I need help. First I want to clear things up. You may remember when I first got Nike this summer I was all for training and ready to do the work. Please don't think that I'm lazy or not worrying about my commitments I made when I got her. But I had little time and I'm time to work with her now that I do.
So I didn't get as much training done this late summer as I would habve like and then school came and I was incredibly busy, getting up at 5:20 to walk Nike in the morning and going to bed 10-11. I did cross country so with that I had weekends busy to. I loved Nike and she knows sit, is learning lay down and roll over (slowly but surely- I think) and she knows shake. But I walk her in the evenings with my friend. My friends dog is her best friend but she has some major issues. She is aggressive on walks. She will lunge and bark at strangers. I really dont think she would hurt them buit she does it and they've never taught her differently. In fact when she does it to these boys in my neighborhood around my age. My friends will say "yeah they're stupid anyways." she doesnt see that its bad. I know I'm going to have a talk with her about it. Anyways Nike is now getting her bad habits. She alreday pulled on the leash some but she would mostly ignore other dogs when passing. Now she lunges and barks. If I teach her heel and the loose form of heel so that she walks by me, will this cure it? I don't think she' s scared because she only started doing it after my friends dog did a lot. Or do I need to do something more? If so what? And how should I teach heel? I've heard it many ways and I read KAren Pryors book but it didnt seem to work to well.
Another question- Nike has started being mouthy. How can I stop this? She is extremely mouthy when I put her leash on, she tries to grab it in her mouth and is mouthy other ways. I know the problem ios that my mom kind of encourages it by lightly wrestling. I'm going to try to fix that. But how can I reverse the damage?
So I didn't get as much training done this late summer as I would habve like and then school came and I was incredibly busy, getting up at 5:20 to walk Nike in the morning and going to bed 10-11. I did cross country so with that I had weekends busy to. I loved Nike and she knows sit, is learning lay down and roll over (slowly but surely- I think) and she knows shake. But I walk her in the evenings with my friend. My friends dog is her best friend but she has some major issues. She is aggressive on walks. She will lunge and bark at strangers. I really dont think she would hurt them buit she does it and they've never taught her differently. In fact when she does it to these boys in my neighborhood around my age. My friends will say "yeah they're stupid anyways." she doesnt see that its bad. I know I'm going to have a talk with her about it. Anyways Nike is now getting her bad habits. She alreday pulled on the leash some but she would mostly ignore other dogs when passing. Now she lunges and barks. If I teach her heel and the loose form of heel so that she walks by me, will this cure it? I don't think she' s scared because she only started doing it after my friends dog did a lot. Or do I need to do something more? If so what? And how should I teach heel? I've heard it many ways and I read KAren Pryors book but it didnt seem to work to well.
Another question- Nike has started being mouthy. How can I stop this? She is extremely mouthy when I put her leash on, she tries to grab it in her mouth and is mouthy other ways. I know the problem ios that my mom kind of encourages it by lightly wrestling. I'm going to try to fix that. But how can I reverse the damage?
