Ddog can smell the woman along the road before he sees her and goes ballistic - wtf

[SirChenjins]

This is getting ridiculous now - what do I do?? She's an innocuous looking older woman who walks a lot locally and for some reason he absolutely hates her - goes absolutely mental at the end of his lead, and this is often before he sees her. I had it this morning - we were in a small wooded area and all of a sudden he completely lost the plot. Continued to do so as we were walking the short distance back to the car and who did we see in the distance? She must have passed by the entrance to the woods a couple of minutes earlier.

DH is just back from a walk and had similar - older woman in the distance, ddog sniffing about in the grass and then, bam. Plenty more examples like this.

If we happen to meet her face to face on a path unexpectedly then all hell breaks loose - his reaction is really extreme. I know she had a dog that was so reactive he couldn't be walked, but I think that dog is dead now.

How on earth do I stop it?

Omg you can't do this

When he starts reacting, you could try distracting him by getting him to 'scent' for something that you've already trained him with, so that his focus is on a different smell than her's

There'll be all sorts of turf wars that you're just not aware of, op.

Maybe you see a sweet old lady, but dog sees something else. Is she doing gang signs at him as she walks by? 😂

That's a good idea actually - thank you! I'll give that a go.

😂😂 I have no idea, but if they are I wish they'd just sort out their differences!

Our dog has done this maybe 5 times in total. I always just assume he can tell they are bad people 🤣

Never thought of the medication thing.