So you think you want a Malinois...
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Maybe they are just supposed to survive on crates and spatulas? 
Am I doing it all wrong??
Am I doing it all wrong??
Our toys are a couple of tugs made and sold specifically for protection training and one rubber ball on a rope, which I think I found at petsmart years ago and has survived three working line, high drive GSDs and two high drive/working line malis, so I'd happily buy another of them (the rope is starting to fray after about 9 years) if I could find them any where.
Three January 2010. She does great on a leash though, I have her to when she see's the leash to completely redirect her energy to thoughts. I could have her on a leash for hours and she'll either just stand still or lay down.
This was very hard for me to get her to do for some reason.
She goes in August for her CGC test, I'm not to sure she will be completely still for the supervised separation though. Everytime we practice this at the local kennel club, she doesn't stay calm when I approach her from the distance. She doesn't break her down position .. but she definately shows excitable nerves .. the people at the kennel club say she does great, but (they are a working crowd), I wish she would just act vogue until I got back to her. Her head and tail is just moving a mile a minute the whole time .. she doesn't wanna stare at me head on so her head goes all directions ..
Did any of you people get the CGC on your Malinois ? How did they do on the supervised separation .. the owner walking back part (lol) ?
I was debating if I should just pay a handler .. then she wouldn't be so happy and excitable on my return back and would just stare at the handler the whole time, prolly not even a tail wag.
I dunno, I think her and I are gonna try our luck in August and see how we do. I'm nervous though. Or should I pay a handler ?
This was very hard for me to get her to do for some reason.
She goes in August for her CGC test, I'm not to sure she will be completely still for the supervised separation though. Everytime we practice this at the local kennel club, she doesn't stay calm when I approach her from the distance. She doesn't break her down position .. but she definately shows excitable nerves .. the people at the kennel club say she does great, but (they are a working crowd), I wish she would just act vogue until I got back to her. Her head and tail is just moving a mile a minute the whole time .. she doesn't wanna stare at me head on so her head goes all directions ..
Did any of you people get the CGC on your Malinois ? How did they do on the supervised separation .. the owner walking back part (lol) ?
I was debating if I should just pay a handler .. then she wouldn't be so happy and excitable on my return back and would just stare at the handler the whole time, prolly not even a tail wag.
I dunno, I think her and I are gonna try our luck in August and see how we do. I'm nervous though.
Or should I pay a handler ? 
Never even bothered to try it. Harry has weird issues with strangers touching his leash. And, I mean even TOUCHING it. If I could do the supervised separation with him offleash in a down/stay, it would be fine. But if somebody is touching his leash, he gets really anxious.
He's a really odd, quirky dog
He's a really odd, quirky dog
I haven't done the CGC, but I have taught it and am an evaluator. For the supervised separation, they don't have to stay still, but if they're overly excited/stressed/pulling/whining stuff they shouldn't pass. I would teach an out of sight stay and walk back completely neutrally as one would in the obedience ring. If she can do an out of sight stay next to an evaluator, then the fact that he's holding the leash shouldn't matter. Also, the evaluator is allowed to have some minor interaction with the dog (like talk to the dog, if that helps).
Also, the evaluator is allowed to have some minor interaction with the dog (like talk to the dog, if that helps).
I am at least lucky in that regard. Harry is a Hellhound, but he has never been one to eat things that weren't intended to be edible. Food thief? Yes! But, he doesn't consume random crap.
Jerkface ripped a bunch of wallpaper while we were working on our daughter's room this weekend, though. We took so much care to keep the cat out so that he wouldn't pounce on the rolls of wallpaper, then the idiot 60 lbs dog jumps the baby gate and came upstairs to do it.
I don't understand how they can think things like that are food - Riley tried to eat a piece of glass and a rusty nail once too, before we had certain areas of the yard fenced off. I think we've covered most of the places he found those now. He just finished pulling a piece of the neighbors landscaping paper out from under the fence and running around the yard with it like it was the best thing ever.
Maybe Harry wanted to redecorate? lol
Maybe Harry wanted to redecorate? lol
