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Yeah I for sure will! She’s a really good dog and picks things up fast she’s just still so excitable and distracted outside when dogs or people are about so I’ve been focusing on getting her more focused on on walks and today she brilliant actually and even met some dogs and was perfectly fine...

Thank you for the response. I’ll take everything on board try advocate for her more, I do pop her behind me at times when I know the other dog is in the wrong and she’s just reacting based of the other dog being rude by running over. As much as there’s time she’s well within her right to tell...

Hi, So my BC is 9 months old now and she’s going very good, give or take some bad days which is normal. I have a couple matters I would really appreciate advice on. The first is, when drying her after a walk with a towel, she hates it. Especially her back paws, she jumps around wanting to get...

Hi! I have a 9 month old border collie and all I can say is it gets better! Our one used to bite, nip, jump up and bite all the time it seemed. Hands, clothes, ankles etc. Cause they’re hearding dogs nipping ankles is a common thing for collie pups to do. All I’ll say is from what we used to...

Thanks for the reply! I had a read over the thread and can say we’ve tried it all! A Yelp doesn’t work as she gets even more excited, putting her in her crate definitely helps as she ends up falling asleep and comes back out as if nothing had happened so that works. I think maybe she is still...

Hi, My BC pup Cleo will be 8 months old on Christmas Day! She’s doing amazing, and has definitely calmed down a lot from when she was younger. I see a huge difference in her which is great. She had a dip at about 6 months old and wouldn’t listen to a word I said hahah but we’ve kept consistent...

Just to be clear she’s only ever growled at a dog when she’s been on the lead and THEY have approached her. Also when she’s off lead she’s with me and I play around with her so she doesn’t ever care for dogs, again if she’s off lead and a dog runs up to her she’s normally fine and will just play...

Yes this makes sense. She definitely feels a certain way with certain dogs and I want to change that for her. She’s still young so if I keep doing this she eventually get the picture that ignoring dogs and coming to me equals treats. Thank you for the advice it makes it easier to understand.

Yes this sounds like Cleo, she doesn’t seem scared, she wasn’t to go over and say hi I think, it’s just me knowing sometimes she can tell dogs off for being to in her space I want to avoid that before it happens. She loves some dogs and will play but sometimes randomly she will tell them off...

So at first to walk away and once at a distance she’s comfortable and relaxed reward her then. So overtime when she sees a dog then she’ll just know to sit and look at me for a treat and not think of dogs as scary?

If training a strong focus is the way to go, do you have any tips on how to work on this. Right now I simply wait on eye contact from her before I reward her and now when i give her a treat etc she looks me right in eye. On walks however is where I need it to be solid so any tips would be great!

She doesn’t act differently, I thought she maybe did with males. I was basically trying to figure out why she kind of “tells dogs off” to try get to the route of why she does it to avoid it. So I thought maybe it was males she didn’t like but when I think about it she has 3 friends who are males...

I never punish her for growling or anything like that I simply just remove her from the situation and recently have been been just removing her before anything can happen, she will have a sniff and meet the dog then we move on. I’m currently training her to give me eye contact before anything...

Yeah I’ll defo try that next time we are on a walk, cause she’s still young on walks she doesn’t always listen as she’s too intrigued but birds, dogs, people and anything that moves tbh haha but will keep working on it and be aware when a dog approaches to distract before she notices. I’ll also...

Yeah for sure, I think the less these moments happen where she reacts due to nervousness will hopefully show her dogs aren’t that interesting lol. I’m reassured to know she’s not aggressive thou as was worried she was and know if I keep letting it continue it might develop more.

Reading you reply makes it make sense and maybe she just is just stressed about dogs constantly approaching, when walking her this morning she was on lead but now when she sees a dog she just stares and kinda waits. She had one interaction with an off lead dog who couldn’t have cared less about...

Art of Attention, so getting her to focus on me and me be the source of her fun. It also looks at like her giving me eye contact before she gets any treats etc etc

Yeah it’s just random dogs it seems, or one day she won’t be in the mood and react, so I can’t find out where it comes from. Definitely is her way of expressing how she feels and sometimes she been snappy then back off and after a couple seconds they’ll both be playing with one another no...

Im working on the AOA and trying to get her focused on me on walks. If we have her ball she couldn’t care less about what’s around her just me and the ball. But I’m working on her focus on me. I don’t think it helps her either that on almost every walk we take that’s at our local park it seems...

Hi, Need advice about my wee Cleo again. She’s brilliant, picks new commands and tricks up so well, her recall is very good already so can be off the lead. She also loves people and is very friendly and soppy towards them. She’s such a sook haha. The only problem is around other dogs. She’s...