vickih
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My name's Vicki and I currently live in England though both my dogs were bought from a shelter over in America when we lived over there! Lucy is a chow/retriever mix who is 7 and Benji is a corgi/collie mix who's 5.
We also have an 11 week old baby so I'm hoping teaching the dogs some new tricks will give us some time together because their walks are cut short these days with having a baby to also look after!
Training issues: Lucy is a bit of a puller and she's quite strong willed although super intelligent and loads of fun. Benji is more obedient on the basic commands but doesn't like other dogs and despite 2 walks a day and lots of effort he still can't manage to walk past another dog on our walks if it's coming directly towards us although he can cope with seeing other dogs if they're going in the same direction or straight across our path so I guess we're making progress.
Hopefully some extra tricks and training will make their general obedience better and in turn help overcome these little problems. I live in hope, anyway!
Nice to find this forum and meet you all :dogsmile:
We also have an 11 week old baby so I'm hoping teaching the dogs some new tricks will give us some time together because their walks are cut short these days with having a baby to also look after!
Training issues: Lucy is a bit of a puller and she's quite strong willed although super intelligent and loads of fun. Benji is more obedient on the basic commands but doesn't like other dogs and despite 2 walks a day and lots of effort he still can't manage to walk past another dog on our walks if it's coming directly towards us although he can cope with seeing other dogs if they're going in the same direction or straight across our path so I guess we're making progress.
Hopefully some extra tricks and training will make their general obedience better and in turn help overcome these little problems. I live in hope, anyway!
Nice to find this forum and meet you all :dogsmile: