Thank you for both of your replies. Very helpful and I think they do need more exercise. They have space to run around but often get distracted by noises and that causes them to just run inside the house or stand still and bark.
The specialist we saw before advised us to squirt them with water and also to stop them from sitting on the sofas with us, so that they knew we were in charge. She thought they were quite territorial. So we introduced that and it worked very quickly, but I guess as the problems got less severe the squirting stopped and now it's so many years on the squirting water has no effect at all.
I'm totally up for hard work - I think my family think they'l never change so what's the point. I don't agree with that obviously, wouldn't be here if I did!
Thanks guys. |