Obsession with cars while on a walk
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| Try taking treats with you. Anticipate the car coming, put her into a sit, and distract her. While she is sitting, reward with the treat...if she jumps up to bark at the car, replace her into a sit and reward for the sit.
You need be consistent, and reward her for the good behaviour. You can also try using a halti and control her from pulling you. You can make vehicles really boring by just sitting on a busy street and make her realise this is boring and a good walk is much more fun. Put her into a sit, and every time a vehicle that goes by, remind her to "leave it", if she stays put, reward with a treat. |
| I find that I offer the same advice even for different walking/leash related problems because many of the problems can be solved with easy corrections-- at least I solved most of ours this way. It's pretty similar to the Cesar Milan method. Keep her on a short leash and make a correction at the very first sign that she notices the car, but before the pulling or barking even begins. Keep walking like nothing happened and praise her when she relaxes and falls back in to the rhythm of walking. My oldest dog used to go nuts at the sight of another dog and this method stopped the behavior.
Good luck! |
| When our pup was young, he'd race on his retractable leash to the end of the line and almost pull my arm out! The halti was perfect for him and ME and as he grew up, we didn't need the halti anymore. Good to give a try with it. |
| Martha is 8 months old and still really afraid of cars, which is fine with me! My sheltie used to be afraid, but unfortunately he thinks they are big, shiny sheep now. Which reminds of something funny...my boxer gets extremely upset when the kids get on the school bus. Maybe she thinks a big monster is eating them? |
| Guinness and I went for our morning walk and were run off the road by a truck driving WAY too fast. We were on the opposite side of the road on a curve and he tried to "cut the curve of the road" by going straight across the other side. We both dove (literally) off the road into the ditch. The guy never even slowed down.
So now, every time any vehicle goes past us, Guinness tries to run toward the vehicle. He does wear a Gentle Leader and I have tried everything...putting him in a sit stay, trying to ignore that a vehicle is coming, treats, etc. I don't 'baby talk" him about the vehicles because I really don't want to add to the tension. But I really like what Daisie said: "You can make vehicles really boring by just sitting on a busy street and make her realise this is boring and a good walk is much more fun. Put her into a sit, and every time a vehicle that goes by, remind her to "leave it", if she stays put, reward with a treat." We live on such a beautiful street and I love to go for walks. Thanks for the advice. Good luck with Sabrina! I hope that this works for her also. |
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