Reactive Siberian Husky (5 y/o)

[donthidefromjesus]

I have two Siberian huskies, both same age (5). The girl is a perfect angel. This post isn’t about her. The boy is quite an angel too, but only indoors in our apartment/on the balcony. We can even leave them alone and they’re perfectly fine. Taking him on walks every day is such a struggle.

We recently moved to Pasadena and this is our one and only problem that has been extremely stressful every day. When taking our dogs on a walk, we hope and pray another dog doesn’t come by. Living in a city now, dogs are everywhere. It can be any size dog, our male husky will lunge, pull, scream and cry at the very top of his lungs. It’s so embarrassing but they need to be walked. He is just SO loud and can not handle seeing or passing another dog.

Today we are feeling defeated. We tried to take him to a self service dog wash and walking there wasn’t too bad. Being on the busy street, there were just too many dogs (and people) at once passing by. He screamed so SO loud and could not calm down. Causing a whole scene and all eyes on us on that busy street. We ended up just walking back home with our heads down.

Does anyone have any advice on how we can fix this? We’ve watched countless videos and have tried to be consistent with training him to no avail. Is there no hope?

 

[meehan8381]

@donthidefromjesus Have you consulted a trainer regarding his behavior? If not, that would be a good first step.