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Hi all, Well over the last few weeks we have got a few new members I would like to welcome you all to our club I hope you injoy your time here please feel free...
Hi Paul, We had a great day thanks! I am off for 2 weeks vacation and enjoying the time with my Dobes and other pets. I love the heat wave we had it is great...
Hi all, Well donna you picked a good time to take your vacation I here there is some heat wave going on over there...we dont get much of that over here but...
--Hi Paul, I love the heat. It is great the Dobes don't like it but we keep them cool. We have airconditioning in the house and pools. We have our big pool and...
Hi all, Well we have a new club photo,this is Karens girl Stella.You have a fine dobie there Karen.If anybody has a photo of there dobie and would like it to...
Hi All Great to see my Stella as the club photo - thanks Paul. We went on holiday last week and left the dogs behind for the first time ever :-( My parents...
Hiya I have been using either the Halti or Gentle Leader style head collars with Storm ever since he got to be a big strong lad so that I had better control of...
Hi Lynda Yes I know the people who designed the head collar and they are very very good. As you have said they are more like a horse headcollar and you dont...
Hi Jayne Small world eh. So far we just used it yesterday in training class and when I got home there was not a mark on his nose and I really liked the way it...
-Hi, I'm glad mine was not the only dog who walked to heel in training and then promtly forgot how to do it once we had left, i have also tried a halti (he...
Hiya No you aren't the only one. Nor the only one who has been in the street with a dobe frantically scrabbling at the halti. Storm is about 44 kilos so I...
We never use head collars with our dogs. We use prong (or pinch) collars. Here's a URL www.flyingdogpress.com/prong There's also info on why a halter / head...
Hiya Janice Prong collars are banned over here in the UK hence you don't see them. In obedience you have normal flat collars. We use the head collar to stop...
How does that work? There's a nationwide law against them? Here that couldn't happen. Janice On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:55:09 -0000 "dobemum" <dobemum@...>...
Hi all I too have the Dogmatic headcollars for my dogs and think they are fantastic. Both my dogs are trained to walk to heal without them using the "rope and...
... in the obedience ring, you would have the same difficulty transitioning to an allowed collar whichever one you used. To me the prong collar seems just as...
Jessica, As someone said, any collar not used correctly can cause injury. It's unfortunate that happened to you and your dog, since I don't know anything...
Hi, Has anyone tried the drug called Vivitonion? its not for my dobi (but my elderly collie but i't thought i'd ask here as everyone seems to have good info...
... I've used them on two dogs now, with bad results both times, but for different reasons. The first time was in the late 1970's and I said I'd never use one...
... Karen, Where are you showing? Both prong collars and haltis are against the rules at any AKC show. You are not supposed to even have them on the grounds or...
--How can the AKC dictate what kind of collar someone can use at the hotel if the hotel is not on the show grounds? If it's an "official" host hotel maybe, but...
Hi Cheryl snip, snip... ... the rules at ... or use them ... I show at Kennel Club registered Championship and Open Shows, all over the UK. We usually show...
... the ... an "official" ... to ... to ... I think the exact ruling is that they are not allowed to be used on show grounds. Although I have seen them used -...
Hya Last evening we were walking..I mean running (he never walks down te park) Storm and this cute boxer came to say hi. Anyway this boser was very nice apart...
... Karen Calm down I'm not trying to be "snippy" just wondering if you were aware of this rule as I just found out recently myself. It would be a terrible...
Hiya Snip means that you have just cut and displayed part of a message not that you were taking offence to anything. Regards Lynda ... you were aware ... ...