Women not the Master (Oh Boy) - Page 9

Many years ago, when I had a 20 acre secluded farm in Arkansas, I had a Great Dane, 180 pounds, a clear tiger stripped brindle. Benny had several points towards his championship, but his owner changed directions to a different breed, and gave him to me, as she knew I admired him. I will be forever greatful to Betty for allowing me to have him. One of the very best dogs I ever had. He was raised to be a showdog, and ended up being a farm dog, gentle with everything from baby geese to foals and goats, a protective lion against stray killer dogs attempting to hurt HIS farm animals! (I swear he thought he owned all the horses, goats, ducks, geese, etc.) He was very territorial, and did not roam, as hard as that is to imagine. Our farm was fairly secluded, backed up to a mountainside, so it worked out, though I do not think I would allow him to be loose now. I am a different person about being safe and responsible now. He loved children, and any strange child could leap and grab his neck right up. He melted like chocolate in the hot sun in their arms. He repulsed intrusive Jehovah witnesses with a black nose against the window glass, at THEIR eye level and a deep dark "BRUUFFF!" They never got out, just turned around and left. In his last year of life, 11 years old and starting to fail, my daughter learned to walk by pinching his loose skin and pulling up on him like a couch, he yipped just a little at her pinches and stood like a stone for her to pull up on him. He was so careful and loving with the crawling and then clumbsily walking infant. I don't think he ever stepped on her or knocked her down, he was so careful. It has been ten years since he died of a stroke while patrolling the farm against livestock-killing strays, and I still miss him. As for training in Alaska, yep, we have a great indoor facility. We have to wait until the snow melts to train outside, usually in early May. It gives us a sadly short trialing season. I just got a starter dog sled from Corinna, and I am just dying to get it out and try it out with my three dogs who already know how to skijor (a dog in harness pulls a person on skiis.) So that is one of the outside things I intend to start doing with my dogs. I hope to get a bigger sled for six dogs when I have more money. I need to order more muzzles though, half of my dogs don't get along with the other half, so some will have to be muzzled. Veronica

Before anyone gets jumpy, I will correct my ambivalent wording...Benny patrolled against livestock-killing-strays.

Veronica, I love reading your posts. You sound so joyful when you speak of your dogs and your plans for them. I have Alaskan Malamutes in addition to my pet GSD. They are the survival experts of the dog world; a very, very tough breed. Riding on a dogsled is a great experience, you feel as it you are hanging on to the backside of a rocket LOL. I have never skijored, but I assume the rush is similar. Years ago I sold 2 puppies to North Pole, Alaska. I thought they were kidding me, I had no idea there was such a place LOL.

Do Right: vrooooooom I knew there was a hidden person behind that name: Now I know why u travel so fast, 4 on the floor, I trained with Gal.CO SHeriff K-9 , and with Pct 4 Harris Co sher.years back, and worked with Redding, Redding & Reddding {PI) to break a case in Montgomery Co. , and that how I was able to uncover what the K-9 trainer, liar and thief of Pct 4, did to the dept and all of us , stealing pups, and stud dog, and the list of lies he used to get customers, was unbelievable....I worked with a Texas Cert. Canine trainer Police officer, and went on a few middle of the night, runs to the Humble area and watched from the parking lot as his canine took down the bad guy hidden in the back room of the new super walmart ,8 years ago, and spent several years in close ties with him and his girlfriend Lisa,a woman cop, who has a K-9 that was very bad and unsocialable and that taught me what I wanted to do when I started breeding.......socialize the dogs.........the years I worked with Redding, I had a german shepherd in my truck at all times, to cover by backside........like I told u once before , Ive lost my nerve now, but still have courage,,,,,,,,got a bunch of 4 legged gsd.s who cover my backside......Veronica,no wonder we like some of the same things, and think alike....I laugh at the email u sent me, now, as I now know where u are coming from.....ha ha ha , u are a good judge of character afterall..........anyone who loves the german shepherd as she and I do, have a bond we will never get broken, and thanks for the email ......as u guys reading this have read me say that my webmaster had cancer and was holding on, well Saturday night he went home to be with His Lord and Master and is waiting at the Rainbow Bridge for Krysii and his older male, gsd, and I have dedicated my website to him forever as he produced it for me 8mos ago, because of his gsd Krysii(Crissy) and he was training with Adrian Ledda, Buena Vista Sch Club and Adrian was at his funeral and that alone blessed Michael Rays family, as he revered Adrian as the best trainer he had ever met.......and I was thrilled beyond words to see the gleam in Mr.Ledda;s eyes, and hes on his way to California to whelp a litter of pups out of last years Sieger, with Rita only helping, he said...In this case, he said he is the better whelper.....imagine that,,,,Do Right...a male midwife......

My condolences on the loss of a friend. My brother-in-law is a male nurse and his wife is his boss. What the hell is the world coming too ;-)

Justice! LOL

OK, I didn't read every single one when they got political, but here's the way I see it.... Look at lions...look at wolves...horses...just about any social animals. Look at the way these animals interact and behave toward alpha male and alpha female. Both the lioness and alpha female wolf are the ones that are highly active in hunting and bringing down the meat...they are HIGHLY respected in the pack and EVEN THE ALPHA MALES will let the alpha females' decisions be written as law more times than not. The alpha males are mostly there as the "background muscle" enforcing the laws that the alpha female implements on the pack. There are occasional spats between the alphas, but MOST of the time, the male stays out of the politics and backs up the female. With all that said, I believe what 4pack said : "I think they look to who is in control of the situation and makes that very clear. ", ***BUT I also believe that they respect both the alpha male AND female. They are very perceptive and can understand body language, tone of voice and smell body secretions and pheromones (brought on by fear, anger, etc.) so they know who is in charge and when and follow suit. They are MASTERS in the art of obedience and rank/authority, etc., and whether through survival methods or just intelligence, they act accordingly and are not emotional fools like us humans can be!

Blitzen- Hubby and I still own a house near North Pole, the address is North Pole. I have someone about to buy it now. We loved that house, it was very easy to live in, and it had a 2,700 square foot heated airplane hanger attached to the house! I kept my dogs in the hangar, AND worked them there AND kept a trampolene in there. I have a picture on Jaks' page, where we took Jaks and Autumn to the Santa Claus House on Santa Claus Lane in North Pole, Alaska. It is Christmas-y 12 months of the year at the Santa Claus house. I paid for the "elf" to take pictures of Jaks and Autumn with Mr. and Mrs. Claus. I don't miss North Pole weather though. It sucks when the temp drops to -50 to -65 for two weeks at a time. The kids get to stay home when the thermometer hits -60. It's not bad at all outside at -20...if you go out and exercise, you shouldn't over do the warm layers, or you will sweat and get chilled.

AKVeronica My sympathies to your husband, it would be rough being stuck in a house with you! Just kidding...lol

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