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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
We've finally started working together with yet another trainer/ behaviourist and are locked into an 8 week course. It's been hard to learn to do less with my dog; I now take him out 1-2 times per day rather than 2-3 and the guilt has been overwhelming at times! I hated it at first but the rational part of me knows it's all within the realms of normal resistance to change. He seems to have adjusted to it a lot better than I did.
He met up with one of his good friends Whiskey today (a rhodesian ridgeback mix). He loves Whiskey's owner too and his friend was visiting and tagged along. We followed the trainer's advice and went straight into a long walk with them all. At one point my boy went in for a little sniff of the new person and then immediately disengaged. He had great fun tearing around with Whiskey and was totally unbothered that the new guy was there, massive success for us all!
He's been super dozy ever since we got back :) this seems like a good strategy for us going forward.
Glad to see you're learning to take it a tad bit easier on yourself with your puppers. Sometimes less really is more. And yeah, dogs often adjust way better than we do in a lot of cases. We worry constantly, but they're usually just happy to get what love, attention, and exercise we can give them. :P