Saturday, November 29, 2014
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: I'll Tell You A Story Productions - Inspired by a ...
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: I'll Tell You A Story Productions - Inspired by a ...: Dear Readers, Today I am announcing a new dimension to my writing, publishing works. I am branching out, and now offering writing, artist...
I'll Tell You A Story Productions - Inspired by a child
Dear Readers,
Today I am announcing a new dimension to my writing, publishing works. I am branching out, and now offering writing, artistic, publication services.
This idea was sparked by the desire to help my friend's seven year old daughter with her creative, passion for writing.
Although Amelia is only seven years old, her writing talent is just bursting at the seams to be published.
However, I offer my services to ALL writers of any age.
Feel free to ask any questions or comments below.
Thank You!
Lisa Manfrede Smith
*Copyrighted November 29, 2014
Today I am announcing a new dimension to my writing, publishing works. I am branching out, and now offering writing, artistic, publication services.
This idea was sparked by the desire to help my friend's seven year old daughter with her creative, passion for writing.
Although Amelia is only seven years old, her writing talent is just bursting at the seams to be published.
However, I offer my services to ALL writers of any age.
Feel free to ask any questions or comments below.
Thank You!
Lisa Manfrede Smith
*Copyrighted November 29, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: How Not to break up a dog fight!
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: How Not to break up a dog fight!: Hello Dear Readers, It's an unfortunate thing, but at times, dogs may get into fights. In the past couple of years, I've seen two...
How Not to break up a dog fight!
Hello Dear Readers,
It's an unfortunate thing, but at times, dogs may get into fights. In the past couple of years, I've seen two dog fights, and if I never see that again, I will be real happy. The first time, it was in my own home. A friend brought over his female bitch in heat, and my two male, neutered dogs got into a fight over her.
I saw the bigger, aggressor, Charlie, go after my little Leroy Brown, and reacted like a mother trying to protect her child. I put my arms around Charlie's neck, to pull him off. Unfortunately, at that moment, Leroy sat up, and went for Charlie's neck, and I, unwittingly, put my hand right in his mouth.
Yep, that's right, I got bit by my own, Non-aggressive, Pit Bull, whom I love so dearly.
This was the fourth, and last time Charlie attacked Leroy Brown. The other three times were over food, as Charlie who was rescued off the streets, had "food aggression." Other than that, he was a wonderful dog, so I worked with him on that, and in the year and a half that I had him, saw some progress.
However, the female bitch totally caught me off guard.
The dog fight I saw just recently involved two females, one of which was not spayed. The "un-spayed" dog got out of her yard, and came to the other dog's yard, apparently to"pick a fight." Fortunately the other, spayed dog was small enough that the owner could pick her up and carry her away, before either was seriously hurt.
Since my incident of being bit, I learned of all different ways to break up a fight, such as taking a towel and wrap it around one dog, throwing water on the dogs, and other ways. However, when one having an adrenalin rush, none of these ways are practical.
As difficult as it may be, the best thing one can do to help break up a dog fight, is remain as calm as possible. Let me tell you, that is easier said than done. At any rate, the one thing NOT to do, is put your hand between the dogs! Ouch!
It's an unfortunate thing, but at times, dogs may get into fights. In the past couple of years, I've seen two dog fights, and if I never see that again, I will be real happy. The first time, it was in my own home. A friend brought over his female bitch in heat, and my two male, neutered dogs got into a fight over her.
I saw the bigger, aggressor, Charlie, go after my little Leroy Brown, and reacted like a mother trying to protect her child. I put my arms around Charlie's neck, to pull him off. Unfortunately, at that moment, Leroy sat up, and went for Charlie's neck, and I, unwittingly, put my hand right in his mouth.
Yep, that's right, I got bit by my own, Non-aggressive, Pit Bull, whom I love so dearly.
This was the fourth, and last time Charlie attacked Leroy Brown. The other three times were over food, as Charlie who was rescued off the streets, had "food aggression." Other than that, he was a wonderful dog, so I worked with him on that, and in the year and a half that I had him, saw some progress.
However, the female bitch totally caught me off guard.
The dog fight I saw just recently involved two females, one of which was not spayed. The "un-spayed" dog got out of her yard, and came to the other dog's yard, apparently to"pick a fight." Fortunately the other, spayed dog was small enough that the owner could pick her up and carry her away, before either was seriously hurt.
Since my incident of being bit, I learned of all different ways to break up a fight, such as taking a towel and wrap it around one dog, throwing water on the dogs, and other ways. However, when one having an adrenalin rush, none of these ways are practical.
As difficult as it may be, the best thing one can do to help break up a dog fight, is remain as calm as possible. Let me tell you, that is easier said than done. At any rate, the one thing NOT to do, is put your hand between the dogs! Ouch!
Saturday, November 15, 2014
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: 5 tips to help dog separation anxiety | Cesar Mill...
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: 5 tips to help dog separation anxiety | Cesar Mill...: Today there is a scared, barking, beautiful white Pit Bull who got outside its yard. His people are out, and there is a community yard sale...
5 tips to help dog separation anxiety | Cesar Millan
Today there is a scared, barking, beautiful white Pit Bull who got outside its yard. His people are out, and there is a community yard sale going on, so he has plenty to bark at. I tried talking, communicating with him in different ways.
Finally, something worked! I started playing some nice, peaceful, meditative music and opened my window so he could here it. Within minutes he stopped!
All is peaceful, again.
This was the second time separation came up this week. The question has come up, if a dog has separation anxiety, does having a pet sitter come in help or hinder the anxiety? What do you think? This question lead me to search for advice on separation anxiety in dogs.
After reading two wonderful articles on the subject from my hero, Cesar Millan, I still have not found an answer. However, I can say, that from my experience with my own dogs, as well as dogs I've observed in shelters, those suffering with separation anxiety, are fine as long as a pack leader is present.
It could be a human or canine pack leader for dogs. They are used to being with a pack, and they are not comfortable when they are left, or feel alone.
However, sometime we humans are unwittingly reinforcing the dogs anxiety. For example, if I am concerned or worried about leaving my dog home alone, they will certainly pick that up, and thus become uncomfortable about my leaving.
Here is an excerpt of one of Cesar's articles on separation anxiety, as well as his tips for dealing with it.
5 tips to help dog separation anxiety | Cesar Millan
And, as in the case of my neighbor's dog, sometimes just leaving on some nice music or even the TV for the dog, will help ease their anxiety.
Finally, something worked! I started playing some nice, peaceful, meditative music and opened my window so he could here it. Within minutes he stopped!
All is peaceful, again.
This was the second time separation came up this week. The question has come up, if a dog has separation anxiety, does having a pet sitter come in help or hinder the anxiety? What do you think? This question lead me to search for advice on separation anxiety in dogs.
After reading two wonderful articles on the subject from my hero, Cesar Millan, I still have not found an answer. However, I can say, that from my experience with my own dogs, as well as dogs I've observed in shelters, those suffering with separation anxiety, are fine as long as a pack leader is present.
It could be a human or canine pack leader for dogs. They are used to being with a pack, and they are not comfortable when they are left, or feel alone.
However, sometime we humans are unwittingly reinforcing the dogs anxiety. For example, if I am concerned or worried about leaving my dog home alone, they will certainly pick that up, and thus become uncomfortable about my leaving.
Here is an excerpt of one of Cesar's articles on separation anxiety, as well as his tips for dealing with it.
In my experience there is true separation anxiety and what I term “simulated” separation anxiety, where the behavior appears to be separation anxiety but is in fact a learned behavior. This means the dog lacks leadership as well as self-control. For true separation anxiety, the dog does experience real stress at the owner leaving. In simulated separation anxiety, the dog knows that he will get attention if he acts badly. For some dogs, even being verbally reprimanded for such behavior is rewarding because he feels he was noticed. Negative attention can be a reward in many cases where the owner is unaware that certain needs of his dog are not being met. In this instance there is little real stress involved– just misbehavior. In many instances I find this fairly easy to overcome with a gradual approach, slowly increasing the amount of time spent in a crate (when you are at home as well as away), good obedience, proper amounts of exercise and strong leadership. With severe cases of true separation anxiety, modification becomes a more difficult task.
However separation anxiety manifests itself, there is no doubt that it is often unknowingly encouraged by the owners. We make a big fuss when we leave or come home and in doing so we reward the concern, and the stress increases at the time of leaving. We like our dogs to be with us and when they are puppies, we take them everywhere for socialization. Then we have to leave them alone and they have reached an age where they now not only want, but also feel the need to be with us – we are their confidence, their security and their pack.
5 tips to help dog separation anxiety | Cesar Millan
And, as in the case of my neighbor's dog, sometimes just leaving on some nice music or even the TV for the dog, will help ease their anxiety.
My beautiful boy, resting his head at my feet. I love him so much!
Saturday, November 8, 2014
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: The Photo of the Week!
The Life and Adventures of a Pit Bull Named Leroy Brown: The Photo of the Week!: This is the photo that was inadvertently left out of Leroy's book. We were taking pictures of the dogs this day, as I'd just gotte...
The Photo of the Week!
This is the photo that was inadvertently left out of Leroy's book. We were taking pictures of the dogs this day, as I'd just gotten them the new bed. I got the soon after realizing that Sunny felt a little "miss-placed" by his "space" in the living room, with a new dog there. So, the bed for Sunny. And once he had it, all the dogs used it interchangeably, and sometimes together. But, at this point, Leroy was still showing his respect for his older brothers/pack leaders, and would not get up on the bed for photos.
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