jumping on leash at other dogs
Does he need more socializing off leash so other dogs can teach him better manners? Is this a normal OES reaction? Does he just need better training? Again, HELP! |
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| No he needs training. Jumping on a leash at another dog puts your dog in an agressive stance which will eventually lead to another dog acting like he or she wants to take his head off.
What do you do when he jumps and strains at the leash? http://www.nesr.info/images-english-shepherd/He-just-wants-to-say-hi.pdf |
| Has he had any training yet? I would really recommend that you place him into a sit/stay when there are other dogs around if he is being over excited. At 7 months old, he's only going to increase in size. And as Kerry said, you may be in for an altercation with another dog that doesn't appreciate your dogs hospitality. |
| We just went through this with our Bailee. He is now 11 months and "almost" very well behaved when he meets other dogs and often when we meet people who go Ga-Ga over him. We went to training and he will sit, down, and stay when directed to do so. He does , however, react when other dogs "off leash" come at us even in a friendly manner. It is a work in progress and there has certainly been significant progress. Our Trainer has me walking him in crowded areas where he will meet more and more people and dogs. The more other dogs and people he sees the less sensitive he is to jumping up. Like I said it is still a work in progress but with his super friendly personality I know we will get there. In fact we just introduced him to our son's new puppy (8 lb. 4 oz.) on Sunday and he was absolutley unbelievable. He was calm, friendly, and a total Gentleman with the pup. Try to get him signed up foe professional training (it helps YOU as much as it will help him) and I'm sure things will improve. Bailee was about the same age as your guy when we started training. Good luck |
| Thanks for the responses and the article. Murphy and I have been working hard at correcting this problem over the past couple of days. He's now getting better at walking past other dogs. I'm still moving to the side to put some distance between us and other dogs but he's moving past them without going nuts now. I've also put him in a sit/stay when another dog goes past.
Murphy's going back for more training in September and we'll continue to work with him in the meantime, putting him into more situations that he can learn from. Are these bad manners something that he also (in addition to training) needs to learn from other dogs - specifically adult dogs? I'm leary of taking him to an off leash park as I'm worried that he'd go barreling up to another dog and get his head chewed off for his bad manners. Lisa |
| I've been taking Asterisk to a dog park since she was 5 months old. Believe it or not, dogs do tend to work things out on their own. She is just the happiest dog at the park and she'll go up to a dog, but she is also very submissive and she will submit to any dog, even the smallest dachsund.
If you take your sheepie to the park, so long as you are observant if he is being too outgoing to a dog or that another dog isn't being too roudy with yours, you'll be fine. |
I would be leery of a dog park as well. Some dogs at a dog park are not happy to have another bouncy fur ball in their face  . I've seen more than one major dog fight at a dog park - and it wasn't pretty. |
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