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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  And be sure to cross the street or keep a good distance between your dog and the other dog during rehab training as proximity of a perceived danger to themselves is a great anxiety/fear trigger to most anxious dogs and makes them want to lash out whereas keeping them far away during re-training will decrease the threat in your dog's mind and make focusing on that high-reward food just in front of his nose while walking in fast circles much easier on him.
As he begins to accept the presence of other dogs passing by him at a distance while being distracted by food and fast-walking in those crazy circles, gradually decrease the space between the dogs as rehab training progresses and increase distance again should he flex up on a dog again. Be sure to keep the initial re-training sessions very short in duration. |
Going great, that was until today when this chap had an Alsatian and a cross Staffordshire bull terrier off the lead and Toby was on his lead, the Alsatian snarled at him, then ran towards him, I intervened [the owner out of sight at that moment] well that was indeed that Toby snarled back and went into a frenzy, this chap berating me, well I'm afraid [as bad as it may be of me] I told him his dog was the assailant not Toby, but to be frank I'm newly settled in this area these past two years, I do not like a lot of the people here for they are belligerent themselves telling me to F off is a charming way to excuse your dog for being off its lead, in most of these instances it is the owner not the dog I blame, you see owners can let big dogs off a lead and know there is little harm will come to them but, this is not so with little dogs. This is an area of scenic beauty and loads of people bring their dogs here to walk them by the sea, many dogs have been injured and killed here, all small dogs, latterly a cross Jack Russell was murdered by two greyhounds, it was in all the local news, but the police stance is, its 'dog on dog'and do nothing. Anyway back to the drawing board so to speak and Toby and I carry on regardless.