Yes, in the show ring it's a fault. Interestingly, my new pup came from a litter with all 3 colours - black, chocolate and yellow. Betsy has a...
Yay! :)
Do you think that it might be anything to do with them being littermates brought up together? Obviously, I know they are both fabulous dogs, and...
I haven't put anything on cue yet with Betsy. And I haven't trained sit or down. All I've been doing is training release, targets, recall, stop,...
Betsy is working on recalling while ignoring a person rattling a food bowl.....she found it difficult at first, but soon got the hang of it. :)...
Bold/shy is highly heritable (as is reactivity and levels of frustration tolerance) - according to Patricia McConnell, anyway, but we do not know...
It is, for sure. :) But I'm working super, super hard at impluse control! Hope to minimise the downsides at least. I was walking Betsy along...
Charlie knows when he has a line on and when he doesn't, for sure. It is still useful to prevent self-rewarding, and prevent the reinforcement of...
At 11 weeks old, Betsy is already not even remotely alarmed if I run away from her. Just like Charlie wasn't. :) The long line is absolutely...
I can so see a long line in Betsy's future - for the foreseeable future! :D
Charlie was the world's most sociable Labrador puppy. I spent the time from when he was about 12 weeks old, to when he was about 2.5 years,...
Aw, good girl! So lovely you get news and photos of how they are doing.
Charlie walked perfectly on his lead until he was a teenager, then it got a bit challenging. Betsy is better on her lead at 11 weeks than Charlie...
Hi there In order to use any target stick effectively, you need your dog interacting with it in a calm way. It can be a challenge at first to get...
Glad Dex is feeling better, such good news. My vet uses a very well respected animal hospital as out of hours cover, just 5 mins drive from me....
Betsy continues to holiday hard. :) She has had a lot of visitors, as everyone comes to see the new pup on the block, and has met all of...
Yes, definitely allow a puppy time in new places around the house when they are empty - don't push the time out too far, or you risk a wee on your...
Aw, poor girl, but glad to hear she is doing ok. Warm quick healing vibes from here.
I do give it to my dog, but there is pretty much no evidence it works. I give it because it might and it comes in a joint supplement that I use...
Chucking treats is fine - whatever you have got to do to get your dog to ignore other dogs. The aim is to not let your dog get reinforced by the...
