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I am new to the forum. My name is Raina and I own a beautiful puppy named Buddy, he is a cattle/kelpie (mother is suspected to also have bull Arab in her) X Irish wolfhound.
Buddy is an extremely friendly and pleasant dog but we are having some issues. He is 5 months old and currently weighing in at 18.4 kgs.
So I'll start
1) He can get a bit rough when playing with smaller and more submissive dogs and doesn't seem to take no for an answer. It's more a puppy playful kind of act but the other day while at the dog park he was chasing our friends cavalier and at one point latched on and my partner had to pull him off, it wasn't a hard to get off sort of situation but like he was biting. We put him on the leash and from then on he had to sit with us.
With bigger dogs it doesn't seem to be an issue they seem to put him in his place.
2) He can be face shy, we handled him from when we got him at 2 1/2 and never had an issue with touching ears or checking teeth until recently. He will try to get away and will struggle or even turn his head to sort of bite. This is a behaviour I am concerned about as currently he has an ear infection and I need to touch his ears. He whined terribly when the vet tried to show me how to apply the ear drops and the vet only poked them.
3) This is a training issue. Buddy knows how to sit but has a poor attention span and won't always do as asked. We would really like him to know how to sit, stay, come, lay down and leave it reliably! I was teaching him the lay down cue but he doesn't seem to want to do it if he doesn't get a treat. We are enrolling him in puppy preschool but is there anything we can do at home to help ?
I am new to the forum. My name is Raina and I own a beautiful puppy named Buddy, he is a cattle/kelpie (mother is suspected to also have bull Arab in her) X Irish wolfhound.
Buddy is an extremely friendly and pleasant dog but we are having some issues. He is 5 months old and currently weighing in at 18.4 kgs.
So I'll start
1) He can get a bit rough when playing with smaller and more submissive dogs and doesn't seem to take no for an answer. It's more a puppy playful kind of act but the other day while at the dog park he was chasing our friends cavalier and at one point latched on and my partner had to pull him off, it wasn't a hard to get off sort of situation but like he was biting. We put him on the leash and from then on he had to sit with us.
With bigger dogs it doesn't seem to be an issue they seem to put him in his place.
2) He can be face shy, we handled him from when we got him at 2 1/2 and never had an issue with touching ears or checking teeth until recently. He will try to get away and will struggle or even turn his head to sort of bite. This is a behaviour I am concerned about as currently he has an ear infection and I need to touch his ears. He whined terribly when the vet tried to show me how to apply the ear drops and the vet only poked them.
3) This is a training issue. Buddy knows how to sit but has a poor attention span and won't always do as asked. We would really like him to know how to sit, stay, come, lay down and leave it reliably! I was teaching him the lay down cue but he doesn't seem to want to do it if he doesn't get a treat. We are enrolling him in puppy preschool but is there anything we can do at home to help ?
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