Re: "Arabian" dogs

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

The GSDs are definitely smart, but not even close to a border collie
(sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not)<g>.  Maybe some bloodlines
are different, mine are thrilled to be given anything new and fun to
do---nowadays it's more a matter of finding things they are physically
capable of.  One is getting pretty old at 12 1/2 (but still ambitious as a
puppy and never mind the arthritis) and the other has cardiac problems that
*he* keeps insisting aren't there.  Sounds alot like our horses, don't they?

susan g

----- Original Message -----
From: Kathy Mayeda <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>
To: Susan Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>; ckellerfarm
<ckellerfarm@stellarnet.com>; Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>;
Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Arabic Name Help


> This is interesting because my experience with German Shephards
> is that they were very obedient (at least with the bloodlines I knew)
> and smart.   The border collies always seemed just to laugh at me
> when I asked them to do anything!  Smart, but they WRITE the rulebook.
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> K.
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> From: Susan Garlinghouse [mailto:suendavid@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:47 AM
> To: ckellerfarm; Lif Strand; Ridecamp
> Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: Re: Arabic Name Help
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ckellerfarm <mailto:ckellerfarm@stellarnet.com>
> To: Lif  <mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com> Strand ; Ridecamp
> <mailto:ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:48 AM
> Subject: RC: Re: Re: Re: Arabic Name Help
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> I took my mare to  trainer 6 years ago. He said : The defiance between
> training a Arab and a QH is simple. When you punish a QH he says "DUH"
> When you punish  an Arab he says"What did you do that for?".  And I show
> Arab once and go on to the next step. With the QH I go over step one
> every time I work with him, just to be sure he remembers.
> And I agree. Arabs are the smartest horses around,all I see is they
> don't put up with being miss used. And why should they we don't.
> TK
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> This cracked me up.  I once asked my Schutzhund dog trainer who worked
> with both my border collies (the Arabs of the dog world) and the "other"
> protection breeds like Rottweilers and german shepherds what he thought
> the differences were and he said the other dogs got schooled almost
> every day, always got a review session before moving on to something new
> and were introduced to new things very gradually.  He said with the
> border collies, he just handed them a copy of the rule book. <g>
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> Susan G
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