Dear friends,
Thank you Linda for the nice walk you organized for us last Sunday. According to me it was sufficiently long but not too long, and it was sufficiently hot, but not too hot.
Having asked Linda's permission to publish her comments, here they are underneath. I am particularly fascinated by the fact that Linda discovered the part played by her energy and how she discovered it thanks to her dog.
Hi Bruno
I really enjoyed our chat aswell. It was great to talk to someone with such an interesting personal journey and I especially love the more spiritual side of things and love learning more personally and about my dog.
We shall definitely join the walk again as my daughter and I really enjoyed seeing our dog having such a good sociable time, and as an only dog I think that it is so important for her to have contact with a "pack" and it defiantly seems to ground her.
In my work I have many clients, and have already recommended someone to you that has a beautiful good natured golden retriever that one day for some reason took a disliking to a small dog and injured it seriously. Hopefully she will contact you in order to understand her role in the situation and move on after this stressful experience, as her anxiety is evident, and stops her enjoying him, and he no longer has his freedom which is a shame. I have spoken to many people about the walk and will recommend you for anyone that needs some guidance and direction with their dogs.
Regards
See you soon
Linda
Hi Bruno
What interesting tales you have..........
So what you are saying is that there is hope for us all !!!!!! That is reassuring....
I desperately wanted a dog as a child, and my dream had always been to be in the Crufts show ring with an extremely well trained farm bred Border Collie., (not too specific a?) but my parents weren't really animal lovers and didn't trust my commitment. So to show them how serious I was, I took my neighbours collie cross dog for daily walks for 6+ years. I adored her and spent many hours training and having fun with her but she wasn't mine and my dream was to have my own. So finally after years of begging I broke my parents by learning "How much is that doggie in the window" on the piano and playing it incessantly, that coupled with buying collars and leads to decorate my bedroom, my parents became concerned about my psychological wellbeing and said that I could have my own dog. A border Collie was too big and needed too much stimulation and exercise, and my mother was house proud so I had to choose a dog that didn't moult. So I had a Yorkshire terrier called Peri. We went to many training classes, and in hindsight he was the pack leader so as I had no status in the pack, he chose what he was going to do and when. I put it down to his breed as all the "best" dogs were German Shepherds, Labs and large dogs. There was no Bruno Goffin and Cesar Milan in those days!
When my daughter reached 12, it was like history repeating itself, and I wanted my children to have the wonderful growing up experiences that I had had with my dog. So we got Jaz. She has a wonderful character and was trained to a basic level when we got her. I saw how she behaved with her previous owner and thought how lucky we were, however once she was with us the story was very different. She ran off and came back when she felt like it, "forgot" how to walk to heel etc. etc. but interestingly when we went for a walk with her previous owner and dogs she behaved so well again. I then realised that it wasn't her.. it was me/us. So I started reading everything that I could on the internet and books and watched 3 episodes of Cesar Milan on canal Cuatro every Sat and Sunday.
I then became very fascinated and passionate about my energy discovery, and our wonderful dog lead me onto the next road of my personal development journey. So basically I took over. Fulfilling all my own childhood and personal needs. (gosh it seems like I may need some counselling!!)
Ella still plays a great role in the care of her and we look after her between us, but as I am the one that disciplines her, she always prefers to be with me. This is really upsetting for Ella who now is feeling the there is no point in a dog that doesn't want to be with her. She gets very frustrated when walking her as she cant let her off the lead so we bought a stretchy one for her to have more freedom. I have explained to Ella that she needs to make her walk with a loose lead and then give her permission to have freedom with the stretchy one etc etc, (but I am sure that you remember what teenagers are like) .... She knows best.... and refuses to listen, and it makes me sad to see her missing out on so much.
Therefore next time we go on a walk I would really appreciate it if you could have a quiet chat with her and give her a bit of advice. I know that she really wants to improve her relationship with our dog and would listen to you and take on board your suggestions.
Thanks a lot, have a lovely time with your family and grandchildren,
See you soon,
Regards Linda.
As far as our next walk is concerned
This coming Sunday 29.05.2011 I want to take you along, starting at 10.00 from the chicken shed in Parcent. My dogs have shown me a different link where we have never been before. It will be rather flat, about 1,5 hours long and according to the weather forecast on the U3A-Val del Pop website, 5 degrees cooler than today (Wednesday 25.05)
I am sending love and light to you and your dogs.
Bruno
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