From Street Dog to House Dog — Why the Outside World Is Overstimulating

Why can a rescue dog be calm at home yet lose all self-control the moment she steps outside?

Sasha finds the outside world overstimulating.

A street dog by birth, eighteen-month-old Sasha has adapted amazingly well to life in a house. This is a tribute to both her basic temperament and to her new family’s own efforts.

She finds the outside world overstimulating

She started life on the streets in India. They think she has Pointer in her. I see possibly Labrador and German Shepherd. A beautiful mix, she doesn’t look like the typical street dog.

At five months old, along with her brother, she was caught and placed in a pound where she stayed for another seven months until the couple adopted her six months ago. (more…)

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Enjoyable Walks Begin at Home

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Walking the Two Dogs Together

The young lady had been walking them individually in order to work on Cooper’s pulling and Wilson’s cat-chasing. The thing that sapped her confidence to the extent that she feels she can’t walk them at all now was that on her last walk with Cooper, Wilson suddenly appeared.

Instead of just crying as he watched Cooper and the lady walk off down the road from an upstairs window, he leapt out of it.

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