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Posted : 5/5/2006 6:45:19 PM

The play looks perfectly normal! I laughed so hard when the person holding the camera said she was getting dizzy LOL!! [

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stardog85

Posted : 5/5/2006 7:58:37 PM

Yea that was me on the camera - I was just spinning in circles lol!

The dogs got to play again today - I think the reason they get a long so well is that Copper doesn't care when Maggie snaps or trashtalks him lol he just goes about his business. She was guarding the people for a bit today and he just kept coming back for more!

And whoa Dingo does look amazingly like my girl, even if he's a bit chunkier. Here's Maggie's profile:

And a gratuitous "alligator imitation" from Maggie's playtime w/ Gryffin, my parents' Rottie mix:

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Posted : 5/6/2006 10:46:15 AM

Both my dogs play like this, but one of them had a really nasty growl that i think scares some owners. Is there anywayto train him from growling like this when he plays?

stardog85

Posted : 5/6/2006 12:09:28 PM

I've never heard of teaching a dog to tone down the growl. Any corrections could confuse him and create more problems if they aren't directly associated w/ the low growl.

If I were you, I'd just forewarn the other owners that your dog sounds kinda nasty when he plays, but he's actually having a ton of fun and is pretty talkative.

To make sure the dogs agree w/ you, separate them and if, when you release them, they go back to playing, it's all fun and games to them.

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