Starting the wood splitter
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What a clever girl she thinks she is!
Riley has gotten a lot of experience with equipment this year. He does the same thing with the chainsaw, chipper and splitter. Hopefully all the dead wood is out of all the trees now. My body feels like we have cut, split or chipped every single tree on our property!
That's so funny - Asha just started it with the chainsaw that my friend has (pull cord) too. Chipper is on my wish list!!!
I know the Scotty next door barks at the trash trucks every Friday, has for years and years.
And in his mind it’s working! They come, he barks, they leave.
Ours has come in so incredibly handy. We picked ours up on market place for an amazing deal.
No, I don't think so. She just loves to demand bark, whether it's asking me to throw a stick or ball, barking to get the sleeve in IGP practice, she barks when I get up to fix her dinner - and she thinks the noise is exciting, so when she sees me going to the engine side of the splitter - even when it's to fill the gas tank - she runs over and barks at the engine. Now my neighbor, who I cut wood with brought over his chainsaw to shorten some pieces that were too long for the wood stove, and the third time he started it, she ran to him and started barking when he pulled the cord. I only have an electric corded saw and the mower is electric start, so she has just put together pull cords and machines running. I have no idea why. She totally ignores the noise and just hangs out the entire time we're working. She goes out to the forest with us to cut dead trees - I tie her away from where we down a tree, then let her loose after it's on the ground. She's never barked at the chainsaw until the other day at our house next to the splitter.
She was born barking and just looks for new excuses to bark more.
That sounds just like Rocky.No, I don't think so. She just loves to demand bark, whether it's asking me to throw a stick or ball, barking to get the sleeve in IGP practice, she barks when I get up to fix her dinner - and she thinks the noise is exciting, so when she sees me going to the engine side of the splitter - even when it's to fill the gas tank - she runs over and barks at the engine. Now my neighbor, who I cut wood with brought over his chainsaw to shorten some pieces that were too long for the wood stove, and the third time he started it, she ran to him and started barking when he pulled the cord. I only have an electric corded saw and the mower is electric start, so she has just put together pull cords and machines running. I have no idea why. She totally ignores the noise and just hangs out the entire time we're working. She goes out to the forest with us to cut dead trees - I tie her away from where we down a tree, then let her loose after it's on the ground. She's never barked at the chainsaw until the other day at our house next to the splitter.
She was born barking and just looks for new excuses to bark more.
And I thought it was a boy Doberman thing?
Good to know some females do it too.
Yes. I tell them thanks for train our dogs every day:
They approach, dog barks, they leave, dog rewarded!
Most understand, thumbs-up...
others, not amused.
Good to know there was someone else out there like this! Actually I think @Oh Little Oji's last Dobe was like this too.
Her first bark & hold was when I'd get the Dremmel out for toenails and she's see it and start barking at it. I'd let her bark a while and then we'd sit down, hush up and do toenails.
Rocky was all bark at every one of his meal preps.
If I get the garden hose out? Barking non stop.
Touch his leash hanging on the wall? Barking.
Walks up with a ball, drops it and starts barking.
He was a very vocal dude.
Yup, same here.
Oji, I still feel, was like a relative of Asha.
Yeah, Oji was a barker extraordinaire!
At the moment, I don't remember him barking at machines about to be started up.
He barked a lot during retrieving sessions. I know I shared a short video here on DCF of him doing some growling & barking, trying to will me to throw a ball. Our retrieving routine became: I would hold the softball in both hands up at about face level on me, elbows together. Oji would bounce up and down, mostly the front paws coming off the ground, but maybe all four at the beginning of a session. He would bark nonstop during this, and he'd go in circles around me. I'd let him build up that action for a bit, then I'd throw the ball, making sure not to hit his face. (I have to throw underhand, and save overhand throws for when I really might need them – shoulder pain issues.)
Oji would bark a bunch whenever I tied him out for a few moments. He would just explode into his rapid barking. He would also sometimes give a half-hearted effort at biting my leg as I walked away.
I thought I was remembering it right.
I remember in Ashas first year or two, barking at All The Things, and I didn't want to discourage it too much because wanting to do some IGP sports. So many, especially with Mals and a few GSDs had to train their dogs to bark. It's def a genetic trait.
"Bark At All The Things"...lol.
I tried to follow the K9 trainers advice: to develop a bark from play....with rough growly tug play...the first time BYB Bonnie actually scary barked in play
we were both so surprised we looked at one another like "really?!!!"
And it took a long time to get it again...
I just accept she barks at bad people but not her people, not even a little,
except to say "hey! Where is my breakfast!" Or
"Hey, its time for our walk, ya old fart!"...
"Hey, there's a coyote out there!"
Which is fine by me.
"She is a runner" the K9 jr trainer said...
Yesterday Asha barked at lightning.
We had a storm blow in, lots of cloud to cloud lightning, sometimes perfectly visible, constant rumbling thunder but just barely spit some rain. Asha saw the flash across the clouds and started barking at it. Did it again and I got the phone out to video, and caught it the 3rd time. Well, I caught her looking up/seeing it/and then run to it barking. It's another first - she's barked at thunder booms, but never at the flash.
These storms are hit or miss. We got 1/8" of rain from July 4 - 11 and 5 miles away they got over 2". It's feast of famine. Our turn should happen pretty soon!
We had a storm blow in, lots of cloud to cloud lightning, sometimes perfectly visible, constant rumbling thunder but just barely spit some rain. Asha saw the flash across the clouds and started barking at it. Did it again and I got the phone out to video, and caught it the 3rd time. Well, I caught her looking up/seeing it/and then run to it barking. It's another first - she's barked at thunder booms, but never at the flash.
These storms are hit or miss. We got 1/8" of rain from July 4 - 11 and 5 miles away they got over 2". It's feast of famine. Our turn should happen pretty soon!
LOL hackles up and everything.
She's gonna give it a what-for.
I use to believe that hackles are a form of fear in a dog, and they can be, but just like a cat, nature made the hackles to stand up and warn the opponent that this cat wants you to back off. And Asha always "barks forward" going towards the thing, not backing up. So I quit believing it is a sign of fear as I was taught years ago. She's a total wimp at the vet, shaking in her boots, but doesn't hackle up or growl at those folks. More like throws in the towel.
She's definitely got an all or nothing attitude.
Our original trainer told us that if the hackles are in a thin line it's fear and if they are wide it means they mean business. These two only get the wide line but Della would get both and it did seem to be true that if it was wide, she was out to kick ass.
Here was a combo of both so I don't know what that meant. LOL
Here was a combo of both so I don't know what that meant. LOL
