Quote: Tracy Collins

Yeah, I'm thinking that the "pick your battle" strategy is the right idea here too. I honestly don't think she can help herself in this situation.

I agree 100%. Tanya and Ian make valid points but you can't work with Fanny and run the other dogs and Thor did know to speak and quiet but once he stopped barking he would physically bounce off the walls. I was only running Thor so was able to work with him when the other dogs ran and by the end of the hour he was tired enough to engage in a down for a reward. Does it upset the other dogs when she is barking? Since you have a private lesson I would probably not care about the barking unless it was upsetting to your other pups. And if it is; crated away from the action is IMO the best solution.

She sure sounds like one drivey little girl, just leaking with enthusiasm.

We had two very excitable dogs in our last class. One dog in particular had been through the course a couple of times and the instructor was quite familiar with them.

On the first day (of a six week course) she had this dog in a back corner with the sheet over the crate. She quietened down a bit but it didn’t help when a dog was in the area. And she just went bonkers on the floor, unlike Fanny, very little focus on her handler. It was all about the other dogs and she loved the tunnel.

All the crates and x-pens had thick sheets attached to them, mostly blue ones (don’t know if that makes a difference) but on the second night the instructor asked us all to drape the sheets over our crates while this dog was on the floor. It really helped her gain focus on her handler and we ended up having to do this each time this particular dog ran.

By the fourth day this dog seemed to have settled down quite a bit in her crate. Wasn't able to see our dogs as they ran and dogs weren't visible as she ran.

She was working on a bunch of other stuff with her too while she was in the crate (rewards for quiet and down) so I feel your pain with having the 4 other dogs to run.

This was a really excitable, small shepherd though and she was dealing more with reactive issues than she was drive. I don't know anything about corgis but maybe, like has been mentioned, if you're able to provide rewards for those miniscule quiet moments behind a covered sheet and if the others are willing to play hide their dogs, it might be worth a shot.

This dog was far from perfect on the last night but I don’t remember any barking as we ran our dogs.

Have you had her in a crate in the yard, outside your home, while the other 4 are loose having an active time? It seems like an issue to do with teaching her to control her drive.