Posted on 03/04/2016 6:51:46 AM PST by US Navy Vet
...we/I have a German Shorthair Pointer(about 1 Year Old) and this dog is SPAZZ/Psyco/bundle of NERVES, Any ideas on how to settle her down?
Exercise. Mental stimulation ie training
We have Golden Retriever that is 12 YO. Experiences Separation Anxiety. We use Composure from Amazon. Our Vet recommended it - natural ingredients - not a drug. Works great.
Any ideas on how to settle her down?
Socialize asap and then become a regular at the nearest dog park. You won’t regret it. A good romp and mock battles with other higher energy pups should do the trick. Ours is exhausted after a few hours in the local dog park. We even drive to other dog parks for maximum exposure and our dog knows that home is a place for calm, rest and eat. Dog parks are places to do mock battles, chase and be chased. Tennis balls thrown in is always appreciated.
I don't mean training the animal to do something specific - to be calm on command - I mean put them to work.
Mental exertion is almost as good as physical, and you can do it inside. Making the dog think will cure another cause of excessive energy - boredom.
Try taking your dog to classes - start with basic obedience and move on to something like Rally, Field Trials, Agility... there's a bunch of dog sports out there.
I recommend you find one suitable for you and your animal and get started!
You have yourself a human dog.
No dog in the world thinks they
are as human as a German Shorthair.
You should work on getting her particularly
loyal to one person. It helps if that is
the same person who feeds her. Give her simple
commands and reissue the commands as she loses
attention. Talk to her a lot and adjust your
tone. I used to toss a tennis ball up on the
roof and she would retrieve it. When she
learned the sound of the ball rolling down
the roof she would run to that area and
catch the ball on the fly.
My dad’s best Shorthair was used for
both pheasant and deer hunting. Once
when my dad was falling a large oak
down the hill from his house the tree
twisted as it fell. It pinned my dad.
The dog had been lieing down on pop’s
jacket but he rose and ran up the hill
and brought my mom back to help my dad.
If the dog is left alone all day while your at work you will need tons of exercise.Fetch,fetch and fetch some more
We had a wonderful German Shorthair growing up.
The single smartest dog I’ve ever seen.
We lived on the beach in Oregon and the dog would take long walks by herself.
In the summer months she would bring us a collection of shoes that she would find at various neighbors houses (left outside due to sand). They almost always got ‘em back...
She was a natural pointer - I would be walking with her, then she would ‘point’ - I never heard or saw anything but after a few more steps ‘swoosh! Up would fly a pheasant or quail.
My advise? Have fun with your dog.
Doggie downers. :-)
That is every German Shorthair Pointer that I’ve ever known. I think it’s favorite option would be to hunt with it— a lot!! Do you have an option for swimming? Despite the webbed feet, mine didn’t like water so was strictly upland.
But the thing is you really don't want to be drugging your dog. It'd be like giving Ritalin to a child. Another holistic idea is chamomile tea. Open the bag and add to wet dog food.
But again, drugging is only a partial remedy. Best idea is lots and lots of exercise, Frisbee, balls, make the dog run itself silly. Finally, always check with your vet before trying anything off the internet.
Anyone got the recipe for Doggie Downers?
The dog is still a puppy.
LOTS of walks on leash to remind it who the pack leader is: YOU.
Lots of ball throwing and attention to work that energy off.
I have a border collie who wants to herd alpacas, people, birds and pine cones. We excersize him with ball throwing and games every day.
This reminds me of a former neighbor’s lonely, insanely bored, extremely intelligent, high-energy Border Collie. She was acquired as a house pet, but because she kept herding the preschool boys into corners in the yard, they stopped playing outside.
She would get a glass-eyed stare and (through the fence) try to herd my moving car into a corner, me when I got out of the car, the geese on my property, birds in the air, anything that moved. Then she started ‘herding’ their toy plastic picnic table by flipping it over and pushing it around into each corner of the yard. Poor dog.
She needs exercise.
Na that will just wind her up more
we run tree dogs here ...never seen a dog get more excited after a 5 hour hunt...I think we are saying more than a 15 minute walk... I feel for ya...hard to work a hunting dog down but you can
That really is a sad story. The border collie is the ultimate working dog: highly intelligent, distilled energy on four legs. My favorite border collie is Tex, who ~a year ago won the national first prize in agility. Here is Tex smoking the competition:
Short of finding 5 or 6 energetic boys in the 8 to 10 age range to play with her and exhaust her, as I once did when a friend of mine and I turned his two energetic sons loose on my very energetic Lab/Irish Setter puppy, leaving the poor puppy exhausted for a whole day, I suggest getting an additional, equally energetic large breed puppy and turning the two loose on each other. You’ll have no end of comedy. My two dogs are a 10 year old 85 lb. Pitador and a 5 yr. old 110 lb. Great Dane. Worked great with both of them.
wow
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