Kara is a generally jumpy dog, ready to react to any sudden noise or appearance. While we can work on children specifically and traffic, this will be a lot more successful if we can improve her general nervous state.
Beeping. I have been to something similar before. The cause had been previous use of an electric shock collar. Panics at beeping sounds. Golden Labrador Indy panics at beeping sounds and sounds of a certain similar frequency. A notification on a mobile phone at home sends him rushing upstairs to Read more…
Four the past four weeks, 6-year-old Black Labrador Jemima has lived in her new home. She lives with three other rehomed Labradors. All four are female and they all get on famously. An elderly lady adopted her a few years ago. She had been brought over from Ireland in a Read more…
They have had Jake since he was a puppy. He’s now four years old. The couple have theories about why he’s quite so noise sensitive. As a puppy a closed crate crashed down beside him and sent him running and hiding. It’s very possible this happened during a fear Read more…
Tilly, a 16-month-old Labrador, lives in a family with three children age 5, 10 and 13. Their dilemma is whether Tilly is the right dog for their family, and whether they are the right people for their well-loved dog. They ‘got Tilly for the children’. Growling at the kids Recently Read more…
The play fighting immediately gets out of hand. Four month old Labrador puppy Harvey ‘attacks’ Bertie. Bertie, age ten, doesn’t get cross. He joins in. The lady breaks the play fighting up eventually. She says otherwise they would never stop. Killjoy Now call me a killjoy, but I think this Read more…
(Online consultation) Here is Mia’s story. Mia is a Golden Labrador, age 5. Over the past few weeks her behaviour towards some other dogs has changed from friendly to reacting aggressively. Could it be pain? When only a year old poor Mia had two hip replacements which meant weeks of Read more…
Gun dog Black Lab Bentley is extremely well-behaved and polite, an absolute delight.
The young dog seems, however, careful. He follows anyone who gets up to walk about, looking worried. He can be jumpy.
His young lady owner is very conscientious indeed. She is keen to make a good gun dog out of him and is very disciplined with the training. Each family member helps her by walking him and they are well-trained too – very keen to help. All walks include training sessions.
The girl voiced concern that if she follows my behaviour route, Bentley’s training may go downhill. I suspect that easing right back on the gun dog training and giving Bentley more choice will instead enhance their training sessions.
A short story about two nine-month-old Labrador sisters. They are bouncy, enthusiastic and friendly, perfect given their breed and their age.
The main problems are jumping up at people and pulling on lead. Walks are causing the gentleman considerable stress. For reasons not relevant here, he only took over walking them a week or so ago. (more…)
Goldie probably already had the seeds of timidity before they got her as a young puppy. If she had encountered many more people sufficiently early it would have helped, but they were caught in that trap of having to wait for vaccinations before taking her out (another matter I frequently Read more…