PreciousSheltie
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With training and daycare, Precious's quiet/reserved shell definitely broke and she was able to come out and show how excited, goofy, active, jumpy she could be.
However, I see this transcending outside of the daycare facility and she has a tendency to get over excited when she see's an approaching dog - Jumping up on two legs and hopping around, pawing to get closer to the dog with her front two paws while barking and spinning to get closer TO PLAY. She's perfect when it's just regular people and can just walk by them but with dogs she wants to run over and play with them.
Barking and lunging at cars was easier to handle (as they drive in straight parallel lines.. but with other peoples dogs that I have no control over, that walk up to me even when I'm training outside and not knowing any one with a dog I trust to help me with obedience in a calm manner... it seems I just let this go and go and haven't really attempted to fix it.
I guess her problem is she gets too easily overexcited outdoors and doesn't really know how to settle and ignore/leave things and focus. She becomes really vocal with the increase of her excitement as well. She becomes 'deactivated' when she's at home or in my arms and becomes tired and groggy and just.... becomes motionless. But in contrast.. as soon as she's out, she's a bold, barky, excited, active doggy. And I'm not sure how to better control that so we can have CALMER meet and greets with other dogs without having to in the end, drag her away.
For example, if its me and 20 people in a room, she won't care about the people and will come to me and listen to her obedience runs as we show people her tricks and quirks. But flip it and it was training class and it was me and one dog on one end and another person and a dog on the opposite end. It's always impossible for Precious to ignore the other dog because of her want to sniff and play with them. On a leash it seems worse because she knows she CAN'T greet them so starts barking and stressing herself over it. I remember at training too, the other dogs would all lazily just flop on the ground, disinterested in Precious and in everything else pretty much (some were older dogs so perhaps more mature) while Precious was the only one still, an hour later, barking and making a fuss and not being able to calm down.
What ways could I approach this problem.... Is this a 'focus'ing problem? Does she need to be enforced "leave" it better? Does she need to learn how to "settle" down better? She had a few days when she'd jump up at my friends whenever she saw them approach (as a practice run to attempt to fix it) so I told them to make sure she sat and settled down calmly in a quiet sit and let them pat her without her jumping everywhere before playing with them. It's worked and she's a lot calmer around people and only plays excitedly when given the okay to after the initial calm meeting. But with other dogs, it's a completely different story. It's impossible to get her to listen to anything, to calm down, to ignore, to leave it, to anything. Why can I do next to help this? She's never aggressive, but crazy barking and spinning and uncontrolled FRIENDLY dog outdoors sometimes is a bit embarrassing and scares the more timid/quiet dogs that are calm.. Wish I could more easily control her over excitement.
However, I see this transcending outside of the daycare facility and she has a tendency to get over excited when she see's an approaching dog - Jumping up on two legs and hopping around, pawing to get closer to the dog with her front two paws while barking and spinning to get closer TO PLAY. She's perfect when it's just regular people and can just walk by them but with dogs she wants to run over and play with them.
Barking and lunging at cars was easier to handle (as they drive in straight parallel lines.. but with other peoples dogs that I have no control over, that walk up to me even when I'm training outside and not knowing any one with a dog I trust to help me with obedience in a calm manner... it seems I just let this go and go and haven't really attempted to fix it.
I guess her problem is she gets too easily overexcited outdoors and doesn't really know how to settle and ignore/leave things and focus. She becomes really vocal with the increase of her excitement as well. She becomes 'deactivated' when she's at home or in my arms and becomes tired and groggy and just.... becomes motionless. But in contrast.. as soon as she's out, she's a bold, barky, excited, active doggy. And I'm not sure how to better control that so we can have CALMER meet and greets with other dogs without having to in the end, drag her away.
For example, if its me and 20 people in a room, she won't care about the people and will come to me and listen to her obedience runs as we show people her tricks and quirks. But flip it and it was training class and it was me and one dog on one end and another person and a dog on the opposite end. It's always impossible for Precious to ignore the other dog because of her want to sniff and play with them. On a leash it seems worse because she knows she CAN'T greet them so starts barking and stressing herself over it. I remember at training too, the other dogs would all lazily just flop on the ground, disinterested in Precious and in everything else pretty much (some were older dogs so perhaps more mature) while Precious was the only one still, an hour later, barking and making a fuss and not being able to calm down.
What ways could I approach this problem.... Is this a 'focus'ing problem? Does she need to be enforced "leave" it better? Does she need to learn how to "settle" down better? She had a few days when she'd jump up at my friends whenever she saw them approach (as a practice run to attempt to fix it) so I told them to make sure she sat and settled down calmly in a quiet sit and let them pat her without her jumping everywhere before playing with them. It's worked and she's a lot calmer around people and only plays excitedly when given the okay to after the initial calm meeting. But with other dogs, it's a completely different story. It's impossible to get her to listen to anything, to calm down, to ignore, to leave it, to anything. Why can I do next to help this? She's never aggressive, but crazy barking and spinning and uncontrolled FRIENDLY dog outdoors sometimes is a bit embarrassing and scares the more timid/quiet dogs that are calm.. Wish I could more easily control her over excitement.
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