All of my little ones seem to do ok with thunder and I have used the can on all of them. Tinkerbell actually barks back at it, but it works great on my other dogs. I prefer the squirt bottle because it is less irritating to me. I use it even if one of them doesn't come when called from outside. HA! HA! I squirt them and off they come running. It's just letting her know if she doesn't do what you ask, something uncomfortable happens. Also, a few years ago, before I had my current dogs, we had an older maltese and a lab/rottweiler mix puppy. We were having some problems with the lab and decided to sign up for dog training classes. The trainer offered a free home session to help you with your specific dog problems. That was the best money ever spent. Not only did he help with the puppy but he whipped my spoiled rotton, little maltese into shape too. Back then I knew nothing about training a dog or how to teach them anything. With just one session with that trainer at our home, our dogs turned into well behaved dogs because we learned what to do when they did something we didn't like and we also learned quite a lot about how dogs think. Might be something you could do, if you were up to it. I would never have guessed that the dog that would have benefited the most from that session was my older dog. |