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When Val was 16-18 weeks a mother + 5 yo child asked to pet her. All was going well until Val licked the kid. The little POS then slapped Val and continue to advance towards trying to hit her again while yelling “no no no don’t lick me”
On a happier note, we go to a boardwalk and to a park that has picnic tables and families use for gatherings to expose my dogs to kids and noisy adults. We just walk of chill out and keep our distance. I do not let them pet my dogs. I have the patches that say “do not pet” and when the younger kids ask I just tell them “he/she is not the petting kind of dog”
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When I first got my Pit he was 8 months. I tried to tire him. We walked and played for 4 hours straight. Did not work. The one time I remember he being tired as a young pup was when we hiked going up and down some pretty good hills for 7 hours straight. Lol.
Eventually we worked out his minimum needs (as an adult dog) were two 1.5 mile structured walks with me a day. That would get his mental state where he could have access to the whole house for the entire day on his own and not get into trouble. However, if we skipped this for 2-3 days something in the house would get chewed. From that I figured that it is not a question of being tired, but maintaining a good mental state. That however, was not sufficient for him to be happy. If we wanted happiness we had to add daily training.
So it is a long story, but what I gathered is that physically tiring some dogs is not really practical. However, there is a minimum amount of structured physical activity (work) they need in order to maintain a healthy mental state. In addition to work they also need to please you in order to be happy, and the best way to achieve that is training. What the training is about does not really matter.
Not sure if this is what you were referring to, but I hope it is useful.
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One more thing… say you are doing a lose leash walk and you see a dog or a person approach. You then give him the “heel” command. That will tell him that now he is no longer just hanging with you, but he has a job to do (even if that is just a pet-type heel). The timing must be before the distraction takes a hold of him. Hope it helps
EDIT, also because you just asked him to do something a smaller correction can be applied as he stats to become unfocused
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Oh there was a video where if you had the dog on the left side Robert would turn left during the loose walk. That would teach the dog to not be ahead of you.
Maybe we will try that someday. But I usually walk both dogs at the same time, one on each side. Them being a coupe of feet ahead is fine for us.
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Some people may see it differently, but for us the loose leash walk is whatever leash you brought is the radius he gets. There is no lenience per se because it is understood that if you brought a 4 foot leash he can be 2 feet ahead and he is still “within the terms of the contract”.
The heel, again for us, is more of a command, whether that is a competition heel or a stay in this general area while we are walking. It is work for the dog so, depending on the dog, it is harder for them to keep it up on their own. When the dog is on heel the leash is just a backup.
One thing you could try is to get them “in the zone”. For me that is a resonantly brisk pace (as opposed to a measured stroll). Their ears go back and they look forward. They are still aware of their environment, but you can see in their body language that they are in work mode.
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Oh, if you need the martingale to sit lower/loser, or if her standard collar is a flat one, you can use an extension (Amazon ASIN B07KM9GM7P).
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Is it possible to train him to find the remote, the car keys, the house keys, the phone, etc. May be they have a scent or you could put a signature scent on them — hmm but then you need to keep the bottle of scent out of the house… and then the scent would spread as the object get touched/moved… Hmmm. No idea if that is possible, but it would be a super cool game… or maybe it is a bad idea LOL
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Somewhat unrelated. With a new pup coming soon we are reminiscing when our older dogs themselves were pups, and I just found out that my dog walker would throw handfuls of cookies in the crate when putting my dogs back in. Hmmm, that’s why… 😂
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This may help https://youtu.be/G6fkOT1i9Gw Time index 11:45
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Ha! Yes, I thought it was a one off, but it seems to be their standard practice