[sabrina]

While out walking the 2 dogs and Rascal in the stubble field this afternoon, Tanya our German Shepherd lifted a hare which of coarse bolted for its life dogs in hot persuit. One word at the top of my voice, leave and all 3 stopped dead unlike the dog that was on the news filmed chasing the deer my lot know better. We carried on going round the field and they had fun in the snow while I was frozen to the bone but enjoying their delight at the white stuff. it started me thinking as i was watching them, how many people have a Jack Russell that will lift a pheasant but knows not to chase. He will follow their tracks but once he finds them that's as far as it goes. almost like a gun dog, maybe that is what he was in another life. 

[doganjo]

Good grief - now THAT is control.  Not sure even my gundogs would stop on a hare!  Well done!

[kingnigel]

ha ha, i know my sibes wouldnt, they are never let off of lead in open spaces, different again while working in harness most will just keep running on the trail, not all though.
kn

[Sylvia]

I would love to tell you that my hounds would stand on anything at a command, but I'ld be lying

[SallyintNorth]

Well done sabrina.  I'm with you - that's how our dogs should be trained if we are going to run them loose in the countryside - or anywhere outside our own well-fenced grounds, come to that.

In once had to call my (entire) dog off a bitch he was mounting.  I did it; the bitch's owner, much relieved but very surprised, said, "My goodness, that was like the voice of DOOM!" 

That same dog could not be called off geese on a lake  - nor the deer in Richmond Park.    I did feel for that guy in the vid - I have been there and was so thankful (a) no deer nor dog ran across a road and (b) no-one had video cameras with them in those days! 

[sabrina]

Today is my 60th Birthday ( not that I feel it ) I was about 11 when I started walking neighbours dogs. Having no pets off my own as my father would not allow it I spent more time with the dogs than people. Teaching them was just like a game to me. By the time i was 14 I was walking a German Pointer, Red Setter, cross bred terrier and a collie cross all together. My father was one of the local postman and he was stopped in the street by a couple who were used to seeing me with all 4 dogs going down the park which was a 3mile round trip from my house. They told my father how amazed they were at the control I had over the dogs for such a slip of a girl ( was very skinny then ) he never said anything to me but told my mother what had been said, I thought he would have been pleased but it did not mean anything to him. My mother told me not to worry that helping other people with their dogs was a good thing. I so wanted one of my own but was in my 20's before that happened. I made sure my own kids were brought up with animals because you learn so much. Life and death, love and caring I cannot see myself without a dog now . Best friends.

[doganjo]

Happy Birthday, Margaret!

[Sylvia]

Sixty is a wonderful age to be Many Happy Retuns

[sabrina]

Thanks for the good wishes now do I  go mad and dye my hair which i have already cut short much to my OH disapproval. Bought make up to try but that is about my limit to a new make over. Still living in jeans, skirts not my thing but did get into shoes and handbags a couple of years ago. They say 60 is the new 40 

[jaykay]

Pink hair and practise wearing purple (I am practising too)  Hope you had a Happy Birthday 

[SallyintNorth]

On my 50th birthday I bought a purple hat, a tooth crumbled as I ate my birthday pizza with friends and I still can't spit.

I wear the purple hat, though, and talk out loud in the streets.