I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

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Skülly

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It doesn't help that some dogs get more anxious on the lead than off.

@dancing james

Dogs will show more anxiety when they are on the lead and another dog is off lead. They tend to feel a greater need to defend their handler.

You both seem to have got exactly what I've been wondering might be the case.

Thanks for advice on recall James. Some of it is definitely JUTFB but it's worth reminding to keep going on at the simpler stuff so it's really hammered home, and not rush things.

I've got this feeling that when I finally let her off she's going to be just fine. She's obviously been fairly well trained by a previous owner, just as she's 8 or 9 maybe a bit hard for her to now adapt to our versions of commands etc.

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dancing james in reply to @Skülly

dogs are like people and learn in different ways. we actually found some of the stuff suggested to us by a couple of different canine behaviourists to be utterly useless for our dogs.

it has also been a challenge to find appropriate rewarding strategy as our bitch is very keen on food as a reward, the boy on the other hand is more keen on praise and ball retrieving as a reward. he will come back and take a treat as part of the game itself but will immediately drop it, a ruffle of the ears and throw of the ball is much more relevant to him. he is so excited and has some much adrenaline that food is not interesting to him.

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