On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:03:40 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
wrote:

Rich Grise writes:

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:50:20 -0500, Don Foreman wrote:

Some dogs just aren't worth a **** from the gitgo. If they're just
stupid and basically untrainable but someone loves them then they get
kept, but a pet that harms or kills someone else's livestock or pets
is not acceptable. The options are to restrain it, retrain it, or
destroy it.

I've heard that it's not the dogs that need obedience school - it's
their human keepers.

A completely true statement: the class is about teaching you to train
your dog. You do the training every day between classes (my dog is
currently looking reproachfully at me, since she's gotten so little time
lately...).
Puppy completely failed obedience class, however, on the record of
attendance, at 4 months of age, she and all the other puppies got a
certificate, bag of cookies and pamphlet of other trick like shake a
paw. My reaction was "Lacey, shake a paw" and up came the right paw.
Brought the house down. Now, when in doubt, up comes the paw, but
don't grasp, just shake.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada