My 4 Month Old Puppy Hates Big Fluffy Dogs

In this video, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about 4 month old German Shepherd puppy is proactively managing his vocal tendencies. While the puppy generally responds well to redirection when seeing other dogs, certain fluffy dogs trigger brief barking. The owner wants to know what things they can do to stop this behavior and focus on them.

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Links

Puppy Development

Training Your Dog to COME When Called - EVERY TIME

Training Dogs with FOOD REWARDS - with Ed Frawley

Your Puppy 8 Weeks to 12 Months

Leash Reactivity with Tyler Muto

Leash Reactivity with Michael Ellis

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When people have specific training questions we recommend that they go to our website and post those questions in the ASK CINDY on the front page of leerburg.com. Cindy has been training dogs since she was a teenager and has competed in several dog sports at a regional and national level. She was also a vet tech and owned a boarding/training and grooming business for many years as well as breeding working Dobermans and Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Kaiserhaus.

Questions posted to ASK CINDY are answered almost every day. They are also recorded in our systems if a dog owner has additional questions Cindy will review the previous Q&As and this helps her give better feedback and assistance.