Becs, I watched the videos and then read your post - surely the first video at least is the author being filmed in a training session/demonstration, to show people what she does?
I don't think it's necessarily an indication of how she would walk the dogs and who knows what sort of a walk they had before/after the filming? I don't think you can assume from a training video that her dogs don't get to charge around and play like dogs.
I've also been reading about the "Look At That" idea for reactive dogs, which I like the sound of, especially knowing how hard it can be to get a reactive dog to ignore/look away from whatever is troubling them.
I shall let you know how it goes. Angela, I noticed the vid about curing dog aggression in 5 minutes and dismissed it instantly as ridiculous - no dog is that easily cured!!
Becs, I can see what you mean about the dogs coming back all the time, but if you hear at the start of the vid she tells the chap whose dog is approaching, 'its alright, we're just practicing them ignoring another dog.' With Cadbury I would like something in-between running off wildly and being glued to my leg
My biggest interest is what the book says about teaching a dog to concentrate and ignore distractions as Cadbury struggles with this at training, his attention very very easily wanders. I think the 'Look at that' exercise could be really good.
And at the end of the day as Angela says, even if it doesn't work as well as in the videos, you haven't lost anything.
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