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Now, as some of you know, the older that Teeny has gotten the more dog intolerant she has become. She started out doing daycare 5-7 days a week from 8 weeks old, and at 2.5 years old I pulled her from daycare due to her increasing intolerance.
It makes walking in my town difficult due to the fact that we have no leash law and everyone just lets their dogs run. So I always walk my dogs on prong collars since they both can be reactive (Blue is with some, Teeny is with all) and with my bad back they can DEFINITELY out muscle me.
So I leashed up the dogs to take a walk up and down my road. Only 7 houses, dead end street, no biggy. Due to the use of salt on the main road we haven't been walking but they were antsy today so I figured I'd walk them up and down my private road (which has far more sand than salt) a few times. I couldn't find Teeny's prong, but no biggy, we're only on my street so she can wear her flat.
Right as we start out I hear my neighbor calling his dog inside. Then I hear her barking . . . then I hear tags behind us. Due to the huge amount of snow, she easily blew through her electric fence and was coming at us.
Now she is an adorable, shy little Beagle/Greater Swiss mix. Maybe 40 pounds, young. She is afraid of people but simple adores other dogs. So she is play bowing at my dogs and zoomie-ing, and play bowing, and zoomie-ing. Blue is very interested. He thinks she is simply adorable (she isn't the type of dog that sets him off in a bad way so I wasn't worried about him). Now Teeny . . . Teeny HATES her. Now here I am, offleash dog RIGHT UP at my dogs, with no prong collar, and Teeny ready to rumble. I gave her a good hard "leave it" and "sit." Which she did. She sat and let the neighbor's dog sniff her butt AND even her face . . . all while she gave me the look that said "Just PLEASE say 'freedog' so I can kick her ass!" Finally my neighbor came out to retrieve his dog (I assume he was putting on his boots, since like I said we have tons of snow) and took care of his dog. But MAN was I proud of my Teeny Beans. She listened for the most part (though when the other dog was doing zoomies she was unimpressed) and all without me needing a training collar on her for control. I just LOVE her. She has come so far. I'm so proud.
It makes walking in my town difficult due to the fact that we have no leash law and everyone just lets their dogs run. So I always walk my dogs on prong collars since they both can be reactive (Blue is with some, Teeny is with all) and with my bad back they can DEFINITELY out muscle me.
So I leashed up the dogs to take a walk up and down my road. Only 7 houses, dead end street, no biggy. Due to the use of salt on the main road we haven't been walking but they were antsy today so I figured I'd walk them up and down my private road (which has far more sand than salt) a few times. I couldn't find Teeny's prong, but no biggy, we're only on my street so she can wear her flat.
Right as we start out I hear my neighbor calling his dog inside. Then I hear her barking . . . then I hear tags behind us. Due to the huge amount of snow, she easily blew through her electric fence and was coming at us.
Now she is an adorable, shy little Beagle/Greater Swiss mix. Maybe 40 pounds, young. She is afraid of people but simple adores other dogs. So she is play bowing at my dogs and zoomie-ing, and play bowing, and zoomie-ing. Blue is very interested. He thinks she is simply adorable (she isn't the type of dog that sets him off in a bad way so I wasn't worried about him). Now Teeny . . . Teeny HATES her. Now here I am, offleash dog RIGHT UP at my dogs, with no prong collar, and Teeny ready to rumble. I gave her a good hard "leave it" and "sit." Which she did. She sat and let the neighbor's dog sniff her butt AND even her face . . . all while she gave me the look that said "Just PLEASE say 'freedog' so I can kick her ass!" Finally my neighbor came out to retrieve his dog (I assume he was putting on his boots, since like I said we have tons of snow) and took care of his dog. But MAN was I proud of my Teeny Beans. She listened for the most part (though when the other dog was doing zoomies she was unimpressed) and all without me needing a training collar on her for control. I just LOVE her. She has come so far. I'm so proud.
what a good girl 
