Amazing yet so incredibly frustrating!

[claire_88]

Over the last two weeks i haven't been well enough to do a really long walk with the dog's and so have left it to my OH. The dog's have always come back well exercised and played, but today was my first morning of getting back into it.... and i could not believe the difference!

Skye was terrible she wouldn't come when i called, she would run off with the ball instead of dropping it and her heel is appalling!!!

In the space of what must be now 2 weeks of me being ill, my dog has gone to pot! In the house she has made no changes, so i couldn't see what an insubordinate little s**t she had become.... it was incredibly frustrating and i had to resort to leashing her halfway through the play session as she was so bad. Looks like the new year holds many, many training sessions right back to basics it feels like what i'v done so far with her had been a complete and utter waste of time.

[ianock]

Sasha can be like this sometimes, normally due to excitment, however I turn the tables on her and run away from her....she hates that and chases me, play her at her own game I also take a spare ball with me and if she is in one of her 'I aint dropping the ball moods' I just let her have a glimpse of the other tennis ball and she wants it so drops hers immediately

Things will soon settle back to normal dont worry about it....however you do bring up a good point in that does your OH have different rules/views on the dog and training?

Happy new year.

[Moobli]

Oh dear That must be incredibly frustrating. However, she was probably just trying it on today, especially if your OH has been letting her get away with things for the past two weeks.

I am sure that with a few gentle and consistent reminders over the next few days, all the training you have put in so far will come flooding back to her, and she will be back to where she was before you were ill.

Hope you are much better now (Nothing worse than being too ill to do dog walking )

[evabrook]

my two were like that today.with Eva being in season i have to wait for oh to be free so not much walking so today she nearly dragged me down a hill roll on next week when they can be brought into line again lol

[claire_88]

Originally Posted by ianock

Sasha can be like this sometimes, normally due to excitment, however I turn the tables on her and run away from her....she hates that and chases me, play her at her own game I also take a spare ball with me and if she is in one of her 'I aint dropping the ball moods' I just let her have a glimpse of the other tennis ball and she wants it so drops hers immediately

Things will soon settle back to normal dont worry about it....however you do bring up a good point in that does your OH have different rules/views on the dog and training?

Happy new year.

I tried everything i could think of at the time! Liver treats, ignoring her, running away, resorting to the leash when i managed to actually get her. Our commands are the same bar one which is the ''heel'' neither of us have ever actually used that word, but i use ''close'' and he uses ''back''...

The past couple of days she has been better, i took her to a friends where he had two adult gsd's to see how she was and she was brilliant, came when i shouted her, walked well i thought ''ah maybe it was just a play up day for her'' but when back with titon she was a menace again!

Any thoughts why she could be playing up just when she is with him??

[LOVEGSD]

Sounds like maybe OH has let her do as she wishes so she's now doing just that...lol....I would go back to basics on walks and make yourself fun so she wants to come back to you...