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I don't. I never use punishment.
I train, I train gun dogs under high distraction and under stimulus of prey drive in a high prey drive dog bred to have high prey drive for countless generations where food becomes irrelevant very quickly to such high inherent prey drives and knowledge and dog handling skills come into play to get a canine working on side with the handler for the same result. this can never be achieved with two things.. punishment or food... no good gun dog ever born gave two shits about a cube of Posyum in a high prey drive situation...
In all seriousness.. if the assumption is that if you don;t use food you use punishment we are stuffed.
I don't have a gun dog, never said I did, never said my training was better than yours.
Sorry Splash for the hijack...good luck getting some pounds on your pooch.
punishment -ear pinch,toe pull and e collar,Ive used them all not to abuse but to teach -I dont like e collar but my dog does wear one
Faark, look at the the figures for mighty mix concentrate, no wonder you half the meal size while feeding it!
The penny drops (For me).........................
Clark, you should explain this phyilosofy (Sp) in more detail when replying to requests for help.
I hear what you are saying......................
BTW how's Ducati Mark? Send him my best please, I hear he's getting married.............
I feed mine mighty mix and give them bones to chew. was getting minced up chicken leftovers from the butcher but they needed over a kg a day to keep condition when working hard
My sister mentioned some biscuits I had never heard of when she visited today. Bull Bars. They are very high protein.
One thing she noticed was that her Bullmastiff stopped being as smelly within a couple of weeks - and Bullmastiffs do have quite a 'body odour'.
Might be worth checking out but apparently it only comes in 40kg bags for $100.
Well after a couple of weeks on the ekanuba I have seen a big improvement with her energy level and her recovery time, thanks all for your help.