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Originally Posted by gemy  Have you taken Mickey to a show before? Introduced him to those sights n sounds yet? If not then is it at all possible do that before your first show. Or you could try taking him into busy pet shops and have him walk with you, with his attention on you.
Do you have a fan at home that you could put on, to help to desensitize him to the sound and feel of wind blowing?
You can talk to your boy in the showring, to help distract him from any untoward noise. |
We do have a fan blowing at home but this is a big vent in the wall so you can't really see but just feel it blowing. It's not all that different than our window air conditioners really so you'd think he wouldn't be too scared of it. He's only 9 months so no, hasn't been to the shows yet. This will be his first introduction. Although the handling classes are a bit like a mini show. There were about 15 dogs there tonight. Everything from husky's to boxers to shelties to min pins and a few others. He really likes and is interested in the other dogs. One of the dogs tried to bite the judge.
But he was really good and he even let her look at his teeth this time.(we've been working on that) Exept for the part where we would get half way down near the blowing vent and then he stopped and wouldn't budge. Well, eventually I was able to coax him but that won't go over well in the actual ring. But I won't think that way quite yet....