Contact Admin, for what?????? Because I feel you are being unfair...................wouldn't waste my time, love No more than I expect

How sad are you..................

Now you can report this post, off your go.............

We have yet to establish what the report button actually does I'm asking the question for the third time now, so far even though I have taken the advice and used it I have no idea what happens if anything, so as a tool I don't know how effective it is.

As far as I am aware, if you report a post, admin will look at it to see whether it breaks any rules etc and take appropriate action. That action may be that thread gets locked and off topic posts get removed etc, or that member is advised on post etc..

I know I have reported something in the past as was quite rude and it was removed the next time I checked the thread.

hope that helps
dani

To a certain extent , thanks

When you report a post all you are doing is letting a mod aware _you_ feel there is a rule-break. Mods will then view the reported post and _if_ it warrants action they will act accordingly.

Please get back on topic now. Thanks.

Thanks for your reply, I have nothing more to say on this topic, thanks.

As said by a previous poster, I would see if the problem is just with this jogger, or joggers in general.
Either have a chat with this jogger as you said you would in a previous post and see if they would be willing to cooperate in a bit of training.
If he says no, use a friend as a stooge jogger (dressed in similar clothes to the "enemy" jogger) and see how your dog reacts.

Approaching this problem from a training point of view, as soon as you have established the exact problem (1 jogger, or all joggers) the problem will be really easy to fix.

If the problem is just with this one jogger, you can avoid him, or reduce chasing problems....if you discover after some observation experiments that it is a universal jogger problem, then us guys at Dogsey can help you even further.

You are definately on the right track with teaching the "stop" command.
Some other things you may want to try are maybe jogging yourself with your dog on lead beside you. What this will do is teach him exactly what is happening when someone is running past (i.e, its not a chase game, just someone moving a little faster), also if you have him on lead, it will teach him the correct way to act around a jogger- to trot next to them in the heel position. Then, you get your recall going once he has had a little jog out of his system.lol.
I tried this approach with my mums dog (a staffie/whippet/terrier of all things) and what we found is that if a jogger went past him whilst I was stationary, he would follow them, trotting along next to them. He never jumped, barked or tried to stop them anymore...he just wanted to join in on their jog. All the joggers he ever did it to usually stopped a couple seconds after as they were pissing themselves laughing at their new running partner.

Another method I have seen is using a stooge runner so that if your dogs recall fails and he continues towards the runner, the dog gets squirted in the face with water. I have never tried this method myself, but I imagine the results are quick as the dog will learn to associate joggers with a water pistol and want to avoid them. If your dogs likes water and you dont think water in the face would bother him, use a shaker bottle of coins or pebbles.

I know you said you were not going to reply to the post again, but I hope this gives you some suggestions to deal with the problem. As I said at the beginning, you need to first establish if the problem is just with one jogger or may be a general jogger problem.

And, the dog could also associate the jogger with something unpleasant and this can make him want to chase them off even more... it's always a risk when using aversives...

Best advice is from this guy who lives in Cumbria and works with chasers and also dogs who may simply not recall :

http://www.dog-secrets.co.uk/behavio...g-chasing.html

but of course if the problem is fear then the way to go is to address the fear.

Wys
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Thanks for both your replies I did say I had nothing more to say on this topic, but I appreciate that you have both taken the time to offer constructive advice. The problem does seem to be with just this one jogger Brin doesn't react to others now or people on bikes, we haven't seen this jogger since , well I've never seen him at all. I wish I could go jogging with Brin, I used to jog when I was younger with my Mums guide dog she was brilliant she used to jog along side me, a perfect running partner, but I injured my knee playing bowls, so my jogging days are long gone.
Thanks again and for the link too.