Breena is a graduate but ...
 Breena loved Kim and I could tell it when she walked into intermediate class tonight and there was a new trainer. She refused to work. I couldn't even get her to sit without putting her butt down. Breena knew all the commands we learned tonight from private sessions but when her new trainer tried to have her model to the class (something she craved before) she wouldn't budge. She had a virtual puppy meltdown. By the end of the class things were getting better and the trainer spent extra time playing with Breena and I think they will become fast friends and after the new class left , Bree did each command perfectly. Has anyone else ever had this problem - there dog really not adapting to change at all?  |
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| Oh yeah! It's a sheepie thing! Anything out of the ordinary is met with disdain, and disbelief. It's like the kid you are babysitting that follows you around saying, "That's not how my mommy does it!"
Oscar HATES when his routine is broken. We wake up at the same time every morning, and do the same things in the same order...out to pee, breakfast, pills, treat, back to bed for an hour (bloat prevention), water, walk...... EVERY SINGLE STINKING MORNING! I haven't slept in once in the three years we've had him! I walk him, feed him, play with him, everything, because I am around all day. If I am home, and my husband asks Oscar if he has to pee, he ignores him, but I can ask two seconds later, and I get a bark. He has to pee, but God forbid DAD takes him out to do it because Mom is home and she always does it! And our first sheepie was exactly the same way. Am I well trained or what!?  
Laurie |
| Change resistant sheepies?? OH yes....Ive got one of those!
We just shaved Eggbert down for the first time, and "Puppy Meltdown" pretty well describes HIS reaction, too!
He doesn't recognize his own body parts (OMG...MOM! where's my BUTT???), He doesn't like the feeling of his shaved ears, and keeps shaking them, every stray breeze sends him skittering across the room in a minor panic... Oh well....the good news is, soon enough, this will become the new "normal" and your pup won't want anyone but his NEW trainer, and mine will be freaked out because his hair is growing.  |
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