Wiggal update

[garner]

Hi wiggal, just wondering how you went on with Ashke at dog training.Was it of any use, or too soon to know.

[wiggal]

Heya! Thank you so much Garner, it is so nice to know some one has remembered and wanted to know how we are doing!

He was a terror in his first session!
Well after my trial hour & half, and now signed up, my lessons start 9am next sunday morning! And ohhhhhhhhh im gonna have my work cut out!
Ashke was the only dog to............... crap in the field during one of the demonstrations! He got over excited and barked & whined everytime the were talking to us! hmmmmmm!

I didnt feel to bad when out of 5 dogs, 3 walked ok on the walking to heel excercise and 2 didnt, no surprise Ashke, and a white boxer, only then did the boxers owner announce he was deaf! pfft!

Have since had our first lesson, and he is the worst of the lot! He just barked constantly when he wasnt walking!

I was too poorly to go to my 9am lesson this Sunday, but went at 2pm with my partners sister, husband and 8 month St Bernard, and my instructor came up to me and said that she thinks although there is a noticable difference in him over the first week, she thinks a 1-2-1 session would be of use because he is so easily distracted and barks so much that neither me or him can concentrate!

[wolf63]

I hope that you get your problems sorted out wiggal.

I adopted a 5 year old Lab/GSD in 1992. He was a gem on the way home on the train and I let him sleep with me at night.

However it was not to continue like that. He had been badly treated and was now of the "bite now, ask questions later" frame of mind. "Kill all other dogs and they won't hurt me" was his other idea.

I should have done what you are doing, but I just adapted my life and our walkies around him.

He was a great companion and lived til he was 14, but training classes would have made him so much more sociable.

He was a good dog ruined by a nasty owner.

Good luck with Ashke.

[wiggal]

hiya wolf63,

I dont mean in anyway that he is a bite first kinda doggy, he is by far the softest dog i have ever known, he barks because he is excited and wants to play but cant.

This is a dog who will happily cuddle our cats and share his food with them, there is not an aggresive bone in his body!
Unfortnately, I have the problem with him that I can not control him when he gets excited, luckily for me he just wants to go say hello to other dogs, but he is so strong he pulls me over!
Eve, my trainer has said to me that she can tell i get frustrated at his barking (even though i try not to show it!) because he has never been a barking dog before! Its not a nasty BARKBARKBARK im gonna rip your head off, its a constant, ever second bark because he is surrounded by other dogs and wants to play!

We have had him since he was 12 weeks, so I will admit, it is down to us he is the way he is now at 3.5 years, he is just such a handful all the time!

[garner]

Thanks for your update wiggal. I should keep at it with the dog training, lets face it only good can come from it.Perhaps when he gets use to the other dogs at training he might just calm down and the advice from the trainers must be of some help to you. Only one thing I will say, as you know I have two dogs brother and sister Mickey has been a problem from the very start and at fifteen will not alter now and yet Peggy no problem at all , I have had them from eight weeks old, done the training and goodness knows what but he will only do what he wants to do, so we have to live with it,its a good job Peggy does as she is told or we would go bonkers lol. Anyway love stick with it and see how it goes, keep me posted with updates please. g x