I so hope it helps Bella. Just keep reading and reading until you get a good handle on how to be a positive pack leader. You don't need to yell, discipline with aversives or use anything but your body attitude and voice, hand gestures and a sense of self-confidence to teach the dogs what you want. Pack animals love a strong, fair leader who is consistent. Training will help your dogs learn to highly respect you and want to do what you say and helps stop so many self-confidence problems as the dog works and learns and achieves goals and that can help Bella not to be as uncertain about things in general, too. Good luck to you and your little pack.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |