Have a very excitable 9 month old working cocker, who I say firstly I love to bits but is driving me crazy!! Yesterday he dug up a plant again and when I try to bring him inside with food he refused, so I went to get hold of his coller, to put his lead on a he nipped me, didn't bite hard or broke the skin, but it did hurt! Today just at the beginning of our walk he started to mess around with the lead, putting it in his mouth and pulling on it trying to play tug a war! I just ignored him and waiting until he stop and then gave him a treat when he was calm like the trainer said to do. A couple minutes later I realised his harness was on wrong so I tried to fix, the whole time he was mouthing my hands every time tried to fix it. I gave up then and was so upset I made him come home, we had only gone two houses down.
Not sure what to do, we have done all the positive training and ignoring bad behaviour. We been to two lots of puppy training class and our trainer completely disagree with any of the pack leader stuff and says he is an anxious puppy. But I am told daily by other dog walkers that he is very excitable and quite naughty and needs a firmer hand! Any advice? He finally go him stopping to pull on the lead with a new harness but he is still very jumpy, especially with new people and dogs and doesn't seem to listen to anything we say. He is walked for 40 mins a day, goes off lead (though his recall has been not so great in the last few weeks) and playable in the garden for a couple of hours a day. Doesn't sleep a lot! Any trading tips would be great!!!
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la20017 · 30/05/2017 10:14
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