I am interested to hear what others say about your first question because my dog has done that food cover up as well. I think she just gets tired of the same food all the time because she does it more often when we are finishing the bag of food( If I had the option I would do raw diet though)
Heidi started this from the first day I got her. Starving dog afraid to eat anything? Makes me wonder if she has ulcers from stress. My vet suggested to introduce a little canned food or gravy with the dry. She eats it a little better, but still hides it for later. She gets dry food made with real meat, no grains.
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.... Secondly: I had her walking beside me on the leash, beginning to watch me and to sit. Or at least I thought I did. She has always been excited and anxious when I go to her, but would calm down. Now when I take her out for lessons, she almost pulls me down when she sees one of my barn cats. She has lost focus on me and is constantly looking around.
The difference I think was when I first brought her home, I kept her in one of my horse stalls to have a quiet place to recover from spaying and to get used to me and get her health back. She couldn't see anything from the stall and enjoyed our lessons in the yard (occasionally seeing a cat). Now she has become obsessed with the cats since she is in her pen and watches them run freely about the barn and yard and pastures.
I have been using a choke chain, but I bought a prong collar yesterday to start using. I plan on working with her in the pen until I know I can have good control of her before taking her out. I was considering an obedience class (for socializing too) but not until I can control her. Where do I go from here? I don't know which dvd(s) I need to help me get her under control. I want her to be an obedient companion for me.
Is there a way to work with her marker training (sit, focus, etc.) so that only occasional glimpses of cats are possible, and from a distance? Then slightly closer?
I assume that she's just watching them, since you don't mention chasing or barking?
Others will help, too, but I want to say that weekends are often slow on the board because so many folks train on Saturday and Sunday.
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On the first question Patricia, I would feed her in her crate. Whatever reasons she has for doing that? I don't know. I think that if you make eating a consistant routine, she'll relax and just eat. I think there's an article here that touches on it and talks about leaving the food with them for a certain amount of time and then picking it up.
On the second issue, she's probably building some frustration watching the cats while she's penned up. If you can't keep them out of her sight, its going to be more work keeping her attention when you work with her. I teach my dogs a leave it command. I give the command Leave It, and I give an immeadiate correction. Teach it at a distance from the cats or with other things she's not so intent on. That way the correction can be less harsh. You don't want to be too rough on her.
Make sure you're ready to reward her when her attention comes back to you. Whether its food or some petting and good girls, just be ready to make it clear that she did what you want.
I plan on working with her on the lower part of the pen (huge pen/part of side yard)out of the cat view.
When she sees me outside, she jumps on the fence and whines and cries. When I go up to the pen and she does this, I keep turning my back to her until she sits quietly. I am trying to teach her self control and no jumping allowed. I praise her for good behavior and turn my back on her for bad. I hope this is correct it seems to be an attention issue.
When I'm watching her without her knowing, she will run to the fence dancing around barking at the cats at the barn. So wanting to chase them. She got by me one day and chased them under the horse trailer. Did not pay any attention to me what so ever. Had a hard time catching her also.
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