Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Not a Resuce but a Bad case poor Training

This famous sled dog is renown , in the sled dog
sprint racing circuit he lives up to his name Chucky.
17 fights in his life, now mind you let me give you a little info on dog fights before I get into his story.

EVERY time two dogs fight it's the owners fault NOT THE DOGS. I'm sorry I really am but it's true and in truth it's always easier to forgive a human for an accident or a bad day but not the dogs. Yes there are the occasion case were an inbred dog was sold to an unknowing person I've never personally met someone who's experienced this but it has happened, those are one in a million. Every other time it is because the owner or owners don't know their dogs, and sometimes they don't know dogs in general. Knowing what your dogs going to do before they do it is key, everything they think is readable in their body and face. When they consider even thinking of fighting their hackles have been up for over 5 straight minutes at one specific dog or pack if that is the case, if they respect you they check that your far away and they drop their head to protect their necks your got less than 30 seconds before they show full teeth and less then a minute before they fight.

The first time I saw Chucky fight was my first training run with a fellow musher.we had his team all lined out with the 4wheeler.
Now there were eight dogs running to the team and with those eight in pairs Chucky was in the third row back from the leader which put him two rows up from me on the 4wheeler.
With that picture of the eight dogs in your head put my self a girl about 23 at that on the 4wheeler and my friend with with the lead dogs.
The 4wheeler wouldn't start so he was giving me ideas as to what it could be and when he was looking at me my eyes were on the dogs and while my eyes worked on the 4wheeler his eyes where on the dogs and Bare is a natural in lead he'll pull anything you give him and turn a corner on a dime but some how as I got the 4wheeler started (my fellow musher didn't tell me he hit the off switch on to the engine) just by blinking we both missed Bare turning around going right past the male behind him and at Chucky before Chucky knew what happened. I had the 4wheeler off and was off of it just as Bare took his first snap at Chucky and my friend at the same time, recovering with only a scratch on each dog we took I unclipped Bare to take him to he truck unfortunately I forgot the the break on the 4wheeler and the rest of the dogs took of in neutral it was quite comical to watch me with put the latch lock down with my chin while holding the break in one hand and a dog by the collier in another to stop the team from running away with the 4wheeler. Sorry went off topic for a second there the end of that story of a funny memory to me and a bond of trust with Bare.
Now this was no random incident with Chucky every dog and I mean every dog in my friends yard disliked Chicky, the reason I will never know, but I can tell you it was part my friends fault he did favor Chucky when he was a pup and the old dogs remember that. Chucky nine time out of ten was attacked first and just defended him self, on occasion he has been known to attack those who have attacked him in the past, it really was a whole revenge cycle in this pack of dogs.
when my family took Chucky it was after 2 years of knowing this dog and not only had I run him on trail but I'd also taken him home with me while he still belonged to my friend and I figured out that Chucky was very calm.
Unfortunately, my family and I had just gotten our first unfixed female and Chucky also happened to be intact and we didn't watch for her going into heat which nearly caused us the lose of Demon. Chucky with his what he's always known believed if he wanted to be alpha for the female he had to fight. The only one to fight was demon so he did. now we never leave or dogs loose unattended unfortunately when you have to pee accident can happen, and it cost 40 stitches in our precious like the one ring is what he is to this family.
Chucky needed to learn and unfortunately it hurt Demon but for some reason stitches headed cone after he woke up all Demon wanted to do was go outside to play with his buddy Chucky. Once the cone was off I put Demon on a leash and took him to what he wanted for weeks to see Chucky. Demon's a good dog and smart as could be if he could talk he'd put half my house to shame so i told him to stay close and just take it easy and he did. When we approached Chucky's circle I couldn't read him very well he looked confused but he looked defensive, Demon was happy to see him so I could tell Chucky wanted to be happy to but I think he was still afraid the Demon was going to attack him. But letting them get nose to nose and showing Chucky that Demon knew what happened and that they were still buddy's, it was like to male best friends getting drunk at a bar knocking each other out but the next day it all good. Men never going understand human or dogs. 2 years later Chucky and Demon have never fought again and they play together all the time. Chucky had one more fight 3 months after that again it was human error but since then he's learned there's no reason to defend from whats not going to attack him.

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