Bailey and Friends

[Bailey's Mom]

Hey Addy-She's baaaaackkkkkk!!
Carol-I find your footprints elsewhere as well.......helping out others.
To a whale, a camel is about the size of a Chiwawa.
If I could get rid of a whale, you can get off that dang camel. Now get down from there, put on your red shoes and say "I wish I'd never done this; I wish I'd never done this!!!" Get yurself back to Rancho Mirage..... or is THAT just a mirage???? Times a wastin' and we need to get ourselves ready for the wedding!!
Love,
Susan

[SasAndYunah]

Hi Susan

As usual, I'll ask if you can give me more info on what exactly happens
"When Bailey eagerly goes up to "new" people...she immediately rolls over on her back"

What do you do? Do you let her run to people? What do the people do? Do they talk, pet, etc?

One "mistake" people often make is letting the dog do their thing... Which is okay if the dogs behaviour poses no problem (And again, a problem isn't a problem unless the owner perceives it as a problem) One has to teach a dog how it is supposed to behave in a certain situation Same goes for children. If parents wouldn't teach them how to behave during certain situations, I would go screaming mad It's no different with dogs. So if it is indeed a "excitement" thing with Bailey, the key would be to teach her how to behave instead. (basically, letting her sit or stay in her "place" and people coming in the room should ignore her excited behaviour and not say "hello" to her untill she has calmed down)

I just spend the eastern weekend with a 7 week old puppy, a Welsh Springer Spaniel He belongs to a friend of mine and she is going to train him to become her service dog. But she will drop him of with me from time to time to both give her some rest during that tireing puppy stage and to train him when he is here

Here's a cute video of Maddock (the pups name) playing with Yunah's toy frog
http://youtu.be/RQkGAl9su48

Sas and Yunah

[marie adams]

Why go to all the trouble of starting a new thread when this one works just fine.

Glad everyone is getting along, but then Carrol is still out and about on that darn camel doing who knows what....with a blue face and that red hair--what a combination--sure can spot her a mile away

I think it was cute you were giving her her first furcut--haha--they sure can squirm and mess up good intentions.

Happy Tuesday!!!

[addy]

Carrol,


Just get off the dang camel, then close your eyes, click your heels together three times and say "There's no place like home"



We miss you


love,
Addy

[Bailey's Mom]

Hey Addy-so both you AND Carrol are redheads?
Boy-no wonder I have trouble with you two.

[Bailey's Mom]

Hi Susan

As usual, I'll ask if you can give me more info on what exactly happens
"When Bailey eagerly goes up to "new" people...she immediately rolls over on her back"

What do you do? Do you let her run to people? What do the people do? Do they talk, pet, etc?

One "mistake" people often make is letting the dog do their thing... Which is okay if the dogs behaviour poses no problem (And again, a problem isn't a problem unless the owner perceives it as a problem) One has to teach a dog how it is supposed to behave in a certain situation Same goes for children. If parents wouldn't teach them how to behave during certain situations, I would go screaming mad It's no different with dogs. So if it is indeed a "excitement" thing with Bailey, the key would be to teach her how to behave instead. (basically, letting her sit or stay in her "place" and people coming in the room should ignore her excited behaviour and not say "hello" to her untill she has calmed down)

I just spend the eastern weekend with a 7 week old puppy, a Welsh Springer Spaniel He belongs to a friend of mine and she is going to train him to become her service dog. But she will drop him of with me from time to time to both give her some rest during that tireing puppy stage and to train him when he is here

Here's a cute video of Maddock (the pups name) playing with Yunah's toy frog
http://youtu.be/RQkGAl9su48

Sas and Yunah

Hi Sas..........thanks for getting back so fast.
"New" people.....means either people she has already met but are just now coming back for a visit, or people she has never met.
Neighbors have called Bailey, talk to her and she eagerly runs to them. This is when we're in our own front yard.....but even if we've walked away from the yard and she is on a leash, she will still do the roll over, tail wildly wagging, scratch my belly kind of thing. The "People" all think it's very cute and that she is asking them to scratch her belly. I have not found that she especially likes having her belly scratched. She is warming up to scratching behind the ears.

Palmer ran to "new" people (visitors in the house) and would get up on his hind legs and jump around. I know a lot of people don't like that, so I'd like to get started on the right foot here. I have my own "issues" with submissive behavior so that probably enters into my not liking it.

I just watched your video.....and others. Maddock is so energetic and cute! Yunah is remarkable in what she can do. You're inspiring!

Thanks for all your help.

Susan

[SasAndYunah]

Hi Susan, thanks for taking the time to explain it some more

Wether Bailey's behaviour is coming from excitement or from submissive behaviour, both times you act the same to change the behaviour.

If you're walking Bailey on the leash and she rolls over on her back when you meet people, tell the people to ignore the behaviour, to ignore Bailey completely (so no looking, bending over or talking at her either) If she gets up, stands on her paws again, the people can say hello. This way she will learn that with her "rolling on my back" behaviour, she is not getting what she wants, attention Instead, standing up will get her her "reward", the cuddles and attention.

And if the neigbours are calling her over and she comes running and then rolls over on her back, instruct the neighbours not to do so anymore (for now) Explain to them that you want to change Bailey's habbit of rolling on her back and that for that purpose, they should ignore Bailey whenever she comes running to greet them. Once she is standing again, they can start talking to her etc.

And if this happens inside your house...when you are getting visitors, I would tell Bailey to sit beside your leg. You greet the people and they should all ignore Bailey. Wether she rolls on her back or not...just to take the "tension" out of the moment. Once everyone is seated and Bailey is calm, she can go greet the people (you could even have her say hello on a leash at first so you can "guide" her through the process of saying hello). But again, the moment she rolls on her back, she should not get any attention what so ever And when people say hello to her (indoors, outside, no matter where) tell them to do so without a lot of fuzz...no high voices, no "baby talk" cause all that will contribute to have Bailey roll over on her back. Just something like "Hi Bailey, you look lovely today"...normal voice.

So your major task will be to instruct others on how to behave

Sas and Yunah

[Bailey's Mom]

Thanks Sas.

This is kind of how life is anyway, isn't it? We teach others to learn the way we want to be treated............it's just that sometimes they don't realize that is what you are doing!
I'll let you know how it goes. Sounds very reasonable to me.

We have a few commands to get under our belts soon and the bell ringing to go outside. If we can stop the nipping, the rolling on her back, and make the house training something we can rely on, I think I can stand it.

Bailey had diarrhea today and threw up right after she ate this evening. This of course makes the bell ringing/house training all the much harder. She seems to be feeling better now.

Thanks!

Susan

[addy]

Hey Susan,

I sure hope Bailey stopped throwing up. How is Little Miss today?

It is Wednesday, hurrah!!!!!!! Wednesdays are great because then Fridays are not far away

Well, I guess the tornado didn't blow Carrol home. Yes, we both really do have red hair, weird huh?????

We have had so much rain I am way behind in my yard work. Wish I could teach Zoe and Koko how to use a rake Our front yard now sports a river Pretty soon we will have to build an ark.

Love ya,
Addy

[Bailey's Mom]

Hey Addy-
Bailey went to the vet today to get more shots. She got 3 shots and a mouthful of worm preventative and her anal glands expressed and nails clipped. We both napped for about 5 hours......she crashed and I had not gotten much sleep in the past two nights. Too hot. We needed to change over to our summer "bed clothes." We did that this evening...now it is a much lighter blanket, not wool, and a light quilt. She has not vomited again, but she pooped inside again.....after I had her outside for about 1/2 hour. CHEE!!!

I expect you've heard....but in case you have not....we always called Wednesdays "hump day." That was because when Wed. got here you were 1/2 way through the week and it was all downhill after that (or so we liked to think!)

I am way behind in my yard work....but I am not expecting Bailey to pick up a rake!! But it would be nice if Bob would do more watching Bailey...... so I could get out and do the work. Bailey does pick up the pine cones, but she just won't put them into a container for me. WHAT GOOD IS THAT!!??

I must get back to desk work. Take care.

Love,
Susan