Thank you for asking, Ruth-- I am missing GrimmiSweetPiggy like you cannot believe. We just got home from a 2 week trip to the lunc hospital for my new hubby Ulrich to have a section of lung removed, so in the next few days we will be phoning the lady who runs the doggy hotel where Grimm is staying. We will be asking her to:
1) Show us Grimm gallumping freely in a group wth other dogs, as she says she has had him doing for the past almost 4 weeks... cos this is something I have never seen before, and NEED to see, to begin to relax about this,
2) to show me herself walking Grimmi on lead past other dogs, and finally,
3)to help ME learn to calmly walk Grimm past other dogs.
MOST of Grimm's barking on lead at other dogs issue was him not being sure what other dogs were, or how to behave.... the lady said at first in the supervised doggy play, he was badly behaved due to not yet knowing what to do round other dogs, but very soon relaxed, learned how to be a dog, and how to just have fun around other dogs. A small part of the problem possibly may be me tensing up in anticipation of Grimm lunging/barking, even in noisy interest-- as I am small and weak, and Grimm is a big fella.
I have just gotten Click to Calm.
I just read "Feisty Fido"-- THANK YOU to someone absolutely wonderful
here who sent it to me!!!!-- and am really interested in trying the techniques, even if Grimm comes home no longer being a nerd-on-lead
with other dogs.