Katherine
2 yo pit bull is doing GREAT with your training! Biddable, soft, gentle. But while working on the “through” command, she freaked and ran away from me, fearful – ears pinned, tail tucked. She wouldn’t return, not even with string cheese. I let her be, and an hour later, she was fine. The next day, during a basic sit, giving her a treat, same reaction. No other regression. She lived in a shelter for 1 month. Her former owner abused her and hit her with objects, it’s obvious. No aggression or resource guarding. She’s come a long way in 3 months. But why this sudden change? Advice, please? Thanks!
Rachel
We began crate training using your lesson plans. He is crated in a quiet living room downstairs, covered at night, has a collagen braid (his favorite) to chew on at nighttime, however we can’t have him upstairs with us, we have 2 cats. My 2.5 yr male Mal continues to bark when he’s crated. We’ve been using “calm dog” music at nighttime, which helped for a few nights. When we run shorter errands, we crate him too.We exercise either 1 walk and or 1 – 30 min jog daily. We spend about 10 minutes a day reinforcing daily training. We bought an e collar for barking – haven’t used yet. How do we fix
Steve
Layla is real good in the house, once outside body language immediately on alert. Sniffing the ground, looking around for some stimulus, gets fired up when seeing other dogs (May have had a negative experience with other dogs). My question is; what should we do prior to crossing the threshold to go outside? Layla as you may or may not know, is a soon to be 7 year old rescued Malinois, I’ve had her now for 6 months. She’s a challenge and my guess is she had a rotten life prior to me adopting her. Maybe we just stick with play and training and forget about long walks?
