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I have a small dog who is a complete mixed breed. We believe she has dachshund in her, as well as possibly papillon... Basically she's an everything dog!!
My parents found her running, crazy, and panicked on a major road in Lexington. They ended up trying to catch her for two and a half hours. She bit my father several times and they had to use gloves to get a rope on her to bring her home. She fell asleep in the floorboard on the way home (about 5-10 minutes)... she was exhausted but wouldn't have anything to do with my parents!! As soon as she got home, I walked out to the backyard and sat down and she came and sat in my lap and I picked all of the twigs and burrs out of her fur. Needless to say... she doesn't really leave my sight when I'm at home!! The rest of her life before she came to live with us is sad, but basically in May she was adopted by a family from the Humane Society and then in June or July was given to "some man" and by October she had either run away or been dumped out of a car and was found by my parents. She was terrified of men and really just overall is VERY skittish and VERY nervous around most people... Even my fiance and I!
She has never really been trained (she can sit and she might lay down...) and so now that i have had her for 6 years I think it might be time to start some preliminary training! She has a lot of issues with leashes and hates people bending over to put them on her and often pees because she is either scared or excited? We also just decided to put her on Prozac for her anxiety... but that has not taken full effect yet (we will see if it changes her behavior at all...)
Any helpful tips would be great... Hopefully this thread will update our journey of training...
Starting lesson:
Positive reinforcement when the leash is put on and she does not pee!
and
Positive reinforcement when she goes potty on command (I live in an apartment... and she hates even walking in the grass... needless to say she's a little spoiled....*sigh*)
My parents found her running, crazy, and panicked on a major road in Lexington. They ended up trying to catch her for two and a half hours. She bit my father several times and they had to use gloves to get a rope on her to bring her home. She fell asleep in the floorboard on the way home (about 5-10 minutes)... she was exhausted but wouldn't have anything to do with my parents!! As soon as she got home, I walked out to the backyard and sat down and she came and sat in my lap and I picked all of the twigs and burrs out of her fur. Needless to say... she doesn't really leave my sight when I'm at home!! The rest of her life before she came to live with us is sad, but basically in May she was adopted by a family from the Humane Society and then in June or July was given to "some man" and by October she had either run away or been dumped out of a car and was found by my parents. She was terrified of men and really just overall is VERY skittish and VERY nervous around most people... Even my fiance and I!
She has never really been trained (she can sit and she might lay down...) and so now that i have had her for 6 years I think it might be time to start some preliminary training! She has a lot of issues with leashes and hates people bending over to put them on her and often pees because she is either scared or excited? We also just decided to put her on Prozac for her anxiety... but that has not taken full effect yet (we will see if it changes her behavior at all...)
Any helpful tips would be great... Hopefully this thread will update our journey of training...
Starting lesson:
Positive reinforcement when the leash is put on and she does not pee!
and
Positive reinforcement when she goes potty on command (I live in an apartment... and she hates even walking in the grass... needless to say she's a little spoiled....*sigh*)