Search results

@timmygvsu I have seen enormous improvement just from implementing decompression walks. Today we took a hike through the woods without the use of any tools and it was wonderful! It has definitely helped to go back to square one. I’ve currently scrapped tools except for her front-clip harness /...

@timmygvsu Thank you! I’m thinking I’m going to scrap the dog parks completely. We haven’t been since there’s snow everywhere and very low temps, but she has a dog brother and my sister has her own 8 week old puppy that she brings over periodically so I think I’ll stick with that for now...

@timmygvsu This is 100% true, Mabel is my first pup and there are things I wish I could go back and help her with, knowing what I know now. I think the next step is definitely enlisting the help of a trainer, she’s been to some obedience classes, but nothing else. I also read that dog parks can...

@fl269fl269 100%, after doing research I learned about thresholds and controlled environments. Once we do some more training both inside and outside around our house and at local parks when nobody’s around I plan to take her to the small shopping plaza where we can sit at the benches within a...

@beepete Thank you for this, I forgot to mention that I have enlisted the help of a trainer, and they’ve recommended for me to stay home, scrap her current training and forget about the walks until she can properly walk on a lead. This was also a very late post, so I also forgot to add that she...

@grace4nan It did help, I cried reading this! I think exuding more confidence, having a more clear voice so she knows what I want her to do and doesn’t get confused, and going back to basics is the thing for us. When we’re outside, we’ll often throw around two balls that she jumps up to catch...

not “ahht, shut” just “ahht, ahht,”

@grace4nan Thank you for the above comments. She definitely has a chase/herd drive, so I think that’s where her fascination comes from. Also, I think it stems more from her wanting to play with them, because she’ll cry and whine and wag her tail! We have done lots of loose leash training as...

@fl269fl269 To me, when I think of “leash reactivity” I think of my pup, Mabel, freezing on her walks and getting extremely frustrated when we tell her “ahhht, shut, let’s go” that she can’t meet the dogs she’ll start FREAKING out, until we move along away from them. Then it’s mostly cars, as...

Long story short, my Aussie x Border Collie pup is extremely leash reactive. She has her good days and bad, although tonight really seemed to be a “bad” day. My pup, Mabel got into pulling and lunging around the six month mark, where all of our training seemed to go out the window. From a...