Re: Re: "Arabian" dogs

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

I have never owned a Border, so I can't comment, but I can definitely say
that GSDs are not only smart, they are innovative, intuitive and able to
process in a way which is just astounding.


Mine has just learnt to unlock a door.  With a key.  No, I didn't teach him,
he learnt it by watching me, and by trial and error.


Did I also tell you that they can be a right royal pain in the backside?


But if you're looking for the most intelligent and, to me, most Arab-like,
dog in the world, you have got to say Jack Russell.  These guys train you,
not the other way round.  Funniest thing I ever saw was three grown women at
dog-training, all of whom have trained dogs up to championship level, trying
to get my JR bitch to do a down.  Picture three women, arses in the air, in
front of a scruffy little dog, all saying "Down, Bandit, down!" whilst she
looks up at me as if to say "See, Mum, look how well I've trained them".


Now, when we're at training, the instructor says "All dogs in a down ...
except Bandit.... she can sit up and beg or something!"


Tracey


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>; Kathy Mayeda
<kathy_mayeda@atce.com>
Date: 04 August 2000 05:28
Subject: RC: Re: "Arabian" dogs


>The GSDs are definitely smart, but not even close to a border collie
>(sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not)<g>.  Maybe some bloodlines
>are different, mine are thrilled to be given anything new and fun to
>do---nowadays it's more a matter of finding things they are physically
>capable of.  One is getting pretty old at 12 1/2 (but still ambitious as a
>puppy and never mind the arthritis) and the other has cardiac problems that
>*he* keeps insisting aren't there.  Sounds alot like our horses, don't
they?
>
>susan g
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kathy Mayeda <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>
>To: Susan Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>; ckellerfarm
><ckellerfarm@stellarnet.com>; Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>;
>Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:27 PM
>Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Arabic Name Help
>
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>> This is interesting because my experience with German Shephards
>> is that they were very obedient (at least with the bloodlines I knew)
>> and smart.   The border collies always seemed just to laugh at me
>> when I asked them to do anything!  Smart, but they WRITE the rulebook.
>>
>> K.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Susan Garlinghouse [mailto:suendavid@worldnet.att.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:47 AM
>> To: ckellerfarm; Lif Strand; Ridecamp
>> Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: Re: Arabic Name Help
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: ckellerfarm <mailto:ckellerfarm@stellarnet.com>
>> To: Lif  <mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com> Strand ; Ridecamp
>> <mailto:ridecamp@endurance.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:48 AM
>> Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: Arabic Name Help
>>
>> I took my mare to  trainer 6 years ago. He said : The defiance between
>> training a Arab and a QH is simple. When you punish a QH he says "DUH"
>> When you punish  an Arab he says"What did you do that for?".  And I show
>> Arab once and go on to the next step. With the QH I go over step one
>> every time I work with him, just to be sure he remembers.
>> And I agree. Arabs are the smartest horses around,all I see is they
>> don't put up with being miss used. And why should they we don't.
>> TK
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>>
>> This cracked me up.  I once asked my Schutzhund dog trainer who worked
>> with both my border collies (the Arabs of the dog world) and the "other"
>> protection breeds like Rottweilers and german shepherds what he thought
>> the differences were and he said the other dogs got schooled almost
>> every day, always got a review session before moving on to something new
>> and were introduced to new things very gradually.  He said with the
>> border collies, he just handed them a copy of the rule book. <g>
>>
>> Susan G
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