Wednesday, November 12, 2014

We are now finally muzzle free!

I think I already posted about Barbie getting her Green collar which allows her to be muzzle free in public. Recently Mouse went to the GAP kennel to be assessed and surprising NOBODY, she passed with flying colours.


The test is pretty simple. The greyhound has to stay in the GAP kennel and is repeatedly introduced to a French Bulldog. If the greyhound doesn't show an inappropriate prey response, then it passes the test.

This is what Mouse had to say about 'Green Collar Camp':

"It wasn't that exciting really, we stayed in this little kennel, got let out into a little pen to bounce and toilet.... and around lunch time every day I got to play with a little French Bulldog. 
Really I ignored her because she was a bit uncouth with all her snorting and squeaking and scooting around. My mum Bronwyn and her foster brother Junior were in at the same time and I was next door to mum in the kennel. She was a bit sad about being in the kennel so I tried to cheer her up by telling her stories about the cats I live with. She thought it was a bit weird that I would live with cats and tried to tell me I should chase them. I tried that when I got home but the Servant told me off so I stopped."
She was so cute when I picked her up - she had clearly not had her usual amount of exercise and stimulation so she was a little bit crazy. She bounced on the end of the leash all the way to the car.

The rest of the pack were pretty sad without her here. It was very quiet. It was all worth it in the end though! Now we can go to obedience class without looking over our shoulder!

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Mouse I like the comments that you left about staying in the kennel, and bouncing to the car! Congratulations!
Mouse, you are such a well behaved young lady. Glad to hear you have not been led astray and congrats on being muzzle free!
So glad to hear you have still got her :)
Lynne x
For us 'lure like' means a plastic poo bag on the end of a string ha ha :)
Yay Mouse! No more muzzle!

-Lilli-
yeh, a french bulldog is still a dog.. surely they test with a cat too.. seems a bit odd. Bear is fine with dogs, even teenyweeny ones (the tiniest ones he ignores totally, hahaha) but i wouldn't let him go near a puss.
Congrats Mouse.
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For what it's worth, Mouse lives with two cats, has done for a year without wanting to eat them. BUT if dogs had to be cat safe to be muzzleless then 50% of dogs of all descriptions would have to wear them!
Congratulations Mouse! It's a silly law but I'm glad that at least there is a way for you to earn the right to be muzzle free and that you have done just that!
Yay for no muzzles. Now we can really see your cute faces in the pictures.
Beautiful collar, looks great on Mouse :) Which type of martingale collar it is? I can't distinguish it from the pictures. I heard the ones that have a chain as a part of the device are really dangerous.

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