Thank you for this Susan, I have a 2 year old Springer spaniel who I have had from a puppy but has become more fear aggressive, I think partly because of lockdown and not being in a normal situation. Thank you in advance and thank you for your response. My behaviorist gave me homework and tools but I am now on my own. If there’s anything you think I should do differently please let me know. My hopes are that he will just walk in the shop and start eating breakfast before looking for the dogs. Occasionally he seems to check is dog a little longer than I like and I will say okay let’s go to get him to move on. He tends to run right to the back of the shop where the dogs are, then begins eating his breakfast. I try to make sure I don’t let him face another reactive dog. I am now setting up little Easter egg hunts, food, all over the shop including around some of my clients dogs that are safe in crates. I may have created him being uncomfortable. I use to tell him to leave it when he would become overly pushy, not aggressive, with other dogs. I take my boy Halo (was hoping he’d be an angel □) to work daily. It’s reinforced the Home work my behaviorist has given me. I’ll be continuing to search your podcasts and we are working through home school for dogs, but I will take any specific advice I can get. I am going to try “search” with treats when I see the stimulus coming and hope that helps. Those seemed more aggressive and made me want to address it immediately. Once when one tried to sniff her and twice when one was pestering her to play. She has also growled and snarled three times – always at a younger puppy. Sometimes she charges at the thing and sometimes she stays really close. Sometimes it is an excited bark and sometimes it is the alarm bark you described, Susan (great impression by the way). The other strange thing is she seems to be between excitement and alarm in that her hackles are usually up and she is in an alert position, but she wags her tail every time. Who she barks at is a pattern I haven’t figured out, but it is more often men than women. It happens in a variety of contexts – on my second floor patio when people walk down below, on a leash when we are walking, in the crate in the car when folks are walking or standing outside, and even at doggie daycare (so I was told). She is an almost 1 year old Lab and her stimulus are people or dogs within a certain vicinity. My dog has been barking reactively for about four months now and I have been looking for some good advice.
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