Ted is perfect …

[Boogie]

Except for when on a lead.

His walking is OK, not too pully, quite a loose lead, but when he sees another dog he goes WILD with excitement. Barking, crying, whining, lunging.

Very tasty treats (salmon paste) work for a second then he’s back to it. Once we manage to get to the free run places he’s an angel. Brilliant at greeting and playing with all kinds of dogs. He comes back to me without hesitation, every time. On the way home he’s train-able when we meet other dogs. Which gives me some hope.

Any ideas?

Meeee? I’m innocent!

 

[Candy]

Errr...no expert ideas at all....but might he just grow out of it eventually???

 

[Lab_adore]

Errr...no expert ideas at all....but might he just grow out of it eventually???

Steve has been saying "he'll grow out of it" for 5 years! Nah, he didn't!

 

[Atemas]

he goes WILD with excitement. Barking, crying, whining, lunging.

My son has a cockerpoo so similar to Ted. He used to do the same thing. He’d literally walk on his two hind legs straining against his lead. Now at the grand age of 3 he’s calmed right down and it’s not a problem anymore. In fact he’s calmed down hugely in many ways

 

[Boogie]

My son has a cockerpoo so similar to Ted. He used to do the same thing. He’d literally walk on his two hind legs straining against his lead. Now at the grand age of 3 he’s calmed right down and it’s not a problem anymore. In fact he’s calmed down hugely in many ways

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Thank you! You give me hope.

I‘m used to excitable pups (Labs!). Ted is very clever but his excitement overrides his need for any other reward when he’s seeing other dogs on lead. So everything I know about lead training just doesn’t work. I promise I’ve tried!

He quickly learned that cats are boring, that goodness - our road is cat city, even Tatze has stopped reacting to them!

 

[Boogie]

I’ve even bought an Adaptil ‘calming collar’ to see if that helps (just for walks)

 

[Natalie]

This is not unlike how Bear used to be. And just occasionally he will still have a moment when he suddenly lunges at another dog and goes a bit bonkers. I think what has helped us is him walking with lots of other dogs. They have just become quite normal now and going out on a regular group walk has helped him to meet lots of other shapes and sizes of dogs and the are no longer super exciting - at least most of the time. We can now bring him in to us on a path and put him in a sit - with lots of treats - while another dog walks past us fairly close by. But we could not have done this at all when he was Ted's age.

 

[Anne123]

Finn is 9 and still doing this... Even while we are in the car driving and he sees another dog. We have done everything in our powers to change this behaviour, nothing worked.....

 

[edzbird]

Finn is 9 and still doing this... Even while we are in the car driving and he sees another dog. We have done everything in our powers to change this behaviour, nothing worked.....

Same for Coco. Meg too but she is aggressive in her response whereas Coco just wants to play play play.

 

[Lab_adore]

Maxx is more interested in meeting the owners rather than the dogs and hence still jumps up and lurches towards them. Nothing we've tried has worked. Don't ask about visitors to the house....

 

[Natalie]

Maxx is more interested in meeting the owners rather than the dogs and hence still jumps up and lurches towards them. Nothing we've tried has worked. Don't ask about visitors to the house....

Bear is the same, he's got slightly better but if the mood takes him he jumps up and tries to kiss them....

 

[Emily]

Maxx is more interested in meeting the owners rather than the dogs and hence still jumps up and lurches towards them. Nothing we've tried has worked. Don't ask about visitors to the house....

Ella is the same. Always wants to meet the hooman first, dog afterwards.

 

[HAH]

@Boogie I’m hesitant to suggest anything as I’m sure you’ve tried most things, but would doing some ‘arousal up, arousal down’ games help? It might give Ted just a few more tools in his toolbox to help listen even when the environment is amaaazing. We did a fair bit with Kipper when he was adolescent and he really benefitted - things like noisy boxes, balance paths, tuggy games and even basic things like ‘sit down stand up’ (chair in the middle of the room/garden, sit down = boring; stand up = party!) - you know the games.

 

[Stacia]

@Boogie, I found that 'see a dog, a squirrel, sheep, car, person' means I will give you the tennis ball