Proof your sit. If he's sitting, he can't pull you over. Work on heelwork with increasing distractions.
Thanks. Shes pretty good at sit but her bouncy excitement at wanting to play seems to momentsrily override all instructions or commands.
5labs is correct. Use distance between your dog and the other dog, so that your dog listens to you rather than going over-threshold. If your dog is not listening, then you are too close.
We've kind of accepted the fact that at only 1.5 years old we're going to just have to wait it out for him to calm down a little. But here's the problem: he's way too much for our son at the moment. Shipley has never once shown anything but affection to our son but he gets way too much in his face with the licking and has zero spacial awareness so he's constantly knocking our son down. We're afraid of our son getting terrified of him so we try to keep them separated as much as possible. It sucks because our son LOVES dogs and he wants to play with Shipley but Speed Test he's just too hyper around him.
Hi Amel. Mind if I ask how old your kid is? My suggestion is the dogs associating your son with play time. If that is the case you will need to adjust the way he interacts with Shipley. Separating them will make them both worse. The more excited your son is the more excited the dog will be. Soft command games like touch are probably your best way forward. They should get supervised nice interaction out of it.
