Josh S
How do you teach a dog to play with toys. This is weird but I recently adopted an Australian shepherd 7 weeks ago. He is 2.5 years old. He knew nothing, not even sit. He now knows sit, down, stay, leave it, come and a bunch of parlor tricks. But he is very low energy for this breed (I have had 2 border collies and and a border collie/aussie mix). He’s more like 9 year old golden retriever energy. He never plays with toys for more than a few minutes. And wont tug at all. If i grab it he just lets go. He is leash reactive though, so I know there is energy there. Is it just to soon to tell?
Kenneth K
Hey Robert! Soon I am moving into a new house with my fiancé. I have an English Staffy, she has 3 Mals 2 adult and 1 new puppy that we are currently training. We have been going on walks together with her dogs and mine and doing other things with them together and there has been no issues all though we are very alert during those times. Do you have any additional advice for when we begin to live in the same house. We
just keep them from annoying the others at the moment and keep them crated when alone and for down stone ect. Just curious if there are better things to do to prep for this. TY!
Shannon B
I have a 8 week old Bernese mountain dog. I’m trying to use treat training for the crate. The issue I’m having is with the dog being so small I have a divider in it so I’m having a hard time getting her in it. Question is should I take the divider out while introducing the crate?
John R
Hello Robert, I am pondering about putting my Labrador Retriever onto joint Supplements. He is going on 4 and is overweight(taking corrective action now) My reason for the supplements is preventative as opposed to cure. What ingredients should I look for.
Aaron F
Hi Robert, we have a 6 year old Great Dane mix who has extreme anxiety in the crate. He enters well, but everytime we leave we come home to a shaking drooling dog. He drools so much the plastic tray in the bottom of the crate is a lake by the time were home. He is scared of loud noises such as fireworks and thunder, and when he has been in the crate while we’re away and he hears these sounds, he tries to break out. He has broken through two wire crates to the point of bleeding and cuts, and chewed through a plastic kennel. What do we do? Is it possible to train him out of this?
Linda M
Could you dubb over one of your reactivity training videos focusing at reading the dogs body language so I can better predict what the dog will do and when the dog is about to react.
Danielle
Hello Robert! Thoughts and prayers for you and Janet at this time, I think of you two often. I think my 1.5 year old F GSD has moved up in “rank”. I’ve never seen this happen and wondered if this happens often? My 2YR F hound (she came first in our family) was treeing a squirrel and not letting me catch her. The GSD saw me trying to catch her. She ran over, growled at the hound and actually pinned her to the ground until I snapped on the leash. The GSD wasn’t fighting, but it certainly looked like a correction. I always feed the hound first, since she is older. Should I keep it that way?
Kim B
Do you have a video or course on understanding how to communicate with your dog. If a dog is going to attack another dog. How to basically see signs of bad behavior and good behavior? When a dog wags its tail? Is the dog happy? Also I have a dog that loves to eat socks and any clothing item. How to stop this?
Kamil
Hello Robert, greetings from Poland! Your response means everything to me. When he gets too worked up, he doesn’t care about me, the leash, the toys, the food, nothing. Cars are the worst, but he’s reactive to everything, bikes, pidgeons and falling leaves. I train him to focus on me, to walk with me until released, and lots more. I throw in some play into every session too. I reward him a ton. But no matter how hard we train, or how hungry he is – cars always win. It’s been 3 months of training now, over 2,5 hours every day. He’s not getting better, worse, he’s getting bigger and stronger.
R.J.
The other day, when out on a walk, we went by a dog that started growling and barking at my dog. After a few seconds, my dog growled back as we then kept walking past to go on our way.
Is this okay? It felt like my dog was telling the other to back off in a defensive way but I also don’t want these things to lead to him being more reactive.
