I Love My Dogs With My Whole Heart

What do you think it works better with doggies: training or affection?
According to the dog's whisperer, Cesar Millan, the key is to follow this order: physical exercise-training and finally affection.
I agree with it however I follow the physical exercise-affection-affection and finally a little of training.
Perhaps, it's because my doggies are small doggies but I find how they obey me and follow me as if they trust me and I think I got this trust through kindness.

Is it very different with big doggies? I couldn't do it in another way but if I have a big dog in the future, I would try it if I would have to do it.

How's your experience with training or dealing with digs?
I think they are the most grateful creatures in the world.

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My personal experiences are bigger dogs are easier, probably because they are selected for a special task, if at least the race isn't to much damaged by inbreed and bad selection thanks to their popularity. Also a lot of difference between one, and an other race, of course.

twistermind · 51-55, F

Interesting! I couldn't even figure it out.
I had all the doubts in the world that I were going to be able to deal with my first dog, a small one, and when I see owners with bigger doggies...I always think that I wouldn't be able to cope with a doggie like this.

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@twistermind: If you can handle, let's say a Jack Russel, Fox, ore Dachshund, the big one's are a piece of cake!!!😂

twistermind · 51-55, F

@kingkyrie: Lol! The mine ones are also terriers but West Highlands White terriers. It's said that they are a little bit pig-headed.
Which breed is yours?

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@twistermind: I raised/breed years German Sheppards , now we have just a single Beauceron, a kind of Shepard what looks like a sort of Rotweiler, but with a total different character, more like a Dobermann, what was a actually breed out of that same Beauceron.

twistermind · 51-55, F

@kingkyrie: Beautiful!

I guess in these cases, as in most of the cases, experience is a point in favour. Unluckily I didn't grow up with a doggie so, I'm a naive and you know how I am. Always with my doubts to be able to do
things.

Was a hard trainning with your German Sherpards and your Beauceron?

SW-User

GS dogs are easy and are good listeners but need to be kept quite strict and disciplined other way the can get dominant.
Beauceron are not a good dog for everybody, they have problems with being alone and need very much space and time to be free and to run, they even can be quite nervous with the wrong owners, but all depends on the owners, as with all breeds btw, just one person fit's better with one race and an other better with a different race ☺

twistermind · 51-55, F

@kingkyrie: GS? Are you fucking around with me with all these abbreviations on purpose? 😂

Ok. I understood the message. Don't worry. :-)

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GS=German Shepperd to me, don't know what you had in mind ? haha 😉

twistermind · 51-55, F

@kingkyrie: Well. I have to go to the Urban Dictionary as you told me and look, look in the middle. You know how I hate abbreviations.

SW-User

Omfg!!!!
You're even more dirty minded than I am 😂😂😂😛
Sleep well anyway!!!! 😘

twistermind · 51-55, F

@kingkyrie: You catched me! Holly shit!
You too. :-)