Hello!!
I'm new to this website, and am hoping for some advice from fellow GSD mama/papa's. I have a 5 month old GSD named Axel. He just graduated obedience puppy classes on Sunday (woohoo!). I have an almost 2 year old border collie/cattle dog mix as well and they're best friends. I've taken Axel to the dog parks, to my friends house and he doesn't so much play with the other dogs, he just likes to follow them around and jump around. Sunday, on his last day of puppy classes, as we were working on some review, people would come up to him and he would immediately start barking. Today, I took him and my other fur baby for a walk, and as we were walking, he started barking at people who weren't even interacting with us. He got upset and his hair started to stick up while he barked at a few people which is the first time he's ever done that. Is this normal and is there a way that it can be stopped? We do work on the whole "focus" and "leave it" command but today he just got so worked up!
Any advice and any tips are very appreciated!
I'm new to this website, and am hoping for some advice from fellow GSD mama/papa's. I have a 5 month old GSD named Axel. He just graduated obedience puppy classes on Sunday (woohoo!). I have an almost 2 year old border collie/cattle dog mix as well and they're best friends. I've taken Axel to the dog parks, to my friends house and he doesn't so much play with the other dogs, he just likes to follow them around and jump around. Sunday, on his last day of puppy classes, as we were working on some review, people would come up to him and he would immediately start barking. Today, I took him and my other fur baby for a walk, and as we were walking, he started barking at people who weren't even interacting with us. He got upset and his hair started to stick up while he barked at a few people which is the first time he's ever done that. Is this normal and is there a way that it can be stopped? We do work on the whole "focus" and "leave it" command but today he just got so worked up!
Any advice and any tips are very appreciated!