Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 100% chance of no rain
Time to start closing the windows, freezing the ice blocks, and preparing the fans (or wallet if you’ve got proper air conditioning)!
Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 31°C. 100% chance of no rain
Time to start closing the windows, freezing the ice blocks, and preparing the fans (or wallet if you’ve got proper air conditioning)!
One last trip to the doggo park with hams soon.
Truly is hopeless off lead. Marginally better on lead.
But I do feel for him. At the park, a lot of people don’t understand that breeds’ behaviour… going prone, ears all over the place, aloof. Doesn’t really ‘play’ with the other doggos but still wants to be part of it (don’t think other doggos understand that breed either). Unlike most other dogs he won’t go up to people for pats. Completely disinterested.
Doing a bit of reading and apparently collies annoy the shit out puppy most trainers and make owners feel bad for not getting doggo to do what they’re told. Once you throw in a distraction and they become fixated, they’re truly in their own world. Can’t do much about that (not now at least).
Mr Woof is not a collie, but he does have that fixation thing - so much training advice centres around using treats or “high value objects” which don’t have any impact because once he is fixated there is absolutely nothing else of interest to him. If he eats a treat in that state it is only because it is the most expedient way of getting it out of the way! All the advice I have received about how to deal with that is to start further away from whatever he is focussing on when he is still distractable so that you can work on it gradually, but he is like an on/off switch, there is no in between to work with.