Our first dog is now 10 months ish. He’s a lovely mini poodle. Very calm and lovely at home. Walks nicely on his lead (most of the time) and recall at 80% success rate (mostly long line unless deserted).
But he adores other dogs and desperately wants to play. He’s calmer now if he sees a dog - he used to pull madly on the lead and stand on his back legs crying to get to them. Now I can distract him if they aren’t really close. He will meet dogs and occasionally calmly have a sniff and move on when I say. But if there is a hint of the dog possibly even thinking about playing with him, he goes bonkers. Gets so over excited. He’s incredibly submissive and gets filthy rolling on his back, but then bounds about in their faces and wants to chase etc. It’s understandably too much for most dogs.
A few people have suggested it’s because he doesn’t really spend much time with pother dogs at all. We don’t need a dog walker or day care as someone is home most of every day.
I bumped into a lovely dog walker today. We got chatting and I asked her how she would deal with our dog on a walk with other dogs. She said he’s just a pup with not much experience and would learn fast. That she would walk him on his lead for a number of times first and that if we were flexible with time and day she could make sure he was with dogs that would tolerate him but might teach him some manners.
Do you think this might work?
Someone else has suggested day care. Or will he eventually grow out of this? It would be lovely to relax a little with him off his lead. But I’m very aware that many dogs wouldn’t want him in their face. Friendly or not. So I won’t be letting him off lead near other dogs until I can sort this.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
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Dog walker for over enthusiastic dog loving puppy?
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MissShapesMissStakes · 10/05/2019 16:12
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