I love Billypup with all my heart, she's 10 months old and mostly exceptionally well behaved, excellent recall by and large and mostly very obedient. BUT on the rare occasion when she choses not to be obedient she is so naughty.
Last week, we were having a lovely walk down by the river, beautiful crisp clear day, its a great secure (ish) area where she can run off lead and we've been down there many times with no issues whatsoever.
On this occasion she found an entire sheep skeleton washed up by the river and spent the walk running around with the whole front leg dangling around in her mouth (you have no idea how relieved I was to see the hoof and realised it wasn't human). She was sooooo very very pleased with herself. I knew this was going to be trouble and wanted to try and solve it in a positive way so walked with her while she ran around with it and she was pretty good staying with me, but always just out of reach. She is an energetic border collie so no chance of me physically catching her if she doesn't want to be caught. No opportunity presented itself to get her back on the lead early.
We get to the end of our walk and I have to then try actively get her back on the lead. She never ran off, just always made sure she was just out of reach so I couldn't either leash her or take the bloody thing off her.
I was lucky, in that, at this point a lovely lady with another Border Collie came along and unusually Billypup didn't want to play, but she did get jealous when I gave the other dog some of her treats and came close enough that I was able to grab her. It is a quiet area so I was lucky that someone came along.
I would love for some suggestions if anything like this happens again. There was nothing I could offer her that was more desirable to her than this horrid thing and she absolutely knew she was being naughty.
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billybagpuss · 15/12/2018 10:31
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