Comments on: Murphy - Friend Or Foe? http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/ Sweat365 - Move more - every day! Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:05:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Murphy - Friend or Foe « Boston Marathon or Bust! http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1454 Murphy - Friend or Foe « Boston Marathon or Bust! Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:42:48 +0000 http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1454 [...] Read more… [...] [...] Read more… [...]

]]> By: lexi http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1394 lexi Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:17:56 +0000 http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1394 thank you! not a professional photographer, i just like to play around with my camera ... have a whole series of those pier pictures... there's just something about water crashing, and black and whites... http://picasaweb.google.com/alwaystheocean/OBPier and hope those classes work well for Murphy! good luck! cheers! thank you! not a professional photographer, i just like to play around with my camera … have a whole series of those pier pictures… there’s just something about water crashing, and black and whites… http://picasaweb.google.com/alwaystheocean/OBPier

and hope those classes work well for Murphy! good luck!

cheers!

]]> By: bikingbrady http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1391 bikingbrady Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:30:02 +0000 http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1391 I wish I lived closer so I could play "grandparent"...spoil the dog and send him home ;-) I wish I lived closer so I could play “grandparent”…spoil the dog and send him home ;-)

]]> By: Lisa Sabin http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1390 Lisa Sabin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:48:11 +0000 http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1390 It's tough, but dogs who bite run the risk of getting put down. We don't want that for our dog as I'm sure you don't either. I can see that it's easy to slip back into letting the dog get away with stuff. Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s tough, but dogs who bite run the risk of getting put down. We don’t want that for our dog as I’m sure you don’t either. I can see that it’s easy to slip back into letting the dog get away with stuff. Thanks for sharing your experience.

]]> By: Kate http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1389 Kate Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:16:00 +0000 http://lisasabin.sweat365.com/2008/02/08/murphy-friend-or-foe/#comment-1389 Sounds like similar problems I've had with my Chihuahua. My family always had good mannered dogs and raised them from puppies. I adopted Bambi when they thougth she was 1 year old. She was crate-trained which was good. Unfortunately, lately she's gotten away from that and is starting to go too much in the house when it is cold out and shows her teeth if you try to get her to go out with a leash. We took her last winter for dog training, which was pretty tough on her, but it worked well. I don't know if you saw a while back the bandages I had from the first night of class. Yeah, it was painful. We've gotten out of our routine over the past year and have let her do what she wants... and yep, our mistake cuddling with her too much has put us right back in a similar spot. Although, this time around she knows all the commands, but sometimes ignores them. I'm going to have to go through all the homework sheets week by week again to get her back on track. She bit Chris a few weeks ago and she's just been a grumpy mess and I've been even more nervous around her lately. For the first time in my life, I went to a trainer (local private classes - not major store classes - because she needed some serious changes and I was worried she'd bite someone in the store). The trainer was tough on me, had me in tears the first two weeks, but after that I had a changed dog 8 weeks later. So, best of luck... training helps a lot. Just don't forget to reinforce it throughout their lives :) Sounds like similar problems I’ve had with my Chihuahua. My family always had good mannered dogs and raised them from puppies. I adopted Bambi when they thougth she was 1 year old. She was crate-trained which was good. Unfortunately, lately she’s gotten away from that and is starting to go too much in the house when it is cold out and shows her teeth if you try to get her to go out with a leash.
We took her last winter for dog training, which was pretty tough on her, but it worked well. I don’t know if you saw a while back the bandages I had from the first night of class. Yeah, it was painful. We’ve gotten out of our routine over the past year and have let her do what she wants… and yep, our mistake cuddling with her too much has put us right back in a similar spot. Although, this time around she knows all the commands, but sometimes ignores them.
I’m going to have to go through all the homework sheets week by week again to get her back on track. She bit Chris a few weeks ago and she’s just been a grumpy mess and I’ve been even more nervous around her lately.
For the first time in my life, I went to a trainer (local private classes - not major store classes - because she needed some serious changes and I was worried she’d bite someone in the store). The trainer was tough on me, had me in tears the first two weeks, but after that I had a changed dog 8 weeks later. So, best of luck… training helps a lot. Just don’t forget to reinforce it throughout their lives :)

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