What are your thoughts on them? Have you ever had a session with one?
My friend Matt and I were at the dog park the other day with Fozzie and Matt's new dog. He looks like an Italian Greyhound x Mini Aussie, if you can imagine, and his name is Hanzo (pronounced like Gonzo with an H). Matt just adopted him and he's still coming out of his shell... very shutdowny, and Matt's girlfriend (who used to be one of my closest friends) is going to a Cesar Millan-esque dog trainer school and alpha rolling him left and right, so that's probably helping matters.
So, this lady with 2 Bassets walks over and crouches down by the dogs. Several other dogs come over and they're all very peaceful and seem to like the lady a lot. She asks my friend if he just adopted Hanzo, and he says yes. She says "Oh... they found him near dumpsters, right? He was a throwaway dog. He was telling me that he was a throwaway from across the dog park." And we both look at each other like WTF, because all of that was true. She talked about how he's a really sweet dog and does not need ANY punishment, only positive training, which made me really happy because I've obviously been telling them the same thing. She also said he was really scared of cars because he was thrown from one, which I totally called! He bit Christine in the car the other day because she was alpha rolling him while he was freaking out, and the lady asked about that, too.
She said Hanzo had a really rough start in life and needed to be spoiled for a while... Fozzie walked up to and she said, "unlike this guy! He has a very different upbringing. He has been spoiled. He's all about ME, me, me! He knows lots of tricks but he only does them when he feels like it. Very arrogant. He's lazy... yadadada" And then she looked me in the eyes and said "Keep him away from raisins. Never give him raisins." I obviously don't feed him raisins, but that really weirded me out. Is he going to die of a raisin overdose? He would. I was also kind of upset that she was so critical of him, but intrigued. Maybe I just imagined it, but Fozzie has acted differently since.
I might want to get Gonzo read... being the deep, confusing soul that he is. Any thoughts?
My friend Matt and I were at the dog park the other day with Fozzie and Matt's new dog. He looks like an Italian Greyhound x Mini Aussie, if you can imagine, and his name is Hanzo (pronounced like Gonzo with an H). Matt just adopted him and he's still coming out of his shell... very shutdowny, and Matt's girlfriend (who used to be one of my closest friends) is going to a Cesar Millan-esque dog trainer school and alpha rolling him left and right, so that's probably helping matters.
So, this lady with 2 Bassets walks over and crouches down by the dogs. Several other dogs come over and they're all very peaceful and seem to like the lady a lot. She asks my friend if he just adopted Hanzo, and he says yes. She says "Oh... they found him near dumpsters, right? He was a throwaway dog. He was telling me that he was a throwaway from across the dog park." And we both look at each other like WTF, because all of that was true. She talked about how he's a really sweet dog and does not need ANY punishment, only positive training, which made me really happy because I've obviously been telling them the same thing. She also said he was really scared of cars because he was thrown from one, which I totally called! He bit Christine in the car the other day because she was alpha rolling him while he was freaking out, and the lady asked about that, too.
She said Hanzo had a really rough start in life and needed to be spoiled for a while... Fozzie walked up to and she said, "unlike this guy! He has a very different upbringing. He has been spoiled. He's all about ME, me, me! He knows lots of tricks but he only does them when he feels like it. Very arrogant. He's lazy... yadadada" And then she looked me in the eyes and said "Keep him away from raisins. Never give him raisins." I obviously don't feed him raisins, but that really weirded me out. Is he going to die of a raisin overdose? He would.
I was also kind of upset that she was so critical of him, but intrigued. Maybe I just imagined it, but Fozzie has acted differently since.I might want to get Gonzo read... being the deep, confusing soul that he is. Any thoughts?
