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If you don't trust him, muzzle him and you'll be more confident. If you haven't already get a trainer or someone who is experienced in this to demonstrate other methods of stopping him pulling - not all dogs respond to the pull-stop method.
Scott, I was going to get the Training with Markers DVD next. However, I'm now wondering with my newly acquired anxiety over walking him, if I should maybe hire a behavioralist for a sesson or 2 instead.
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... We did a "training walk" around the block today, and he tried to pull towards 2 people and a dog in a not good way, so I am not taking him anymore until I can at least get him to stop the constant pulling.
Is there a time of day when there's an unpopulated route (as mentioned earlier)?
Don't forget Steve's advice about no one being allowed to approach the dog (and that includes the neighbor).
Also, way before the dogs and humans can get inside your dog's reactive zone would be when you capture his attention off to the side with upbeat focus/ob or change routes casually and calmly (and walking purposefully).
How close are the people or dogs he pulls towards?
Kelly,
I know times are tough. If it's any recompense most all of us are going through the same thing.
But it occurs to me if you live any where close I'd be glad to help with the dog, just for fun.
Kelly,
Have you yet made an outline or a synopsis of all the advice you've gotten in the last few days in, mmmm, what three or four different threads?
With all that's going on with the dog, and in no small measure the over whelming confusion you seem to be feeling, I think the key for you is to pick one thing, just ONE thing to work on. Once you and the dog get that one thing together, you can move on to the next and so on.
Make it simple, build from there. It helps the dog.
If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy
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Randy's post is a great idea for you Kelly. I would suggest teaching him to sit. I would work on making it so solid with him that he won't break it no matter who is coming near. Do you need any help with that?
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