steve strom Webboard User Reg: 03-17-2006
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Not every dog is a dog park, love everybody kinda dog. If you can train him to behave around other people and be aware enough to manage how people interact with him (Ask them to please ignore him) You can take him out. Its going to depend on obedience where you can take him.
Be realistic and honest in what your dog is so you don't put him in a position where he can't behave.
The only way for that to happen to is to enure him to other people and other dogs. And often.
It's called desensitizing.
It's a long term project, it doesn't happen overnight or in a week nor a month. It's loooong term.
Say for instance I have a dog sensitive to sounds. First I determine where the threshold point is, then I work on the edge of that threshold and slowly build his tolerance to those noises over a course of a year or more so that at the end (for however long) he has absolutely no issues with those noises.
It's the same thing Theresa.
Start on the edge, work into the issue. Don't let the issue overwhelm you or the dog.
Approach it just one piece at a time.
If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy
That is why since you mentioned taking him around other dogs and people, I have walked about 2 miles farther EVERY day to take him to where there are dogs. I am trying. I am doing as much as I can do. It has only been about a week since I started this thread and I am making all the changes I can and he is doing much better.
Steve and Randy, thanks for the encouragement. I am really trying hard to do the best for/with Rocky. I love my dog and want to enjoy taking him places with me.
Also, everyone else, who has offered encouragement and suggestions...thanks for the encouragement and I am taking ALL suggestions and working on what is best for me and Rocky.
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A really positive thing is that as his confidence in you and his instant compliance with ob commands increase, your possibilities about where and how you might get him around (but not flooded with) strangers where you can safely do desensitizing work will probably increase.
As Randy puts it:
"Say for instance I have a dog sensitive to sounds. First I determine where the threshold point is, then I work on the edge of that threshold and slowly build his tolerance to those noises over a course of a year or more so that at the end (for however long) he has absolutely no issues with those noises. ... It's the same thing Theresa. ... Start on the edge, work into the issue. Don't let the issue overwhelm you or the dog.
A really positive thing is that as his confidence in you and his instant compliance with ob commands increase, your possibilities about where and how you might get him around (but not flooded with) strangers where you can safely do desensitizing work will probably increase.
Another really positive thing is an owner who actually is implementing the suggestions and advice and is seeing results which lets her know she is heading in the right direction. All too often we see folks who want an easy fix without having to change the way they are doing things.
That is why since you mentioned taking him around other dogs and people, I have walked about 2 miles farther EVERY day to take him to where there are dogs. I am trying. I am doing as much as I can do. It has only been about a week since I started this thread and I am making all the changes I can and he is doing much better.
Slow but steady is just fine. I find this is one of those things where you put months or years worth of work into it then all of a sudden one day you realize just how good your dog has become
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