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@pixeloriousspriteson Nah my dog has ball drive out the ass so fetch is a godsend. Before he had a bite incident and had to be muzzled outside I’d let him bring his ball out both to give him a job (carry it back inside) and as a nice distraction bc no matter how exciting or scary a trigger is...

@stryker4 This was years ago and I don’t think hydrolyzed diets were a thing at the time (or at least not something I was offered) but the vet took one look at him and asked what we were feeding (some purina brand chicken flavour), said switch to a salmon one and probably 70% of the itching went...

@tubal Man I fully feel you lol my last dog was very hard headed and responded really well to things that my current dog would shrink away from and never trust again over and it’s forced me to learn and rethink things a lot. Learning how to incorporate play into training is huge and IMO not...

@stryker4 It’s not impossible though, anecdotally I’ve had multiple dogs have allergies that (as advised by a vet) after switching foods either went away or significantly decreased, and I know lots of other people with the same experience. One dog I had had the reddest itchiest skin on every big...

@tubal My journey has been more ‘didn’t know the names of things but took a previous dog to a compulsion trainer who didn’t use tools and thought all dogs should value praise highest’ to R+ with a hint of LIMA in that I kind of hate the term force free because I think people love to nitpick it...