Chesapeake Bay Retriever | Is It Right For You?

so I'll just walk past you, what do you think you finally want to discuss? You've been a good dog, oh you think Ricky, show them here, cameraman, look, a lot of times there's a little runoff to the smaller dogs. I'll go down that little runoff and over that log and that's when they should go back to the log and they'll look at me like I'm Tony Stoney. What I do? You know, all you have to do is go down. there and I show them a couple of times and then they are ravine climbing champions, but the first time or two they get scared.

Luckily I usually have George with me and I can pawn a lot of that and get them on. george gilding explorer's door oh, he's a very good dog, very intelligent dogs and look how these dogs are starting to gravitate uh you know more towards me and they like not to go as far, that's what I was talking about, you know when I was? Talking about proper energy regulation, like you know, when we first went into the forest, all the smells and, you know, all the sounds, it was like it got them really excited and excited, but I knew that I had spent most of their energy in the field and in the creek, so once the situation passed, everyone approached me and started following me much better, so plan your routes, guys, plan your activities, don't just get out of the car,

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You know? I know a lot of you don't have your own dog park or whatever, so I know a lot of you have to go somewhere you have to go, get in the car, you know, pick up all your supplies and your backpack. Load everything up and then drive somewhere to go hiking. You know, all I'm telling you is that when you get to the parking lot of wherever you're going to walk, instead of just heading straight to the trail where there's going to be a lot of people and a lot of other things, you know, spend some time in that general area and play a a little bit to look for your dog, play a little game of chasing them, let them sniff around you, let them burn some of that energy that is kind of saved by being in the car for so long, you know burn some of that energy and it will be much more easy to handle once you enter the woods, even with a tired dog, even with the tire dog when you first go out. out of the car then they're going to go a little crazy, okay, and don't worry about them, this is a big mistake people make when they get out of the car, they head straight to the trail and you're like here, come here, ricky Freddy, come here, honey, well, then, like the dog is in, like it's already a little overloaded with, you know, all the sights and smells and environmental stimulation, and then you start adding to the mix your own panic. and your own bad vibes you know if you want to be a good dog trainer you have to learn to send good positive energy into the world you have to be confident you know I've said this in other videos uh There are some people that come to the pound and say, Hey, Stoney, can I come?

Can I go on a hike with you? No way, no way, you're making me nervous and we're just in my driveway, of course I'm not drinking. You're walking where I could lose half a dozen dogs. Oh, cameraman, give them a chance. This will be the last time of the year that you will be able to see our little valley. Cause next time we're here, there'll be leaves on all the trees, that's cool, there goes the hunter, he's behind, look, look, here's the deer trail and there goes the Jack Russell, so maybe Whether I get it back or not, we'll just keep walking.

Well, you're going to walk. there and see if they come back, let's go okay, now I don't know if that shows up on the camera, show them their cameraman, I don't know if that shows up on the video camera or not, you said he won. It doesn't show up, okay, but there's a deer trail that you know goes down and winds up to that place that we go to in the other videos where we can see the river, you know, sometimes like you know it. I have a dog as a hunter, he will go down that little trail and we won't be able to find him until we get back to the top of the ridge.

You know, but I know he won't go very far and to you he's just a terrier. you know another thing to keep in mind not only like energy regulation when you go hiking what kind of dog you have you know because sometimes you go hiking and you wonder why your dog runs away but you have a beagle uh, or you have a foxhound, You know, if you have a bloodhound, what's a dog to do? They are bred to put their nose to the ground and run away and make noise while you come looking for them. If you have a bird dog, what is a dog? bird dog bread to make a bird dog is bred to run out and find birds and stay there until you come to get them, okay, so don't be so mad at the dog for the choice you made, you know, come on, sugar , that's why it's hard to beat everyone, you know, in normal life, it's very hard to beat a good

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is your friend and he's always looking to do something with you, like they can slip out a little here and there.

But they're going to go get a stick or they're going to get a ball or they're going to find something like that and then they're going to come get you, okay? Fred, where are you going? Come on, buddy, now look, that's

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there why it's so important to have proper vocal inflection, proper posture when it comes to talking to dogs. The dog needs to know Fred, come on, come on, the dog needs to know when. You're serious and a lot of times when you try to sound serious, especially when you're on a hike or in the woods, you end up sounding panicked, okay?

And I am in no way panicking. I don't really care what fred wants to go do there, it's just that I ran out of time and this also happens to you when you're on your hike, you'll go out just to have a good time and before you know it it's too late. and you have to come back, you have to come back, pick up the kids or you have to come back and go to soccer practice, whatever you have to do, you know, so it's very important to be able to communicate to a dog that something is happening. you know something is important and remember there's a difference between important and urgent so don't sound urgent when something is just important very good dogs very good dogs now another thing you'll notice as you start spring. walks uh again you built up energy a lot of times you didn't do the pre-walk work that you should have done in the winter and when you go out the dogs will run a little too fast a little too much uh to a little too erratic and they will get like in these areas There are a lot of sticks and a lot of loose rocks here and be prepared for some falls on your first few walking sessions, you know if you're not familiar with dog first aid or injury management then that's something you should definitely check out.

Put it in the comments below if you want me to do a first aid series because I guess I could do it for you guys, right? and then we'll come out of the woods and uh, we just got back to our uh, you know, in our green area here and this here, this is where you know I really like to run them and make sure they get tired before I head to our bluff. and if I have a dog that's super athletic, like I have a German Shorthaired Pointer in the kennel and I'll probably bring her here tomorrow, she has so much energy that I'll probably literally keep all four of them. -wheeler and do a lot of laps around this field uh and and really tire her out before we go up the hill because if I don't and she starts playing on that in our screams, then she can move so fast for so long that she he could easily walk away from me so I don't want to pretend that I'm some kind of magic and as you know the dogs will never leave me, it's not like it's just that I handle the dogs correctly and don't put them in positions to fail okay Guys, listen, this video ended up being about a lot of things, but while I was talking about various dog things, you have to see how a Chassis compares to a Labrador Retriever, a Jack Russell Terrier, a pair of Australian Shepherds, and a Cavalier King. charles spaniel, and this is what you will see in these dogs all the time, they always have a stick, they always have something that they are gnawing on.

You know, and that's the last thing I think I'll tell you about Chessy's: they're tough on beds and tough on toys, so if you don't want to spend a fortune on toys and beds, then spend a lot of time exercising them because there's a relationship. reverse between exercise and any type of displacement behavior like barking or breaking furniture or chewing things, okay guys, I'll see you all next week, okay, I don't know if you heard it or not, but here's the point which I was trying to point out earlier about these chassis, as you see that she has an object to retrieve and, just as the other dogs went there to look for it, she makes a low guttural growl and with a lot of dogs, especially the lab ones, They growl and they get a little cranky, these dogs here sound like when you hear that low guttural growl coming out of them, like I, yeah, throw this at her and and and like she receives it and one of these other dogs come over, while many dogs give that guttural growl like her and tell the other dogs to run away and if the other dogs don't run away they will just do it again. to get angry, not these chess, these chess give that growl and if another dog doesn't listen, it bites them, you know, and they say, hey, listen, I'm not warning you, but once and I'm not saying it's true for everyone.

Chessy, but it's true for enough chassis that if you're in a dog business, you know how hard it is to watch them if you like to do things like, um, open kennels in a high socialization environment like mine, which aren't a lot but, but that's a big problem with these dogs, you know, another problem is that when we get to the kennel, this dog's batteries will be fully recharged, you know, a lot of energy, high endurance, fast recharge rate and a little bit They are prone to the violent side, but they make excellent retrievers, they are excellent athletes, they learn very quickly and you can get tons of total training volume with them, so if you want one, get one, of course, you know what I say, all dogs want. be labs and all labs want to be black so that's my opinion now.

I'll see you all next week, oh my goodness.