crazyyellowdog
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I'm the owner of two dogs, one of which is a 70 lb pit bull mix who is great and easy to keep mentally stimulated. I am currently training him in both competative obedience and Footstep Tracking. I adopted him when he was about 18 months old (he is turning 2 on monday) and he's been absolutely great ever since.
Here's a pic of him (Stinger)
The reason I'm joining this site, however, is to find alternative ways to work with my golden retriever mix, Piper. She is extremely high energy, and needs a lot of mental stimulation. However, I cant use a lot of the outlets I would normally use for her, because she has a condition called Collapsing Trachea, and if she were to get too over-excited, she could pass out. (we came close once, before I knew about her condition, when I was trying search and rescue with her. her tongue turned blue and she started doing this really deep, honking cough.) The vet says that one of the only reasons she would have this (it's generally only something that effects small breeds of dogs) would be some sort of trauma to the area. Given how she acts around men, and some other various quirks of hers, this leads me to believe that something not very nice happened to her before I got her. The current activities I am practicing with her are Competative Obedience and Trick Training
That said, I am joining the site to learn about low-excersize activities that I can do with Piper to keep her mentally stimulated, but safe physicallly. Here's a pic of my lil crazy yellow dog
and yes that is a marking on her head, nobody took a random permanent marker to her head!
--CrazyYellowDog
Here's a pic of him (Stinger)
The reason I'm joining this site, however, is to find alternative ways to work with my golden retriever mix, Piper. She is extremely high energy, and needs a lot of mental stimulation. However, I cant use a lot of the outlets I would normally use for her, because she has a condition called Collapsing Trachea, and if she were to get too over-excited, she could pass out. (we came close once, before I knew about her condition, when I was trying search and rescue with her. her tongue turned blue and she started doing this really deep, honking cough.) The vet says that one of the only reasons she would have this (it's generally only something that effects small breeds of dogs) would be some sort of trauma to the area. Given how she acts around men, and some other various quirks of hers, this leads me to believe that something not very nice happened to her before I got her. The current activities I am practicing with her are Competative Obedience and Trick Training
That said, I am joining the site to learn about low-excersize activities that I can do with Piper to keep her mentally stimulated, but safe physicallly. Here's a pic of my lil crazy yellow dog
and yes that is a marking on her head, nobody took a random permanent marker to her head!--CrazyYellowDog
I miss the grass but not the heat. Both lovely dogs. Have you tried targeting and free shaping with Piper? I have a few COLD days where we can't go outside to much and this is a good low rowdy factor mental stimulator that works for me. I name toys and ask for touch bone, touch ball, touch stick. And I just started free shaping putting all 4 paws in a box. Free shaping goes a little slow and is more dog thinking what gets the treat so maybe Piper wouldn't get to excited. 