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I know 3 months probably isn't a thing but it feels like a win. 
Willow is doing very well overall. She is sooooo much less leash reactive than she was, she "leaves it" when I tell her to (including with a white-tailed deer that walked out of the bushes literally 10 feet in front of her this morning), she even walked up to a stranger at the dog park the other day and let her pet her. She tolerated a super annoying little fox terrier that kept barking in her face and jumping up to nip at her ears, merely sidestepping with a look of amusement and then running off. Her leash reactivity is definitely a "BUT I WANNA PLAY WITH IT, MOM!"
She's even doing better in the truck and car....still whiny, but not quite as bad now. And we had our last day at the check station yesterday, and she did so well---still uncertain and a bit skittish, but she's come a long way since I got her.
Willow is super vocal with her little groans and whines, I love her little bronco-bounce when she's excited, she plays tug with me now which she didn't do before, and her face/ears have sooooooo much personality.
Granted, she's started shedding like mad again, my house has a vague corn chip smell lately, so I vacuum a lot more now...but that's ok. We still need to work on patience (both of us), I still don't trust her loose in the house since the garbage incident, and she's developed a really bad habit of running into my legs from behind at a dead run or body-checking me while we're out on walks/playing....I'm wondering if she has vision problems, honestly. But overall I feel like things are good, and hopefully will just keep getting better! Here is a pic of both of us a couple of weeks ago at the check station, when a professional Brazilian photographer randomly stopped by for the day (he was doing a piece on hunting in America).
Willow is doing very well overall. She is sooooo much less leash reactive than she was, she "leaves it" when I tell her to (including with a white-tailed deer that walked out of the bushes literally 10 feet in front of her this morning), she even walked up to a stranger at the dog park the other day and let her pet her. She tolerated a super annoying little fox terrier that kept barking in her face and jumping up to nip at her ears, merely sidestepping with a look of amusement and then running off. Her leash reactivity is definitely a "BUT I WANNA PLAY WITH IT, MOM!"
She's even doing better in the truck and car....still whiny, but not quite as bad now. And we had our last day at the check station yesterday, and she did so well---still uncertain and a bit skittish, but she's come a long way since I got her.
Willow is super vocal with her little groans and whines, I love her little bronco-bounce when she's excited, she plays tug with me now which she didn't do before, and her face/ears have sooooooo much personality.
Granted, she's started shedding like mad again, my house has a vague corn chip smell lately, so I vacuum a lot more now...but that's ok. We still need to work on patience (both of us), I still don't trust her loose in the house since the garbage incident, and she's developed a really bad habit of running into my legs from behind at a dead run or body-checking me while we're out on walks/playing....I'm wondering if she has vision problems, honestly. But overall I feel like things are good, and hopefully will just keep getting better! Here is a pic of both of us a couple of weeks ago at the check station, when a professional Brazilian photographer randomly stopped by for the day (he was doing a piece on hunting in America).
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