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- Subject: training problem <sigh>
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.135015.566@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 31 Dec 92 13:50:15 EDT
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- OK. Buffy has this problem & I know its my own fault for mis-training her.
- The problem at this point is to fix it.
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- I love to walk in the woods and/or play in the field with Buffy. Do it about
- 5x/week. She loves it too. She loves it too much. She never wants to leave
- (who could blame her). So when she realizes that we're getting ready to go
- back to the car (she's psychic, she just Knows), she starts playing
- Catch-Me-If-You-Can. This has become an escalating battle of wits & speed.
- She develops ever more sophistocated methods of evading me; I develop ever
- more sophistocated methods of capturing her. Problem is, she's quicker than I
- am, & unless I can *trick* her into coming to where I can grab her collar, she
- wins this game. She's also smart <sigh> and is quickly learning to evade my
- trickery.
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- She has been getting nearly 1 hour/day of off-leash exercise ever since she was
- a baby pup, & I can't imagine what kind of a holy terror she'd be if I didn't
- allow her any off-leash exercise. She's VERY energetic, & it is impossible to
- give her that kind of exercise on a leash. She needs to dash, sprint, jump,
- wrestle w. other dogs, run, swim, etc. pretty regularly, none of which can be
- done on-leash.
-
- Any suggestions? Thanks.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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