But he loves hugs! He licks my face and rolls over and waggs his tail every time!" And they don't clock that their dog is trying to appease them so they'll stop this nonsense. So they never look into it more deeply.
The clients that contact me and we end up doing consent work are people who's dogs are now blatantly afraid of certain type of touch/interaction or are aggressive over it because their smaller signals have been missed. Explaining to people how having control over your body can reduce stress as like a new technique they can try often ends up with me getting them fully on board. I think it alleviates blame when I phrase it that way which is my goal because if you feel like shit you;re less likely to want to train with your dog (and of course my clients are intentionally seeking out further information and help because they care so much about their dog so why punish that? I spend time with the people that feel bad explaining that you can't be expected to know what hasn't been taught to you. Then know NOW and are changing and that's great!).
And THEN there's the set of people who view their pets as decor and property. They obtained the pet not because they want a RELATIONSHIP but because they wanted something cute and warm and soft to manhandle whenever they feel like. These people expect their pets to always be conveniently available to them and get upset when they aren't. Like when you try to start your car but the battery is dead.
I think the solution to all of this is to start treating pet ownership as a privilege (which it is! It's not a right! There are bare minimum standards of care and not everyone can meet them!) and start teaching kids how to respect other people at a very basic level. If they know how to respect other people and their own friends then it's much easier to transfer that to other living creatures. But yeah, a lot of people can't even do that (looking at you people who think you have a right to touch my dog that i'm walking on a leash. Or cut in line. Or drive like no one else is on the road. Or touch pregnant women's stomachs.)
I don't really have a neat wrap up to this train of thought. Just that it irritates me but some people are trying and the concept is getting less and less weird while at the same time we're getting further and further away from a basic understanding of consent in general.
Post-nail trim nap.
Apparently Spyro's brother is Naughty for nail trims. Takes three people-- one to hold, one to feed, one to trim. His owner is considering just taking him to the vet or groomer for trims from now.
Spyro is the exact opposite. When I get out the clippers she is scrambling into my lap while I'm still in the process of sitting down. She is climbing on the boys while I'm trimming their nails. She jumps from the bed to my shoulders. She stands on the step stool. She climbs my back. She licks the inside of the boys' mouths when I give them cookies. She shoves them out of the way when I let them up. She is a menace.
During the actual nail trim she's a doll, but by god I had better be snappy about rewarding her. She wants her cookies!!
Bannasch et al. 2021 genetic heterozygosity findings by breed:
A large dataset (227 breeds; dataset 1) of median heterozygosity values (H) was obtained through commercial DNA testing of 49,378 dogs. The mean number of individuals per breed was 217.5 (95% Confidence Interval 162–273.1) and the range of individual dogs/breed was 30–4728. Since the H values do not provide a simple relationship to pedigree, we wanted to determine what their equivalency was to the coefficient of inbreeding (F). The genotype-based coefficient of inbreeding was determined in 19 breeds with 8–20 individuals in each breed (dataset 2) for comparison to dataset 1. Dreger at al [8] used 10 individuals per breed and calculated F based on genotypes and the correlation with dataset 2 was 0.85 (12 breeds in common). Yordy et al. [9] used 6–724 individuals per breed and the correlation with dataset 2 was 0.75 (15 breeds in common). F from dataset 2 was highly correlated with H from dataset 1 (Pearson correlation coefficient of − 0.8899 (P < 0.0001) for the same 19 breeds. Linear regression (r2 = 0.79) was performed to obtain adjusted F values (Fadj) for the dataset 1 breeds. Based upon linear regression, an H value of 33.1% was equivalent to F of 0.25. The H values were adjusted based on the regression to provide breed estimates of inbreeding for the 227 breeds in dataset 1 (Fadj). These adjusted values from dataset 1 were compared to adjusted values from [9] which included 97 breeds in common and the Pearson correlation was 0.883 and [8] which included 75 breeds in common and was 0.89. The mean of the Fadj values for 227 breeds was 0.249 (95% CI 0.235–0.263) (Fig. 1). Strikingly few breeds (N = 12) had low inbreeding values (< 0.10). The breeds with the lowest levels of inbreeding were mostly landrace breeds or breeds with recent cross breeding. To put the inbreeding values in context, the breeding of two first cousins produces F = 0.0625, two half siblings F = 0.125 and two full siblings or parent-offspring F = 0.25.
please read the full paper it's very interesting!
I love being pedantic so I'm just going to say-- the numbers here are for the showline tervs and groens. Kate Hogan (terv breeder who is a geneticist for her day job) calculated the COI numbers for the Belgian varieties back in 2017 as part of her presentation to AKC for Register as they Drop. The SL and WL numbers are radically different, which is why some folks are hopping on the interline breeding train.
Not sure if these numbers are for SL or WL mals. The SL mals are much less common, so it could be either. Malinois in general have better genetic diversity than either of their longhaired siblings. That's why they are the go-to variety for any intervariety breedings.
Which is why I'm still bitter that RAD was not approved.
Bubbles!
“NANCY EVANS KENNEL
FOR THE BEST IN BASSETS THE PROOF IS IN THE WINNING
Four of our lovely young ladies”
Basset Hounds
Dog World Magazine, December 1964, p. 54.
A great reason to health test even if you aren’t going to breed: One of my dogs is going to be enrolled in a study and they were found by the researchers trolling a health database. Can’t say more but I’m so excited.
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I got a snoopy and I could cry
Girl WHAT did you get into.
Uh oh
Ah fuck. I’m gonna have to train a competition heel after all. Zaku has four of the six required legs towards his UKC Superdog. There is no agility offered within a state of California, so that leaves rally and obedience as the final two legs.
Competitive heeling my beloathed. I’d rather watch paint dry. 😂
Oh well. I only need a novice title in each. So it’s not a huge amount of effort.
I’ll have to look up how to train it on YouTube. It’s been about a decade since I’ve trained a competition heel and I’ve only trained it the compulsion way. I know there’s better ways to train it now.
Merry Christmas from Bindi and Ginger!
Goodnight, Ginger. You were a wonderful companion to my aunt for sixteen years. A friend to every single person that you ever met, death on legs to the lizards in the yard, and sweet goofball who kept my aunt laughing with your antics.
Have fun frolicking in the fields again. Say hi to Bindi for me.
