I have a stubborn 4 year old Labrador. I don’t know what it is about winter, but she turns into a different dog in this season and we have to go back to our basic walking lessons.
Anyways onto the main issue – I am retraining my dog to be better on a leash. I started with always keeping her on my left side, and making sure she only sniffs the ground when I give her the word. If I didn’t do these things my dog would be dragging me all over the place!
Anyways, the crux of the issue is it’s as if she’s been so good for so long she cannot help but be bad at the end of the walk. And it doesn’t matter if this is a 30 minute walk, hour walk etc, it’s like she knows 70% of the walk is over no matter what direction we are walking lol.
The main issue comes when I tell her “no” for ANY reason near the end of the walk. If she tries to eat something off the ground, if she sees another dog I don’t want her to greet, if I get her to move on from sniffing etc. she suddenly gets into an absolute frenzy and starts lunging at the leash, my mittens, my coat and it’s next to impossible to get her to stop. If I DO manage to get her to sit, she starts boot scooting and then launches into frenzy mode all over again.
I am all ears on how to fix this issue. By the way she NEVER does this with my husband, but with me it happens nearly every walk.
My dog has also been the one to abuse treats. For example when I taught her “drop it” and would reward her, she would then find anything to pick up in her mouth rapid fire, drop it, and the look to me for a treat. I am weary to use treats to get her out of the frenzy in worry it will train her to do the frenzy to get the treat if that makes sense.
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