Mao…Scottish Deerhounds are one of my all time favorite breeds. I had one a client ditched on me for 6 years…The BEST DOG EVER! If they had a slightly longer life span I would have them as my breed of choice…Love Love Love them…A well excercised dog that has a choice as to when to play and when to rest develop the most remarkable muscle and mind. IMHO there is absolutely nothing that replaces vigorous free choice exercise. Many, many dogs today would benefit from it…
she’s fine. she’s not touching us every 4.6 seconds. She checks in then lies down. she slept while we cooked out. She’s asleep right now. She helped us shoe the horses this AM then went on an hour long ride with DH and Toppy, wiped her wiggly behind OUT, tired. good dog.
she is not the super intense BC type brain, nowhere close. she’s fine. thank you.
Are you trying to kill this thread? :D:lol:
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she’s fine. she’s not touching us every 4.6 seconds. She checks in then lies down. she slept while we cooked out. She’s asleep right now. She helped us shoe the horses this AM then went on an hour long ride with DH and Toppy, wiped her wiggly behind OUT, tired. good dog.
she is not the super intense BC type brain, nowhere close. she’s fine. thank you.[/QUOTE]
Good lord… I was kind of on your side up to this point, but boy are you defensive. Why did you even ask the question if you already had all the answers?
My aussie is a line bred Hangin’ Tree Black Bear and she doesn’t remotely need to be trained and coddled all day and neither do her siblings.
Cowboymom,
i also have a line bred Hangin tree Aussie who is now 11 months old. Love this dog. He is my 4th Aussie and is by far the smartest one.
Cowboymom
I also have a Hangin Tree line bred who is 11 months old. He is by far the smartest Aussie i have owned ( he is my 4th). He loves to work and is soo fun to train but has a great off switch too. I love this dog.
Hangin’ Trees are great dogs!
Heinz, I think things are being taken to extremes ( I will be forced to change my ways 
, as is the norm on the internet,and I didn’t mean to sound snappish. Yes, she wants to know where we are, yes. Does she want to follow me into the tack room? no. she’ll lie in the barn yard and watch. She will stay on the front porch when we’re in the yard. Once she’s checked in and gotten a hug, she is 100% going to lie down and snooze. I can leave the porch and it takes her a while to decide to come see what i did. She simply checks in a lot more than I am accustomed to.
I’ll grow, she’ll grow, and yes, we are fine.
Katarine, we have all pound puppies around here, some with shelter shock, some not, but the universal cure for whatever issue they have is obedience training.
If this dog is a worrier, it will give him confidence (sorry I missed the gender.) Obedience training really is the great leveler. We went to classes at the local park with all our dogs, and it made them and us happy.
I don’t understand. OP has 30 acres and takes the dog on a trailride every afternoon as well as other fun sounding activities. The dog will settle in as she gets older and may or may not be less clingy but it doesn’t sound to me at all like OP got the wrong dog. It is an adjustment to live with a different type of dog than you are used to after having one around for so long.
/Havent’ read all the replies - but. all my non horse pets, dog & cats are strays as well.
my labX especially came as this type - needy needy needy and more needy.
took a few years but eventually she calmed down to a tolerable level- it seemed to take a long while for her to understand she was ‘home’ and this is where home was always going to be.
she’s still needy, but not crazy needy- I think part of that is her personality, and she did pick a a person. Me.
she’ll play with the kids, hang with the DH, but I’m ‘hers’ and she’ll leave them high and dry if I come into view… hehe. It took some adjustment on both her and my side - as I was never used to a clingy dog either.
