Sounds like a wonderful dog. Just a reminder; any dog that is at lease 1/100 part wolf can be a serious danger to very young children, ( read that they remind them of prey) running free could open you to some liability.......BTW I have 5 berners all trained for the show circuit and obedience, and none are the least neurotic........Everytime we go to a show or a gathering of dogs, etc. I always put CS/EIS in their drinking water. We never bring home any runs, sniffles, or other diseases...
On 5/31/07, Faith Saint Francis <faithstfran...@hotmail.com> wrote:
This is interesting! We recently adopted our "Conga". She is a beauty! Black, big, strong with white eyes, and endowed with the pride of a Labrador. Vet says she's about 14 months, and partly wolf-dog .. well! She was probably disposed of, by her previous owners for not being enough of a watchdog (she hardly barks, but I have seen her defend herself bravely!), and had been lying there, fed for three days by the entrance service of the unit where we live. Third day I took my wife by the hand, and showed her the dog. She melted right away. Well, as to treatment: I can't remember days in my youth when we did not have dogs. My old man was just crazy about them. So I know a bad (?) dog when I see one. Conga has clearly been ill-treated. I cannot lift a folded newspaper in her direction, for that brings back bad memories to Conga; same thing with a mop or a broom-stick, so we don't do that, not even to correct her. She resents a harsh voice in her way: she just runs. To the streets, where she then survives for a day or two, then comes back to see us. This happened twice; we raise our voices to her no more. When scolded correctively (for eating my wife's plants...) she wil shrink to half her size, and hide in her corner. After an hour or so she will be back, a bit more learned. For that matter: I have not know a more obedient dog in my life. I give her short clear commands (in Dutch ye ye) and most of the time she listens. 'Most of the time' means that she (like every dog) is always ready to steal food. Belly full or even over-full, she will tumble the garbage and eat, then vomit, and start eating again. Being very stern to her (corrective voice or putting the chain on her neck) helps. She hates the chain, she is a young street dog, and wants to -and needs to- run and be free. All our neigbors, aquaintances, children and friends love Conga, and she loves them. And she looks quite fierce with those white eys! There was this dog-trainer training a dog one day, and he lectured me about commands and obedience. I am sorry: In my experience trained dogs tend to be neurotic. There is documentation of trained German Pastors killing children. I prefer to keep my dog in her natural state, playful, funny in her bad-dog ways every now and then but lovely and quite loyal to us, the hands who fd her. Conga in her way asks her caress, wants her sweet words, her thrice daily outings around the unit, and for the remainder does not worth her weight as a watchdog. But she is a great companion and great fun, and we simply love her. FaithStFrancis. ------------------------------ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! Try it!<http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us>
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