Thread: What is the correct distance

Originally Posted by popgun

Why not Tahr?

I would have thought the whole point of owning, training and running a dog would be to reach the the point when you do trust them to do thier job and all it entails.

Its splitting hairs a bit (by me), but having confidence in a dog is different to trusting them. They will and do let you down. So I have confidence in my dog to the limit of where I confidently predict she understands and will likely do the right thing through her training and experience. Out side of that is uncharted waters. So I keep mine inside the the envelope of confidence, not the one of trust.

I never trust a gun dog around stock. I never trust any dog around kids.

I might ad that my dog is only average, and so am I. But I've had 50 years of thinking about this stuff.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Its splitting hairs a bit (by me), but having confidence in a dog is different to trusting them. They will and do let you down. So I have confidence in my dog to the limit of where I confidently predict she understands and will likely do the right thing through her training and experience. Out side of that is uncharted waters. So I keep mine inside the the envelope of confidence, not the one of trust.

I never trust a gun dog around stock. I never trust any dog around kids.

I might ad that my dog is only average, and so am I. But I've had 50 years of thinking about this stuff.

Thanks for the explanation, I hear what you're saying.

I appreciate 'average'... most if the time it seems more realistic than loftier goals

finding the bench mark is the hard part....... even for average.