Re: Labrador Retriever: It's her breeding to hunt but this is getting ridiculous!
- From: Janet B <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:50:26 -0400
On 16 Jul 2006 23:40:59 -0700, "Z" <foreverkitsune@xxxxxxxxx>, clicked
their heels and said:
But lately Sheba, our dog, has been driving us mad with her love for
water and hunting things in the water.
We have a pond in our backyard filled with pretty good sized coys (Well
used to be filled with pretty good sized coys) We have a dog run for
her and usually she stays on the side of the house. But lately Sheba
has been squeezing her neck out of her collar, ( no matter how tight we
make it) and she stands over the pond and harrasses the poor fish!
Thos would be Koi? First piece of advise - don't tether her outdoors.
Supervision is the key, and appropriate confinement (tethering when
nobody is home is a dangerous practice).
But if this keeps up it's going to be
either the pond or her. So does anyone have a Lab? Or a dog with
instinctual problems that knows a way to get her to stop?
How about keeping her safely indoors when not supervised outdoors?
I don't want to punish her for doing something she was bred to do. I
just want her to lose interest in trying to hunt them down!
She's not hunting. She's fishing. She's bored, they're interesting,
and apparently tasty to boot.
She needs TRAINING, focused exercise, appropriate confinement for her
age and personality. In other words - stop giving her the ability to
access the pond without you present.
--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com
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