Re: Bad behavior of Walter
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:37 am
Wow, pinch collar for a Chow. What a genius of trainer has suggested that.
Most Chows are reacting quite badly if you inflicted pain. I can't imagine to use pain to direct my guys.
Someone down in the thread suggested excatly the right thing, stop and communicate with the dog.
My rescue Sally was terrible on leash as no-one ever taught her as a puppy.
So my "walks" with her looked pretty silly in the beginning, One meter, stop, go, stop, go, stop, abandon the walk go home. About a month she did not agree with me about leading the walk, but I could add a few more meters between the stops. Now after about two years she is still the most engergized and difficult to handle in the beginning but after a few minutes we can walk together.
Never pull back if the dog pulls forward, use a harness not to inflict pain in the neck area.
Lift upwards if you're being pulled, stop and position yourself ahead of your Chow. Chows are testing patience of their owners, specially if they identified you as not qualified to lead. In order to be able to move upward you need be on the same height with your dog, which is important too. If you allow your Chow to walk way ahead he leads and therefore ignores you trying to direct him. If the roles are cleared you can relax all this because he will match your speed and listen to your commands.
I think I mentioned earlier that most misbehavior is caused by the Chow taking own decisions and not accepting you as the leader. Some owners getting even bitten quite badly because of that. The reason why I'm still contributing is to prevent this to happen to you and blame it on your dog as most of the non-leading owners do and then the poor guy ends up in a cage or being abandoned.
Look for my story of Sally in the forum if you want to see how an abandoned Chow in the Philippines looks like.
I know you're not thinking about that at all right now and you're doing your best, but somehow you have to find a way step up and be there for you dog as a leader.
Most Chows are reacting quite badly if you inflicted pain. I can't imagine to use pain to direct my guys.
Someone down in the thread suggested excatly the right thing, stop and communicate with the dog.
My rescue Sally was terrible on leash as no-one ever taught her as a puppy.
So my "walks" with her looked pretty silly in the beginning, One meter, stop, go, stop, go, stop, abandon the walk go home. About a month she did not agree with me about leading the walk, but I could add a few more meters between the stops. Now after about two years she is still the most engergized and difficult to handle in the beginning but after a few minutes we can walk together.
Never pull back if the dog pulls forward, use a harness not to inflict pain in the neck area.
Lift upwards if you're being pulled, stop and position yourself ahead of your Chow. Chows are testing patience of their owners, specially if they identified you as not qualified to lead. In order to be able to move upward you need be on the same height with your dog, which is important too. If you allow your Chow to walk way ahead he leads and therefore ignores you trying to direct him. If the roles are cleared you can relax all this because he will match your speed and listen to your commands.
I think I mentioned earlier that most misbehavior is caused by the Chow taking own decisions and not accepting you as the leader. Some owners getting even bitten quite badly because of that. The reason why I'm still contributing is to prevent this to happen to you and blame it on your dog as most of the non-leading owners do and then the poor guy ends up in a cage or being abandoned.
Look for my story of Sally in the forum if you want to see how an abandoned Chow in the Philippines looks like.
I know you're not thinking about that at all right now and you're doing your best, but somehow you have to find a way step up and be there for you dog as a leader.