{"id":17,"date":"2009-02-26T05:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:05:01","slug":"dogs-that-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/dogs-that-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs that chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a dog that wants squirrels and deers.\u00a0 She usually pardons cats and cows, Thank God.\u00a0 but she has it in for deers and squirrels.\u00a0 she is 8 1\/2 yrs.old and showing no signs of slowing down.\u00a0 She drives me crazy sometimes!.\u00a0 I have the wonderful freedom of having my other dogs off leash in the neighbhorhood, but\u00a0 NOT my Miss Madeline. Oh No, she would be up and down these streets looking for that elusive rodent.\u00a0 What is it in her that I don&#8217;t accept?\u00a0 Because- I truly believe that what we don&#8217;t accept in another is something that we don&#8217;t accept in ourselves.\u00a0 It is &#8211; her obsessiveness, her inability to let it go&#8230;&#8230;and I have the same exact issue.\u00a0 This mind catches on a topic, and it can spiral and twist and run rampant with endless chatter. It will not let go of a thought, a fear, an idea.\u00a0 and it drives me crazy.\u00a0 Her obsessiveness is a mirror to my own OCD\u00a0 ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).\u00a0 No, I have never been diagnosed.\u00a0 but how many times do I have to check the closet to make sure no one got in my home and is hiding!<\/p>\n<p>My dogs reflect my angst back to me.\u00a0 yet there is one big difference-\u00a0 with Madeline- she FINDS FREEDOM in her Obsession. She loves the chase.\u00a0 she goes with it. she allows it, she explores it.\u00a0 and I- I judge it, push it down, hide it, and pretend it does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Another lesson from the dog.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" title=\"100_1346\" src=\"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/100_1346-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"100_1346\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/100_1346-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/100_1346-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/100_1346.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a dog that wants squirrels and deers.\u00a0 She usually pardons cats and cows, Thank God.\u00a0 but she has it in for deers and squirrels.\u00a0 she is 8 1\/2 yrs.old and showing no signs of slowing down.\u00a0 She drives me crazy sometimes!.\u00a0 I have the wonderful freedom of having my other dogs off leash &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/dogs-that-chase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dogs that chase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}