Growing up. The elder blue 14 months and the pup red 4 months. Buddies.

Both look sound asleep.

Mine would chew the hell outta them beds
And that basket, that leash, wooden rope totem pole cat scratcher thing.

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You got some good dogs 👍

Not to mention your old lab is a cucumber thief.

A fine combo!



A cowgirl helped look for strays yesterday, she is a dog and horse whisperer.


Her border collie pup was one of the best dogs I've ever seen. It was only it's third trip out for an all day ride and did great.

Super smart and well trained.

They are sharp without question Sam. I'd say brilliant... As Bristoe wrote when we got the first pup, "she needs a cow". We get them out on 4 mile "walks" daily and they run the yard but I inevitably feel guilty that they should be running with you or big Jim. That said, they are happy here as are we.

Hint...

Floor rugs....Big floor rugs!

LOL

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Gotta love a dog thread. I've got two Aussies, a Catahoula and a JRT, but to be honest, it's feeling more like a canine hospice every day. Damn old dogs. They are my heart.

First thing my Airedale would do is find the cat.

Wouldn't need that scratcher after that!!

Nothing like feeling the cheek scabs on the elder when the younger just hangs there.

Wait til he bites you on the ass!

I'm sorry Pat. Since my brother lost his red heeler I've been dog less. I haven't owned one in decades but in my former life I had at least 1400 dogs that were my pal.

Didn't matter if it was three times or 16 times a year when I saw them they still remembered me and knew they would get treats and I would stop and play/pet with them all. After I retired my boss who had to cover for me most of the next year would call and bitch about how I spoiled the dogs on the route.

Then I would remind him about how I spoiled his red heeler. I'd go to there house and play with her and all I would hear don't let her chew ect ect. I'd go home with hands that looked like Huntsman 22's after Fin and Lorena got through with them and then later hear how she somehow calmed down.

I know Ingwe would school me but in 15 years only got bit bad 3 times. Worst bite was a golden retriever. Go figure.

So, no vets around there, chief?

Dogs are like brothers.

Best friends evah.

UPS Driver?

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I like em better than I like most people, a lot better that is.

They grow up fast Ed.

Better watch out or you'll end up with three sometime down the road.

One elder to keep the others in line, the middle one as playmate and teacher to the younger, and the young one to move up into the vacated spot when the elder one passes and the middle moves up to elder.

Good job on the walks, it's what dogs love to do.

Nope delivered propane. Got to ride the bomb.

For sure Geno.


Good for humans and dogs.

Yeah, our middle guy, Breeze, hasn't had one in a coupla days due to us dealing with the injured pup.

He's been following me to the door, and the mud room where the leashes hang, every time I head that way.

Told him tonight, I promise tomorrow he gets one.

He cannot stand her. He is 8# and she's just shy of 80# so he doesn't have much choice in the matter.

Now this one thinks she is his girlfriend. Wife cannot stand it when he humps on the Airedale, I just cheer him on.

No Pics? Sheesh. What are you good for? Oh yeah, beef. Never mind.

About the time Momma and I got married, winter of '82. I was gifted a gorgeous blue Aussie pup.

About the time the pup hit 3 months, I taught her, at a snap of my fingers, to leap off the ground and harmlessly nip Momma on her cute little Wrangler clad butt. Momma was less amused than I.

The pup really needed some livestock, so before she was a year old I gifted her to a lady with horses and cows. The dog had a much better life than if she had stayed in a yard in town.

Firewood action yesterday with Renegade50

Yellow lab approves of this hickory

Appears to be a big ass hickory.

Lotta tire checkers in there!!

Ours have it pretty ruff!

That's no lie. The little pit mix we adopted is so happy to have our 3yr old brindle to play with, but she's just now learning to play "nicely". The big dog's chest and neck were littered with scabs for weeks. They still have worn a 10' circle in my fenced backyard where there's not a stitch of grass, but there's now less blood involved in the tussling. We've had dog beds, but they always wind up sleeping on the couch anyway. Chewing up stuff is kept to a minimum with a bunch of rope toys and Kong bones.





White dog despises her, so she must have snuck in close while he was asleep.


There's also lots of snoozing in the chair.



Our pack of dogs is a hodge-podge, but if we were without any pups, I'd likely consider getting a pair of Heelers / cattle dogs. This guy followed me around the other day on a job site and he was too cool.

Great looking dogs and all but I want to see Sammo's cowgirl...

I love my dogs. Like a lot.

But they aren't people. Lots of childless couples "adopt" dogs and refer to them as their "kids" or "fur babies". That is sick as phugk.

FWIW, my new pup is 70 lbs at +/- 5 months. And full retard, Happiest retard in the county. Thinks he's a 30lb house dog lol.

Bingo!

Better watch that.

He'll grow on you and you'll start thinking of him as more than a dog.

I was thinking along the same lines.

Looks like it would make some staves for ball bats or tool handles at least, if not lumber.


we burn scraggly old juniper that isn't worth much more than firewood. Probably one in a hundred trees can you get a decent board out of. It will make decent fence posts though.

One of the better pics on the fire in weeks, maybe months!

Sure is a quiet house now, with only 1 goofball !

An the topic of dogs, how do you break a dog from jumping on you?

You mean like this;



or this;



???

When you don't want them to.

Knee him in the brisket

My favorite of all time was an old blue my Son named god as a kid (acronym for Good Ole Dog) ... he was the god dog of this farm for sure. He ran the herd and the pack. Greatest healer I've ever owned. He limped over and said goodbye to me on Thanksgiving Day 2014 while I was frying a turkey ... last I ever saw of him. 14 years old, blind with cataracts ... had been kicked and bit and broken so many times I lost count. Only had two teeth left but he was still walking and he would still come over and getting his petting. Heart of a lion. Amazing animal. I remember the day I brought him home as a pup like yesterday ... he fell out of the truck, jumped up and went after a feral cat walking by the barn door like he owned the place.

He chose me ... we chose each other.

I miss that dog.

Thanks for sharing the pics Ed.

Or a leash, and you step on it so he can't jump.

Ignoring them when they do scheidt like that works too. No eye contact, nothing until they sit.

You do have them trained to sit, right wabi?

My fur babies. (Just kidding. That pisses me off just like BGG. I love to blow the minds of the purebred shorthair Facebook city dwellers with pictures of them retrieving dead birds and laying in kennels.)

To train a dog, you first need to be smarter than the dog.

Nice field there that your dogs are working.

CRP?

Youre screwed

Or give them a cookie that works too

If you are 90 years old and "rural" but don't know how to not break your dog from jumping on you then you open up a lot of questions.

Appreciate it. Very kind-hearted kid and a sweet little dog (when she's sleeping). She's still sweet and friendly when awake, but she's got some super-crazy energy at times. Work in progress!

I've had more than a few over the years, and shed a lot of tears and done my due diligence and spent what I could to take care of them.

They're still not kids.

I'm no houndsman that puts a load of high brass #6 into the back of his beagle's head for eating shidt in front of my hunting buddies.

But I don't pretend my dogs are children.

She is great help and has a boyfriend.


And no, no pics.

You guys know I'm a total professional...

Her dog is in a boring vid that I haven't downloaded.

Brothers from 2 different litters, same mother .

Yeah, Roger that.

Just pullin' your chain some.

Yeah. That was kind of a swampy corner in a crop field. Not sure if official CRP or just set aside because it was wet.



That’s another great one for the purebred Facebook groups.

“Fi-Fe won’t quit jumping on everybody, she’s so rambunctious, silly girl, any online classes we can take to help solve this?”

“Yeah, kick her in the throat every time she does it and she will stop after the third time”

Minds blown. Think they called the ASPCA on me.

. No worries man. Some folks (like Clarke) think I dote on my dogs too much lol

Very nice looking ACDs you have there. Looks a lot like what I have lying in the living room. I've had heelers for many years, great dogs. Nice Bentleys on your dogs, they look good.

Will they retrieve? One of my heelers loved to, fetching raquetballs became the “job” she needed, she bacame an ace at catching them on in the air on the bounce. Retrieving gave me a way of giving her a workout to the point that she would become tired.

I’d make it challenging for her to give her brain a workout, like tossing the ball into tall grass where she would have to methodically search by scent or toss it into moving water where she’d have to anticipate the movement of the current.

Similar size ratio, genders reversed. A nephew’s dogs up in NY state. The little one was one of the pups from the stray dogs I took in. Guess which one is the alpha 🙂

Gotta love those Heelers.

The elder, young.

This. Broke all my bird dogs this way.

For dogs with webbed paws, like labs, squeeze the webs of their paw when they jump, just until they whine a little. Couple times of this, and they may still jump, but they studiously avoid putting a paw on you.