Roughly about a year ago now a couple walked into training classes, with them they had a medium sized black lab cross called Nina. She was wearing a harness and halti and with them they had brought a muzzle. They told me that they had been to another class and was told there was nothing they could do to help them.
Nina started off letting everyone know she was around, she lunged and pulled and carried on as Helen called her as the "Asbo dog". This continued for a few weeks until we all got to know Nina. Seeing her reaction reducing over the weeks was amazing. However Nina's real turn around came when my pet dog Shadow became her friend. We free run them together for a couple of weeks then introduced my other dog Tyler, Nina was needing to know that not all dogs where going to get her and that if she asked for space from them she would get it.
This went on for another few weeks and bit by bit we introduced other dogs, all of them got on well, but the important thing in this is that both Helen and Dave learnt that she wasn't as bad as she was making out, she had just learnt that by creating the way she did she got what she wanted. (Which was to be taken away from the other dogs). However being off lead gave Nina the freedom and the choice to express herself the way dogs need too.
Regards Helen
P.S the photo on our facebook page is Nina with her friends!
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