Good dog trainer needed

Originally Posted by Shellywoozle

Awwww proud of my baby for once in a long time

Shelly, remember that feeling!! Like I told you before, it's all too easy to remember the bad bits & not the good (that's the way the human mind is wired up).

Don't you dare think about re-homing If you want to give Sam a holiday at any point, let me know. But with these classes you're taking him to, I doubt it'll even come to that.

[Shellywoozle]

Thanks Baph, hope you are right. He has been good as gold all afternoon whilst I been cleaning he been sat on his a$$, typical male ! he he he

Cool, glad the session went well.

That sounds really positive, good luck.

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Sounds like its all going really well Shelly and I'm glad Samson enjoyed his session so much.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Cool, glad the session went well.

That was a great photo of your dog and your wife- he looks like a big soppy mutt, just like my two.

[Shellywoozle]

Samson had his first class yesterday, the one to one was just as it says me and the trainer so we went to 'basic skills' which is for dogs with behavioulal problems. Well looking at Sam and the other dogs I think he has none now LOL.

He was brill, I can get him to walk to heel without a lead now, awesome just done it on the field . The new command is 'watch'. He has to sit in front of me while I hold a treat in front of my face and then while he is still watching me he gets the treat. I thought what a load of rubbish, just been on the field, a dog walked past he is always fixated on and i used 'watch', he just sat in front of me looking into my eyes ! RESULT !!!

Ohh got a new harness to, goes across his chest and he don't pull no more.

Flyball next wekk, I am all excited he is like a new dog already and I got 6 more sessions to go. Woo hoo

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Knew you'd pull through hun.

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I'm so glad it's all going so well Shelly.

I have seen that all that have posted on this thread have dogs or love dogs and so wanted to share something with you.

I have just, on another forum, been made aware of a video in america showing dog abuse. Two men, smacking a springer spaniel puppy around the face, then repeatedly banging him against the floor, throwing him against the wall and I don't even want to say more than that.

Immediately, I saved the video to my computer and forwarded it to the SPCA head office in America and the american police dog association, asking them to forward it to the relevant local police department.

About half an hour after I did this, so many people had hit the "report abuse" link below the video and the video was deleted, so when some of these people tried forwarding it to authorities, they could not view it.

I have been contacted by the American Police dog association who thanked me and informed me that the video has been forwarded to the relevant department after tracing it through IP addresses that they had to demand off Myspace and that the Local Florida police department and SPCA centre were now putting together a case to take before a judge in order to arrest those involved and gain an order to take custody of the dog and any other animals in the care of the abusers.

My point is this......

I thought it would be obvious that things like this need to go straight to the authorities that actually have the power of arrest/rescue. Unfortunately, many seemed to think that by hitting the "report abuse" link, that Myspace would be able to take action to save the dog.

This is what the American police dog association told me:-

"When enough users report abuse to social sites like Myspace, Yahoo, facebook etc, the site has a responsibility to remove the content and they have a responsibility to keep a record of that content. They also have a responsibility to report, with any evidence, any cruelty or abuse.
Unfortunately, it is left to the discretion of the individuals that remove the video/image/text to make that report.
In this case, Myspace had removed the video, kept a record as they are required to, but had deemed it unecessary for further action and so it was not passed to the police."

They also thanked me for saving the video to my computer as otherwise, they would not have seen the link and would likely have filed the report, but done little or nothing about it.

I have now deleted this video as I never want to see it again and they already have the evidence they need, but to anyone out there that ever sees anything like this, PLEASE just save it and send it to the proper authorities rather than report it to the host site and risk the evidence being filed away in some server in the back of beyond!

Cheers folks!

Barstewards, I hope they get a custodial sentence.

That makes me really quite angry.