Thank you for your post. The 400 acre thing was just to explain that I'm not exercising an in season bitch in a public place. 1,000 acres wow that's fantastic! Interesting to read what your trainer said, this is exactly what worries me, as by asking her to comply when she was clearly over threshold instantaneously as little Snowy appeared from nowhere and was literally under Cassie's belly before she saw her. I wonder what your trainer would suggest. The only way to bring it to an end was for me and Cassie to return to our garden, with great difficulty.
Thank you Naya, hope your lovely Harley is having a happy day. Yes it is frustrating because it keeps happening and now that the puppy is bigger it gets harder, but I will get through it I expect. The thing is I think it's a big deal to have a deaf dog, and everyone who works or lives here is careful for her safety, myself included. Therefore some consideration for what I'm trying to do wouldn't come amiss!! After all not everyone wants an over friendly Labrador getting involved all over the place,.
She would say, and she did, let your dog out to the end of her leash and let her respond as naturally as possible. Give her your FREE signal. A friendly play, even though play on leash can be dangerous and has resulted in broken legs. And assuming Snowy is neutered and won't try to tie. Though of course he might anyway. By then our trainer's hope was the owner of the loose dog had showed up and corralled his/her dog and then you could prroceed but it sounds unlikely to happen in your case. I had a similar situation in reverse when a nitwit drove up with her bitch in heat and let her out of the car right in front of Oban, who she knew was intact. Three other dogs too, one of them a spayed female. They all pestered poor Ella mercilessly but I had to leash Oban and drag him away and leave.
No, the deaf puppy is a bitch. It runs away to play with Cassie, naturally. The fact that Cassie is in season is only relevant in that I not letting her off her harness/lead at present. (I'm not that nit-wit!! I knew that the only male that lives here was out) Interesting about the friendly play on leash, I can see the reasoning. BUT the frustration is as you say, is that the other dog is impossible to coral, although I will try the slip lead approach as suggested by Julie T. Yesterday Cassie's lunging pulled me off my feet, she has never done that before and I don't want her to do it again. That's what reduced me to tears, that and knowing it's impossible to bring it to an end. Any way, she and I have had lovely day today, clearing out the garden shed, on a fine spring Sunday here in UK.
