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VergeCollies « Zen5.me Zen5.meWell-nighZen5.me   RSS   Archive for the ‘Border Collies’ Category Tips for rehabbing a fear warlike dog- Solid K9 please help! 04 May We started with a severe specimen of fear overstepping in an 8 week old full bred verge collie pup.  He was fearful of everything, he was weary of playing, he was unsure of our other dog, he growled at half the people in the family such as the two young girls and one son. He would growl at every stranger he saw and he didn’t like to be held or touched.  At a dog park, he stayed with his big brother at first and did okay but as he got increasingly afraid, he started getting warlike and started attacking the other dogs.  We tried him with a muzzle and he muzzle slammed them.  We had people try to pet him with his muzzle on and he would try to zest them. Off troika he would stay with us but started venturing remoter out to scare yonder the bad guys, barking and showing teeth.  One man just laughed since he just a puppy and I came and got him but a child got scared and ran and that made him run without him and nip his leg.  Nothing too major but it made things well-spoken to us, he needed help! We hired 3 variegated trainers.  Fired the first one on the first day.  The second one was an e collar trainer and he went to a workbench and train but he took a very harsh stance and Whisky is very fearful, so harshness breaks trust so although we learned somethings, he regressed considering he was too heavy handed for his temperament.  The third trainer was a positive trainer, she didn’t do e collars but we encorperated what she taught us that heled his anxiety, that was working, withal with what was working with the ecollar to find a mix that seemed to work for him.  We used it lightly for small things and use it for big things that were serious at medium but not use it for every writ that he would follow anyway without the collar anyway.  Too much collar causes unconfined uneasiness for him, so overuse is a problem for him but used correctly for him, it is a unconfined tool. We work on densenitisizing him to many things that triggered him, one at a time and on obedience at the same time.  Easily crate trained when guests come over, he will want to go to door but will go to bed on command. sleeps by self in gated zone near unshut crate will wait for dinner politely if asked will take turns pulling meat off  a unorthodoxy with his brother while I hold it can take any supplies from him will play wittiness with strangers (wouldn’t when young, was too wrung of them) Ignores people on walks (barked and lunged when young) can ignore people in house IF I can trust they will ignore him(most people I don’t trust the people, they think they know better), so we crate or gate him 90% of time word-stock have people touch him, big no, will bite.  Not too nonflexible but enough… without he has bonded with someone unceasingly for a few months, he will tideway them and make it clear, they can touch, he might climb in their lap.  He loves touch from us. he will do touch games for treats with strangers dogs are a big trigger, on a walk, he will ignore 75% of time unless other dog initiatiates. dogs walking by his yard, set him off big time, he can be tabbed away, if alone, will usually listen on first call, if his brother is out there barking (brother never listens), he won’t listen until 4th call.  I reward every time.  If collar is on, he comes right away.  He will distract himself from the stress by bringing us a wittiness or frisbee to throw.  It is all anxiety. if a dog comes to whet of gate, He will try to zest him and goes crazy.  Harder to undeniability him off, collar I can on high, words, not until up to six tries or if I throw a ball. His brother is a huge instigater, he acts much largest when his brother is not out there but we don’t have tenancy over brother, old sick dog, didn’t do well with e collar. He can ventilator our cats, getting better.  Cats mostly stay upstairs and dogs stay down.  Sometimes cat decides to come down, dog rushes cat, 95% dog listens and I undeniability him and he listens and cat runs up stairs, once he unprotected cat.  We separated them, no forfeiture washed-up to either.  He moreover chases bunnies that he could reservation but chooses to,run slow,because he likes the ventilator and doesn’t really want the reservation part. Goals:  Trust him consisting with people (but that ways trusting people to follow his rules, no look, no talk, no eye contact, and NO Touch, and no fast movements)which may not be realistic? Goals:  Get him conditioned to,accept other dogs, he lives with one fine now and he likes,to play, he just needs trust and coping mechanisms, but how,do,we get there, saw videos but I don’t have wangle to wifely beta dogs to practice with… Goals:  be worldly-wise to take a vacation again!! please!  Everyone says skiver the dog, but we love him. would love to hear from Jeff Gellmen at http://solidk9training.com/about/   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies, Personal   Updated, post on our Prozac trazadone fear warlike dog 30 Apr Many of you have asked for an update on our pup.  First, I am waiting on an iPad so please excuse my mistakes, later I hope to come when and fix any error or typos with a real computer but thumb typing isn’t my thing. So, Whiskey is 4.5 years old already, time flies.  We still have his brother, Golden Retriever, Ares, who is scrutinizingly 11.  They venerate each other.  Ares is getting old though and we don’t know how much longer we will have him for.  Whiskey still takes Prozac each day, 30 mg, and 200 mg of trazadone in the morning and 200 mg at night.  If we miss a dose, you can tell. He sleeps in as we like to and is fully awake and bugging us without 11:00 am.  He usually wants to play or interact by each then.  We usually will either throw a frisbee, throw a soccer ball, play get the dog with tug included, or reservation the hose game.  After he will settle lanugo for a while.  Later, he asks for a second play time and we do one of the same or dog training.  Finally, virtually dinner, we take him for a walk.  On a weekend, we might go to a public park or our 4 acres where he can run for troika and run in the creek. On walks:  he ignores people, 99 percent of the time unless someone gets right in his squatter talk to him or f he felt his space was stuff invaded.  We alimony loftiness from people in general, he wears a vest that says requite me space.  When walking in tropical proximity, I have him heel to me and he is fine.  He never lunges or tries to go without people like he used to. He doesn’t seem triggered by them at all.  He trusts that we won’t let them touch him and this is the only thing that would set him off. My sister in law thought she was “different” and could touch him and it would be fine, so she did, he gave her a light zest to say, no, I am not okay with that.  I think it was good, he controlled the bite, didn’t over react and made a well-spoken statement, she handled it well too by reading his message, not overreacting and not freaking but just moving on calmly. When people come over, he can be overdue a wire only fence hat he could hands unravel through but it acts as a psychological windbreak to pinpoint his space.  He sees someone new, he will requite a little warning growl but that’s it. He can be loose,in the house with strangers if they follow he rules and are not fearful.  They must do no look, no touch, nomination all, no eye contact.  Then they must play some bonding games with him, that’s all it takes. Other dogs are the biggest problems.  His brother Ares, makes it worse.  He gets Whisk all,triggered by barking at them.  When Ares passes, we will have largest luck calming Whiskey well-nigh other dogs.  He sees dogs on walks and gets tense but I say, leave it, and he will probably ignore.  He never starts it with a dog but if a dog starts it with him, he will get increasingly physical and difficult to distract.  I would never put him squatter to squatter with a dog, maybe a puppy, slowly.  I think he has potential but it will require work. i tried to meet with the SiWaysSit trainer to discuss Whiskey’s progress and what we learned well-nigh him and how he responds.  I really finger like an expert with all I have read and worked through with my dog and I know I am an expert on MY dog since I have trained him it’s many approaches and have learned how he responds to variegated methods based on his needs.  I was hoping he and I could work as a team, that I could learn from him and he could retread things based on what I had learned works and doesn’t work,specifically for Whiskey.  He didn’t seem interested in that, he seemed to imply HE was the he expert on all dogs with uneasiness and you have to push them to get anywhere.  Pushing Whiskey shuts him down, makes him lose,trust, and no growth is achieved considering all he has is flight, flight, fear going on.  You have to teach these dogs at a place of safety, tropical unbearable to the water that they see it, maybe get their feet wet but don’t throw them n and hope they learn to swim.  It’s tabbed threshold and I strongly believe in it.  So, I was very disappointed not to protract  what I was hoping could be a partnership to protract to modernize Whiskey. We have been rented with other things but still work on his training and hope to get when to a situation where we can find someone to help us work and on his proximity to people and dogs.               No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   Update on Whiskey 05 Nov Whiskey will be 4 in December 2016.  It is nonflexible to believe that we have had him for scrutinizingly 4 years now.  He continues to build trust and make progress.  His response to strangers continues to get better.  It is all in the person’s energy.  People who are dog friendly but respect his boundaries without pushing him, do really well.  Tonight we had a house full of strangers and he was off troika among us.  He moreover went and took treats from my sister in law, jumped up on her and crawled into her lap for treats.  She was worldly-wise to lightly pet him while he was stuff fed treats.  This was a huge accomplishment. He still doesn’t like dogs but is getting increasingly relaxed well-nigh them too, he will come to me when he sees them rather than stay barking at them.  I finger that we could possibly introduce him to a puppy or really relaxed dog.  Each day that goes by and he learns that nothing bad happens to him, is flipside day for improvement.   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   Whiskey is turning 3 –VergeCollie / Dog FearOversteppingBlog 16 Nov Our sweet verge collie will be 3 in a few increasingly weeks, wow, how time flies.  It is late so I will alimony this update short – but here are our most recent stories: Whiskey Meets a LabSquattertoSquatterWe have this neighbor who has an invisible fence.  It freaks Whiskey out since all he sees is dogs that are loose.  When she has friends over with dogs, they are often let loose with her dogs.  They may get a collar too but haven’t been trained with it so they still run right through the fence, zap and all.  So, I am walking Whiskey and a Lab comes charging over from their yard (not the first time).  I panic a little (got to stop doing this as I am sure it doesn’t help Whiskey).  I yell that my dog will EAT their dog… okay, I don’t say but I say they largest get their dog fast considering Whiskey is “not good with dogs.”  She is too slow to get over and Whiskey is squatter to squatter with the lab – I wasn’t prepared.  Whiskey didn’t know what to do!  He did nip at the dog but victual nips, no outright attack, nothing the dog plane felt at all – it was very minor.  The lab did not plane know what was going on.  I was trying to alimony Whiskey yonder from the lab – I should have tried just walking away, I don’t know if that would be largest or not but I was trying to just put myself in the way… maybe not smart either but I didn’t think the lab meant any harm and Whiskey wasn’t going to intentionally zest me… so finally, the lady comes and gets her lab and apologizes to Whiskey – asking if she can pet him, HA?!  No…  The good news was that it was not a terrible experience, Whiskey was squatter to squatter with a dog, he did not get bit and he did not REALLY zest the other dog. Whiskey Walks by Dogs Closely We have moreover been in increasingly and increasingly situations where Whiskey has had to walk by dogs or have dogs within just a foot of him.  He has handled it very well.  He had snooping but was not overly yellow-eyed and was worldly-wise to ignore and move on quickly when I asked him to. Talking to WhiskeyIncreasinglypeople have been talking to him lately, he doesn’t growl anymore when people do that!!! Bonding with my Oldest When we got Whiskey, my oldest son was yonder at higher so Whiskey did not know him and he was not trust worthy.  He did come and stay with us so Whiskey learned to winnow him in the house but they had an try-on to just ignore each other.  Now if we are on a walk and yonder from the house but see my oldest yonder from the house and tell Whiskey that it is “ge ge” (what we undeniability him, Chinese word for oldest brother), he wags his tail and runs up to him!Tabbedoff from the Cat Since Whiskey moved in, the cats had to move their domicile to the second floor.  Whiskey would ventilator the cats and I don’t trust him with his upper prey drive.  The cats learned they stay upstairs and the dogs unchangingly stay downstairs.  Sometimes, the cat comes lanugo on the stairs and sticks her throne through the rails to meow at me well-nigh something and Whiskey sees her and starts to ventilator her, running at the stairs – however, I have been worldly-wise to undeniability him off mid-chase!  This is good so that maybe, if overly needed, I could undeniability him mid-chase from chasing a dog or something. Final Update He continues to improve!  We are going to be talking to a new trainer and either way, we will protract our work to make him a non-reactive dog someday!   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies, Personal   Dog FearOversteppingJournal 7/13/2015 13 Jul Adorable, Cute, and FearWarlike              I protract to periodical well-nigh Whiskey, our sweetVergeCollie.  He is now 2.5 years old, wow, how the time flies!  We protract to treat him for his fear overstepping and although it is a lot of work and CONSUMES a lot of our life, it is rewarding.  He is such a sweet boy and his family loves him dearly and he loves us so much as well.  He continues to take 2 Trazadone in morning withal with 30 mg of Prozac and then 1-2 Trazadone at night (each Trazadone is 100 mg.).   He is an energetic, smart, loving dog with a typical quirky verge collie personality.  If you have overly had a BC before, you understand how intelligent they are and how variegated than most dogs.  He acts increasingly like a 5 year old child than a dog and we hold conversations with him considering the number of words in the English language he understands is CRAZY!  He “talks” when with variegated types of barks, sounds, and soul language.  We usually know what each other is saying without too much trouble.  It really is a variegated wits to connect with a dog at such an intellectual level. As I have said surpassing in my posts, towers the trust with your fear warlike dog is vital.  Now that we have it so strongly, I worry so much well-nigh bringing in new trainers to help us “get to the next level.”  So many dog trainers have so many variegated philosophies well-nigh dog training.  Some are the “Pack Leader Type,” some finger you need to “Break your dog lanugo first,” – when I heard this I cringed!  This type of leadership is the WORST thing for MY DOG.  For dogs with dominant personalities who need to be brought under control, it might be the perfect fit (I personally have never met a dominant dog) but for a fear warlike dog who lacks self conviction and is very fearful, if you were to BREAK IT DOWN, you would undo EVERYTHING I just worked for in the last two years.  So, I have to be shielding that no trainer I work with has or will use this tideway with my dog!  He knows I am the pack leader, this no longer needs to be established so I don’t need a pack leader type trainer either. What he needs is resulting exposure to what he fears with someone who is confident, not afraid, knows when to when off, and can provide him many opportunities to see that what scares him is not a threat.  As he continues to get this feedback to his brain, he will uncork to relax and the scary item can get closer and closer but never should it be pushed on him to the point that he is shaking, fearful, or loses the trust in me that I alimony him safe.  Finding trainers who will do this is next to untellable but I alimony looking!!!  I have some increasingly calls to make.  Most trainers only know how to “train” and most behaviorists only seem to take you so far and then don’t seem to follow through to the end.  I need someone who will listen to BOTH me and my dog, not someone who says, they know better. At this point and increasingly than two years of training, classes, therapy, and living with my dog, I know what he needs and what has worked.  We have come so far and I want us to make it further!! Whiskey needs to spend time with increasingly visitor in the house that he doesn’t know.  We had our first guest, A, for 5 days and 4 nights.  Since A is a child (pre-teen), we could not ask of her what we might be worldly-wise to ask of an sultana – no touch, no look, no eye contact (one thing from Caesar that is very important to Whiskey’s repletion with strangers).  A loves dogs and she is a child and he is increasingly nervous with the unpredictability of children.  So, we had to alimony him overdue a gate, on leash, playing wittiness (ball will distract him from anything), or in a downstay by our feet.  His reactions were very small over all compared to former visitors, again, showing improvement.  He would do small growls when she would show up at first without we had been gone or first thing in the morning.   I felt that I could probably have let him loose but safety is a priority, so I did not.  The last day, he was begging for supplies from a downstay and she came and gave him a cracker.  She and he both got up and he went to her.  He really just wanted to sniff her and I could tell by his soul language that he was not aggressively going near her, so I asked her to stand still, he went and sniffed her and then backed yonder considering she moved and it scared him, he let out a low growl to say, “hey I am scared,” and I went and put him overdue the gate so he could finger unscratched with distance.  He did the right thing though, when she moved, he backed away.   This is the point, I felt we were at – where he is still quite nervous but he is learning to move yonder now.  I probably should have rewarded him at the time but I didn’t know if he would know if I was rewarding for the moving yonder or the growl and I didn’t want to risk that he wouldn’t know that it was the move yonder that was the correct behavior. I think that slowly we can uncork to do a little bit more, I am VERY inobtrusive and only do things that I fully trust I can tell where Whiskey’s throne is at by his soul language and energy – although he does need to start going to people on his own and sniffing them and realize that nothing bad happens AND that if at unendingly he feels unsure, he can leave.  I wish I could repeat this drill a 100 times, I just need some strangers who don’t fear dogs!!! I alimony hoping to have increasingly time but the time is flying by with all this other work I find myself rented with!! Will update increasingly later!       No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   Updates on Working with a FearWarlikeDog 27 May It is nonflexible to believe that Whiskey, ourVergeCollie, is 2.5 years old now.  Putting the time, money, and energy to help a dog with fear overstepping is a lot for a family to take on.  Now I wish I had some video of how bad he was when he was younger to see how far we have come considering our nonflexible work is paying off.  One thing, however, is that variegated things may work for variegated dogs and having a large number of variegated things to try and consistency in using your armory of techniques is vital.  The first thing you must have is a strong relationship of TRUST with your dog.  He has to know that he can trust you 100% of the time and that you will protect him, everything else builds from this.  This ways that you have to be shielding well-nigh choices you make in his treatment considering unrepealable choices can take yonder that trust and then the other things you do will not be as effective.Towerstrust ways that you understand dog psychology, dog signs of stress, and in particular you can read YOUR dog for stress and step in when you see your dog in stress and stop the situation.  Examples of signs of stress include tail between the legs, ears back, unrepealable “looks” in their eyes, yawning, shaking (both literally and shaking off like they are wet), whining, growling, movement yonder from stressful situation, sniffing of ground or looking yonder in avoidance, and more.  One of my kids hugs the dog all the time, he tolerates hugs from this child considering he is part of our pack but he often shows signs of discontent during the hug and I have to tell my child to alimony the hug short.  There used to be so many situations that would trigger all of the whilom signs of stress but now we are happy when he is worldly-wise to do a shake (like he is shaking off water but he isn’t wet, I will refer to this as a wet shake from now on but this does not midpoint he is wet) to wifely himself rather than growl and lunge, it is a much largest way for him to deal with the stress.  We reward him and tell him “good dog” when he makes choices to use these calming signs rather than let his stress build to aggression.  He has been worldly-wise to get this point, however, considering he knows that I will not put him in a bad situation.  For example if we see flipside dog or a small child, he knows that I will take him in a direction that walks us a far loftiness from the stressor rather than alimony us right next to them.  Before, he would lunge, growl, bark, or try to zest at the dog or child considering he did not trust that he would be unscratched and felt the need to act on it.  Now, he trusts that he will be unscratched so he can relax. Medication is flipside item that helped a lot.  We had him on just Prozac and it helped a little.  We widow Trazadone and it helped quite a bit and then we doubled the Trazadone and got plane largest response.  For him, he just has so much anxiety, he needs the medication.  We tried not giving it to him to see what would happen and he just started shaking terribly and hiding, he was a mess.  On the medication, he is calmer, wants to play, is loving, and acts like a normal dog with the exception that we still have some fear issues but they are much less severe and we protract to work on them. Positive training Vs. E-Collar Methods – At first we tried SitWaysSit as they promote a lot of videos of curing any dog with problems.  We signed up but Whiskey was increasingly than they bargained for.  If it had been the person who created the visitor instead of a Franchise Owner, we may have had increasingly luck.  I have seen people successfully use the E-Collar with what seems like fearful warlike dogs BUT with that said you must remember that you are dealing with a dog who has FEARS.  Using a negative tool on a fearful dog might be a bad idea unless you are one of the few experts with tons of training who do this for a living and would take the dog in until he was fixed.  If you just get a package with 3 lessons and some group classes (what is typically sold by SitWaysSit) this is not a fix for a dog with severe FearOversteppingfor plane the most defended owner!  Whiskey learned a lot of obedience but he is a verge collie and knew a lot of obedience surpassing we started and obedience was not our goal.  We want him to be worldly-wise to play with other dogs and not eat small children and bunnies.  Sit ways Sit is not designed to do this, at least not the one locally.  We did learn a lot in unstipulated and I do think there is a place for the E-Collar for working with FearWarlikedogs, I will get to that in a minute.  After spending scrutinizingly a year without much progress, we moved on to positive only methods (the ANTI-ECollar people).  I wrote well-nigh a lot of things I learned in other blog posts so I won’t repeat that here but that was money well spent overall.  It unfurled to build trust between Whiskey and I.  It moreover helped condition him to relax during stressful situations and in combination with the trazadone that was started during that time, we really started to see progress.  Overall, I would recommend this tideway if washed-up with someone who really knows their stuff and helps you do it with your dog as a first tideway rather than the E-Collar.  I did, however, say I felt E-Collars could help and what we found is that in unrepealable situations where positive training was just NOT working no matter what we did, a negative reinforcement was the only option.  This is not a good first line of defense though since it does not build trust.  Right now, Whiskey still has a problem charging our fence outside when the kids in the next yard over play ball, run by quickly, or if dogs walk by on the street.  We tried over and over with positive reinforcement to stop this but could not get anywhere.  It was moreover nonflexible to time and be resulting with positive reinforcement in those situations which did not help.  He really needed to have the positive reinforcement EVERY time and it was not feasible with life to reservation him EVERY time (you might be in pj’s, cooking dinner, not have cookies on you, just can’t stand out there and do it, etc. etc.)  so we put on the E-Collar and as soon as he charges the fence, the sawed-off gets pushed and he is now choosing to ignore the kids in the yard (that was easier for him than the dogs walking by).  He will moreover sometimes ignore the dogs, he may still whine, or will get a toy for you to throw to distract him but he is coming up with alternatives for you and if you undeniability him when he does tuition (when we forget to put the collar on him), he comes in the house right away.  Gradually, these situations will no longer be an firsthand trigger for him as we protract to condition him to relax and not get into a state of flowing adrenaline when he views these situations. Our walks have reverted dramatically.  We used to be worldly-wise to plane see people or dogs, now he ignores people, ignores children, and plane ignores dogs if we walk virtually them (he watches them for well-nigh 15 seconds while we walk virtually them but then looks forward again).  He does still react negatively if someone comes up on him forthwith like a jogger and doesn’t requite us space considering he thinks he is going to be hurt – not sure what to do well-nigh that yet but we will have to work on some workout of that.  He moreover does not wade the door when UPS drops of packages and is quicker to winnow people in the house.  He plane went to one of our regular guests on his own and asked to be pet by her when usually he doesn’t want anyone but family to touch him.  We will protract to work with having people in the house considering that is one of our biggest problems that limits his life and our life.  We don’t like locking him up and he doesn’t like it either.  Once he is tired from a walk, he does VERY well strangers walking virtually as long as they aren’t small children stuff unpredictable. I moreover really want to work on getting him together with other dogs but I need to find a trainer who will do that with me.  We may use the E-Collar for that and consider SitWaysSit for that then since it worked for that in the past.  However, I need to make sure I alimony his trust so that is why I hesitate a little.  He is moreover listening largest with our cat.  If she shows herself, he knows he is not unliable to go near her and will listen to me to get yonder – if I am not there, that is a variegated story – which is why he stays crated when I am not home. That is our update for now, sorry for any typos or crazy sentences – too lazy to proof read 🙂  I will alimony you all updated.   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies, Personal   Progress with Whiskey –VergeCollie FearOverstepping27 Apr April 27th 2015 Onward we travel in our quest of helping a very fearfulVergeCollie escape his demons. Whiskey is over 2 years now and we have spent lots of money on variegated trainers, training techniques, and invested much time into learning these many methods.  We have had some unconfined gains.  If you consider Whiskey at 10, stuff the most warlike Cujo wade dog who wants to wade and zest any person or dog he sees, we went from a 10 to 6.  This ways we still have a long way to go as the goal would be to get to a 0 (not going to happen) or 1, maybe 2. Here are some of Whiskey’s old traits / Progress in red.  Just seeing someone, would start aggression.  Sees people nearby, does not react. Anyone talking to him, would start aggression.  Shows some summery stress when people say his name but does not get warlike usually.  Any dog, in sight would start aggression, whining, fear.  Can see dogs on walks and ignore them. Any person inward home would be an outright attack.  Can be guided to deal with strangers inward to house and watch calming – inside crate, tied, or on leash. Anyone touching him = bite.  Still a problem, does not like touch Anyone near him = tries to bite.  People can stand near him now and ignore him and he is fine. Wouldn’t plane play games with strangers.  He will play games with strangers. Could not be distracted from his fears.  He can play wittiness and stave things that scare him like a dog walking by. Would see children and unchangingly lunge and attack.  Children still make him nervous but he does not try to lunge and wade by default anymore. Would see kids playing in yard next door, would try to wade through fence.  With ecollar, will ignore kids running virtually yard, up to fence, and playing ball. Would see dogs walking near fence, would tuition fence, bark, and whine.  With ecollar, will just watch dogs walk by fence with no barking, charging, or whining.   So, you can see how much progress we have made.  We have found that using the ecollar with the really tough situations is helpful.  We use it just with the charging outside (kids playing and charging without dogs), he unquestionably doesn’t plane get “zapped” much anymore considering he knows he is not supposed to tuition the fence and will usually remember and just stop himself or listen as I requite him a verbal warning first, if there is time. We moreover try to protract with the positive reinforcement rewards for everything as well.  We plane pair the ecollar with treats, “dog walks by, Whiskey chooses not to charge, bark, or whine, then comes inside, he gets a treat.” With nicer weather coming up we need to start finding increasingly scenarios where we can work with getting closer to other dogs and practicing people touching him, those are our two biggest hurdles. We did have to take him to the vet and had to totally sedate him for the exam.  It worked out okay.  We moreover increased his trazadone to 200 mg am and 200 mg pm in wing to his prozac to see if we can lower his uneasiness more.     No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   FearOversteppingRehabilitation Continues 26 Aug August 26, 2014   Whiskey is now a year and 8 months.  He has increasingly conviction and thankfully that has helped him.  It is such a rencontre to have both a people and dog fear warlike animal.  We have had to put his dog fear overstepping on hold for the most part considering making him unscratched virtually people is much increasingly important than making him unscratched virtually other dogs although we use our methods in both instances we have increasingly tenancy of people behavior, they usually don’t go to the end of a troika and start lunging at him as we walk by so that is probably flipside reason why we have had increasingly success in that area. We protract to make progress.  Here are the things that have helped the most for people who are single-minded to fixing their dogs: 1.  Know the breed.  For Whiskey, he is a verge collie, I know what makes him tick from the standpoint of his breed.  He has innate instincts that work for him and versus and things we can use that were working versus him that we can switch to work for him.  He has an intense momentum for prey.  So, if he is fixated on something he shouldn’t be – like a dog or a person, we can redirect by using his prey momentum versus him.  If a dog walks by, we tell him to squint for bunnies.  If we want to redirect him from a person, we siphon a wittiness and uncontrived him with play.  Border collies and balls are inseparable. 2.  Know your dog.  Trainers can tell you lots of things but what they can’t tell you is what will work weightier for YOUR dog considering you know your dog best.  Take in all the information, try everything.  Know the successors but moreover know what things your dog likes best.  Whiskey likes balls but he likes soccer balls largest than other balls.  There are times he would rather have play as a reward than a treat as a reward, some trainers don’t believe this and think treats are the only or the weightier way to reward, sometimes play outweighs food.  Whiskey gets tired fairly quickly for a verge collie.  We can tire him out in 30 minutes – 1 hour depending on how hot it is.  Once he is tired, he is much increasingly receptive to EVERYTHING, this is true for scrutinizingly all fear warlike dogs, see #3. 3.  Exercise your dog surpassing exposing them to their fears.  If you are going to do something that is going to stretch them, make your dog tired first.  Also, make them tired in as fun of a way possible so they finger very happy and bonded.  You will be really surprised at the results!  Ceaser Millan shows this trick on his shows all the time, it makes him squint like magic.  The problem is that we can’t alimony our dogs worn-out 24 hours a day in real life, it isn’t practical so we have to use this as a tool, not as a magic bullet. 4.  Use medication – we used just prozac for a while without seeing too much resurgence but subtracting trazadone made a HUGE difference, so requite this combination a try.  Don’t be wrung of medication for dogs, it is largest than them wintry someone and having to be put down.  Will they need it for life?  I don’t know, stay tuned.  Whiskey has made some nice progress over the last year, if we protract to make progress like this, maybe some day he will be well unbearable to taper off and he will trust the world enough. 5.  See the right behaviorist – don’t mistake a dog trainer for a behaviorist, they are not the same thing, although you moreover need to make sure your dog is fully obedience trained for success.  As for the cost, I wish I could start a fund and maybe I will put this in my will or something that there is a fund for people who can’t sire the forfeit of behaviorists but want to save their dogs, it is so unfair that there isn’t a “welfare” system set up where people who are willing and defended to helping these animals can get self-ruling help if they are willing to put along the huge value of time and effort it takes to rehabilitate these dogs.  I can’t imagine stuff as fearful as they are!  Hopefully, you can sire to see a behaviorist and learn some techniques if not, read well-nigh the games and techniques I was taught in my other posts and practice, practice, practice.  Remember just like with a therapist, if the first behaviorist doesn’t seem like a good fit, alimony looking, I found so many have variegated philosophies and I interviewed well-nigh 10 surpassing I picked the woman I chose. 6.  Remember that progress is SLOW!!!  I can’t stress that enough.  It has been a year and half and here are some examples of our progress: Whiskey growls at EVERYBODY he sees, would run at strangers and aggressively bark, growl (even at 4 months) Whiskey would run up a stranger and bite, would snap at people near him Couldn’t see a person without him crying, whining, growling, shaking Couldn’t see a dog with crying, whining, growling, shaking, lunging, attacking Whiskey wouldn’t plane play ball, his favorite thing, with a stranger Progress Whiskey ignores people he sees in public 95% of time, may growl/bark if he is in car and they tideway or if they get really tropical to us Whiskey can be loose in our house with adults who are willing to ignore him without the initial 2-5 minutes of welding of the transition Whiskey still struggles and will growl/bark at people coming into house – must be grated Whiskey still not trusted virtually any children (they are too unpredictable, loud, quick) Whiskey will let a 13 year old girl outside the family pet him Whiskey has let “acquaintances” let him in and out of his crate Whiskey will play games with all strangers Whiskey will go up to a semi-stranger and take a treat from their hand or “touch” their hand Whiskey can be on a long lead but not held in a park (e-collar) when up and ventilator ball, so focused on ball, doesn’t plane superintendency who is virtually Whiskey went into vets office today without shaking and let people make eye contact with him Whiskey still cannot have a regular vet visit Whiskey still cannot be virtually other dogs     No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   FearOversteppingin Dogs – How to treat 12 Aug Dog FearOversteppingis one of the most difficult policies problems to deal with in dogs.   There are variegated types of overstepping in dogs and it is important you know what type of overstepping your dog is showing considering how you treat dominant overstepping vs. resource guarding (a type of aggression) vs. fear overstepping  are different.  Dogs that are showing overstepping considering they are wrung and lack conviction usually will not modernize if they are then treated with a heavy hand.  The idea of PACK LEADER is well known and is often thought of as THE method of treating all policies issues in dogs.  With the show Dog Whisperer by Caesar Millan, it appears that everything CAN be stock-still with pack leader mentality.  This is not to say that the concept of pack leader is not important, it is, but how it is used with a fear warlike dog has to be washed-up thoughtfully or you can make things worse.  If you start doing the Caesar “touch” or the start roll with a fearful dog, you will just make them increasingly wrung and will therefore not get to the root of the problem. It is NOT POSSIBLE to fix fear overstepping in a day or week.  If anyone, including Casear Millan thinks he can come to my home and fix my dog in one session, then they don’t understand serious fear aggression.  In serious cases, fear overstepping can take years to fix.  We have been working for one year now and we have made a lot of progress but we still have a fear warlike dog and it may take a year or two increasingly to hopefully get to the point where he begins to resemble somewhat of a “normal” dog, although he may never be there completely. So what do you need to do?  First, you do need to be a strong leader for your dog.  Your dog needs to know that you are its protector and that you have his or her back!  Your dog needs to be fully bonded with you and have full trust in you.  You need to be an well-wisher for your dog and not put your dog in situations where he will be overly stressed, worried, or fearful.  You need to tell people to when off, not touch him, alimony him yonder from anything that frightens him such as people, children, or other dogs.  You will gradually increase him in controlled situations to his fears but first he needs to know that you are his protector surpassing the rest will uncork to have real strong positive impacts.  If your dog is wrung of other dogs, then whenever you see flipside dog, you turn and walk yonder and increase your loftiness as much as you can from other dogs.  YOU move yonder ALWAYS.   If you cannot for some reason, you find some way to distract your dog.  Our dog likes to squint for bunnies, so we bring him to the side of the woods and tell him to squint for bunnies and other dogs can pass by and he won’t pay sustentation considering we alimony saying, “where are the bunnies?”  You moreover build trust by playing your dog’s favorite games, teaching him obedience in a non-stressful obedience setting (if he is wrung of strangers, this ways you do it at home by yourself, watch Youtube videos, there are lots of unconfined videos out there… and if you have a verge collie… lots of which are fear aggressive, it will be easy, verge collies are soooo smart, get a clicker and some treats and your verge collie will be doing Calculus in no time).Withoutyou have full trust and are very bonded with your fear warlike dog, you uncork to work on his fear warlike issues.  You do this in POSITIVE ways.  You never want to treat fear with a negative stimulus (chain jerks, yelling, poking, start rolls, etc.)  You moreover need to remember your dog cannot learn if they are very stressed, so you have to go PAINFULLY SLOW.  This is why it takes so long to make progress.  You have to alimony your dog very far yonder from what he is wrung of, just tropical unbearable that he notices but feels far unbearable yonder that he feels safe, then he can learn.  You uncork to de-condition him.    There are many variegated “games” you can play and there is something tabbed BAT that seems like it wouldn’t work, but it does, it is just SLOW. I will tell you that I am a type A person and an overachiever type and now I have this winsome dog that I love, who is so smart that I want to take off troika and run and play with but can’t be virtually people or dogs!  Here I am trying to read and learn well-nigh how to fix him.  I read these CRAZY things like BAT… I will admit, my first response was not positive… there has to be a largest way or a faster way… and we started with the SHORT CUTS… but they didn’t work and when we tried a tuft of the games, they all helped but he unquestionably seemed to respond to BAT a lot.  For those who don’t finger like looking it up right now and don’t know what BAT is, I will requite you a very short description… There is BAT and BAT 2.0, I mix the two… but what I do is have someone with a trigger (or I find a trigger, i.e. a dog, on a walk) a bit lanugo the road, we walk towards the trigger, when my dog, Whiskey, notices the trigger, I guide him (gently) to a stop (we are at a nice loftiness – as you get largest you subtract the distance) and let him just watch the trigger (not obsessively stare) and then segregate to do a positive response (usually walking yonder from the trigger but could be sniffing, yawning, shaking, or licking), I click (or say a loud YES) and we walk yonder from the trigger (his reward is walking yonder from the trigger).  Then we repeat.  If he doesn’t segregate a positive response soon enough, you guide a turn and reward at the turn, if he reacts negatively (stare, growl, bark, lunge) then you are too tropical and you do it then and don’t get as tropical to the trigger. If you read some of my other posts on my periodical of fear overstepping with Whiskey on this blog, you can read well-nigh some the games including “Autowatch”, “Throw a Party,” “Four Steps to Focus,” etc. that you can do as games to work on aggression.  You can moreover use touch to help work on his fear of people and the largest obedience training you have, the increasingly tenancy you have in general. If your dog is very fear aggressive, you will probably need medication.  Medication has been a huge help to Whiskey.  We started with just Prozac and it helped a little but we widow Trazadone and that made a huge difference. Whiskey is less wrung / warlike when out in public.  When he is in our house, he has some territorial overstepping in wing to his fear overstepping but we are now at the point that he has to be created when adults (we don’t trust children) first come in the house we crate him but without they come in the house and are there for a bit, he can be let out and as long as they don’t try to touch him (he is very wrung of touch) he does not react anymore.  This is a huge resurgence over a dog that make-believe like Cujo unendingly he saw a person in any situation from the time he was a baby.  He wouldn’t plane play wittiness with strangers as a baby, now he will play wittiness with any stranger willing to play! I can’t stress unbearable how severe he was and how far we have come in a year.  Some people would squint at where he is now and think we are crazy to alimony a “dog like him,” but he has come so far and we see progress on a regular understructure so I don’t see any reason that we won’t protract to see progress if we alimony working on his issues.  I know of people who have managed to pass the Good Citizen/Canine Test sooner with a fear warlike dog, so that is our ultimate goal. He is a wonderful dog with his family.  He is very loving, playful, cuddly, and bonded.  If you have a fear warlike dog and are working on rehabilitation, good for you!  It takes special people to do it.  Most of world (since we hear it a lot, plane from family and friends) would just put the dog down.   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies  Periodicalof Rehabilitation of a FearWarlikeDog – Part 2 10 Jan A quick Reintroduction – you can skip this first paragraph if you read part 1: We got Whiskey, a 9 week old verge collie puppy, from a breeder and he was fear warlike from the day we brought him home.  We had so much to learn (still do) well-nigh Whiskey and well-nigh treating fear aggression.  I am not plane sure it is the same for all dogs as each dog has their own personalities, threshold levels, insecurities, and worthiness to trust.  We searched upper and low for trainers and each one tells you the same, ‘all the other trainers are wrong and they are right!’  Or something like that.  I don’t know who is right and who is wrong.  I think some trainers will work for some dogs and others will not.  We did not like the first trainer we tried.  She was a Caesar Millan personality and I liked his show but now I watch his show with my new experiences and realize what is portrayed in one session may work for the moment but does not permanently fix the dog.  The second trainer we tried was without a lot of research and videos that DEMONSTRATED success with dogs with aggression.  So, I had unconfined faith in the method.  The trainer did a demo and unquestionably gained Whiskey’s trust in 20 minutes, not an easy feat.  But, there is unchangingly increasingly than meets the eye with a fear warlike dog.  We signed on and worked with him including two workbench and trains for 8 months.  It was up and lanugo and we saw success but not huge success and we reached a point where we just did not think long term transpiration was going to happen for Whiskey.  The method involved an ecollar and increasingly than one trainer I talked with promoted the ecollar as the way to fix a fear warlike dog if washed-up properly with a trainer.  As I said, Whiskey seemed to unquestionably be when sliding and we knew that long term transpiration wasn’t going to happen without giving it our all for 8 months.  At this time I tabbed and interviewed scrutinizingly every trainer who works with dogs in our area.  I had some interesting conversations.  Most wanted to come do a 2 hour session and then leave it in my hands with a “follow up” if needed and phone support.  They were going to teach me to read Whiskey’s soul language.  I stipulate that learning to do this is important and although I am whimsically an expert, I had once wilt increasingly than a novice in this department expressly when it came to my dog.  What I wanted was someone who was going to work with me regularly, someone who had washed-up this surpassing successfully, and someone I felt had a good knowledge base.  I took a leap of faith with a new trainer and I shoehorn I was hesitant for a few reasons I won’t go into but we have been working for well-nigh 3 months now and I will share our work and successes to date. At 9 weeks:  If Whiskey saw ANY person at any loftiness – would growl.  Any person who tried to touch him, he would try to bite.  We couldn’t plane walk overdue a person or dog on a walk. At 5-6 months:  Learned how to walk on walks without growling but if let off troika would run up to a person barking and possibly biting.  He would try to zest anyone who would try to touch him.  He would growl at anyone at too tropical a distance.  He would lunge and growl at dogs.  He would growl at people in our house, yelp aggressively, or pee depending on situation. At 10-11 months (end of time with first long term trainer):  He could do walks fine and ignore people on walks unless they spoke to him or made eye contact, in which specimen he would growl or rarely lunge.  He would try to zest anyone who would try to touch him.  He would growl, pull towards (to attack) dogs on walks, he would react to anyone walking by our fenced yard very aggressively (people and dogs, dogs would be much worse).  He would act very warlike to new people who entered our home, trying to lunge at and wade them. Started with new trainer at 11 months old.  We see her well-nigh every 2 weeks.  Each session, she gives us new games to play.  She moreover encourages us to alimony Whiskey successful (non-aggressive) as much as we can!  The less he can practice aggression, the better. Game 1:  Whiskey parties –Unendinglywe see a trigger, we throw a party.  We make a big fuss and very yummy supplies falls from the sky.  As soon as the trigger goes out of sight the party stops.  Sometimes we do set ups where we have someone be the trigger, this is where they come out from virtually the corner, we throw the party until they walk when virtually the corner.  We repeat at variegated time intervals.  Other times, it is just real life whenever we see a trigger.  If we see someone walk by the house when we are outside, we throw a party and have supplies fall from the sky.  If someone comes over, I use the word “friends” and throw supplies at him and have the person throw supplies at him. Game 2:  Touch – This is the usual touch one would teach for obedience.  We had once taught Whiskey it but to alimony encouraging it so we can use it to have him sooner touch a scary person’s hand.  We unquestionably had him touch my son’s hand (scary person) this weekend since Whiskey was getting used to him stuff at the house. Game 3 – Focus games – teaching Whiskey to “Watch Me,”  show him supplies and get him to squint at me for the reward, plane when the supplies lures him to a variegated direction, he learned to alimony his focus on me not the food. Game 4:  Auto watch – this game is where you stand like a tree with the dog on a troika and say nothing.  You have a tuft of treats overdue your when and wait (for a long, long time sometimes) until the dog gets so bored, he sits or lies lanugo and then looks at you.  You reward only when the dog is sitting or laying lanugo and looking at you.  Each time they squint when at you, you reward again, throwing the supplies at their feet.  This teaches them to wifely lanugo and relax.  This is good in stressful situations when new people come over. Game 5 – Where’s the dog / stranger?  This game asks the dog to squint at the trigger.  You click and reward at the throne turn and then they squint when at you for the reward.  It is sort of a strange one, Whiskey did well with it in set ups but not well with it on walks yet.  He doesn’t take supplies well on walks. Although we haven’t been officially taught this, we moreover do BAT by Grisha Sterwart as that seems to really help Whiskey.  When he sees a trigger, we let him “take in the information,” and then make a wise nomination such as a throne turn (or sniff or some other calming signal – for Whiskey, it is usually a throne turn) and then we click and walk away.  We then sometimes proffer the reward by letting him trammels out something he wants (where there are squirrels or something) and then walk when towards to trigger and repeat. My gut feeling is that the parties and BAT have been the two most successful things so far, that and keeping him in a non-aggressive state as much as we can. His progress:  Things go up and down, of course, but right now he has been showing positive movement!  Here are improvements we have noticed.  He is only reacting to people walking by our fence (on the sidewalk) well-nigh 10% of the time.  The big problem we have is that he got our other dog to start barking at people and Whiskey will react if Ares (our other dog) reacts so we now have to make sure Ares doesn’t react and then let Whiskey make the nomination on his own not to react. He is choosing at times, not to react to dogs walking by when outside.  He used to react 100% of the time.  Now (if we alimony Ares from reacting), he can be distracted from reacting (by playing or stuff tabbed over for a party) – while surpassing NOTHING would stop him from reacting.  His first reaction is to react but he is learning to tenancy it. He is learning to winnow new people in the house.  My son and his girlfriend have been at the house increasingly for the holidays and we had to have Whiskey on troika the whole time.  Whiskey is now off troika with them and we finger pretty relaxed.  At first it was off troika only while they were sitting.  Then we were worldly-wise to move to off troika when they were sitting and if they got up to do things.  Now, we only deal with when they first enter the house and we throw supplies at him and he adjusts in 1-2 minutes.  We need to try it with other new people soon. He is moreover less reactive to dogs on walks.  He watches them closely but then turns to walk yonder like we do in BAT.  He knows I am not going to tideway them.  He never growls or lunges and I think he would only if the other dog did (that was what he was doing previously but I don’t know as we haven’t seen a dog growl and lunge at him in a while).  He is projecting largest energy towards dogs too.  Dogs used to react much worse towards him since he projected very fearful warlike energy and now we don’t see that as much.  Little dogs can be a  pain, they often pull and bark! He still struggles with running children next door.  He will sometimes just watch but if they get too tropical to our fence, he loses it but I understand that is where his threshold is at.  We just can’t unchangingly predict when they are going to do that!  We are going to try some BAT perhaps next time they are running crazy near our fence so he can learn to make largest choices.IncreasinglyUpdates – PROGRESS!!! We protract to invest a lot of time and money into our PROJECT DOG.               However, we have finally been seeing increasingly success lately.  We went in for his 1 year vet visit and saw a variegated vet.  She suggested subtracting Trazadone and increasing his Prozac.  Whiskey is now taking 30 mg of Prozac and 100 mg of Trazadone.  The trazadone has made a big difference.  I think we might need to increase it increasingly but here are some of the changes we have seen: Whiskey would see people walking by and run to the fence barking.  He scrutinizingly NEVER does that anymore Whiskey would see a skateboarder go by and run to the fence barking.  He might run to the fence to watch but not yelp and sometimes ignores. On walks, he is plane increasingly relaxed well-nigh people he sees on the walk (remember that he used to be warlike at the sight of a person on a walk when he was 4 months old).  Now, he barely notices people. People have talked to him and he doesn’t growl, some will plane say his name and he won’t growl. A dog will walk by and Whiskey used to go nuts, running up and lanugo the fence, very upset.  Now, he will run to the fence and just watch.  Sometimes he will react but it used to be every time. We can hands distract him from a dog walking by with a wittiness or frisbee game and he won’t plane pay sustentation to do the dog. On walks, he will see a dog and sometimes be worldly-wise to remain calm, other times, get “watchful” but less reaction than surpassing and is learning to go in flipside direction when he sees a dog. Relaxes much sooner when we have company. Was worldly-wise to be near a “stranger” without issue by his nomination without only seeing her for a few hours. Is increasingly willing to let us necessary evils (brush, wash, cut hair) without as much stress or growls Acting increasingly relaxed and wifely in general. Our trainer, Karen, is on maternity leave so we have been going to a new matriculation where they work on BAT 2.0 through Teamworks.  Today, we had Whiskey right up tropical to the trainer and had him do all his tricks including roll over right next to her and he was fine with it.  Next time, they will bring a dog to practice BAT 2.0.  The vet said she had a dog like Whiskey that she couldn’t touch (and by the way, she couldn’t touch Whiskey) who can now be handled by the vet without stuff on Trazadone so I am hopeful that we might get there.  Will he overly be trust worthy?  I don’t know but other dogs have gotten there, so why can’t Whiskey?  He is such a sweet lover, so full of fun, and has such a funny little personality.  I will alimony you posted, I hope the next time I write, I have flipside list of big strides in the right direction! Update:  Whiskey continues to make progress.  He seems less stressed.  He ignores people on walks.  His worthiness to deal with dogs he sees on walks is better.  He can walk away,  he will stare but not aggress.  I am ready to subtract the loftiness between him and people and work on people giving him increasingly treats.  The trazadone has been the biggest help.  We are doing BAT 2.0.  He is doing well with that.  I need to do some friendly vet visits. May 2014 – Whiskey is scrutinizingly 1 year and half.  It is nonflexible to believe we have been working on his issues for this long.  He is standing to make good progress.  Today we brought in a potential pet sitter to meet him.  His first reaction was to get warlike but she started throwing treats to him and he immediately calmed lanugo and an expression of vaticination rather than overstepping on his face.  We went for a walk and he was a little nervous but did well.  After the walk, we went when to our house and threw the wittiness for him in the yard.  He chased the wittiness when it was thrown by me and the “stranger,” Abbie.  He was off troika with a new stranger and did great.  We went inside and he was tired but not stressed with Abbie in the house.  We talked for a bit and he was fine the whole time, relaxed and happy.  She was worldly-wise to walk virtually him without him stressing out.  She unfurled to feed him supplies and he was happy to take it.  We are going to meet every other week where he will hopefully socialize her visits with unconfined food, walks, and wittiness time.  We moreover did BAT then today and he did very well with flipside dog in view.  He was watchful but worldly-wise to turn yonder and not focus on her.  He moreover did a tuft of training and activities in the presence of Siri, flipside verge collie who was there for BAT.  He had a unconfined day and the progress he has made in the last year and half is promising.  The biggest transpiration happened without the trazadone, so I highly recommend that to others.  He still has a ways to go but I wasn’t sure we would overly make it this far, so hopefully we can protract to move forward.  The goal is to set him up for success and try to alimony him from having any experiences that trigger him so he learns what it is like not to be stressed and yellow-eyed all the time.  He moreover has solid poop now, for his first year, he was so stressed that his poops were runny every day.  He will still be runny for time to time but it is nice to see that his soul is settling lanugo and his uneasiness is significantly less. Lesson learned – well, maybe… so, it was suggested that I bring him to the vet’s office when he isn’t going to see the vet so they can throw supplies at him so he can socialize vet = good things.  We tried that today.  Ugh!  I didn’t factor in the fact that vet techs think they know how to work with a fear warlike dog and one size fits all.  Our plan was to have one person toss supplies at him from a distance.  It was working fine until flipside lady decided that she was going to try to and now two people were focused on him and she was a little increasingly taxing so he wasn’t willing to get the supplies from as comfortably – THEN, flipside lady was “instructing” the first two how to do it.  She was walking right up to him plane though he was unmistakably going over threshold and was under the impression you need to  just not squint at the dog and walk towards them – she reached her hand out remoter to “encourage” him to come closer, which set him off increasingly since now hands were moving in his direction (a big trigger), he started shaking and I knew I had to shut the whole thing lanugo immediately.  I grabbed the bag of supplies and sat on the floor, ignored the people and just started feeding him, hoping to offset the “bad” wits he just had with some good, “mom is close, giving me treats, people are now leaving me alone.”  I fed him until he calmed lanugo and wasn’t shaking and then we left.  I don’t really know how to go when without giving them a lesson on how to read dog signals and working with a fear warlike dog.  The third woman, unmistakably thought she was “educated” in this situation and you unchangingly walk the line of advocating for your dog and pissing people off who think you know nothing well-nigh dogs since you are just the pet owner and they are a vet tech and know EXACTLY what one should do. May 15, 2014 – Today we had our second “play date” with our future dog sitter.  We are working on towers a relationship between them and moreover hopefully working on his stranger uneasiness issues.  I gave him an uneaten 50 mg of trazadone well-nigh 30 minutes surpassing she came.  I played wittiness with him for well-nigh 15 minutes surpassing she got there (he had not had any exercise all day as it has been pouring rain).  We started outside and he had an initial negative reaction.  His reaction set off Ares (our Golden) which made things worse for Whiskey.  Abbie started feeding Whiskey supplies right yonder and he calmed down.  We went for a walk to get out some energy.  When we got when she gave him some increasingly supplies and we entered the house together.  Initially upon entering, he was a little unsure with some small woofs.  We got out the wittiness and she started to play with him.  I would return the wittiness to her so she didn’t have to get tropical to him.  She would moreover throw him supplies from time to time.  She would ask him to sit and he would.  She asked him to go to bed (go in his crate) and he did.  She gave him two cookies while in there but he did wilt nervous while the gate was sealed and he could see her.  We didn’t alimony him in long, just long unbearable to requite the two cookies and then let him out.  Another time she told him to go to bed and we didn’t tropical the gate at all, just threw supplies inside without he went in.  He then “asked” for increasingly wittiness time so we did that some increasingly and then played frisbee for a little bit also.  She then threw him a lot increasingly supplies (fairly close).  My last idea was to play hibernate and seek, which he loves.  At first, Abbie and would hibernate together.  Whiskey would wait with my daughter.  We would say, “Find Abbie.”  He came right up to us and would get a treat.  He plane licked her hand.  Then I tried it where just Abbie hid and I sent Whiskey to find her and she would throw a treat at him when he found her.  He did very well.  It was a unconfined ice breaker.             No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   « Older Entries CategoriesVergeCollies Confessions from worldwide cadre math teachers Education Financial Medical Parenting Personal Uncategorized Recent Posts How to get wonted to NCSUHigherEngineering What if… we did math right? 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