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Hi, I am searching for a video I saw awhile back. It is of someone teaching the teeter. The dog is sent through a tunnel and comes out to the teeter. The teeter is set up with a white pole sticking up on both sides (like a jump under the down side of the teeter). The upside when it comes down has a table under it so that the dog hits the pivot and it stops almost immediately on the table. The table is slowly lowered but the dog has learned where the pivot point is. Does anyone know what I am talking about? I would love to see the video again. This time I am saving it. I was telling someone about it and they are interested in it. Thanks, Jerri

I came across this thread by accident by a google search. I have been researching for quite sometime for my next dog which will be a border collie. I have found this thread to be so interesting! It has given me new things to consider in my decision. I haven't made it through the whole thread yet but will continue later. I agree with another poster please don't feel your post have fallen upon deaf ears. I have taken in a lot of new information! Thanks!

Agree great post! I had not really known of this female/female aggression. My rat terrier female has always been very bold and bossy so to say. I have a male rat terrier also and added a female dobe. When she was between 15/18 months is when what you call snarkyness started. But I believe it has more to do with ranks in the pack. They were not allowed to work it out. The dobe is now 3 and terrier almost 10...they get along well now and are tolerant of each other. They seem to share the leadership role...at home its the dobe and when we go out its the terrier. They are never left together at home when alone...I separate them. I think it tends to depend upon the dog and their specific personality. I have heard some of the ladies at the agility field say they notice a change in their border collie bitches around 3 yrs of age. Where they really are more to themselves and dont want other dogs running up into their faces. I dont have a border collie yet. I am still deciding between another dobe or a border...doing my research. But it will be a male which ever I choose...another female will not be in the same household as my female dobe. The way she looks at another female is so different than the way she does a male.

I am curious. How common is this in the breed? In your opinion would you say that a majority of BC have seizures? Is this a treatable thing? I am assuming that they could die during any of these seizures. If anyone doesnt mind please kinda explain to me what the dog does during a seizure. Is it like a person having one?