Well, last night I went back to the dog training club as the Sports Dog Club was training there and that's where my trainer goes with her dogs. I just wanted to go and have Rosa in a nice stress free environment, no hassle, get her to focus on me, and just get it all happy and nice again. Mission accomplished.
A trainer did ask me if the poodle had been 'broken' I said..No, not a mark or anything on it... she then said my dog was a good dog because her dog would surely have punctured the thing for being so rude and in her dog's face. I felt a bit better after that!
I have been doing so much reading on dog training methods, clicker training, socialisation, aggression etc... my head's spinning, but I feel better equipped now.
We went for a walk this morning and she was excellent. I then managed a full Afterburn workout (just 2 sets through though not 3)...and finished with more attempts at hula hooping.... got a few good ones in then went like a nong again...
The things you took for granted as a kid hey?!
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It sounds like having a dog is a lot of hard work, but I still would love to have my own dog. One day...
Are you enjoying your afterburn program? I am still waiting for mine to arrive.
Well, adopting one that is an older rehoming dog is turning out to be a lot of work - but only because we love her so much and want her to have the best of homes for the rest of her days - and we want to do it right as well. We did a lot of things wrong in the past, but somehow muddled through as our dogs were fairly easy going, but now I really want my dogs to be good mannered, well socialised, happy beings that we can take anywhere and know all will be fairly good (until something fluffy and yappy comes along :-) ).
All things said and done, they are well worth it.
I haven't been able to put as much focus into Afterburn as I would like, but hopefully can start to get back into it - it is good for a change from the 'norm' though.
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