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Hello Everyone, Our Bond has completed his foundations Agility class and did vey well. We both loved the class.
We decided to enrol him into Basic Agility this would add more challenges and he was doing pretty good. Loves the dogwalk, tunnel oh my , ( crazy dog ). A frame slow it down bud. Hes got lots of drive and wants to go. However and heres the problem Im having. When ever the other dogs in our class take their turn on the tunnel, dogwalk, jump. Bond wants to leap in the air , bark and I have to be firm and get him to calm down, which he will do until the next dog takes their turn. Then he starts his nutzy , zoomy thing. Barking, lunging out and I can barely hold him. Until the trainer takes over for me to get him to calm down and regain focus. It was getting embarrassing for me , people in the class would say whats the matter with him ? or maybe you need to take him out hes , too distracted . All I could say this is new for me, and my dog and Im very sorry. So Im at a loss , what should I do. Should I wait, he will be 2 in Oct. I will work more on proofing him. The trainer said hes great for Agility but I dont know what to do with his over reactive nature. Anyone have any suggestions would be appreciates. I would love to enrol him again and retry Basic Agility. Just to keep him calm when other dogs are active in the ring would be something I need help with.
Looking forward to your advise.🐩
We decided to enrol him into Basic Agility this would add more challenges and he was doing pretty good. Loves the dogwalk, tunnel oh my , ( crazy dog ). A frame slow it down bud. Hes got lots of drive and wants to go. However and heres the problem Im having. When ever the other dogs in our class take their turn on the tunnel, dogwalk, jump. Bond wants to leap in the air , bark and I have to be firm and get him to calm down, which he will do until the next dog takes their turn. Then he starts his nutzy , zoomy thing. Barking, lunging out and I can barely hold him. Until the trainer takes over for me to get him to calm down and regain focus. It was getting embarrassing for me , people in the class would say whats the matter with him ? or maybe you need to take him out hes , too distracted . All I could say this is new for me, and my dog and Im very sorry. So Im at a loss , what should I do. Should I wait, he will be 2 in Oct. I will work more on proofing him. The trainer said hes great for Agility but I dont know what to do with his over reactive nature. Anyone have any suggestions would be appreciates. I would love to enrol him again and retry Basic Agility. Just to keep him calm when other dogs are active in the ring would be something I need help with.
Looking forward to your advise.🐩