Re: Bad relationship

[.dodger.]

i don’t understand how it do it though.
he does everything in the house, the garden, the street, the path to the park, at the park, outside some shops, next to a busy road. So how do i teach him to do something that he already does at each criteria?? I go back to criteria one and he does it perfectly then i go to the next and again perfect and so forth until we see dogs out then it’s like a switch goes off and i’m no longer there to him. (this is without a ball) We had this ages and ages ago (theres a big long post all about his problems) and bev said that he see’s the other dogs as a higher resource than me so i need to get his focus on to me. This then prompting the tons of posts about how i can get him to do that because i had tried everything and nothing was working.

Eventually he can now be off lead around other dogs without me having to worry about him running up to dogs because he is competely focused on me thanks to the ball. I could live quite happily with the way he is now because i have control when there are no dogs without the ball and i also have control when there are dogs and i have the ball. The problem is when i don’ have the ball. Mudgie can agree that i am an absolute mess because we go back to the other dodger who doesn’t listen to me and runs up to other dogs which nornmally ends in me dragging him off or away from the other dog.