Is anyone else's dog an anti?

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My cats act like they'd like to take the gun away and beat me with it...all attitude ya know.........sometimes I have to dry fire at them to let them know I'm in charge.................it doesn't work.............:cool:
 
My first lab was really gunshy during her initial training. I was afraid she'd never make it in the field. Then on her first hunt, after seeing a bird go down after the "boom" she turned completely around. She could hear me rack a slide inside the house and she'd go crazy knowing she was about to go hunting. Despite getting over her fear of gunshots, she remained terrified of fireworks and thunder her whole life.

My current lab (10 months old) is completely fearless. On her first introduction to the shotgun, you would have thought she was deaf. She didn't even look up from sniffing at something when the gun went off. Of course now that she's had her first hunt, she associates the gun with something positive and does the same dance my old dog did when the shotgun comes out. :D
 
my dog is a jack russell , if i'm outside with a gun she is right there to see what we're gonna shoot. if i pull out a gun in the house she goes after the arm i'm holding the gun in. i think she figures i'm gonna shoot her momma. saddlebum
 
I took my Shep to the range with me and opened up with a Mini 14 with him at ground zero and he looked bored sniffing the ground. Let someone pull a gun out inside the house though and he will go nuts barking & snarling and charge the one with the gun. Once he's reassured that its ok, he calms down and just remains interested and watchful.

I think he's smart and knows. He goes off when people yell too. I pity the (person) who comes through our door yelling with a gun. At the very least, he'd distract them long enough to let me make my shot(s).
 
Our black russian just loves the familiar sound of the AK... never had a problem, often I just park him 20 meters behind me when shooting.

When he was a pup, a thunderstorm surprised us when outside BBQing - I have a rain cover over the grill and stuff and the 10-week old dog slept thru the rolling thunder under the table!
 

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I wish those that think all gun owners are raving, hating, paranoid lunatics could see the love of our pets that I see here!:)
 
my lab/golden retriever is terrified of guns. She's never seen one used, but whenever she sees one, she runs and hides. The big sissy is also scared of thunder.:D
 
Seriously. As you might tell by my name, I have a retired racer. He's a scaredy cat (!) in general
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First of all, congratulations for rescuing that dog!

Most greyhound racers are "scaredy cats" when they are retired because of the terrible abuse they endure while they are racers!

A friend of mine volunteers at weekly training sessions for retired greyhounds so they can be socialized enough to bear being with others and maybe being able to go for a walk on a leash without freaking out.

By contrast, animals like race horses are pampered and treated like kings.

Anyway, just thought I'd point that out. :(

Regards,
ChickenHawk
 
My uncle used to have a beagle (Daisy) who would lay under his shooting bench while he shot rifles. I watched her lay there while we shot so I don't doubt his story:

He made a muzzle brake for a 7mm Rem mag one time for a customer and he watched Daisy sleep under the bench while the customer fired the rifle from the benchtop. He said the muzzle blast actually moved her floppy ears but she just laid there.

He got Daisy as a pup and she was with him constantly until her death at sixteen. Back in those days I think my uncle shot some kind of gun every day so she must have got used to it very early. She was probably deaf at two years old but she chased rabbits until her last year.

Keith
 
Surely I'm not the only one who's propped a rifle in the corner only to have a puppy lift his leg and piss on it?
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I'm sure he was just worried that you were shooting corrosive ammo & was trying to help you with the amonia thing :D .

Our newf just looks confused when there are loud bangs in the general area but our shepherd mix throws on his cape and flys into action to save the day. He'll do his best to bark and race after any thunderstorms that dare to venture into his backyard. Any stray (or otherwise :rolleyes: ) bottle rockets or roman candles that come near him are jumped on and attacked. He even attacks bonfires that are lit in the backyard (we guess it is because he associates the matches being lit with the bottle rockets going off). Wierd dog, but he looks after the kids so he'll always have a place in front of the fireplace to guard the carpet from sneaking off.

Greg
 
Our dogs aren't anti; they're safey concious!

First, there's Sally -- an English Springer Spaniel. She's about nine now, and she's had a bb gun used against her by the idiot brother when she was a pup, so she understands. I dry fire and play with toy guns all the time, and she watches me with little interest. However, my Dad thinks it's funny to point toy pistols at her now and again :scrutiny: :rolleyes: so she'll make a scared face and take cover behind the nearest person or piece of furniture. She's been duck hunting with us, and didn't seem to have a problem with gunshots, but she sure didn't like feathers in her mouth. :rolleyes:

Then, a little while ago, my younger brother got Molly -- she's a year-old Black Lab. She didn't even have a clue what guns were until my other idiot brother shot her with an airsoft pistol. :scrutiny: She was afraid of them for a day or two, but now she is okay with them as long as they're not aimed at her.

Wes
 
Rescued a big dog from the pound. 3-yr. old Akita mix, already trained. First time I handled a gun in front of her she got very excited. Took her shooting at clays (informal range) and she hunted down and sniffed the pieces. I thought maybe this dog would hunt...

Took her to hunt upland....she walked about 50 feet, sat down, and refused to move except to head back to the car.

Don't know what her previous owner did. She likes firearms, but doesn't want to hunt.
 
My grandparents have a dog that doesn't like loud noises, so he tries to get inside whenever he sees guns, lawn mowers, leaf blowers or whatever. One of their neighbors down the road used to have a dog that would come running towards any gunfire it heard and wouldn't leave you alone if you were shooting. We ended up having to bring a rope with us to tie it up whenever we took guns down to my grandparent's house. Haven't seen him in a while, though ...

My cat doesn't care about guns. She does like to sleep on open, padded rifle cases, though. Even if that means stretching out over the gun.
 
My female Shepherd developed am aversion to guns when I bought my Model 44 Nagant. I think it has something ot do with the smell of the ammo as she never even flinched until I bought it and ever since my gunsafe has smelled funny from storing the ammo in there.


Mino
 
I have a blach lab that we rescued from the pound about 2 years ago. He now about 3 and one of the best dogs I have seen. I don't know how he ended up at the pound our vet seem to think he is a very high breed dog. I just take his word for it. He is a little gun shy, I don't know if he was that way from the beginning or if he turned that way after he saw me put down a feral dog. We live about 2 miles out of city limits and alot of people like to drop dogs out here. My neighbor even seen the city pound come out here and drop of a truck load of dogs. Anyway mine always sets by the door wanting in if he sees me with my tagets and staple gun walking out to the old dead tree. Sometimes I let him in sometimes I let him set by the door. If I had the time to hunt I would try to break him of being gun shy, I think he would make a good hunting dog.
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I used to live with a Giant Schnauzer who was afraid of guns, swords, and anything resembling a weapon. Even when my old Crossman 1700 pump BB gun would come out to play that black-haired, 150 pound wuss would bolt up the back hill and hide under the shrubs. He was afraid of water too. He used to run away when people went for a swim in the pool. Some guard dog.

At least he barked at visitors, the pool guy, the mailman, me, the neighbor, and anything else that moved. Made for a nice alarm system. Even if the alarm was usually set off by something really scary like ----- a light breeze :what:
 
it did until i put grey spicy mustard on the stock,set it in the corner,told the dog..NO! and waited quiety around the corner.no more chewing on stocks.now when i get the guns out to clean,he just sits quiety on the floor,gives a groan and lays down.our cat doesnt seem to mind them.he just looks up from his chair and gives you the stare down for a couple of minutes then goes back to sleep.funny..the cat scared itself when its tail knocked a newspaper off the coffeetable.did a complete 360 in midair and walked away snapping its tail back n forth in disgust at my laughing.the dog seemed amused too but knows the cat,a large tom,will get his nose later with a quick swat and dart under the couch.its funny how they get along.the dog ALWAYS forgets.
 
My retired (or, more accurately, fired) greyhound is, as expected, quite gun-shy.

My daughter's mutt, though -- She insisted on following us out to shoot when my brother-in-was visiting with his .50-cal Serbu. A quick shot downrange from the Glock didn't send her scurrying back to the house. (This generally works with other dogs.)

The "boom" of the .50 didn't phase her a bit. She curled up in the shade about 20 feet from the gun and took a nap.
 
Oddly enough, I had a german shorthair that was a great flusher/pointer, who one day decided she was gun shy. Working the action on any gun just sends runinng away with her tail between her legs!!!
 
I used to have a Dachshund (yeah, I had to look up the spelling) that loved it when we would take the guns out the the canal behind the house to get a little practice in. You could fire off a cannon next to that little guy, and he wouldn't flinch. He used to love chasing down jackrabbits bigger than he was, then dragging them home.

As for the 2 labs my mother has, I couldn't say, but I know the female runs for cover whenever there's thunder about, and the male doesn't seem to mind at all.
 
We have a Corgi named Toby that will run and hide if I start messing with my guns ... rack a slide, drop a magazine ... any clicking noises and he's off (also runs and hides if you say the "F-word").

But what do you expect from the favorite breed of the Queen of England :neener:
 
i have a chesapeake bay retrevier who hates explosions. could be that the first gun she ever heard was a fully auto shotgun (i had a friend whos neighbor was an international arms dealer. i cant really blame her, it scared the be-jesus out of me too. he was not far away, but completely out of sight when he began his testing)

i can handle, dry fire, rack, clean them and she doesnt care, but fire them or set off fireworks and she's looking for cover. doesnt mind thunder or other loud noises. i wonder if its the shockwaves

her namesake, another chessie, was a GREAT hunting dog. my grandmother (yes, she was the hunter in the family) used to fire a cap pistol before feeding it when it was a pup.

in other news, the dog cost me my chance to get a new 1911, just before thanksgiving she need emergency surgery to save her life. she's doing great now, but my savings took a good wallop.

spenny
 
Drizzt - The Olin Game Farm trainers, years ago, trained young Labs for the field. They had an old Dachshund bitch that was "class monitor". Seeing her run for, and retrieve, downed birds made the pups more interested in what was going on, and seemed to set up a "If that funny looking old broad can do it, so can I" attitude.
Zundfogle - My two boys were partially raised (well, "intensely baby-sat") by a Cardigan Corgi. When they were of the age of elastic shorts and short T shirts, any fighting was ended immediately by a growl and a nip on the exposed belly between these garments. He loved to hunt rabbits with me, but I couldn't take a gun out of the cabinet when the boys were present - got an ears-back, full-ivory snarl. The first time I took both out with a K22 was a traumatic event in this pups' life. He survived it, but needed half a water dish and a long nap when we returned home.
 
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