Hello, I have a very lovely 2 year old dog with some small but really annoying habits..
The first one is knocking into me, it is driving me CRAZY. Basically, if I am, say, sitting at the table and she decides she wants to get past me, instead of politely walking around me she will simply trot past me and knock into my foot as she goes.
Being a fairly large dog and seeing as she moves past quite briskly it actually really hurts and makes me very cross.
She has also done the same past the pram, knocking into it and waking the baby up in the process.
I should add, that I do have a suspicion that she is actually losing her sight somewhat but even so, she knows where I am and plenty of completely blind dogs seem to manage walking past their owners without knocking into them.
She will also occasionally dash past me up the stairs, this I absolutely cannot have.
I have a weakness in one of my ankles so have to manage stairs slowly and carefully, I also often have a baby to carry.
The dog KNOWS she is supposed to walk behind me but occasionally will shoot past, then she will see that I am cross with her and puts herself in her crate and refuses to come out!
She is also a bit of a pain when visitors come, she likes to bounce all around the house and for certain favourite people she has reverted to jumping up a bit (something I had trained her not to do), I would like her to sit and wait and greet visitors politely.
I always end up having to shut her in the kitchen when people come because she is so bouncy and then she whines, I tried holding her in a sit once to stop her bouncing all over my mil and she made annoying whiny growly sounds while mouthing my hand the whole time...
And lastly, walking her is horrible.
Off lead she is amazing, she has perfect recall, runs past people, is perfectly polite with other off lead dogs.
But put her on the lead and she is a nightmare, she will lunge towards other dogs even those a fair distance away, she will try and jump at people walking by sometimes, she pulls then literally jumps backwards into a sit then pulls again then jumps backwards again, oh my god. I cannot get this dog to walk nicely on a lead, I have tried stop and start, turning around, leash corrections, running backwards, a head halter, a slip collar...
Unfortunately, I need to teach her to walk nicely on a lead, she cannot be off lead all the time as she is a car chaser.
Please help me.
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JustMe1990 · 09/11/2014 13:50
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