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Great Pyrenees Discussions / Re: New here...anyone have a deaf Pyr?
« on: January 25, 2009, 12:18:24 pm »
Thanks everyone. I signed him up for an obedience class. I called around, and of course everyone told me that they had experience with deaf dogs....but the only person that I felt really good about isn't available until May.
I like the vibrating collar idea, but I have also read that Pyr's don't respond well to them. Don't know why...maybe it is their thick mane, or perhaps because of the stubborn streak.
I did get him a gentle leader and we are beginning work with that. So far it works better than anything else we have tried. It takes him a while to get used to it, but if I put it on 15 min or so before our walk he has time to adjust.
I am also looking into cart training him, to get him to focus on the job of carting rather than the job of protecting us from passing cars! lol I am going to order him a carting harness and modify a child's wagon and have him cart rocks or whatnot. Maybe someday, when I am confident that he won't try to go after a car I can let him give the kids rides! If it works I will invest in a proper cart. For now I think that the wagon will work fine.
Has anyone on here trained their pyr to cart?
I like the vibrating collar idea, but I have also read that Pyr's don't respond well to them. Don't know why...maybe it is their thick mane, or perhaps because of the stubborn streak.
I did get him a gentle leader and we are beginning work with that. So far it works better than anything else we have tried. It takes him a while to get used to it, but if I put it on 15 min or so before our walk he has time to adjust.
I am also looking into cart training him, to get him to focus on the job of carting rather than the job of protecting us from passing cars! lol I am going to order him a carting harness and modify a child's wagon and have him cart rocks or whatnot. Maybe someday, when I am confident that he won't try to go after a car I can let him give the kids rides! If it works I will invest in a proper cart. For now I think that the wagon will work fine.
Has anyone on here trained their pyr to cart?