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A running dogwalk? hahahaha, you’re so funny!!!
My resilience homework:
Different locations – walks into any new place pulling and wanting to walk on 2 legs, sees a person? goes nuts to go see them. I’m making a conscious effort to keep her from jumping (another hahaha) and she will cry she’s so excited.
It’s really hard to get her to do anything but sit for a split second in this mental state. If we are going in a store, I can’t get much focus at all out of her.If it’s an agility trial, I find it best to put her in her crate and she’ll immediately settle. After that she is much more thoughtful when she comes out. She does like to chew/lick in those instances, so I’ll being a kong for her.
She’s less exuberant about other dogs. Still wants to go see them, but if I distract her or ask for a behavior she’s totally fine just hanging with me. When she does meet a new dog she seems to read them well. Only gets super excited and starts jumping around if they are ok with her doing that. She has never jumped on someone’s head and had them want to eat her. (good girl)
I have not had any noises yet bother her. She may startle, but not run and will often go to the source if she can to check it out.
For the most part, she’s not much into physical touch. One time she fell asleep with her head on my lap. (One time….)
One of the things that still concerns her is if Ti alarm barks about something. If we are out back and he runs towards the fence barking like that, she will run to me and sometimes stand between my legs. I have rewarded this behavior and will give her a treat for coming to me. Once he stops barking, she goes right back to him. If he’s just barking because he’s excited about something, it doesn’t phase her.
She does like to sniff outside. She’s perfectly content to wander off by herself and explore as well, much to my dismay. I wish she were a little more concerned about where I was.She gets spooked at night by people. If they start talking to her, she is totally fine. Had one couple walk by with flashlights and she thought it was the boogie man so I started talking to them to get them to talk and as soon as they started talking, she wanted to go see them. So when she realizes these big dark objects are actually people, she is ok with them.
Week 1 and we are showing you what we’d ask for help on.
She’s not a die hard tugger, but I’m hoping to get there. I have my best luck when I take the tug and run away with it, I get bit but she latches on.
She did good though breaking for a trick and treat and going back to tug.
Toy races are going well except for the toy return! You could see when I went to reach for her collar she wants to move away. This seems to be situational.
Tug sit tug, she wants to down so I’m trying to release quick. Just getting a few seconds is a Victory.
