Show us the dog picture under your name......

[DAP]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ... chase anything that moves ... )</font>

Hank ... that's not true of all the greys, trust me. The first day of Whisper's new home in the country, I SWEAR, a Mr. bunny ran right under his massive chest and my darling whispy never knew it happened.

Funny, they KNOW that the coyote packs are NOT other dogs. They're serenading gets their attention is a weird way.

Hank, THE most important rule is to NEVER with a capital N let a grey off a leash unless he/she is enclosed.

Now I get the impression that Junk let his girl off the leash. I sure hope he doesn't do that with the next un.

I will not waiver from this. They can be 300 yards into a woodline before you take 5 paces. They won't know where they are when they tucker out and neither will you.

In the grey world, it's referred to as zooming. Happens once or 2wice a day for 60 seconds. Bat's outta hell - whether they're in an open field or a bathroom. Totally oblivious to anything they are 'cept spending that burst.

NEVER!

 

[Cliff_Johns]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( In the grey world, it's referred to as zooming. Happens once or 2wice a day for 60 seconds. Bat's outta hell - whether they're in an open field or a bathroom. Totally oblivious to anything they are 'cept spending that burst. )</font>

We've always called the FRAPING.

FRAP - Frenetic Random Activity Period.

Cliff

 

[Hank]

<font color="purple"> FRAP - Frenetic Random Activity Period </font>

That's good!! Describes it exactly.

Once (or twice) a day, they FRAP, and then retire into couch-potato-hood for the remaining 23 hours and 55 minutes /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif But what a FRAP!! 45 mph.

We love 'em. They are a wonderful pet breed....very loving, very gentle.

I totally agree with DAP about never off-lead. What the acre of chain-link does for us is provide them with a FRAP-yard without having to worry about leads. Of course they are always on-lead when outside the yard, and a slip lead too, because of the shape of their neck and head, they can escape a flat collar in a heartbeat. Jaqi will actually jump up and spin (corkscrew) to try and escape when she spots a hare.

Here's Jaqi....

 

[Hank]

And Dolphin... in a play-bow

 

[Junkman]

Yes, Holly did roam the woods and she never got lost. I got her from someone close by that tired of having a dog. She was very smart about knowing where she was and would stay out for hours at a time. She loved to run, but also loved to just stroll around. I own 15 acres, surrounded by thousands of acres of woodland, and she seemed to know every bit of it. I would call her and she wouldn't come. I then called a neighbor a long distance away and would ask if he saw Holly, and the answer was usually yes. She would be laying on his back porch resting. He would open the door and tell her to go home and 10 minutes later she was on our door step. I will try to find a picture of her this week and post it. She lived a long and wonderful life and I know that there will never be another like her or even close.

 

[Freds]

I usually don't venture this far down the index. What a neat topic.

The picks of Willie cracked me up shade2u /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Here's a pic of my Rhodesian Ridgeback Dart, my oldest, about a year ago. He's very proud, which I normally refer to as arrogant.

 

[Freds]

and Tursa, my Presa Canario. She's very sweet and can't stand to be more than 2 ft from me when we are within sight.

 

[Freds]

Finally, Petra, my GSD. She was a bout 9 months old here and is 13 months now. Very full of herself and bold. Always on the go, which is why I don't have a lot of pictures of her.
They are house dogs and get along very well. Petra is laying on one side of the chair, Tursa is laying on the other and Dart is sitting 5 ft away with his back to me wondering why we aren't upstairs and in bed. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Got a house cat, too, but didn't notice any pics of cats with the exception of Tigger.

 

[Ole_Hickory]

Is that a registered German Shepherd? A long hair one at that.
I have 6 registered GSD's, wonderful dogs.

 

[Boondox]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( THE most important rule is to NEVER with a capital N let a grey off a leash unless he/she is enclosed. )</font>

Amen!

We experienced that firsthand last year with a tourist walking an unleashed greyhound down our road. The dog first spotted the meat birds confined in a chicken tractor at the top of the meadow and charged. The birds were enclosed and the woman was able to drag the dog away with no losses on either side. But she didn't leash it!

A few seconds later it spotted the loose layers free ranging in the lower meadow and charged again. We lost three good hens before the grey ran into a very large rooster that attacked and badly injured the dog. Blood everywhere and it lost an eye! And then four of our goldens body blocked the poor thing and kept it grounded as a pack. It was pretty ugly; though our dogs broke off on command the rooster had already done significant damage.

We were able to control the bleeding and get the dog to a vet very quickly, but between the vet bills and the cost of three hens at $50 each it was a very expensive lesson for that woman. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Lesson learned: Unless you have raised your dog as a pup don't assume you know how it will react in a new situation...and sometimes even then. When in doubt, play it safe!

Pete