Articles about American Pit Bull Terrier
...to start reading this article please click on here... Scenario: You are walking ur dog in a park on leash, and oncoming are a person with unruly/overinquisitive dog on a waaaay-too-long leash. You will take ur dog off the main walking path, far enough from the path that you're confident the oncoming dog cannot reach you and ur dog as they walk by. Then go through a routine of heeling, sit, down, spin in circles on command, backup (all fun, active exercises you can do at home and in class). Anything you can think of that keeps your dog's mind focused on you, and its brain busy wondering what you will ask it to do next. These exercises must come GO, GO, GO, in quick succession, if you don't want its mind to wander. That's why it is not necessary to tend to do stays under these circumstances. As soon as the oncoming dog has passed you and continues to get further from you down the walk, you may make ur dog sit/down so that it can still see the other dog, and you can do the conditional relaxation routine. Then you may resume your walk. Scenario: While walking, ur dog spots a squirrel, rabbit, etc before u do, and has started pulling and fixating, As soon as u can u should pull ur dog, away from the location of the prey. U may position your dog so that it can no longer see the prey (either by blocking the view with your body or by taking the dog behind a building/tree/dumpster). Now u can start a routine of "focus on me" stuff. Once the dog's focused on u, u may bring the prey back into the dog's view, simultaneously naming it, and bridging the dog. If the dog can look at it without going into another fixation, u may let the dog look while doing conditioned relaxation. If u sense that the dog's about to fix on it again, you can remove the dog from being able to view the prey again, and repeat the above routine. The way you test if the dog's fixated or not, is you ask it to look at u. If it does, then it's clear the dog's still listening to u....to continue reading this article please click on here...
