My Mal pup is at 7 1/2 months old, for the past few weeks, I noticed that he started to sneeze and sitting on 3 legs when I have him in the heel position sit and look at me, are these signs of nervous or stress? He does not look stress at all, it seems like he is holding back his crazy drive, he was just ready to take another command and do something, but my training director said that it is a sign of nervous, and that I need to calm him down, I wonder if there is a conflict somewhere that I missed, I trained with hot dog.
Thanks.
The raised front leg is typically a sign of stress in dogs. It also tends to show up more in dogs with 'thin' nerves. I have seen plenty of mals that did it all the time, simply from anticipation of a reward.
I sure hope you are wrong Deanna, I will be heartbreak if he has weak nerve and run off the field one day by a strong decoy, he does not shows any sign of weak nerve at all, I took him to a rifle gun range and that did not bother him at all, he is not afraid of strangers, he aproached them cautiously and then a few seconds later he is friendly to them, when I introduced him to new environment like tunnel, slide on the playground he is carefully at first but adapted to new environment and in just a few seconds and having fun right away, but he does have a low threshold in defense, he is quick to bark and run toward strangers that come into our yard but also very quick in calming down and drop his defense posture after I calm him down. I'm thinking that I am putting to much obedience into him at this age that is causing stress, he already knows and perform all obedience routing off leash perfectly under no distraction, under distraction then he is not perfect. Do you or any other trainer still think he has weak nerve?
Thanks.
I didn't say weak nerves... I said 'thin'- you have to understand that it isn't a bad thing, but that mals in general have a different nervous makeup than your average GSD. Not bad, just different.
Peter, on the internet using ALL CAPS is considered YELLING and RUDE. Who said anything about getting rid of the dog?
YOU DID!
Take a freaking chill pill!
Khoi, The nerve thing is something that is hard to quantify in words especially over the internet. All dogs have a different degree of nerve strength- a dog being described as having thinner nerves just means that the thresholds are lower than on a dog who has what is considered strong nerves. Again, not a bad thing.. just different. Some mals will chatter their teeth-some lift their leg up- some will shiver- etc.
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