- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
You'll get there. Keep the faith xx
Nisha and Talía (Negreta and Lulú).... a journey.
- Thread starter snowbunny
- Start date
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
My latest video is up!
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I'm doing some introductory station training with both the lovely ladies. Here is the sweet Talia, after a few sessions where she was very hesitant to... | By Courage Doesn't Always Roar | Facebook
I'm doing some introductory station training with both the lovely ladies. Here is the sweet Talia, after a few sessions where she was very hesitant to...
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Cath
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Great work Fiona @snowbunny, but what about your finger
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
It makes it complicated, for sure! It's not so problematic with Talia, but I am struggling with Nisha because I can't hold and toss the treats in the same way as before. I'm about to post a video (once it's uploaded) showing how I am working with her, from before the finger incident! Watch this space...
- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Amazing 
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- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Here is one of Nisha Nooooooo!
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I'm also working on a stationing behaviour with Nisha, which is obviously a little different to Talia's approach. With Nisha, I'm using the big piece of... | By Courage Doesn't Always Roar | Facebook
I'm also working on a stationing behaviour with Nisha, which is obviously a little different to Talia's approach. With Nisha, I'm using the big piece of...
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- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Nisha is getting a little braver bless her xx
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
She may be "Nisha No" but she sure is a lot braver (and quieter) than your first videos! 
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
I'm understanding her barks a lot more. She just likes her voice, it seems! She barks a lot when I'm working with Talia, and she barks if I'm too slow with treats. It doesn't bother me in the slightest anymore; it's her whine that I use more as an indicator of how she's doing, and that's very effective at saying "this is too much pressure".She may be "Nisha No" but she sure is a lot braver (and quieter) than your first videos!
She has good days and bad. We certainly lost a lot of ground around that first vet visit, and she gets spooked by the wind. So, this afternoon, I went in to do some work with her and it was a bit windy and she wouldn't come anywhere near the vetbed. I fell back to something I do to settle her, which is throwing treats onto the thicker foam bed, but she wouldn't approach at all unless I turned my back. So I gave up and did a sausage tree for them. When she wouldn't even approach that while I was sat on the step, I fell back to super simple, scattered some food on the various beds laying around, and in the snuffle mat, and then left. Some days it's all just too much for a little scared dog!!
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
This is like watching the most ever amazing movie
Candy
Biscuit Tin Guardian
- Location
- West Yorkshire, UK
And I think that I currently have a little scared dog!
This puts things very much into perspective and whilst I will of course continue to help Joy through whatever she needs help with following her scary attack, it's never going to be as frightening and deep rooted as what has happened to your dear brave dogs. You and they have my admiration. xxx
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Fear is fear, and we'll all do anything to help our loved ones through it. You know I've been through the mill with my other scared black dog, and happily come out the other side (for the most part). The difference is that, with Willow and with Joy, they know they can trust us, and we can give them a nook of an arm, a lap, or just sit in a den with them to help them feel better. Of course, Nisha just doesn't trust us at all, and that's the most challenging part: it's us she's scared of.
Of course it's all total nonsense, but it's things like this that make you wish that the "dog communicators" were actually kosher and could really converse with them!
Of course it's all total nonsense, but it's things like this that make you wish that the "dog communicators" were actually kosher and could really converse with them!
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
It's really quite amazing when our dogs do trust us, though. I'm thinking of all the dogs who come out of shelters and adapt to that lap or nook of an arm incredibly quickly considering the circumstances. It actually seems more logical to react like Nisha - if it were me, I think I'd need a lot of treats and a good long time to trust humans too!
You can see she's doing it, though, so I have faith. You and J are persistent, and Nisha's no dummy...it'll happen.
Re: the dog communicators. I did a weekend workshop once with the (at the time) most famous dog communicator guru in the US. Wow. I met some really nice people and it was fun to spend the weekend at the beach with my friend who had invited me and our dogs. But...um...how shall I say this respectfully? The 'readings' on my dogs were things anyone could figure out just by observing them. But hey ho, like I said, still a good weekend.
You can see she's doing it, though, so I have faith. You and J are persistent, and Nisha's no dummy...it'll happen.
Re: the dog communicators. I did a weekend workshop once with the (at the time) most famous dog communicator guru in the US. Wow. I met some really nice people and it was fun to spend the weekend at the beach with my friend who had invited me and our dogs. But...um...how shall I say this respectfully? The 'readings' on my dogs were things anyone could figure out just by observing them. But hey ho, like I said, still a good weekend.
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
The ones that really get me are the ones done over the phone from the other side of the world where they don't even see the animal!! Just.... sigh.
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
Oh my goodness, you've just reminded me that when I had that poor foster kitty Garfield in Spain, my rescue contact Miry was getting readings on him done from a lady in Barcelona. Same thing - didn't see him, just knew he was a cat in a house across the country. Based on the reading she "prescribed" mega-expensive homeopathic remedies that Miry then told me to go get at the pharmacy. The reader made no money on any of it, so she likely had her heart in the right place, but it cost me a fortune and (of course) did not help that poor cat. What he needed, and thankfully finally got, was a foster home with other cats and a "Foster Lady" who had a clue about cats (which I did not and do not). Poor Garfield.
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
I can see an improvement in Nisha, but her fear is deep rooted, lack of socialisation at the right time. I felt 'sorry' for Talia who was waiting so patiently, though she did get rewards! Nisha, despite her fears, is living a far, far better life than she has before.
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Don't worry, Talia gets more than her fair share of "me" time! Neither of them have the concept of taking turns, but that will come with enough time. Maybe.
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Drugged Nisha this morning for the vet visit. Nisha was untouched.
The vet called her "the Hulk of medication".
"She's incredible!"
"It's not possible!"
"She should be asleep!!"
Yeah, she's a special one, our girl.
The vet called her "the Hulk of medication".
"She's incredible!"
"It's not possible!"
"She should be asleep!!"
Yeah, she's a special one, our girl.