<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">This is how I learned about eyeballing and it's consequences and to make it Basset related I will say the dog in question lived with Bassets (mine) and that I see it today in Conley and saw it often between Conley and Nigel when Nigel was on four feet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">We went to the Nationals. Me and this Belgian. We shared a room with two women, two bitches and another intact male. Everything was fine altho we put up barriers to keep real contact to a minimum they of course took 3 seconds and learned to leap across the beds. For the first couple of days everything was great.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The third morning the two males were going out to potty when they came to the doorway. What had never been an issue somehow suddenly became an issue and as we exited they looked at one another and it was all over: they were trying to kill each other and they were quite serious about it. They were also leashed so ending the fight was quick and emphatic. And then began the hard core eyeballing. Luckily, they were so obvious that even we two owners were aware of it. And because we had no choice, we had to live together another 3 days, we began big-time rehabilitation. It involved the hardest collar corrections we could muster along with a guttural roar THE INSTANT the very very SECOND their heads turned to lock eyes. Both of us did this together. We stood outside on that hillside and DARED the boys to look at each other- go ahead: MAKE MY DAY. And being Belgians they got the message within minutes. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Any head movement in the direction of the other dog got a vicious correction, way more than I would normally have done because this was absolutely not to be tolerated on any level.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">By the time we were done we could walk the two males together. It was hysterical: shoulder to shoulder, sometimes with a deliberate BUMP, they walked perfectly evenly, no one an inch ahead-- and each dog had his head turned away from the other dog.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">But there were no more fights, either.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">MomPerson to Conley (yeah? Just look in dese eyes, twerp) Doc (I seeya, see me?) and Llewis (***sigh***)</div>
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