Good morning!
Would love your insight on how best to deal with a tiny challenge we face with our new to our family standard (he’s been with us for 4 weeks). In the grand scheme of things, if it’s a quirk that we have to live with, it’s totally fine!
He’s a delightful boy on walks (delightful overall actually
) no pulling, calmly observes people and dogs walking by, makes a new best friend every time he gets to meet a dog as he’s so polite and wins over the neighborhood people with his sweetness.
Except, he will put down an anchor and refuse to move at times by sitting if we have a difference of opinion. Sometimes a high value treat will convince him to agree with our plan, or sometimes a quick chin rib will win him over. But there’s been times when I’ve had to drag him a few steps before he gives up and trots off with no more questions.
For example he will sit and refuse to move if he sees a dog walking a short distance behind us, walking in the same direction - he seems to want to wait for the dog to catch up to say hello before continuing on our walk.
Another example is if we try to go on a route that’s different than he thinks it should be, he will start by gently pulling in his direction and staring longingly, if we don’t follow him he will sit and refuse to move.
When he decides that he disagrees with the current plan and sits, what’s the approach that we should take?
Thanks everyone!
Would love your insight on how best to deal with a tiny challenge we face with our new to our family standard (he’s been with us for 4 weeks). In the grand scheme of things, if it’s a quirk that we have to live with, it’s totally fine!
He’s a delightful boy on walks (delightful overall actually
Except, he will put down an anchor and refuse to move at times by sitting if we have a difference of opinion. Sometimes a high value treat will convince him to agree with our plan, or sometimes a quick chin rib will win him over. But there’s been times when I’ve had to drag him a few steps before he gives up and trots off with no more questions.
For example he will sit and refuse to move if he sees a dog walking a short distance behind us, walking in the same direction - he seems to want to wait for the dog to catch up to say hello before continuing on our walk.
Another example is if we try to go on a route that’s different than he thinks it should be, he will start by gently pulling in his direction and staring longingly, if we don’t follow him he will sit and refuse to move.
When he decides that he disagrees with the current plan and sits, what’s the approach that we should take?
Thanks everyone!