{"id":3081,"date":"2009-07-15T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2009-07-15T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:15:07","slug":"doggy-chronicles-bad-playground-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/doggy-chronicles-bad-playground-manners\/","title":{"rendered":"Doggy Chronicles: Bad Playground Manners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got an unhappy report from doggy daycare. Mississippi does not play nice. She’ll be just fine, playing well with the other dogs and then all of a sudden, she gets her sights set on one of the dogs and won’t leave them alone. She plays too rough and tries to boss them around. I’ve seen it a few times at the dog park. The other very bad side to this is that when she gets like this, it is virtually impossible to snap her out of it without having to grab her collar and physically remove her from the scene. Her weak recall skills absolutely fail her in these scenarios. She can’t loose her daycare privileges. I think without daycare she’ll be even more bored and frustrated. She’s such a good dog, she just has more energy than she knows what to do with. She doesn’t know how to back down sometimes.<\/p>\n

Another big fat D on her report card is staying quiet at night. I think she feels the need to protect us from all the cats and other animals around the house. There are tons of them too, and they set off the neighbor’s motion sensor light in the driveway. She barks and barks like crazy all night long. I didn’t get any sleep last night. I think I’m going to have to move her bed, put our very noisy air filter by the window, and close her in our room with us at night. Tom has been trying to just close her out of our room and make her stay in the living room but she just continues her barking out there.<\/p>\n

All the bad barking habits came back full force pretty much after she discovered a cat in our backyard. Now every time she goes in the backyard, she does a frantic cat check. Even if she has to go to the bathroom really bad, she has to check all the corners of the yard first. She does sometimes react to cats out on walks but mostly it’s when they are in her territory. She barks much more in the backyard now, making it hard to give her potty breaks at night and in the early morning. I have gotten better at luring her back inside with a treat. Even if she’s riled up, she tends to come back inside for me as long as she sees the treat. If she thinks I might be pulling the wool over her eyes, she sits at the door until she sees me produce the treat container. The barking isn’t limited to territory marking, she also started barking for attention. I’ve found her sitting under the coffee table just barking away. It seems the flood gates have reopened.<\/p>\n

Our regular training times have sort of fallen apart. She doesn’t get walks every day, and we don’t practice structured walks very well anymore. My regular recall and sit stay practice in the morning has sort of fallen by the wayside and just happens sporadically now. I don’t work on her fun agility stuff in the backyard very often. We need to spend more time with structured training. Even if we are going to watch a movie at night, we need to run through some commands first, every night. Food and belly rubs aren’t the only things that should occur on a daily basis around here. She needs to learn to come to us even in the midst of heavy playtime with other dogs. She could get herself in a very dangerous situation at the dog park that we won’t be able to get her out of. I’m giving us a D too. Well, maybe a C-.<\/p>\n

On a much happier note, we started her new doggy class through Happy Go Lucky<\/a>. She did great in class, better than I did actually. She was so patient and would sit for me while the teacher talked. We had a great time practicing walks and sits, and short distance recalls. It’s a big relief being in a class that is all about happy training. Mississippi had a great time and so did I. We got a homework sheet too, which I love. Lots to do this week at home.<\/p>\n

I’m so mad at myself for getting her off track with non-reward training. I should have walked out of that class the minute I realized it was not reward based. I need my good training habits reinforced with proper, happy training. We need more fun and less struggle in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got an unhappy report from doggy daycare. Mississippi does not play nice. She’ll be just fine, playing well with the other dogs and then all of a sudden, she gets her sights set on one of the dogs and won’t leave them alone. She plays too rough and tries to boss them around. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}