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cwalt

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08/22/2008 12:16 PM
You are right, I am nervous. He is such a very keen retriever but unsteady > in a group, his work out in the field is good, he is attentive to the > stop > whistle, has style and speed, many people have admired him and some even > want him! It all goes wrong when he is around me, so I guess my > nervousness > at failing to control him there is worrying him. So its valium and > brandy > at classes then > > Sonia > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I can recognize the problem because I have it myself. The trouble with doing any work with body language controls is that when the handler is really emotional or excited the body language deteriorates into gibberish and it upsets the dog. I can do OK with alcohol as a relaxant but other drugs don't work because they change my body language too much so I have to use vocal commands to supplement my control. My dogs aren't used to a lot of verbiage from me and that gets them uncertain. Cj

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