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i've had my black throat for about 2 months and he still won't stay still and immediately runs on top of my shoulder. i know i need to spend more time with him but was seeing if anyone had any tricks of breaking blackthroats
thanks zane

patience, and more patience.

Handling consistently is what you have to do.
Oh, and a monitor will do what it wants when it wants, try not to expect it to be that lazy, dog tame flop, that people make them out o be.

If you want a dog get one, if you want a monitor accept that it is a wild animal.
You cannot tame a monitor, they are what they are, you need to accept that part.
Every monitor I have is the way they chose to be, when they chose to be that way.
Not a BT but a BT/WT/WT cross..

i know its a monitor i was just looking for ways to calm him down and i do have 2 dogs i wasnt looking for a dog i was looking for a monitor

Post more pics. That is one beautiful monitor.

But shes been that way since the moment I opened the box from Proexotics (she was bred and hatched by Rob Faust). Im glad she chose to be this way, I tried from the beginning to make sure she had nothing but positive, quiet, calm, gentle behavior going on around her until she was around a year old.

Tried to post this one also.

Take this as a compliment, I am using those pictures as a goal for what my monitor should look like.

Thanks