Well, I should start at the beginning. In week two of obedience class, she was using Dante as an example, and I don't know what exactly she did to him, looked to me like she was just rubbing under his belly, holding him across the chest, down the legs, etc.... But he started yelping like he was being hurt really badly and carrying on, so she exclaimed how I needed to get him use to other people touching him all over, he was just shy she said.
Well, I kinda doubted that, as he goes everywhere with me, and little kids (we all know how kids just run up and start petting without asking!!!) pet him and adults play with him, etc... So, I didn't think anything of it.
Well, today was week 4 of obedience class. We're working on the come command using the long line. Dante has a bad habit of running right past me on the come. (For the most part he's pretty good) Well, she's holding him at one end of the arena and will let him go when I say come. After the third time, I take him back to her, head down to my end, and Dante becomes entangled in his long line. She starts messing with him, trying to get the long line from out between his legs. He's yelping, she's pulling, I'm like "My god! How entangled can he be!" When she grabs Dante by the head and says "NO" Looks at me, and says He just bit me!
Alright, I'm freaking like "What?!!! He bit you?!@!" He's never bit ANYTHING unless he was playing. So then she says, "Well, it's not his fault, I was invading his space, but you need to nip this in the bud quick so that he doesn't turn aggressive." I still feeling horrible ask "Did he break skin?" She replied no, but that he grabbed her with his canines.
So, that was a great end to my class. So, I get home, see that I have neighbors who are outside, I make them guinea pigs, they rub him all over, I reinact the long line deed, no growls, no nips, no bites.
I'm stressing. I have 3 more weeks with this teacher. I think Dante just doesn't like her from whatever she did in week 2. But, I know she's going to look on Dante as a 'dangerous dog'!! I could just cry!!
Well, I kinda doubted that, as he goes everywhere with me, and little kids (we all know how kids just run up and start petting without asking!!!) pet him and adults play with him, etc... So, I didn't think anything of it.
Well, today was week 4 of obedience class. We're working on the come command using the long line. Dante has a bad habit of running right past me on the come. (For the most part he's pretty good) Well, she's holding him at one end of the arena and will let him go when I say come. After the third time, I take him back to her, head down to my end, and Dante becomes entangled in his long line. She starts messing with him, trying to get the long line from out between his legs. He's yelping, she's pulling, I'm like "My god! How entangled can he be!" When she grabs Dante by the head and says "NO" Looks at me, and says He just bit me!
Alright, I'm freaking like "What?!!! He bit you?!@!" He's never bit ANYTHING unless he was playing. So then she says, "Well, it's not his fault, I was invading his space, but you need to nip this in the bud quick so that he doesn't turn aggressive." I still feeling horrible ask "Did he break skin?" She replied no, but that he grabbed her with his canines.
So, that was a great end to my class. So, I get home, see that I have neighbors who are outside, I make them guinea pigs, they rub him all over, I reinact the long line deed, no growls, no nips, no bites.
I'm stressing. I have 3 more weeks with this teacher. I think Dante just doesn't like her from whatever she did in week 2. But, I know she's going to look on Dante as a 'dangerous dog'!! I could just cry!!