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Join up with an abandoned dog

By:

Kathy Z

Date:

2010-Jan-25 at 01:51AM

My son and I were able to catch a young dog who had been abandoned at South Of the Border Motel in Dillon, South Caroline (those of you who have ever driven down the East Coast know what I am talking about). We saw her scrounging for food in the early evening. We tried to give her scraps of cold cuts, but she wouldn't come close. She even ran when we tossed the scraps to her. She seemed to have more interest in my 17 year old son than in me, so I gave him a quick lesson in join-up advance and retreat philosophy. It took about 20-30 minutes, but she finally followed him into the tennis courts, where we were able to get a leash looped into a choke collar on her. We had to carry her to the room, but she trusted us enough to let us! That was in August. Today, she is as much a part of the family as the other three dogs - but oh so much more grateful!

Suza 2010-Jan-25 at 07:40PM

Lovely! I had a little dog (Wings, becsuse he jumped so high when we fed him) that turned up at my home in Spain and he so wanted to join in but was terrified. So we just didnt look at him and after a day or two he was touching the backs of our legs which went to our hands in time to being stroked and eventually being being rehomed as a very loyal, grateful little guy.
Amanda Castaras, Granada, Espana

Vio Berlin 2010-Feb-07 at 01:40PM

Wow how interesting! I could use my Join-Up skills for my big French Mastif. After having treated his skin with shampoo on his chest and between his big toes I had to dry him with a hair dryer! He trusts me and comes to me no matter what if I call him. But the hair dryer was really scary for him. So he sat down behind me and quakes of fear. I did the same thing I would do with a horse to introduce him to that scary machine. First I didn't put it on but approached him with it and took it away several times. Later I put it on and he learned that the cold air doesn't hurt him and neither would the sound. It amazed me how good I could transfer what I learned to do with a pray animal to a predator. Unfortunately he is not sound by now and just cleaning parts of him is not enough... we must lift 55 Kg into the bath tub and wash him. Only one time he got off after we had him in for a minute. Without becoming upset we lifted him in again and - he did not escape ever more and lets us wash him. By the way, his reward after that procedure is not a treat but playing (which decimates the amount of towels :-) as he loves to pull on them and what remains is an ugly thing with a lot of wholes in it !

Horse addict (From the good old USA) 2011-Jun-08 at 06:58AM

Wow! that's cool! I should try to do some of those techniques on my own animals.

Gen (Queensland, Australia) 2011-Jun-08 at 10:41PM

Yes, this is very cool! I have heard that dogs and horses are very similar to train. Your new dog is very lucky to have found you Kathy :-)
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My husband and I also have a very spooky cow we call Crazy Horse. We have found that if we walk past her with our eyes down and our body in a passive position she doesn't run away. But if we look at her, she runs for the hills. We are using the advance and retreat technique on her to try to settle her down and it is working well.
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Animals of all kinds are just amazing.

Horse addict (From the good old USA) 2011-Jun-09 at 02:01AM

I've done some of Monty's training on my parakeets since they are very timid. I've also done a little on my cat. I used to train my dog until he passed away last year.