Why wouldn’t he come out to greet me? One might think there was an invisible gate or electric fence, but no.
Outside the kitchen was the shiny floor leading to the front door and the sitting room. He won’t step on it.
Training alone doesn’t address this fear.
When out she will walk nicely, looking up and engaging with whoever is holding the lead. Keeping and holding attention is very valuable for managing situations but it it doesn’t get her to feel differently about an advancing person. It merely takes her attention away from them.
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On the day she arrived, a week ago, after hesitating for a few minutes Lily ran upstairs after Sox. All was well until they wanted to come down again. She refused. She quite literally dug her heels in. The gentleman put her harness on in an effort to walk her down, but she was in a blind panic.
His jumping up is a bit crazy, his licking of people a bit manic, he barks at ‘everything’, he sometimes tail-chases when particularly frustrated and he is obsessed with balls.
When they opened the door for me to go, Marley simply walked out and down the road, coming back home about fifteen minutes later.
We may have done some loose-lead walking but he didn’t consider that to be his morning walk, so he went by himself!
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The owners – the gentleman in particular – had taught her to jump up at people by exciting her. He caught her feet and danced about, encouraging her to jump on them when sitting down.
She is wildly excited and jumping on them when they come home – and rewarded with fuss. Even when people didn’t want her to be jumping up, their way of trying to stop her was merely reinforcing it.