The owner, not the dog, is barking
(TV Guide) Even to a dog-doting viewer, it's shocking how often in It's Me or the Dog (Wednesdays, TV One), the errant dog owner plumps for the dog - over the complaining spouse, and even the neglected and dog-harassed children.
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Modelled openly on the wildly successful toddler-taming programmes, this is another useful makeover show on badly behaved dogs. For non-dog doters, what's so entertaining about it is not how tiresome dogs can be but how absolutely stupid people are. And also, how easy it is for dogs to train some humans.
Some people don't just tolerate bad behaviour from their dogs but actively encourage it. The first programme featured two male labradors who were the canine equivalent of boy racers: a pair of heedless thugs with hormones instead of brains.
It takes some doing to produce one obnoxious labrador, let alone two, but this witless family had managed it. How? By having two big dogs, and neither training nor exercising them.
A later show brought us a woman so intoxicated by her pretty little dogs - who each had a sense of entitlement the size of a small country - that she was prepared to let her family go if they didn't like it.
How did she get to this point? Look here
Among the assorted quadrupedal delinquents were those who had trained their owners, through biting, not to kiss in front of them, and not to disturb them while they were occupying human sleeping places - like the matrimonial bed. As one husband said of his habit of deferring to his dog in the scratcher: "I've got the scars!" Sheese, some people just have to take a look on doglinks.co.nz 's Training pages. Or better yet, find a NZ Dog Trainer on the same webiste!
The dog nanny is pretty entertaining. The wonderfully aptly named Victoria Sitwell is the domestic pet world's version of Emma Peel. With her sleek hair, black Lycra and prim lipsticked smile, which never gets remotely close to reaching the eyes, she means business. But not so much dog business as human business.
As with all these sensible programmes, the first thing she has to do is reprogramme the humans. Mostly, it's information and behaviour no halfwit should need telling about pets.
Don't feed them caffeine and sugar, because it's bad for them, makes them hyper and can kill them. Don't share your food with them, or they'll expect to share your food all the time and may bite you if you hold out on them.
Give them plenty of daily exercise, or they'll get bored and quite likely destructive. Don't let them on the furniture. Don't let them sleep on or in your bed. oh, for some people that's the reason they GOT a DOG in the first place... I know that I sleep in a dog bed, and it's quite comfortable :)
And for pity's sake, if they show aggressive or dominant tendencies, do something. Don't let it escalate. But what? you ask? read books, read website, call a trainer...
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Modelled openly on the wildly successful toddler-taming programmes, this is another useful makeover show on badly behaved dogs. For non-dog doters, what's so entertaining about it is not how tiresome dogs can be but how absolutely stupid people are. And also, how easy it is for dogs to train some humans.
Some people don't just tolerate bad behaviour from their dogs but actively encourage it. The first programme featured two male labradors who were the canine equivalent of boy racers: a pair of heedless thugs with hormones instead of brains.
It takes some doing to produce one obnoxious labrador, let alone two, but this witless family had managed it. How? By having two big dogs, and neither training nor exercising them.
A later show brought us a woman so intoxicated by her pretty little dogs - who each had a sense of entitlement the size of a small country - that she was prepared to let her family go if they didn't like it.
How did she get to this point? Look here
Among the assorted quadrupedal delinquents were those who had trained their owners, through biting, not to kiss in front of them, and not to disturb them while they were occupying human sleeping places - like the matrimonial bed. As one husband said of his habit of deferring to his dog in the scratcher: "I've got the scars!" Sheese, some people just have to take a look on doglinks.co.nz 's Training pages. Or better yet, find a NZ Dog Trainer on the same webiste!
The dog nanny is pretty entertaining. The wonderfully aptly named Victoria Sitwell is the domestic pet world's version of Emma Peel. With her sleek hair, black Lycra and prim lipsticked smile, which never gets remotely close to reaching the eyes, she means business. But not so much dog business as human business.
As with all these sensible programmes, the first thing she has to do is reprogramme the humans. Mostly, it's information and behaviour no halfwit should need telling about pets.
Don't feed them caffeine and sugar, because it's bad for them, makes them hyper and can kill them. Don't share your food with them, or they'll expect to share your food all the time and may bite you if you hold out on them.
Give them plenty of daily exercise, or they'll get bored and quite likely destructive. Don't let them on the furniture. Don't let them sleep on or in your bed. oh, for some people that's the reason they GOT a DOG in the first place... I know that I sleep in a dog bed, and it's quite comfortable :)
And for pity's sake, if they show aggressive or dominant tendencies, do something. Don't let it escalate. But what? you ask? read books, read website, call a trainer...
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