Yesterday we were walking in loggerheads in Wales and the first hour in the woods was fine and we were using the 2 ball method until she lost one. When I throw only one ball she knows she can posses it and then the chase begins as she is in control and can choose to retrieve or posses. Whilst possessing, she saw a squirrel and instantly chased in warp facto 11 and did not return for some 10 minutes. I will try your technique & see if I can make his toy pheasant more enticing…he’s never chased anything ‘dead’ before now, other than a rawhide bone on the odd occasion!! Maybe I should stuff the toy pheasant with some rawhide? (-; And that relationship will be your start point. It has to be forged and guided by you, otherwise he’ll continue to do whatever it is he likes. My Guide and Control book gives you some pointers on how to do that. The binaural award ceremony will remain available for everyone everywhere to listen to at https://www.theatreuncut.com/award2021

At a ground-breaking online binaural award ceremony an extract from Chasing Hares was performed alongside excerpts from three of the other shortlisted plays: Esther by Lorna French; Great Northern Divers by Jordon Grant and Playfight by Julia Grogan. The shortlist also included Give a Man a Bible by Afsaneh Gray, Burnout by Louise Gooding and 44 Sex Acts in One Week by David Finnigan. However I’d also be looking at teaching her some other aspects such as impulse control to calm her more generally (to make her less ‘hyper and highly strung’) so she doesn’t see the need to react to everything. I don’t think the short car rides distress her – she’s probably enjoying the chase. The title put me in mind of David Hare, the English writer who at the inception of his career was engaged in the Theatre Uncut equivalents of a half-century ago. Chasing Hares follows in a necessary and honourable tradition of making theatre that matters even if, on this occasion, the result needs further shaping and streamlining if it is to properly and thoroughly shake us up. Forceful storytelling... heartbreaking... this is no simplistic diatribe about inequality... The story seamlessly yokes the personal to the political in sparkling dialogue' Telegraph I am looking for advice please on how I can try and stop the total focus on birds, if I can stop it, or should we walk them elsewhere … other local parks are too close to very busy roads so I cannot let them off their leads there. Is this a “phase”? I retired last year and we collected them two days later so I am with them the majority of the timeThey will become excited at the sight, scent and sound of their prey items, perhaps even making small ‘yipping’ noises. My one-year-old Mini Australian Shepherd is OBSESSED with chasing cars. He can sense them coming from down the street and prepares himself to lunge and bark at them. I was able to control him slightly by offering a treat, but this doesn’t seem to work all the time and if i don’t have a treat on me then I can forget about it. She is not interested in chasing toys / balls, but has recently started chasing other dogs when off the leash at the dog park. We are really confused as she didn’t do this when we first got her, so not sure if chasing birds in the morning is fuelling her to do this?

In fact, all five members of the cast are uniformly excellent; director Milli Bhatia performed a similar feat with seven methods of killing kylie jenner at the Royal Court. Between Bhattacharyya’s forceful storytelling, Bhatia’s steady hand at the helm and designer Moi Tran’s set of concrete walls and revolving platforms onto which Prab’s stories are projected in immersive shadow play, Chasing Hares is a convivial and enlightening night at the theatre despite its heartbreaking conclusion. My question is can we allow this chasing behaviour but somehow stop her chasing everything else? In particular other dogs, cats etc. She is not an anxious dog at all and loves any ball game and frisbee game but the drive is now at the stage where intervention is required. No other external reinforcer or game matches the squirrel chase. And she is super clever and manipulative. My 15 month old Male Lab cross is well socialised and not anxious about anything, although he hates being on the lead, and this can lead to aggressive barking and pulling towards other dogs. This largely disappears if off the lead and allowed to approach, sniff and play.

Occasionally, your dog won’t chase the first toy, waiting for the second. Don’t reward that with the second toy, but send them on, going with them to find and play with the first one if necessary. You control the game; don’t be manipulated by your dog. Bhattacharyya and Bhatia had been wanting to work together for some time before Bhatia, who is best known for directing Jasmine Lee-Jones’s Olivier-nominated Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, directed a rehearsed reading of another of Bhattacharyya’s plays. That was King Troll – The Fawn. “We were a bit shy before we met,” she recalls, while Bhatia puts her head in her hands and laughs. “It was a bit like a date. I was like: ‘I think you’re really cool,’ and I was hoping that she thought I was really cool as well.” What have people done before? What has worked? How have people stood up? That can be a model for building a better world Sonali Bhattacharyya My 4 yr old rescue Brittany [abandoned hunting dog] is SUCH a good, gentle boy, so eager to please, great with all his commands. We walk off lead in a massive woodland or on a huge beach, where his recall is great. Prab decides to revive his latent activism by turning Amba’s bedtime story into a plea for workers’ rights, shrugging off the warnings of his wife and community organiser Kajol (Zainab Hasan) about the danger of antagonising the factory’s owners. However, when the factory is reopened, Prab gets promoted to manager and a life of relative luxury, though he worries that he is a sellout. Then a fatal factory accident involving a child catches Prab in the horns of a moral dilemma and places him squarely in Devesh’s vengeful crosshairs.

Delainey Hayles (Lucy) and Jez Unwin (Mr Tumnus) in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Brinkhoff-Moegenburg Two new criminal offences: firstly, trespass with the intention of using a dog to search for or pursue a hare; and secondly, being equipped to trespass with the intention of using a dog to search for or pursue a hare both punishable on conviction by an unlimited fine and/or up to six months’ imprisonment. I took her beloved frizbee to the woods with us; she is not as focused on this toy as she is with her ball but we encountered a bike heading towards us as we returned to the car…she saw it and there was a moment when I thought she was going to run but the frizbee held her attention long enough to divert her and she assumed her stalk position.Mr Johnson is a very effusive man with a loud voice; he gesticulates a lot when talking and gets quite excitable. Mrs Johnson is calm and controlled, she does all of the walking and feeding; Mr Johnson plays ball in the garden with the dogs most days. Regarding chasing hare and roe, again this is a dog who has been allowed to get away with it in the past so try and find a trainer with a rabbit pen that has plenty of distractions to enable you to make sure he knows, in no uncertain terms, that chasing anything is unacceptable. Then you can progress to working on his chase drive. The Stop! Book will give you a more expanded version of the article, which in your case may be more helpful.

Illegal hare coursing has blighted rural communities for too long, resulting in criminal damage, threating violence and intimidation against farmers and landowners. Chase” is a motor pattern, or behaviour, that is inherited. Dogs that chase are being internally reinforced just by doing it. They don’t need to be externally reinforced with a biscuit or a kind word, because the behaviour is rewarding in itself. Why they won’t stop When the factory owner’s theatrically minded son Devesh (Scott Karim) invites Prab to write a play for his traditional Jatra folk-theatre company, Prab sees it as a chance to pen a thinly-veiled socialist animal fable. Devesh cottons on, and reacts by employing a tactic beloved of capitalists everywhere: he buys Prab's silence, by giving him a pricy duplex to live in and a new role as supervisor. What follows is a struggle between comfort and conscience, as Prab tries desperately to hold onto his new lifestyle while fighting for the rights of the illegal child labourers he works alongside. There is a partial answer, but it involves training the dogs extensively one-to-one and heavily differentially reinforcing the preferred behaviour – but even then I’m not sure it would be reliable. As a result of the very successful APBC predatory chase seminars and the frequent requests for more information on the subject, I’ve expanded this article into a full book.

*mad as a hatter

The problem arises because we have no control over the behaviour. To control chasing, we need to control the dog’s primary target. But we can’t control cats and rabbits, can we? No, so if we want to control chasing, we change the primary target to one we can control. Running more than one dog together will also socially facilitate it and make it even more resistant. Basic obedience training may help, but only to a certain extent. After that you need a protracted programme of introducing the stimulus (deer) at a low level whilst keeping her focus on you (toy-reward) and gradually increasing the salience of the deer-stimulus. Working your way through the book will help (DON’T miss any bits out, especially the early parts) https://www.dog-secrets.co.uk/stop-how-to-control-predatory-chasing-in-dogs/ but it is going to be a long concerted effort for you.