I love my 4.5month old pomapoo. I do! He's a cute stinker. I mean, the type of cute that has people stop us on the street or dang near hurl themselves at us to say hi to him. Wonderful! However!!! His energy IS THROUGH. THE. ROOF, especially with people. He has one more shot to go (he is basically teacup size, so they spread out his shots), so we still carry him about except for going potty outside. My issue is that if he sees a person, he is losing his -entire- mind. I mean, one time while trying to poo, a neighbor passed by and he went darting after them with the poo still dangling from his butt (🙈). We take him to puppy classes and our trainer has said that it's better to have a confident, high energy puppy then a nervous, shy one because they'll grow up and be a lot more chill. I want to believe it, I really do, but how do I get him to be a lot more behaved when he sees people? I mean, he will squirm like MAD in our arms when he sees a person and sometimes it's hard to hold onto him (we've already accidentally dropped him on freaking concrete because of this, so now we have boa constrictor level grip on him to keep that from ever happening again).
He knows the command "Wait" and pretty darn well, but even when we tell him to do that, he's still trying to hurl himself at others. I've been working indoors on trying to get all four paws on the ground to keep him calm before rewarding, but once outside? We can't do that currently, so he's just trying to full body launch to lick them to death. Is this just a waiting game toward maturity or more work on calm behavior around humans?
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