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Old 03-25-2008, 11:17 AM
hennie400 hennie400 is offline
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Re: what makes a dog stop working?

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Originally Posted by jazzking1971 View Post
I have only seen improvement from the amount of training that I did.

Yes I know I shut my dog down but I think that was more about my losing patience moreso than doing too much bite work. I'm a big guy and my dog is handler soft.
One of my dogs is soft and shuts down easily and I have to handle her quite differently to my other dogs. Once I figured out what makes her tick she has responded very well.

Patience, praise and fun has always worked well for me and my dogs.
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