Gone to the Dogs

[Marie2020]

Cages doesn't work at all with Nancy. She is fine travelling in one, and that's a soft cage but not in the home, in a metal metal cage. I think that she is a reincarnated Harry Houdini. She just gets out somehow and get really agitated.

I haven't got her real history.
Judging by her nipples, my friends and I think she has had more than one litter and was likely confined to a cage throughout. This might well explain her reaction.

her ordeal.

I keep her on the lead for most walks but for a couple of enclosed spaces. I do like to see see her have a good run.

 

[Marie2020]

 

[heirloomgal]

Cages doesn't work at all with Nancy. She is fine travelling in one, and that's a soft cage but not in the home, in a metal metal cage. I think that she is a reincarnated Harry Houdini. She just gets out somehow and get really agitated.

I haven't got her real history.
Judging by her nipples, my friends and I think she has had more than one litter and was likely confined to a cage throughout. This might well explain her reaction.

her ordeal.

I keep her on the lead for most walks but for a couple of enclosed spaces. I do like to see see her have a good run.

I don't have a crate for my dog either @Marie2020. This has never been a problem for me, though when he had the splenectomy I regretted that I hadn't conditioned him to one since no crate meant 24/7 oversight next to him on the floor for a month.

The main thing in the video is about how dog's perceive space. A huge part of dog training boils down to that; humans communicate with sound, with dogs it's space. When you limit/control the way a dog navigates space it really shifts how they perceive themselves and the relationship. Part of separation anxiety is them being unable to control how you the human navigate space, and it's how dogs communicate to each other. My dog had a bit of separation anxiety in 2020, after the lockdowns were lifted.

 

[Marie2020]

I don't have a crate for my dog either @Marie2020. This has never been a problem for me, though when he had the splenectomy I regretted that I hadn't conditioned him to one since no crate meant 24/7 oversight next to him on the floor for a month.

The main thing in the video is about how dog's perceive space. A huge part of dog training boils down to that; humans communicate with sound, with dogs it's space. When you limit/control the way a dog navigates space it really shifts how they perceive themselves and the relationship. Part of separation anxiety is them being unable to control how you the human navigate space, and it's how dogs communicate to each other. My dog had a bit of separation anxiety in 2020, after the lockdowns were lifted.

Nancy's has really improved with her anxiety on being home alone. I've had to leave her for shopping sometimes several times a week.
She's stayed with a friend whilst I was with people close to me. After my friends death.

She's going on dogs walks once a week and not reacting every time when a dog barks at her.
However she's not accepting the two dogs next door. They constantly bark and bang the metal fence and goes loopy over on particular dog that passes by.

I hope to get her back into training soon but I'm afraid everything is on hold right now due to a circumstance that has arisen on my health.

Thank you so much for your guidance. @Shades-of-Oregon has also been a great help.

 

[Marie2020]

Dogs, who'd ave em

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Marie sorry to hear of your friends death. Very sad when out friends leave this world. It that time when we remember all the fun and good thing that brought the friendship together in the first place.

On goodness Nancy is going bonkers about certain things . Give her a time out in a different room away from you each time she flips out. After a few times my lil Roxy seems to stop the unnerving behaviors. That’s how I finally encourage her to stop flipping out and barking at the birds out the window.

Sending healing blessings your way.

 

[ducks4you]

SIL will NOT get a puppy. She always goes for an older dog that needs a home.
That's Great, but puppies, young animals, are a blank slate, without baggage (usually.)
Training goes faster and sticks longer.
People are asking why DD's (the ones helping me) don't get a dog.
They don't Need a dog. They have mine.
FYI: Sasha goes into the crate by herself.
I know a guy who had a horse afraid of barns, and had to leave him outside with a cruel shelter all year round.
I think that the horse could have been desensitized, but it is always a shame when somebody messes up an animal, then finds a new home for them, or Worse, dumps them.

 

[digitS']

 

[ducks4you]

The two girls (Teagan--mint green collar, Sasha--red collar,) 10 weeks old, GSD, go from running, chewing, playing (wolfing), to eating, outside and LOTS of water and LOTS of sleep.

 

[digitS']