BORING BORING BORING

this post is going to be about performance/active dogs, I don't care about your obese cocker spaniel that refuses to get off the couch.

Ok. I think we all agree that as a dog owner your basic responsibility is to feed your dog, exercise your dog, water your dog, keep your dog clean, etc. Now let's say you also train your dog. For Agility maybe. Do you know how many sticks I've seen? Just total sticks in the mud. They kind of run alongside there dog then they reward it with maybe a cookie or two. To get ready for a sequence even in their own backyard, they just have their dog stay st the start line and then do the course. Today I came across some bitch on facebook who OPENLY ADMITS that she "nudges" her dog with her foot when it gets distracted. I've seen videos of her working. shes is THE MOST BORING FREAKING TRAINING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. Her poor BC is so bored you can pretty much read its thoughts. If I was her dog, I wouldn't even stay in the ring with that lazy flat comatose person.

look at your dog. How excited are you to own your awesome sauce Border Collie? (or Pyre, etc) When you look into his bright eyes that are like YES LETS DOOO THIS all the time, do you feel overwhelming joy to be in the presence of this crazy and exciting animal? Ok. Now pretend you are your dog, and look at you, the trainer/owner. Do you feel the same? Lots of dogs do. But what about if you have kicked him or screamed at him in the past few hours for something he doesn't even know is "wrong." (like seriously...its a freaking dog...oh wow it looked at something that stimulated its sense, that is totally unnatural or something!!! Psshh PLEASEEEE.) Do you think the dog that is fucking sick of your boring-ness is going to look at you and be like HELL YES MY LIFE IS GREAT MY TRAINER IS SO AWESOME? Well it is a dog, so maybe it does, but I know that this particular dog I have in my mind, the one with the abusive trainer, does not.

When I train my dogs, I play and play and play, do some tricks, then do a sequence then play some more and run around. It actually shocked me when I became social online and realized that not everyone does this. When I see a video of a flat boring trainer I am APPALLED. They think just because they own a BC or some other high drive dog that the dog doesn't deserve to be rewarded for its enthusiasm. As if its enthusiasm is "a given." Well excuse me but that makes me want to vomit. then these people are even bold enough TO WONDER WHY THEY AREN'T GETTING FULL SPEED FROM THEIR DOGS. Ridiculous.

Then this same girl is telling everyone what a difficult breed the BC is. THATS LIKE HER ONLY DOG. SO COMPARED TO WHAT, BITCH? Then she will combat that with "you have a sport bred Bc they are different!11" Yeah maybe my dog is faster than yours but I also motivate him better. Also, I'm sure that he gets distracted much easier than your dog because he is extremely reactive to motion. But I'm not going to what? kick him when he gets distracted? No way. I'm going to OPEN MY COPY OF CU (which I highly recommend to anyone that is capable of reading) AND STOP BEING LAZY, AND FIX IT. wow, what a concept. Spending more than 5 seconds trying to fix an issue. WHO DOES THAT? Hmm I don't know, maybe people that actually care about their dog and not just the results. Yeah that sounds about right.

Bottom line.

ATTENTION. IF YOU OWN A DOG IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THAT DOGS LIFE FUN. IF YOU DO AGILITY ITS YOUR JOB TO MAKE AGILITY FUN. It is NOT your dogs job to make agility fun/perfect/easy for you. If you believe any of that shit, don't even own dogs, much less do agility.