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

Reckon you could pull this ensemble off?

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The belt knot is interesting

Dora has managed to hurt herself pretty seriously this time.
It’s pretty devastating watching a young dog who really walk or anything without being in huge amounts of pain.
Carrying a Labrador down the street so she can poop on the common is not how I anticipated spending late September.

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Got to love radiologists.
Didn’t even mention the massive poop also present in that CT.
Consummate professionals.

Uh oh! How did she manage that?

Tbh, I’m surprised you’re not doing your own CT scans and prepping her for surgery yourself!

Personally, I think once you accept wellies it’s just one step closer to something I don’t want to do.

Sheer bad luck.
Or bad deadlift form, not sure.

That looks fucking awesome.

I'm tempted by a poncho

Poor little thing, will she recover completely (after enormous amounts of money are spent)? I'm lucky that my labs have been pretty much bombproof.

Won’t be able to be the same chaos merchant, but she should do after surgery.
Trying to keep her still and safe now is probably the hardest part, as that level of disc slip is very close to causing more serious consequences

Oh man, sorry to hear that. Hope she heals up okay.

If someone can point me towards how to stop my dog chasing runners when she’s off the lead that would be great.
It happens almost as soon as we come into the park.

It'll come with general recall but when they're young and excited by everything it's hard. Just keep working on recall and eventually they'll learn not everything is a game

Let her catch one and realise they're not very tasty

@umop3pisdn - it's not such a bad plan....
@Sumo - generally recall is good...

Here's what happens :
wake up, make a coffee, get the bag of kibble, etc ready, get the lead on, walk out, do some sit stay come on the way to the park. get into the park, try to walk up the muddy trail. Stiff dog (warning). "bailey where's dad" (my definitely works recall cue). runner.
"woof woof woof" run up "woof woof woof" circle. runner either stops or carries on. I walk up quickly saying "bailey" and "stop".
then put the lead on, apologise.

When she's on the lead, I can have her sat next to me and ignore the whole of park run going by her (500 people or so).

I'm guessing a bit "ooh wtf is going on in the park" plus "off the lead" = anxious? Should I feed her before going out? I don't think so?

Sounds like you need higher value treats for these situations? We tend to have general treats and some “emergency recall” treats. Generally human food that he doesn’t get often

I'm not sure it's a food thing/recall thing. It feels like/looks like "wtf is this person doing running up to me they are a bit scary. So i'll run up and bark, then chase after them"
It sometimes happens with other dogs. I'll be doing sit stays, fetching in a quiet part, then another dog will enter their peripheral vision, stiffen up, and then run over.
At which point the food is irrelevant.

This does sound like a recall thing to me. If you can't recall the dog in the face of a particular trigger/event, then surely it's a recall thing. My anecdata - Owen's recall is absolutely flawless if we're out for a big walk in the country, not that bothered by other wildlife and always comes happily back on first call. In our local parks frequented by dogs he's hyper-alert looking for other dogs and if he sees one he wants to play with, there's very little chance he's coming back. I'm continuing to work on recall and hoping it's largely hypersocial adolescence and the drive with lessen with the solidly trained recall coming back to the surface. But, what has made walks so much more enjoyable is just keeping him on the lead. Until he can consistently come back when called in all situations, he will not be off lead in those situations. I'll let him off when we meet dogs he knows and plays well with (an increasing number, tbh, so it's rare we have a walk without any off-lead play) but I think also important not to make walks stressful events for either of you. If they don't come back, they don't go off.

I'll keep working on recall, obvs, but I think in writing this I have to remember CPP = long lead for a bit/maybe come in a different way.
Woods is very different walking experience to the PARK.

It could also be familiarity. Had similar issues with ours and the flashy tube lights people/dogs/cyclists wear after dark. Trained ours via lots of reassurance - soon as she saw one told her to heel or sit, then gave lots of praise/strokes until it was gone. In time started walking up to people wearing them, asking if my dog could say hi. After a while she relaxed, and now just ignores them.

I think perhaps more work on desenitising Bailey to runners? So observing them from distance, treats when they've been clocked and she's calm, some look at me/treats if runners get closer (keep her engaged with you), some higher value treats if a runner passes/no reaction.

Basically find a bench and feed her snacks around stuff when she's chilled.

The usual way of training for them to be calm about certain things, be it runners or cars or birds etc is to sit or stand nearby some where the dog can see the thing they want to chase and you reward them as soon as they're sat nicely. You can also break their concentration by grabbing their attention with a treat, walking a little circle and once you're facing the target again, treat them as soon as they sit nicely. Basically you want to reward the being calm part, same you do for training to not jump on people who come in the house.

In our local parks frequented by dogs he's hyper-alert looking for other dogs and if he sees one he wants to play with, there's very little chance he's coming back

Mines the same. In our little local park she's very comfortable and will basically run to the other side to say hi to other dogs. If she's not had a walk yet that day she'll be worse for it, or if we did a walk earlier and there weren't any other dogs. Some times I can call her back before she goes too far but I can tell from body language when she isn't going to listen. I know she'll mostly want to just run up, sit down a few meters from them, have a look and come running back so it's not like she's a total menace but working on teaching her to not run up to dogs especially on the lead is an ongoing thing.

Definitely long line for a while. I know training's meant to be all positive reinforcement only these days, but I think there's some value in being abruptly brought to a halt by stamping on the long line. Not violently, but sudden enough that it's not something that they enjoy being repeated. Combined with high value treats, etc.
Also be aware that it'll pass and you'll (probably) miss the the point where they were excited by everything.