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chukskafor:
Not hawk bro but kite; hawks come with a dotted kinda pattern or plain black

kites have lighter colour of feathers and the beaks are exactly like hawk beaks.

iamnen:
i have several stories to share, but i'm at work - no time\

trust me. i am the happy i got this dog. i can bring it out with complete strangers, even send them to feed him, and he does nothing.

my neighbor who's hardly around (he works offshore) recently passed my house to pump water (i was indoors) - he didn't bark.
when going to put off the pump, he touched my window to notify me that he's putting it off - he barked and jumped towards him, i came out, he stopped instantly

i sent my new help to feed him the first day she stepped into my house. he didn't disturb her. he didn't bark. because he saw me with her


trust me my guy, these dogs know.

I assure you, when ranger enters puberty and he starts marking his territory you'll see how his character will change.
even some things he used to allow he'll stop allowing them again, for now he's still a pup.

iamnen:
i have several stories to share, but i'm at work - no time\

trust me. i am the happy i got this dog. i can bring it out with complete strangers, even send them to feed him, and he does nothing.

my neighbor who's hardly around (he works offshore) recently passed my house to pump water (i was indoors) - he didn't bark.
when going to put off the pump, he touched my window to notify me that he's putting it off - he barked and jumped towards him, i came out, he stopped instantly

i sent my new help to feed him the first day she stepped into my house. he didn't disturb her. he didn't bark. because he saw me with her


trust me my guy, these dogs know.

I assure you, when ranges enters puberty and he starts marking his territory you'll see how his character will change.
even some things he used to allow he'll stop allowing them again, for now he's still a pup

iamnen:
this is my thread about my dog Ranger....https://www.nairaland.com/5263366/need-dog-got-dog-name


please listen attentively...

i got a caucasian, i have also spent some money on its feeding .... strictly dryfood, canfood, meat, fish, and when there's no money: rice, fufu

i moved into a compound with 2 other dogs belonging to the landlord (a rottweiler and a gsd: good/pure looking, healthy adult dogs)
so we have 3 dogs in my compound.

my dog didn't bark at anybody - cotenants, security man, etc

at a particular point, i got angry with the dog. i felt i wasted money. i told myself - maybe i should have gotten another breed? another dog?

MY DOG DIDN'T BARK AT ANYBODY. IT PLAYS WITH EVERYBODY - TILL TODAY.

but now i know why

it knows when it should and shouldn't bark

now i know whenever it barks, its barking for a reason.

i'll share just two experiences:

1) someone in my compound had an issue with the police and policemen stormed my compound, broke the gate loudly, shouting loudly in the compound, threatening to arrest everyone. the security man ran and released the rottweiler and the gsd. he was dragging the rottweiler to come out, it refused, it started squeaking (crying), the security man ran to hide and left the rotts cage open, it refused to come out of its cage and kept quiet all through the episode. neighbours even thought the gsd wasnt in the compound.

Guess who almost destroyed my balcony protector to come out - my caucasian. he barked and barked and almost injured himself. the policemen were scared to even come towards my house to look at the dog barking. he's just 7 months old.

2) i had a househelp who used to smuggle phones into my house through the window late at night with my security guard. i'd hear my dog barking at night (11pm) and get angry wondering - why is this dog barking by this time?
when we eventually caught her stealing foodstuffs from my house, i realised why my dog always barks whenever he sees her (even with me)


the dog barks only when things are wrong!!!!!!

i decided to test him. he has never barked at my security guard, so i sent the guard to invite his friend from outside to pass my balcony, guess what? he chased my security man.


the dog doesnt bark because he knows there is no danger. he barks when somehting is amiss, or shouldnt be!


Relax my man. Your dog knows how to be a dog more than you.

N/B: people who know this story are asking when i intend to breed my dog, that they want its offspring. my cotenant, street neighbours etc

ranger has started coming up

nice, I remember him

lordizak:
2 yrs old that runs from me the owner?

your dog is broken and it lacks confidence, it's not it's fault, something definitely went wrong along the way.
why would a dog you trained run away from you it's owner?,running away from a threat is one thing but running away from it's owner is not normal, check how you raised the dog again you'll see where you went wrong.
that breed is usually very aggressive and confident especially at adulthood, I've personally never seen or heard of an adult Caucasian raised in the right environment under the right hand turn out to be a coward, most times they are the bullies.

2RUTHHURTS:
Pls i need a Doberman urgently, is there any?

there is no such thing as a breed that shows guard instincts earlier than the rest.
you'll also see dobbermans that didn't bark till a year, different dogs develop differently.
my Caucasian started showing guard instincts at 4 weeks but I've also seen the one's that started at 9 months or 1 yr.

EricSmallz:
Ozuo, I can mention 30 Billion people who use weed and are 30 billion times better than you. Dey mumu there

you can also find millions of people who use chocolate,onions and alcohol but does that stop it from being harmful to a dog?
I get you're trying to vindicate your drug use but you have to have sense and know that what a human can tolerate is not always what a dog can tolerate

google is free, educate yourself instead of spending all your time smoking weed.

EricSmallz:
Weed is harmful to dogs? What's your authority on that? You classify weed as drugs too? Because it's illegal or what? It's clear that we are in different world. I take back all my comments thus far. You are a bit beyond foolish.

first of all, weed is harmful to dogs so is alcohol and several other things humans consume, google is free.
secondly, weed is a narcotic which is a type of drug that induces euphoria.
thirdly, you were right when you said we were from different worlds.

EricSmallz:
Are you now mad? I did that shiit to my local dog, I named it Valencia. I gave the dog on two occasions. It was the maddest dog in the neighbourhood. Only people in my compound were safe. And whatever I said, exactly that it would do. I lost my Valencia to one idiot that bought Benz GLK in my street. The idiot was saying I know nobody drives Benz slowly and all that. Feed those dogs with weeed once and if you dont get the desired result, I will answer to your call. I hate it when somebody talks foolishly about something he has no idea about. Make Ogun no kill you this night o

you know weed is harmful to dogs right?
and besides, what would you rather have, a trained security officer or a high security officer?
which one is a smarter thing to do?
why would you risk your dog's life just for it to be reckless?
a well trained security dog will still do the same thing even without drugs.
you see how it's stupid and wrong now?

these are hawks

inception101:
Looks like falcon. Quite young tho.

falcon in Africa?
only type of falcon in Africa is tailta falcon and it stays in Kenya not Nigeria.
falcons don't look in any way like this

Royal789:
Eeerrrhh..that your gas cylinder part, I think you should check the cylinder for leaks as dogs are known to hear high pitch sounds that we humans can't hear, which mice produce and may have though the gas cylinder to be a mice. So do the check.

I feel the dogs are just barking because of. confusion, my dog was doing so when he was a puppy too, when they see something they don't understand they bark.
he was doing the same thing with plastic chair, fan, cylinder, e.t.c if you're moving it he'll be barking at it and biting it, after a while he stopped as he got used to it

gr8keeng:
ha, of course. After that incident, I got 2 bullmastiffs and one rott, they are mad as hell but I had to give them out to a friend in 2012 when I wasn't gonna be around any more.

that's better
one thing about mixed dogs is that they can be unpredictable, I've seen a pitbull/rott mix that the owner had to shoot because of over aggression I've seen a gsd/Caucasian mix that was sleeping and eating all day with no atom of aggression in its system no matter what was tried.
sometimes they come out well sha but not everyone is lucky.

gr8keeng:
mix of rott and german shepherd

that's something about mixed dogs, a rott is a good guard breed, a gsd is a good guard breed but when you cross breed(this was in 2010 so I'm also guessing the parents weren't also very good stock), the character is unpredictable.
bro get a good dog, either rot or gsd or you can select any other guard breed, train the dog well and you'll get a bad a$$ guard dog

gr8keeng:
You started well but elfed up at the end... you should have stopped after asking how old was the dog..... the dog was 4 years old dude. ..

what breed?

op your dogs are still puppies, give them time to mature.
I'm also very sure they are not being mentally stimulated, engage them in play and games like tug of war and also exercise them, get a ball for them and let them be active, you'll start seeing the natural guard characteristics coming out with time.
don't just buy dogs and dump in the compound and expect them to be aggressive guard dogs, you also have to encourage them and keep them active and engaged so they'll mature in reasoning faster.
size doesn't equal maturity too, boerbels are huge dogs, a boerbel puppy can be bigger than an adult gsd but the adult gsd will be more mature in reasoning.

also some dogs take longer to become aggressive, there is no particular time for the genes to kick in, some start very young some start when they're older.
your dogs are still young at 7 months, you can check around nairaland you'll see similar threads to this and how they always testify that the dog picked up later.
there's still time, stop letting them play with strangers and they'll pick up, you don't need to beat them,cut their tails, put weed in their food, lock them up throughout e tc. most people commenting these things don't have dogs or any idea what they're saying, some just want to crack jokes.
don't go and ruin your dogs all in the name of making them aggressive.
get a trainer or do it the natural way

gr8keeng:
Bro, you were lucky you sold the dog, mine was stolen before I came back from work back in 2010. My neighbors said they saw someone put the dog for neck carry comot.... So i begin wonder, how dem go steal dog wey me buy for protection?..... I nor even bother myself looking for the dog, I was even happy it was stolen cos I been dey get false impression say I was well protected not knowing say nah me dey even protect the fool.

how old was the dog?
I'm very sure it's a puppy.
the way you guys rant when your puppies aren't aggressive somebody will think when you were that age you had any sense of security.
stop expecting adult reactions from puppies

Nicklaus619:
Unti you see mine you will think others wise
Mine is growing more than an average samoyed,
Last week my samoyed whopped a giant German Shepard ass
Beat that

don't rejoice yet, did you ask the age of the gsd and was the gsd ready to fight your dog?
if you put your dog against an adult gsd that is ready to fight, the gsd will eat your dog and drink water after.
don't pit your dog against bigger stronger dogs please, it's not going to be funny if it gets mauled, Samoyed dogs aren't strong, be careful the kind of dogs you let your dog challenge.
now you're letting him run to fight dogs bigger than him he might try to challenge a Caucasian, rott or mastiff one day and that day you won't laugh

AwkaetitiBabe:
Well, most of that kinda dog got no tail. Used to think thats their nature

tail cropping doesn't make dogs aggressive, it's just done for aesthetic reasons same with ear cropping.
a lot of mastiffs still have their tails and are still the same, saying cutting a dog's tail at puppyhood will make it aggressive is like saying circumcision made you aggressive or had any effect on your character as a an adult.

besides, if you cut the tail of a 7 month old dog, if the dog survives(at that age the tail bone is already strong so it's like cutting off a limb from the dog, it'll cause extreme pain and sometimes death) it has more probability of turning the dog into a coward.
puppies don't react well to pain

AwkaetitiBabe:
Chop of their tails

that's a very wrong an ignorant idea. it makes 0 sense

Nicklaus619:
This is what you should do


Don't pet him always as you use to, he. Still thinks he is a Puppy and that's why he still behave like one

Continue like this for the next two months and see him bring out the. MOnster in him

Cheers

also wrong, not petting your dog doesn't make it a guard dog, even the most aggressive well trained dogs still have people that pet them and give them treats.
my dog loves being petted and he loves belly rubs but god help you you enter our compound. it takes a second for him to switch to his vicious nature.
if you train your dogs well they will become guard dogs, not petting your dog is just unnecessary and it also leads to lack of bonding

EricSmallz:
Prepare their meals with little weeed. Little o, if not, you and your security guy will leave that house for the dogs

another wrong and stupid thing to do.

Picadelly:
I have a neighbor that has this exact type of ur dogs..the one he has barks once in a while and it's friendly.The dog is 3 year old and looks intimidating but it's not aggressive at all to people.I believe this specie only few might be aggressive but majority of them are friendly n URS might b one of them. An aggressive dog from when it is born behaves dat way .

wrong, boerbels are natural guard dogs, and a dog that is a good guard dog isn't always aggressive from birth.
some dogs can take even one year before they become aggressive

lordizak:
Look for a dog farm with harsh dogs, leave them there for a month... Or buy any small Mongrel that is harsh and they can learn. I have a Caucasian that runs from even rats and birds, my Xmas chicken beat am.

I'm very sure this your dog is a puppy, you people expect dogs that have not even grown adult teeth to become guard dogs once their legs touch the ground.
he does not need to buy any mongrel to teach his dogs how to be aggressive or take his dogs to any dog farm.
they are freaking puppies, where you able to do anything at that age when you were a kid??
allow the dogs to grow naturally and stop being too demanding from a puppy

they are 7 month old puppies what are you expecting?
so because your dogs aren't active security dogs at 7 months you want to kill them?
are you okay?
if you like be taking advice from people commenting that they had dogs like that and they sold them to be eaten, most of them saying that have never had dogs before, they just want few nairaland likes.
your dogs are puppies

vincentjk:
Maybe that'll be the same case for augusto, his appetite changes steady

yeah it's because of the growth, he'll eat better when he grows up

vincentjk:
Lols

When roscoe was a puppy what was his appetite like?

it used to change, sometimes he'll eat a lot sometimes he'll rather sleep or play than eat.
I think it's because of he was growing, as his growth slowed down he started eating well steadily

vincentjk:
Chicken intestines are tasty for meals like rice and noodles too. Choi roscoe dy enjoy big time

lol yeah, he clears his bowl

Roscoe's meal for the day, indomie cooked with chicken organs and intestines and shredded chicken pieces and bones mixed with raw egg.
I usually pour the chicken mixture inside the indomie and mix it then serve

vincentjk:
Your points are valid but what cracked me up is how the vet had blocked you lmao

What made him block you exactly? Maybe he felt he's right while you're wrong

lmao, if he was sure about what he was saying he would've proved me wrong, I'm sure it's because he's not used to being questioned.
it's very immature thing to do tbh, we're all learning here if you get questioned about something you say, you should be able to back it up instead of blocking people

agboedeh:
sometimes, giving ur dog bones can do the trick

yeah that's true especially those chicken neck bones or spines

vincentjk:
Lol these things don't really scare me bro, I get most people hype things in a bid to boost their site and blogs but sometimes they've a point. Most times

lol that's an unfortunate truth, a lot of people blog based on conspiracy, exaggeration and fake news just to get a few clicks on their articles.
the best thing is to just fact check and always question when you can, sometimes when you question people on some things they claim to be sure about, they'll start rambling or run.

their was a vet that posted sometime last month that raw meat could cause a lot of things from giardiasis to antibiotic ingestion, after questioning him I got to see that he sourced his post from a random article online that was obviously not written by a medical professional and the antibiotic ingestion issue was disproved after a test carried out in south Africa in 2013 showed that only 3% of meat in the market contain traces of antibiotics.
and that was in south Africa I'm sure the results will be lower in Nigeria where herders rarely give their cows drugs.

after disproving him the guy blocked me and I'm sure he'll keep on telling that fake news to his customers

sometimes people project articles written by people in other countries onto Nigeria where the same things hold no weight.
someone else has told me that feeding dogs eggs from enhanced chickens is bad and can negatively affect the dog.
it sounds like a good advice right?, but when you think about it you'll realise that how many farmers enhance their chickens in Nigeria?
Here people just buy birds and lock them up so they can feed them and collect the eggs to sell.
sometimes people burden themselves with issues that do not align with our own way of life
someone that lives in the suburbs in the u.s with their indoor dog will write an article about bacteria infections that can give their dogs a tummy ache and someone in Nigeria with an outside dog that lives like the average Nigerian outside dog being exposed to bacteria every day will carry it on their head like it's a religion

another funny thing is that even in other countries people raw feed a lot, most of those dogs you see and admire from different foreign kennels are raw fed.
it's not a new thing, some people fear raw feeding but will gladly import dogs from raw fed parents that were also brought up with raw food, does it make sense?
I've still not seen any solid reason why people shouldn't raw feed, most of the points are arguable, improbable, or straight lies
this raw feeding argument shouldn't even be an issue again at this point, let me stop here it's like I've typed too much