The other day he charged a jogger who appeared around a bend. He was off lead. Having a dog the size of Albert charging at you, barking and with raised hackles, must be daunting whether you’re a person or another dog.
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Humans tend to react to things a dog may find threatening in precisely the opposite way to how the dog himself might naturally want to react. Humans tend to keep on approaching, not ‘showing weakness’. A dog is much more likely to avoid, either by making a large arc or turning away.
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!
The way to start changing her reactivity is not by trying to force her into a different behaviour but by addressing the emotion that causes the behaviour – fear. Along with plenty of positive reinforcement.
Other dogs should now only be associated with nice things – comfortable equipment, a loose lead and a happy, relaxed human – and CHEESE. Tilly adores cheese, so cheese could be reserved solely for associating with other dogs until eventually she will be
thinking ‘oh good, a dog, where’s the cheese?’!
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