My new rescue dog has come to me with many behavioural problems;
- Fear of men, will bark aggressively and back away but has lunged and snapped once or twice.
- Fear of anything fast moving (cars/joggers/bicycles) - she's gotten 95% past this issue and barely even recognizes them anymore but if something's already spooked her earlier on in the walk she'll be much more alert and has slipped up on occasion.
- She likes other dogs but has been highly undersocialized and has no doggy manners. She will generally either lie down and drool everywhere/wet herself or jump on them depending on their size/behaviour towards her so we're socializing her with "safe" dogs as much as possible.
I currently walk her for around 3 miles a day on leash and then take her to the cemetary or the dog park when it's empty and let her have her space and a little jog around on a 50ft long line. I have a small exercise yard at work that she can run off lead in but I try to take her to work as little as possible (I work at the shelter that I rescued it from and it makes her too anxious being there) however I would love for her to be able to run off lead and feel that she really needs this.
I've been told to ask in tennis courts and was thinking of possibly renting a small field if it came to it. How do you exercise your own behavioural problem dogs?
- Fear of men, will bark aggressively and back away but has lunged and snapped once or twice.
- Fear of anything fast moving (cars/joggers/bicycles) - she's gotten 95% past this issue and barely even recognizes them anymore but if something's already spooked her earlier on in the walk she'll be much more alert and has slipped up on occasion.
- She likes other dogs but has been highly undersocialized and has no doggy manners. She will generally either lie down and drool everywhere/wet herself or jump on them depending on their size/behaviour towards her so we're socializing her with "safe" dogs as much as possible.
I currently walk her for around 3 miles a day on leash and then take her to the cemetary or the dog park when it's empty and let her have her space and a little jog around on a 50ft long line. I have a small exercise yard at work that she can run off lead in but I try to take her to work as little as possible (I work at the shelter that I rescued it from and it makes her too anxious being there) however I would love for her to be able to run off lead and feel that she really needs this.
I've been told to ask in tennis courts and was thinking of possibly renting a small field if it came to it. How do you exercise your own behavioural problem dogs?