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

Cool thanks good to know. Part of me thinks continued exposure at daycare or similar is the only way he’ll get past his current terror of all dogs and realise that most of them just want to play. The other part just thinks he’d be terrified and it would make things worse….

The thing is with dogs is that they sense your fear, where I live there's a wee jack russell. Its an old woman who walks it and the wee dog is fine then it gets to you and as ive said peanut is dead friendly but it just becomes a bit of a wee arsehole and tries to go for him.

She's started relaxing and walking the dog off lead and its not even bothered now by him, so I think a lot of the fear was via her and the dog if you see her son very seldomly with it isnt like that.

Another thing, I will say that parks can be the worse, there so many irrespoible dog owns and folk that are on another planet so not always the best place as people always think there dog is good when in reality its not trained and really should be on a lead but they cant see themselves and want to blame others should something happen.

I’ve developed a hyper vigilance in the park and usually spot wayward dogs far enough away to head in a different direction. If the other dog looks chill or is on lead I’ll venture closer to show my guy there’s nothing to be afraid of.

Recently I’ve started saying hello and really actively engaging any dog that comes over. Petting them, speaking to them etc - that seems to really help calm down my guy and prevent the uninvited stranger from getting aggressive/chases. But I can’t get to all of them.

My dog oddly seems just as scared when there’s no dog around (we routinely go to the park 5:30am). Like he can’t believe there’s nobody about and they must be hiding/waiting to pounce. Then he sees a squirrel and he’s off and all is forgotten for 10 seconds….

Partner is a behaviourist, just asked her thoughts. Benefit of a behaviourist over a trainer is that they may have more knowledge of underlying issues and can work closely with a vet to e.g try out behavioural medication if necessary.

Do you have insurance? Behaviour cases might be covered by it.

Try a local dog Facebook group. Around here (Bristol) we have found a few people who want to walk with “good dogs” which might give an opportunity for good interactions.

When we first got ours, she was very nervous around other dogs. Tended to try to avoid them, but if we got closer would try to lunge at them. Found a mix of exercising her away from other dogs (to get rid of her excess energy) then lots of positive reinforcement around other dogs worked. Would essentially hold on to her harness and give lots of strokes/'good dog's as others came up to her. And generally trying to relax myself as well - chatting a bit to the other owners helped normalise the situation.

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I’ll tell the story of Dolly’s puppy classes
Dolly was 2 year oldish at the time.
She is a Jack Russell Beagle cross and is a rescue dog, that had lived in a field for around 6 months immediately before we picked her up. Before that she had had a litter of Jackabees for the horror show that had her before us.
Anyway she got the hang of being in a house instantly, so I guess at sometime she had been in one. But she wouldn’t walk on a lead and did whatever she wanted no matter what utube things we tried.
So puppy classes were suggested by the local trainer. She was obviously the only grown dog there, but did ok with Sit, Wait, Stay but that was it. The trainer said we needed better fridge treats and that would get her to do the harder stuff.
Fast forward to the last week and recall. The trainer had her own never fail treats. The first 5 puppies did it perfectly. Then came Dolly, she had been watching intently so knew what to do.
The trainer walked her across the field and sat her down, Liz and I had the special never fail treat and call her over. Like a super star she runs straight towards us, the pride I felt was real (she’d never come when called before), it was short lived, she ran straight past us, into the lean to that the trains used to store stuff. She came back out with a ziplock bag of the special never fail treats and went and sat behind us to devour them.
The trainer said that older Jacks are hard to train as are older Beagles as they are too smart to be bought and good luck, you’re on your own though.
Fast forward a year and she still has no recall, still won’t drop stuff when asked, but she will freeze so at least we can get to her if she runs off or is eating a rat she’s pulled out of the hedge, (if ratting was her job she would be employee of the year) if we are quick we can grab her.
In every other respect she’s brilliant, but I wish she’d come when called.

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Oh aren’t you lovely 🥰

Otto came third in a race today

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Great to know some first-hand info, thanks. I think we’ll probably try out a local one (or two) and gauge success.

My dog comes when he's called, when he decides he's ready!

Character

Our jack border is the same, recall is fuckin terrible 90 percent of the time but we’ve worked round it

Mine comes 100% of the time that he wants to come.

We’ve worked round it by never letting her off out of the garden!
The last 3 mornings I’ve had to wrestle either a rat or a baby rabbit off her. They are getting into the veg patch so well done, but all the time she knows the world is full of food/toys she won’t come for treats. Little bugger!!

What a good doggie

she ran straight past us, into the lean to that the trains used to store stuff. She came back out with a ziplock bag of the special never fail treats and went and sat behind us to devour them.

all the time she knows the world is full of food/toys she won’t come for treats

Was she initially trained by @hippy?

She would’ve starved to death

Thankfully we had a cocker when I was younger and a friend of a friend who trains gundogs so have him prepped to book us in for training.

Crate training is the plan.

I’m about to let this guy know his big walk is on the agenda. Something tells me he’d rather be asleep

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Asking my dog if he’d like to go for a walk is the highlight of my day. If it ever got old I’ll know I’m dead inside.

There were two phrases my dogs would switch on to, "Right then" or "Shall we". No matter how asleep or comfortable they were, the reaction was instantaneous.

The shitting and the vomming since Thursday was a bit tedious. What's more tedious is finding out it's not vomming but coughing. And probably means "KENNEL COUGH".
Still, appetite is back and the fear of a broken dog has subsided.

Rough! Have you ever used Prokolin? We tend to have a tube in for when Crumpet has an upset stomach and it's pretty effective. Probably no good for kennel cough but useful to have in the house

Yeah the v e t recommended that, but only when the action has died down.

Did a bit of research on kennel cough recently as feared one of my dogs had it. From what I read, it's nowhere near as bad as it sounds for the dog - it's generally pretty painless, but can last a couple of weeks. My boy was fine after a couple of days, no idea what caused his issue.