PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY OF THE DOG

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What is in fact deciding the individuality of the dog?

 

1. Genetic influence of dog's ancestors.

 

2. Astrological constellations in the time of dog's birth (they decide energy, health and nature of a dog, and also which of it's ancestors' genes will prevail or not).

 

3. Breeding, feeding and training.

 

4. The respective breed.

 

Please realize that the breed is not the only one factor!

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As for the Astrology, we almost never know the exact time of puppy's birth. That is why we do not know it's ascendant and astrological houses also. From this reason we cannot make the puppy's horoscope well, but even if we knew only the position of planets and Moon in the time of it's birth, despite this we can get to know at least something. Here you can see a few examples of some planetary influences to the dogs:

This is an example of damaged Mars situated in the sign of Cancer. It is caused by a square between Mars (Cancer - third decade especially - is the weakest place for Mars) and Venus in Aries (Aries gives Venus a rather lower strength but in this time Venus is stronger through trigon with Pluto in Sagittarius). Because this Venus is stronger, it damages the weak Mars, and the result is both damaged genital (retarded testicle that did not get to the scrotum in time) and relationships within close people (Cancer is the sign of family) - anger and quarrelsomeness.

Here we can see a square between Moon in Aquarius and Venus (also Mercury) in Scorpio (also square between Saturn in Aquarius and Pluto and Sun in Scorpio). The result is a bit of a rebelling up to aggressive character (also conjunction of Pluto and Sun, changeable Mars in fiery Sagittarius) and serious health problems with prostate.

Here we can see a square of Moon in Libra with conjunction of several planets in Capricorn. Libra rules kidneys and Capricorn the joints of back paws. The result is a light dysplasia of hips and occasional limping. Even though Capricorn is rather knees and Sagittarius rather hips, despite this dysplasia can be caused by the side of Capricorn as well. But Mars in Taurus has a trigon to Saturn in Capricorn which gives a strong energy that together with Moon in a sign of air not damaging Taurus (Libra or Gemini) leads to many walkings and trips with the owner (he also had Moon in Libra = common air, common movement even to distant places).

Here is another example of astrological influences to the dog. This individual is a Gemini and she has planets in all the three signs of air = movability, she is kinda nervous too, she does not like restrictions in movement and uses to obey only sometimes. But Saturn in Cancer (with trigon to Mars in Pisces) together with undamaged Venus in Cancer gives the dog a very kind and loving attitude toward close people in her family (however, she is aggressive with strangers).

Education

 

·    If you are deciding to buy a dog you should firstly take into consideration the conditions you have for your future dog. If they are not suitable do not buy it since you would torture it in unsuitable conditions.

 

·    Do not beat your dogs! I was beating my dogs when they questioned my authority as a leader. Then we were at war with each other. Later I tried to treat them kindly and to forgive all their transgressions. The dogs appreciated it and instead of being more disobedient because I did not punish them, they began to be more obedient. They showed their gratefulness. This is valid for the majority of dogs. Though there are some dogs that must be beaten, but these are exceptions only. The majority of dogs will properly appreciate kind treatment and love you show about them.

Do not beat your dogs but let them see a strong personality in you. Let the energy radiate from you. Treat them kindly and consistently at the same time but never violently.

 

·    It is a quite often phenomenon that people are discharging their anger on their four-legged innocent friends. And therefore if you have problems (in family, employment, with neighbors, with sickness or poverty) do not transfer them on your dog and treat it kindly at all circumstances. Even if you suffer inside, always be grateful to your dog and in return it will be grateful to you as well. As a rule, it is not responsible for your personal problems!

 

·    Do not put your dog down and do not take it's dignity away from it. And when you want to rebuke it, do not do it in front of other people's sight. This humiliates it.

 

·    Many dog owners wish their dog to be great, stronger, more successful and more capable than the other dogs. And this is surely valid for you too.

When your dog did not succeed itself and disappointed you - it watches badly, it is ill, it's height is too small, it's appearance is bad due to bowed ears for example, despite this you should treat it kindly - in the same way as if it succeeded accordingly to your best wishes.

If it has a bad character, you are guilty by that too, if it inherited a fault after it's ancestors, it is not responsible for that and so do not beat it and take care of it well. And if you do not want it, then find a new master for it or put it to sleep.

But also realize that if your dog has a big fault, it would probably have a big merit too, because the world is like that. So try do discover it's merit to have a reason to love it!

 

·    All the family members that the dog lives with should go by the same rules of it's education. This means, that one family member does not send the dog to the place where it is forbidden to enter by the other family member, or if the dog is allowed to bark at strange people behind the fence and it is praised for this by one family member, the other must not rebuke it for this and similarly.

 

·     I believe that a man can fully devote himself to two or three dogs only and really fully only to one dog. If he has more dogs, it surely has to neglect the care of them, which is one of the reasons why I would ban all the large kennels of dogs - every breeder or family respectively would be allowed to have only two dogs and every of them in a spacious run with a heated kennel.

 

·    Do not buy an older dog but rather puppy up to four months of age from the following three reasons:

 

1) If a four month puppy, we can know in advance how it would look like when it will be adult (real experts will know it at even a younger age), how big it's weight will be (large breeds have about 40-45% of adult weight at this age, middle sized about 50% and the smallest ones about 60% - that is my rough estimation).

 

2) The puppy is at this age still enough adaptive to be moved to a new owner.

 

3) You can still educate the puppy accordingly to your wishes because it is not too influenced by the education of it's home-breeder yet.

 

·    It is suitable to tolerate the old habits of dogs:

 

- to disgorge a piece of food and to hide it

 

- to excavate a burrow in heats and to lie into it (dogs cool themselves in this way)

 

- to excavate mouses in the fields and to eat them

 

- eating of old and spoilt meat (not if it deals with a meat that is found on a walk by chance, but your own meat that you or your dog let spoilt)

 

- drive of prey defense (we do not take the dog's food in our hands when it is eating, unless we call it back first and when it retreats itself off the food, only then we take it to our hands; but then we give it the food again to trust us, we could also give it even more food so that it will see that this was worth that obedience)

 

·    Never transport your dog in the case of your car, never let it leashed in front of the pub and similarly, and do not take it to a noisy environment.

 

·    When in heats (in the middle of the summer), your dog suffers from anorexia. It is good to give it water and to bath it before feeding to refresh it to accept more food (to be more hungry).

 

·    It is sad that most people spoil their first dog and they cannot use their experiences until their second or third dog.

 

·    Do not forget that if you are to really take care of your dog well, a lot of other things must go aside - a career, sitting in pubs and so on.

 

·    Never chain your dog because it is harmful to it. Above all, a long lasting chaining can force the dog to discharge it's surplus of energy and aggression even by attacking of it's own body (for example biting of it's own tail).

 

·    Some dogs can be aggressive if you send them to the kennel, because they do want to be at large further, whereas when closed in the run they can feel badly (for example, my CO Gero used to attack my sister when she tried to close him in the run and one time he tried that with me also but I kicked his head and he howled and went to the kennel and since that time he never tried that with me again; in RTW and other normal dogs I did nod have to do that, because they are better well-balanced mentally and everything about them goes with easier way). When the dog does not want to go to the run itself, then do not force it to go there violently but on the contrary, take it kindly to the run and praise it a lot. Or go yourself in front of your dog to the run and let you even crawl into the kennel, and then call your dog.

The dogs that do not want to come out of the kennel when you are calling them are the opposite problem. Also in this case it is a mistake to pull them violently out of the kennel. Rather kindly speak to them, enter their kennel, put a collar and a leash on them, and then come out of the kennel with them and praise them (however, we must not do that in this way every time to do not get our dog used on that).

 

·    If you have a grouch dog, do not try to beat it's growling out of it, just simply tolerate it. If you see that it likes you, then let it growl as much as it wishes it so!

 

·    If your dog hates being touched at certain places of it's body (for example it's tail or back) and snaps after you, then put a muzzle on it and caress it and fondle it with your hand at all the places of it's body where it likes that, and from time to time, let you touch - like by a chance - also the place where it hates to be touched, and immediately fondle it at the place where it likes that again. By the course of time, you can touch those places - where your dog did not like that - more and more often and maybe, then it let be touched it's entire body with no problems.

 

·    Realize that whereas your dog likes above all you, you may like also a lot of relatives and friends apart from it. So you give your dog a smaller part of yourself than what it gives to you. Therefore appreciate it's love properly!

 

·    A dog is a dog only and you cannot require after it to be clever than a dog uses to be, or not to display it's natural drives and sometimes impulsive, instinctive behavior. Understand it's animal naturality and do not require after it more than what belongs to it as an animal.

 

·    When some dog has one master only and he will become sick, maybe nobody else will take care of it. From this reason it is not suitable to live absolutely alone and to have a dog at the same time (or another domestic animals). It is more suitable when at least two people can take care of a dog (the whole family at best) - when one falls ill, the other will stick up for that instead of him.

 

·    If a certain positive order is in a rut for the dog - often trips, long walkings and so on, it is necessary to keep that up to the end of it's life. As soon as the dog is devoted a less attention than it was used to, it suffers because of it (then it can sometimes turn bitter or be more aggressive or become ill).

 

·    If you have more dogs, please let every one of them have a valid position in your pack. Let every your dog be allowed to do something what the other are not allowed. For example, one dog has the right to lie on the staircase at the main door of your house, the other has the right to be released out of the run as the first one and so on. Let even the dog on the lowest position feel itself as a valid member of your family. And keep down the aggression of the leader - if he wants to beat the weaker one - on such a minimal level that is sufficient to keep his leading position (however, to keep that totally down is a mistake).

 

·    If the dog is used to a stereotyped and unchanging way of living, it is wrong. I have seen a spoiled RTW that used to go along the same street in the same time in the same way every day. He was learned that nothing happens in that street. When there was a big strange dog and it was near and almost attacked him from the right side, the Rottweiler neither looked to the right, only looked straight on and continued in walking by his daily stereotyped walk with his dumb female owner. The strange dog was held by it's owner and walked away, but the Rottweiler did not react to it's snapping at all.

Therefore the dog should go for walks sometimes regularly sometimes irregularly. It should change directions and ways and to receive many impulses. Once let it go in the day, other time in the night etc.