What happens when a sociable working dog is left alone for most of the day? Bred to do a job Nowadays too many dogs are effectively square pegs in round holes. When I was young (years and years ago) many women didn’t work. Dogs weren’t left alone for long. There Read more
Controlled in a dominant, ‘Alpha’ fashion, Monty gets rebellious and angry – and sometimes just a little scared.
In the nicest way possible the adolescent Mia needs to be brought down a peg or two without the use of confrontation. If a command (or I would now prefer to call it ‘cue’) is used and she is defiant and refuses, what next? If they back down they have lost, and if they try to insist they risk making her angry.