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What you are dealing with
Find the situation that comes closest to your own. Every page says what is really happening, how we tackle it and how long it usually takes.
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Three questions. After that you know which situation comes closest to yours, and a message is ready to send. You fill in nothing and leave nothing behind.
1What do you see then?question 1 of 3
You can tick more than one. They often go together.
At home
Out of the house
New to the house, or suddenly changed
2How old is your dog?question 2 of 3
3How did they come to you?question 3 of 3
I would not leave this as it is
A dog who growls or snaps at people is giving a warning. In itself that is good news, because the warning is still there. What happens over the coming weeks decides whether it stays.
Until I am there: never leave a child alone with your dog, not even in the same room, not even for a moment. Give your dog a place where nobody comes and leave them there in peace. Do not take your dog out of that place to show them to visitors. Receive visitors with your dog behind a closed door. Do not practise the situation that went wrong on your own.
Do not punish the growling. No shouting, no pushing away, no pulling on the collar, no telling off. A dog who is punished for the warning learns to leave out the warning, not to stop biting. Walk away yourself, take the children out of the room, and write down what happened in the ten seconds before it.
Or choose your situation yourself
Separation anxiety
Barking or howling as soon as the door closes
Read →Aggression and lunging
Lunging at dogs or people on the lead
Read →Pulling on the lead
Your arm aches after a walk
Read →Socialisation
Lunging or shrinking away from other dogs
Read →Barking at the door and the gate
Your dog barks all day at everything that passes the gate
Read →Not coming back when you call
Your dog never goes off lead any more, because you do not know if recall will work
Read →Dog from a shelter or off the street
Your dog does not dare go outside, or will not come inside
Read →The first weeks with a puppy
Your pup bites hands, trouser legs and anything that moves
Read →Adolescence, it was going well at first
Your dog was well behaved and for the past month has listened to nothing
Read →Two dogs that start fighting
They always got on together and suddenly they do not
Read →A hundred dogs, no two the same
In six years I have worked with well over a hundred dogs. Some of those cases produced assistance dogs, dogs who ended up doing work for their owner.
There are dogs I follow for months because a lot has to change, and families from the village who have me over three times and manage on their own after that.
The approach is the same in every case. Look at what is really happening, then teach the owner what they need to do differently.
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