Posts by Jackie Clark
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Aren't there? And more to come.....hurrah!
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Stewart,
Oh love love love.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Stewart,
Ah. Yes - Ruby's behavioural stuff is that she started barking at random people at the dog park we go to. She was about a year old at the time. That stopped, with some training. And then started again a couple of weeks ago. After she not only barked, but leapt, at a chap in the park, I enlisted the help of a dog trainer. She gave us really simple tips to make her less scaredy cat - if she looks at someone/something strange, I say good girl, she looks to me for a treat and on we go. It's designed to make her realise that if she feels wary, I'm right there to look after her and give her good things. We've been doing it for only a few days, and she's well into it already. Made a huge difference. The other thing is her aggression to people unknown to her on our property - ie most people I know, since we are a bit hermit-y. We got her at 6 months, so after the crucial first 3 mths of their life. Once again, though, the trainer is working with us on mat training, so that she has a safe place to go. It's all hard, but they're worth it, eh?
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Stewart,
Is that beautiful creature a white Boxer, or an American Bulldog? Magnificent, just magnificent.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to sallyr,
Oh Sally, that is precious. Just precious.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Islander,
Our last dog was a staffie/blue heeler cross, the one before that was an English Bull Terrier, the one before that was a staffie. Ms Ruby is mostly ridgeback we think - possibly some staffy in her although she prefers dog to people for the most part. Not as generally all about the people as staffies normally would be. I think there's quite a bit of whippet and also pointer in her. She'd make a fantastic hunting dog - all nose.
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And I will leave you all with just one more. I promise. That's the ear milking I talked about - I should add, I had no idea what it was called but Ruby's new dog trainer told me that's it's name. Yes, she has a dog trainer, so the behavioural issues are well in hand. Really.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Oh god, I love English Bull Terriers. They are very fine dogs indeed. The problem with posting photos of Ruby here is that I'm fairly sure that there are many many people that have already seen most of my photos. Ruby has her own facebook page - here, if anyone's interested and even her own twitter account, @rubyisadog. So she's a fairly connected young lady. And I'm always posting photos of her on twitter, mostly on her back, for some reason. Like this.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Danielle,
One of these days, I hope to meet Ellie and milk her ears. That sounds gross, but it just means that thing you do where you stroke them lovingly. Ruby adores it.
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I never really watched it, but my lovely friend Carol has watched it for all of these 20 years. And so, I have been trained never to ring her earlier than 7.30pm.
