Q. She is a white shepherd,not aggressive at all. Very mild nature and we love that about her,but she likes being alone. She doesn't like sitting with us or going in our bedroom. We have only had her 1 week and we see a little improvement. We try to praise her and love on her all the time,but it is not really reciprocated.
A. Basically, you are going to be able to make only tiny changes - dogs have important developmental stages, and she is well-past the "socialisation" age-stage. What she is is almost what she'll always be, so far as character goes.
The proper time to get a pup is at 7-to-9 weeks old, which gives you a week for the pup to learn to trust you and allows you time to then give it experience (from a distance the PUP considers safe) of every movement, reflection, scent, sight, sound & texture in your environment BEFORE Pup reaches 13 weeks old and ends its "confident & curious" stage. From 13-through-16 weeks pups are in a "need security" stage - well-bred well-reared pups don't show that they are in that stage but, sadly, far too many pups miss out on both categories.
So either return her promptly, or be very patient with her slow progress.
If you keep her:
It sounds as as though she is hard to catch. So the first advice is to "wear" her.
• Put a buckle-collar on her. Using a 2-3m/6-10' flat leash, either place the loop over your right shoulder & under your left armpit, or put your belt through it. Then clip the horse-clip to the collar, and get on with your normal activities, quietly talking to her from time to time, and giving her a rub or a pat or a tidbit every time she voluntarily comes close. The objects are to get her used to your proximity and to convince her that nice things happen when she gets close to you.
If she shows fear of vacuum cleaners or spin-driers, tether her to something on the far side of the room while working; shift her to the side you've vacuumed, before cleaning "her" side.
• If she shows fright (at home or while you are walking her off-property), just stop (let her hide behind you if that is what she wants) and silently wait until SHE decides to either ignore the scary thing or - better - to investigate it. You then INSTANTLY praise her (use a high-pitched "happy" voice) and - if she's close enough - reward her with a pat or a rub.
NEVER ATTEMPT TO COMFORT OR SOOTHE A FRIGHTENED POOCH. That is REWARDING an undesirable behaviour, which encourages the dog to CONTINUE that behaviour!
You MUST wait until she gathers enough courage to tolerate whatever the scary thing is, then INSTANTLY praise-&-reward her for being brave.
DON'T take her to places where dogs run loose - neither you nor she can control how fast & close they approach.
DO learn her "bubble" - which means the distance outside which things don't bother her but inside which they do. (Cheeky sparrows have a very small "bubble" - they often let you get as close as 4ft before flying away. Humans tend to have a "bubble" of between 3 & 6 ft for strangers, 2 ft for friends.) After which, until such time as she shows that she trusts you to protect her from bad things, you make sure that you lead her AWAY from those scary things before they reach her "bubble".
• Join some of the 400+ YahooGroups dedicated to various aspects of living with GSDs. Possibly join one of the groups for owners of timid pooches.
Each group's Home page tells you which aspects they like to discuss, and how active they are. Unlike YA, they are set up so that you can have an ongoing discussion with follow-up questions for clarification. Most allow you to include photos.
• Once she shows that she trusts you, join a training-club class so that an experienced instructor can improve your use of "the voices", balance, posture, timing, rewards vs reprimands; at the same time your pet learns to pay attention regardless of what other dogs & people are doing,
Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
"In GSDs" as of 1967
The proper time to get a pup is at 7-to-9 weeks old, which gives you a week for the pup to learn to trust you and allows you time to then give it experience (from a distance the PUP considers safe) of every movement, reflection, scent, sight, sound & texture in your environment BEFORE Pup reaches 13 weeks old and ends its "confident & curious" stage. From 13-through-16 weeks pups are in a "need security" stage - well-bred well-reared pups don't show that they are in that stage but, sadly, far too many pups miss out on both categories.
So either return her promptly, or be very patient with her slow progress.
If you keep her:
It sounds as as though she is hard to catch. So the first advice is to "wear" her.
• Put a buckle-collar on her. Using a 2-3m/6-10' flat leash, either place the loop over your right shoulder & under your left armpit, or put your belt through it. Then clip the horse-clip to the collar, and get on with your normal activities, quietly talking to her from time to time, and giving her a rub or a pat or a tidbit every time she voluntarily comes close. The objects are to get her used to your proximity and to convince her that nice things happen when she gets close to you.
If she shows fear of vacuum cleaners or spin-driers, tether her to something on the far side of the room while working; shift her to the side you've vacuumed, before cleaning "her" side.
• If she shows fright (at home or while you are walking her off-property), just stop (let her hide behind you if that is what she wants) and silently wait until SHE decides to either ignore the scary thing or - better - to investigate it. You then INSTANTLY praise her (use a high-pitched "happy" voice) and - if she's close enough - reward her with a pat or a rub.
NEVER ATTEMPT TO COMFORT OR SOOTHE A FRIGHTENED POOCH. That is REWARDING an undesirable behaviour, which encourages the dog to CONTINUE that behaviour!
You MUST wait until she gathers enough courage to tolerate whatever the scary thing is, then INSTANTLY praise-&-reward her for being brave.
DON'T take her to places where dogs run loose - neither you nor she can control how fast & close they approach.
DO learn her "bubble" - which means the distance outside which things don't bother her but inside which they do. (Cheeky sparrows have a very small "bubble" - they often let you get as close as 4ft before flying away. Humans tend to have a "bubble" of between 3 & 6 ft for strangers, 2 ft for friends.) After which, until such time as she shows that she trusts you to protect her from bad things, you make sure that you lead her AWAY from those scary things before they reach her "bubble".
• Join some of the 400+ YahooGroups dedicated to various aspects of living with GSDs. Possibly join one of the groups for owners of timid pooches.
Each group's Home page tells you which aspects they like to discuss, and how active they are. Unlike YA, they are set up so that you can have an ongoing discussion with follow-up questions for clarification. Most allow you to include photos.
• Once she shows that she trusts you, join a training-club class so that an experienced instructor can improve your use of "the voices", balance, posture, timing, rewards vs reprimands; at the same time your pet learns to pay attention regardless of what other dogs & people are doing,
Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
"In GSDs" as of 1967
My family room carpet is filthy. I wanna get it professionally steamcleaned, will it help at all ?
Q. When I mean filthy it is very dirty. I'm just wondering can a rug be so dirty that a professional steamclean won't help at all ? If it helps even just a little, I will get it done.
A. I just had my rugs professionally done today and it made a really huge difference. ! The carpet smells clean and fresh and all the stains came out.. .I'm getting a few cans of scothguard tomorrow and spraying the high traffic areas so they don't stain so badly ! I had 2 bedrooms/ 1 set of stairs and a hallway a livingroom/diningroom combo done and it cost under $160 it would've been an additional $40 to have stainguard and some other "treatment" done.. Stanley Steamer's quote was roughly $400 + gas... A local "green" family outfit was around $250-$300... So, I think we did all right.. Call around and get some estimates... It really does help.. I've rented a steamer and it's ok but, not as good... Good luck
How much would it cost to live in Mexico city for a month?
Q. - I know theres a swine flu there. This question is in regard for about a year from now,
A. Mexico City is a great place to visit for a month!
It would be nice to have some more details about what you are looking to do in Mexico City.
Anyways, you can rent a decent (not a first rate hotel, but clean and safe) hotel room in downtown Mexico City for about $700 pesos per week, but that's with a shared bath. It also includes free internet in the lobby and a safe for your things. You can get a room w/bath for about $1,000 pesos per week. It really depends on what you want. There are many hotels in the Centro Historico (Downtown) which is close to many sights and things to see and do.
Yes, there's human flu in Mexico. It's also in the US and now it's in many other countries.
As for the cost of daily living: A ride on the Metro subway system costs $2.00 pesos (less than $0.20 US cents), a short taxi ride costs about $20 pesos, a bus costs about 3-4 pesos in the DF.
A tour of the city by Turibus costs about $150 pesos for all day.
Food: A tamale and a cup of atole (a steaming hot rice drink, often Chocolate or strawberry flavored) costs about 15 pesos. There's your breakfast. Lunch at a small-medium family run restaurant, the set menu comida corrida which usually includes soup, rice, beans, a main dish (enchiladas, beef or chicken steak, fish etc), a dessert, tortillas and a drink of agua fresca (flavored water, like juice) should cost between $40-50 pesos. Dinner: six tacos and a coke= $38 pesos (5 pesos per taco, 8 pesos for the coke. So your total for one day of food= $93 pesos mas o menos (more or less) and that's way under $10 USD at the current exchange rate of about $13.2 pesos to $1 USD.
Here is a list of prices for Mexico City. Some of these seem a little low, so maybe the list is a little old:
Costs of living
Automotive
Gas - Premium $ 1.54/gal.
Medical and Dental
Doctor's office visit $ 30.00
Housing
(good neighborhood)
1 bedroom apartment, with living room, kitchen and bath (rent) $300 /mo
6 room apartament,
2 bedrooms (rent) $400 /mo
Unfurnished garden style condo witht pool 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, apartment (rent) $550 /mo
3 bedrooms, 2 baths house $1000 /mo
Utilities
Electricity $12.00 /mo
Propane gas for cooking/ hot water $20.00 /mo
Telephone - Basic service $22.00 /mo
Drinking water $ 6.00 /mo
Telecommunications
Basic monthly cellular service $ 50.00
Basic monthly pager service $ 15.00
Internet server connection service (ilimited) $ 45.00
Basic cable channel connection $ 30.00
Auto related
Auto insurance $90 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Auto registration $40 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Oil change $9.00
Tune-up $70.00
Basic
Groceries for one $55.00
Groceries for four $150.00/month
Entertainment
Movie ticket $ 3.50
Theater ticket $ 8.50
Gym $40.00 /mo
Maid
Maid-house cleaning 1 day $10.00
Laundry and Dry Cleaner
Dry Clean-trousers or skirt $2.00
Restaurant/Eating Out
Dinner-1st class restaurant $15.00
Dinner, medium priced restaurant $ 9.00
Corona Beer-6 pack (325 ml) $ 2.00
Coca-Cola- 2 liter bottle $ 0.89
Milk- 1 liter $ 0.60
Billingual School
Primary education $150.00 /mo
Secundary education $200.00 /mo
High School $280.00 /mo
College $400.00 /mo
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Bueno Suerte!
Viva Mexico!
It would be nice to have some more details about what you are looking to do in Mexico City.
Anyways, you can rent a decent (not a first rate hotel, but clean and safe) hotel room in downtown Mexico City for about $700 pesos per week, but that's with a shared bath. It also includes free internet in the lobby and a safe for your things. You can get a room w/bath for about $1,000 pesos per week. It really depends on what you want. There are many hotels in the Centro Historico (Downtown) which is close to many sights and things to see and do.
Yes, there's human flu in Mexico. It's also in the US and now it's in many other countries.
As for the cost of daily living: A ride on the Metro subway system costs $2.00 pesos (less than $0.20 US cents), a short taxi ride costs about $20 pesos, a bus costs about 3-4 pesos in the DF.
A tour of the city by Turibus costs about $150 pesos for all day.
Food: A tamale and a cup of atole (a steaming hot rice drink, often Chocolate or strawberry flavored) costs about 15 pesos. There's your breakfast. Lunch at a small-medium family run restaurant, the set menu comida corrida which usually includes soup, rice, beans, a main dish (enchiladas, beef or chicken steak, fish etc), a dessert, tortillas and a drink of agua fresca (flavored water, like juice) should cost between $40-50 pesos. Dinner: six tacos and a coke= $38 pesos (5 pesos per taco, 8 pesos for the coke. So your total for one day of food= $93 pesos mas o menos (more or less) and that's way under $10 USD at the current exchange rate of about $13.2 pesos to $1 USD.
Here is a list of prices for Mexico City. Some of these seem a little low, so maybe the list is a little old:
Costs of living
Automotive
Gas - Premium $ 1.54/gal.
Medical and Dental
Doctor's office visit $ 30.00
Housing
(good neighborhood)
1 bedroom apartment, with living room, kitchen and bath (rent) $300 /mo
6 room apartament,
2 bedrooms (rent) $400 /mo
Unfurnished garden style condo witht pool 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, apartment (rent) $550 /mo
3 bedrooms, 2 baths house $1000 /mo
Utilities
Electricity $12.00 /mo
Propane gas for cooking/ hot water $20.00 /mo
Telephone - Basic service $22.00 /mo
Drinking water $ 6.00 /mo
Telecommunications
Basic monthly cellular service $ 50.00
Basic monthly pager service $ 15.00
Internet server connection service (ilimited) $ 45.00
Basic cable channel connection $ 30.00
Auto related
Auto insurance $90 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Auto registration $40 for $1,000.00 value car (annual)
Oil change $9.00
Tune-up $70.00
Basic
Groceries for one $55.00
Groceries for four $150.00/month
Entertainment
Movie ticket $ 3.50
Theater ticket $ 8.50
Gym $40.00 /mo
Maid
Maid-house cleaning 1 day $10.00
Laundry and Dry Cleaner
Dry Clean-trousers or skirt $2.00
Restaurant/Eating Out
Dinner-1st class restaurant $15.00
Dinner, medium priced restaurant $ 9.00
Corona Beer-6 pack (325 ml) $ 2.00
Coca-Cola- 2 liter bottle $ 0.89
Milk- 1 liter $ 0.60
Billingual School
Primary education $150.00 /mo
Secundary education $200.00 /mo
High School $280.00 /mo
College $400.00 /mo
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Bueno Suerte!
Viva Mexico!
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