Dogman Downunder

31/08/2026

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT A HIGH-ENERGY DOG WITH ANOTHER HIGH-ENERGY DOG?

I meet a lot of very high energy dogs that are 'Bats**t Bonkers.'
A popular option to help sort out the dog's crazy ways is to get another dog it can play with and expel a lot of that energy.

'Don't do it'.
I will tell you why.

Let's take a real-life example. And this real-life example is typical.
We took on, and gave a home to a crazy nine month old, three-quarter Standard Poodle x Golden Retriever from a lady in her eighties who couldn't handle him because he was totally out of control.

He peed and pooed on the carpet at will, knocked everyone over, stole any food whether it was in their hand or not, Etc., etc. He did everything bad a dog could do.
A year and a half later, he is near perfect.
I run him a lot on the bike, and we walk him, as well as providing the structure and discipline he needs.
A couple of months ago, I saw another elderly client who had a nine-month-old Kelpie x GSP.
Same problem: a nice dog going crazy with boredom and an owner who couldn't physically discipline and provide the things he needed. Lovely dog, but bats**t crazy.

We took him in and got in touch with 'Ark' at Southern Downs Rescue to find him a home
and agreed to foster him in the meantime.

What has happened ...and it happens every time... they played with each other like mad all day and got exhausted.
Great, they were tired and worn out, so they behaved well.

Then a couple of weeks later, 'Shadow', our dog , started to pick up bad habits from 'Rocky ', the foster dog.
All the dog behaviours they like but humans cannot live with.
If we were going to keep him, it would be hard work for us, and we are both professional dog trainers.

High energy dogs need a huge amount of exercise, But not crazy exercise like they get in a dog park. That just feeds the crazy part of their brain and makes them fitter pains in the arse. Faster to get away from you and get up to mischief.

They need, and should get structured exercise like bike rides, hunting, running 10km with their owners, walking around agility courses. swimming. Think going to the track or Gym. It settles your mind.
Many owners say they cannot do those things. I say 'Yes you can'. You chose a German Shorthaired Pointer, The world champion Bikejör dog for speed and endurance. {Bikejor is when a dog pulls you out in front on a bike while you ride like mad as well}
All those exercises calm a dog's mind as it lets off steam.
Even throwing a ball down a steep hill instead of on the flat will calm your dog's mind as he comes back up to you. Walk off lead in the bush or woods. Let your dog be a dog at times.

Think about exercise as a calming tool. Not as a way to let the madness out with more madness.

Anyway...We have taught Rockie recall on the whistle, house-trained, jumps in and rides great in the car now. Doesn't jump up on us, leaves the cat alone, walks well on the lead, doesn't steal our food, and comes back instantly when off-lead in the bush when whistled.

He still needs an owner who will carry on with that discipline and exercise him a lot because he has the genes that need a massive amount of exercise and a crazy mind .
If you are up to it...Give Southern Downs Ark a call.

Cheerio

04/02/2026

How I Deal With Aggressive Cattle Dogs

First, I will tell you a little about Cattle Dogs to get a better understanding of their character.

Cattle dogs are territorial by nature and can be very aggressive.

They are normally very happy to be one-man dogs, not requiring other dogs if they have a master they can look up to.

They have a really hard bite, but unlike a lot of protection or fighting dogs, they tend to bite hard and let go. They have to bite the heels of cattle to get them moving so that's their job. They aren't trying to kill the Cattle like a Pitbull. Any Cattle dog that hangs on runs the risk of killed pretty quickly or being rejected by the farmer.

That makes for a very level-headed dog that doesn't normally go into an uncontrolled rage like a Jack Russel would, for instance.

However....if you ever get bitten by a Cattle dog, it will be bad news for you. That one bite is bad and hurts.
They face a one-ton bull head on and bite them on the nose. It takes a very tough courageous and thinking dog to work like that and not get itself killed in the process

I love Cattle Dogs. They have been my bread and butter dogs for 35 years. The reason I love them is ...for me...they are really easy to train.

Cattle dogs understand dominance. They have to be dominant to very dangerous cattle. So when I come along and show them I am in charge and dominant, they respect that. They love having a dominant Master to follow and will mostly come into line immediately.

Of course...The first meeting I have with a client's dog on the dog's territory is a bit dodgy. I've been bitten a few times. But a thousand or so haven't managed to bite me. That's a plus point.

They all come around within an hour or less.

One thing you have to watch out for is when you stand up to leave. The memory of chasing everyone away kicks in, and they may revert to the old way again. But it is only a temporary thing that needs a bit of maintenance to correct.

There you go.

I will put up a video next of a pack of three of the tykes who wanted to kill me and explain what I did to stop them attacking me, and hopefully the owners friends and visitors into the future.

Cheerio for now.

30/09/2025

WHAT'S THE POINT OF SIT? [2]

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12/09/2025

Why Teach Your Dog 'Sit'

Sit, what's the point of teaching your dog to sit? I've never understood it. Not for behavior. It's a bit of fun for the wife or the kids to do, teach their dog to sit and give them a treat, and that' the end of that.
The largest shady secondhand dog dealer, the RSPCA, teaches sit to every single dog they've got, and then they sell it off to people. And that dog's wild and unruly. So... What's the point of it all?

Let's imagine a secondhand car dealer, and they're the largest secondhand car dealer in the whole world. And you buy a car off them, then you take it down the road. Before you get home, the car's playing up. It's jumping all over the place. Brakes don't work. And you ring them up.
Let's call them the RSPWC (Royal Society of P**s Weak Cars) car dealers. And when you ring them up and say, "My car's all faulty," they say, "Well, it was all right when we had it." You say, "Well, it's not all right now." And they reply, "Well, we showed you how to put oil in it,. "But I've done that." you say.
"We showed you how to polish it." "Yeah, I've done that too, It's still not running properly."... "Well, you must have done something wrong. If you want, bring it back to us we'll send it to the knacker's yard, and we won't give you your money back."

There'd be an outcry if that happened. They'd be out of business in no time. But the RSPCA get away with it. What is up with people?. If they give you a shady deal...create a storm. Go to the papers. Tell them how they've done you. And they won't give you your money back. How they lied.
They tell you, "Yeah, this dog's all right with children," then it tries to bite your children. That's shady stuff. But it can sit if you offer it a treat. So what's the point of it sitting?

There are some group obedience trainers who use sit all the time. You'll go in a group, and you teach your dog to sit, and it's all good fun.

Everyone has a good time in those obedience classes. Their dogs sit, and you walk to and fro, you do all those fun things. Some of those trainers make things really fun.
That's a decent hobby, but it doesn't create good behavior.
When you take your dog home and it jumps on the settee, telling it to sit isn't going work. You pull, it off and tell it to sit, well how can it sit there for three hours? As soon as it's not sitting, it jumps back up.

You have to have good behavior.
When you're cooking in the kitchen and your dog comes in, it's pointless telling it to sit. You have to teach them to get out of the kitchen and do what? Who cares what It does... Just don't come into the kitchen. Good behaviour doesn't need an alternative behaviour. Just stop the bad behavior.

Gun dog trainers, I can see the point of them training sit. Some of the best trainers in the world are gun dog trainers.
It's very hard to teach a highly charged hunting dog to be that obedient.

They tell the dog to sit while they wait to shoot a duck. They shoot at the duck and miss, and the dog still sits there. Then they shoot one and say, "Go and get it." And the dog goes and retrieves it straight to their hand, lets it go, comes around and sits down again. That is very, very good training.

Any pet owner who has a gun dog type, go to a gun dog trainer to learn just basic obedience, because what they'll teach you will really help. However... I think there's a better way.

If I had a gun dog, I wouldn't be teaching it sit. I'd be taking four little boundary sticks out and teach it to stand in the boundary. It can lay down, sit, do whatever it wants, and it's got room to fidget around, and you've got a clear place where it's going to be. It's not going to shuffle forward, That would be a far easier thing to train.

If you want to teach your dog to sit, by all means teach it for fun and a treat. I don't want to stop people having fun with dogs. I'm just saying, it's not the best way to have a nice, well-behaved dog. If you know different, tell me. Tell me why that's a good training tool to have a well-behaved dog in the home. There you go. Tell me what you think.

Cheerio

09/09/2025

Where Have I Been?

A few people have asked where I've been because I've taken a rest from writing on Facebook, so I thought I'd just answer that here.
For quite a period, I haven't been quite right in the head. That's one thing. Then we decided to move, so that was another point. One of the big reasons is I'm sick to death with this site.
I spend hours making a video, and it's not easy for me to write. It takes me a long time to write, and I take all that effort. I've got about 8,000 followers and I put the article or the video up on Facebook, and about 10 get to see i because this site is always trying to get me to pay to send it to people.
I'm not gonna do that. So I've decided to move most of my information to that movie channel. I can't mention it by name because only one person will see this information if I do. If I mention that name,I will be censored.
It starts with a Y. Doesn't really start with a Y, but you'll know what it is if I say it' starts with Y-O. That is the place where I'm going to publish most of my information from now on, and make movies. I'll still write here, but, I'm going to concentrate a lot on the new place that other rival place that Facebook doesn't like, They're not perfect over there and they don't like Facebook either, but that's where I'm going.,

Cheerio

04/09/2025

Master Of The Walk

Eza asked the question..."What do you do on a walk with a client's dog?"

First, I will just explain why I am doing things that I don't often do with my own dogs.

I am already the master of my dogs; their life is fulfilled because they are taken out and run free for many hours hunting or doing other jobs. I have never been afraid to tell them off for wrongdoing. They are dogs who have plenty of time to be dogs who are working with man.
They are happy.

My clients' dogs are very troubled dogs. Some of them are the worst of the worst, and some are just being dogs who haven't had any rules.
Every single one of the thousands of dogs I have been called out to see haven't had their needs fulfilled. It is always what the owner wants or what the owner has been taught that their dog needs that is the problem.

Really, is it the owner's fault they are doing things wrong? I never judge my clients. They learn from society and society, when it comes to dogs, is just plain 'Bat s**t bonkers.' Most of the information about all aspects of dogs, including training from professional trainers on the net, is ignorant or corrupt.

Of course, there are some great trainers out there on the net but they are drowned out by wannabees.

So now you know I am not dealing with just the dog. I'm out to make the owners the master and have to educate the dog and the owner in a way that will work for them. NOT..a way that works for me. I've been around dogs for 68 years. What comes easily for me will not be the same for others. Clients need to learn simple stuff that will work for them.

Learn to work with your client's daily life if you are a dog trainer.

Here we go...I take Bruno's lead (attached to a 1in collar) and we go to a park for preference with many people around.
At this time, Bruno has never in his life been interested in his owners on a walk. He's not interested in me. All I am to him is a hindrance to where he wants to go. He is 100% in his world and we are irrelevant. I need to start bringing into my world as well.

Now we will do things I have developed over many years to get him into my world.
There a lamp post...I walk up to it with Bruno on a long lead. Put this picture in your mind. Bruno is pulling like mad ahead. As we get near the post, he goes one way and I go the opposite side.
Ooof! Bruno jerks back to a standstill, confused but keeps pulling to go forward.
Now I pull him back to the edge of the post. He stands there thinking for a bit and comes around my side to get around the post.

There's a tree. we head for it. Ooof! same thing. Again and again, we do this same thing with any post. Some dogs get it sooner than others and some are just plain stupid or stubborn and take longer. With the stubborn and stupid, I start going faster and make the stop jerk harder until they get the message. They all do in the end.

Now, when a post comes up Bruno has one eye on which side I am going to go around that post.
I'm starting to control the walk but more importantly, Bruno has a tiny bit of his brain thinking about what I am doing. He is coming into my world.

Now I continue the walk and a low sandstone wall separates the kids' playground appears. I stop at the wall and order Brunoe to 'Stand' This merely means, stand and relax. I don't care what he does, as long as he doesn't pull on the lead. If he wants to sit or lay down, thats fine by me, but I don't require it.
I'm not a fan of 'Sit" in these situations. It's not a relaxed, comfortable position to be in and I want a relaxed, calm mindset.

"up' ...I make Bruno jump up on the wall and walk him along the wall. Now he has to concentrate on where he puts his feet and what I want. Once again, he has to come partly into my world.

There's a bench...same routine... there's a big boulder, some low barriers to stop cars. Make him stand and then jump over them.
The number of obstacles and variations are up to you and your imagination out there.
Slow motion Agility I call it.

SLOW... that's the key. if you go fast, you will ruin the calm mind you want

There's a dog coming. 'Up' I say ..I put Brunoe up on a wall and say 'Stand'. Now Bruono cannot concentrate 100% on the dog and react in his normal way. If he does, he will fall off the wall. He has to think about the dog,the wall, and me about to punish him for reacting.
It's a three-way split in his mind. We are starting to win and that win is not far away.
I do other things as well, but that's enough info for now.

I hope that helps someone.
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Cheerio for now

25/08/2025

How I Make Friends With a Client's Nervous Dog

As a personal hands-on trainer, I find by far the hardest dogs to train are nervous ones. Those that don't trust and are frightened of men in particular are very hard for any male to train.

It's a con for any trainer to go to an owner's home and never touch their dog and just tell the owner what to do. You have to show the owner. If 'you' cannot do it, they most certainly cannot.

Therefore, I have to fast track their dog's trust and respect for me. I have about two hours to get their dog to trust and respect me so it doesn't freak out.

The subject of training nervous dogs is tremendously complicated and requires a whole book, really. I'm simplifying this to basics and is no way near all the things I do, but might help if you're a trainer who wants to improve.

Case Study: Max, a Cattle x bull breed

I knock the door and go in.
Max goes crazy barking at the end of the passage in the kitchen. I shake hands with the owners and go into the kitchen, which makes Max go tail between his legs as he hides behind the owner's chair, barking.

I get the owner to put him on a collar and lead and give it to me. Max is now terrified and pulling for all he's worth to escape.

At this point I will explain to you a bit about the phycology of dogs that is different from humans.
If Carol is terified of flying but is desperate to see her family in another country, she can go to specialist firms who will take her though the issue and use flight simulators to get over her fear, even though it is way out of her comfort zone.

Max will 'never' willingly go out of his comfort zone to do anything that scares him. He will avoid it at all costs, so has to be forced to get over it... 'In the right way'

This is where 99.9% of people will fail. They cannot be nasty to a nervous dog. They feel sorry for it. Max at this point doesn't give a damn about your feelings, he only cares about his feelings.

I don't care about how Max is feeling right now because I know he needs help for his whole life and that is what I care about. My experience is my power over my 'I feel sorry for you' feellings, because I know what is going to happen and I will leave the house with Max transformed.

I sit there chatting to the owners, drinking my tea (and hopefully biscuits) and totally ignore Max.

Every time he pulls away I pull him back to a slack lead and let go immediately, so he has the choice to pull to the end of the lead or not. I dont look at him or acknowledge he is there. I'm calmly talking to the owners adjusting the lead pulling with one hand.

As time goes by Max is starting to get into a state where he can think again and the pure terror isn't blocking his brain from everything else. Max is learning, if he gets to the end of the lead, that results in him being pulled close to me—very thing he doesn't want.
So when he comes closer and just stands there, the nasty man doesn't make him get any closer.

Bingo! Max is now using his free will to be closer than he was to me and not trying to get as far away as possible.

'Max is thinking though his fear for the fist time in his life'

After a while I will pull him even closer and make the distance he is happy with smaller.

That is a simple process for me but is is one of the most complicated things to do and you will need a 70% understanding of dogs to succeed with all dogs. But you cannot get that understanding without doing it. Try and Fail and try again...fail and keep on trying. Just make sure you keep your feeling out of the energy and learn from failures.

All dogs are different and all owners are different. You will not be able to cope with nervousness without the doing.

So...Back to the ''Doing... I stand up to go for a walk and Max will freak out again. I take no notice and drag him to the front door and put my boundary stick down and open the door. (The boundry stick is the best training idea I have ever dreamed up and feel free to copy it, because it will help you more that anything else).

Max will either dash for the open door or struggle to get back to his owners. He tries for the open door and I correct him so he tries to get back to his owners and I correct him again. I tell the owners to walk over the stick, through the door space and stand just outside.
They have to totally ignore Max.

Max tries to cross the stick and I correct him. Like most nervous dogs he needs hardly any correction and stands there waiting.

I should mention...so far, I havent spoken one word to Max and the owners have been told not to talk to him or smile at him . No reassuring him that everything will be alright. What he will hear is 'everything is not alright'. What a dog hears when spoken to isn't necessarily what is said.

But... I have been constantly talking to him through my energy and most of that has been negative energy telling him Im calm but in charge.

This is the real breakthrough moment. He is calmly standing on a slack lead right next to me without his fearfull side of brain telling him to run. Ive calmed that brain from its fear. What an absolute wonderful feeling that must be for a nervous dog.

A master has come into his life and taken charge so he doesn't have to feel vulnerable anymore. He respects me. He may not fully trust me yet but he is getting there.

He's the little kid holding big daddy's hand as they pass the older boys. 'Daddy will take care of them if they start anything'.

We go for a walk and whenever we see dogs or people coming I put him on the opposite side, so Im between him and the scary people. I pull him close. No-one will ever hurt you when I'm with you is my energy to him. I mean it too. If a dog or human move towards him I point my finger at them and dont give a s**t if the other owners don't like it. They're not coming near my dog!

Now I have become Godlike to Max. I'm his saviour.
I do all my usual stuff I do on walks and we go home.

We do other things at home and before I leave I lie on the ground and call Max over for a cuddle and play.
He bounds over and licks my face to bits.

Many owners cry at this point. It's a great moment that they thought they would never see. Max playing with a man.

Note --Until I am about to leave I haven't said one human word to Max. All I've done is tell him what to do and make him to it. Three and a half hours later he loves me more than his owners in some cases.

Terrify a dog to get it unterrified..."Who da thought that would work?'
I knew it would work.
Now go out there and try it yourself.

Toodle pip for now.

Ask any questions you want in the comments.

22/07/2025

SPOT THE DEER

Out very earlly in the morning bikejoring with Shadow when we ran into four Deer.

After about two hours riding in the state forest and just about to turn around we came over the top of a hill and surprised four large deer.
Sometimes people tell me they have never seen certain wild animals in the wild. Well...the way to see lots of wildlife, apart from in parliament and at a football match is to get out early with your dog in the morning on your own.

We had allready seen many Roos and Wallabies as well as hawks and other birds.

One picture is Shadow watching them and the other is when I tell him to go.

How many can you see?.

My next article will be about how to make freinds with a nervous dog who is afraid of you

Cheerio