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Originally Posted by gracielove  I'm sure he was very excited being in a large group like that. Do you play ball with him at home? It sounds like he really likes it. Maybe try to play fetch more with him at home so he is not so obsessive about it?
If he is not a barker at home it is kind of hard to teach him not to bark. It seems like the trainer would have had some suggestions for you about how to help calm him down. What is the sense of having a trainer there if they are not helping you?
I would continue to take him out to places like that to see if he will get more comfortable with that kind of setting. I understand the dog being upset with him barking but I would be concerned about a bigger dog doing that to a small dog. You don't know how far a strange dog will go in trying to deal with an annoying barker. No one should allow a dog to do that to another dog. It is not the dog's job to keep things in order. That is the most disturbing thing to me. I question the trainers judgement. |
I agree that the big dog scared me a lot. I am looking to get him out to a daycare that seperates the large and small dogs. There were many dogs there smaller than Wallee even but none of the dogs bothered them as they were not barking. We do play ball a lot with him at home and I think I also need to work harder on not letting him bark at us to get us to play. My husband thinks I am sometimes too protective and I saw the results of a dog who was too protected yesterday as the poor little thing just shook and tried to cling to its owner even when approached by puppies half his size. Wallee is definitely not like that and always rolls over submissive when he meets new dogs. I want him to have an enriched life and enjoy the company of other dogs however I do not ever want to put him in danger.