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Hi,
You have the idea right in that “inside the fence” needs to be more interesting than “outside the fence”.
he has learned that he can ignore you and get his own reward by going through much better than you are offering in the garden
as you’ll know the more you allow the behaviour you dont want to be successful to be reinforced like this the more he’ll do it and the less likely he will be to hold any cues.
i would disallow the behaviour and also stop this working to avoid by putting him on a lunge line so he cannot get out and you dont extinguish your cues by using them when not R&F.
its a feature of the location that he can do this but its not the location itself as i expect it would happen anywhere he can get to other dogs and you dont cue early enough.
Why dont you book yourself a few refresher sessions with Bev to work on this? There’s no shame in going over things again or working on new things. Having my last 2 strong girlies here for fostering, Bonnie has learned that she can manage by moving on the “noyoubloodydont” into contact. We are going to work on seeing if we can get a stand off with her – I dont expect I will ever get to the “ideal” which is the dog stands and takes any aggression until you rescue it, she is a crossover dog and hasnt been raised to do this work. What I hope is that I can get her good enough to respond in a way that doesnt mean I react to incite her further (it takes ALOT of self control to not just scream your dogs name when the fur is flying) I can do this but I still panic. I have a suspect feeling that we are going to be doing some work with my most unfavourite of “treats” …. raw meat 🙁 ICK !!
Claire x