Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Hardys developed separation anxiety
Hardys developed separation anxiety
Hardy attended his 5th AKC Puppy Star class today - next week will be the test and an opportunity to play "Show and Tell" with 3 tricks were supposed to work on this week.
He did very well with all the exercises - "leave it" with something on the floor (weve been practicing with our cats); eye contact; sit and down stays (Hardy shifted position but never got up from the stay); loose leash walking and playing around on the agility and flyball equipment. He walked through the ladder nicely with good control over his hind end; went through the short tunnel; got up on the table and sat and downed; and jumped up on the flyball box. He had a chance to play with Pete and had a great time!
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Friday, August 5, 2016
Were struggling with separation anxiety here not the Labs Mom Dad!
Were struggling with separation anxiety here not the Labs Mom Dad!
Yesterday, we took Laurel and Hardy out to stay with Hardys breeder, Donna Reece at Ridge View Labradors (in Huntsburg, OH). We used to leave Laurel pretty regularly with our then-trainer and her family in Columbia Station (which is, unfortunately, about an hour in the wrong direction when we are traveling). And, of course, I left Hardy in Canada for several weekends and then three weeks last summer. Since then, however, I have been negligent in not leaving them for more than a couple hours at our house. And I say Ive been negligent because I know that separation anxiety is one of the biggest issues for owner-trained service dogs so its my job to make sure that my dogs are away from me enough so they dont suffer from it.
Well, as it turns out ... Laurel and Hardy had a wonderful time visiting with Donna and the 5 or 6 yellow Labs that were in the house with them! Brent and I really missed them while Maggie, the cat, thought it was kind of nice to be the only animal in our house! When we went to get them this afternoon, we were met at the door by all the dogs who were getting along beautifully! Well go back to scheduling overnight visits every couple months and well have a place to leave them when we go away without them. The best thing about it is that I wont worry the next time we leave them there!
On the way home, we stopped at my favorite place in the MetroParks to go for a quick walk. On our way back to the car, I took both Labs to see how well it would work to walk them together. Although Im sure it would make it easier to use a coupler, they did beautifully walking to my left with Hardy on the outside. We saw lots of other dogs but all were on leash and well behaved. The only negative thing that happened was when a guy on a a very fast, very quiet bike came racing past us from behind without any warning and almost ran over Hardy. We saw him do the same thing to other people with and without dogs as well. I have to admit that I yelled at him. What he did was scary and discourteous, not to mention dangerous for the people and dogs he raced past but also for him! And, of course, just as all of us were recovering, he came racing back past us going the other direction! Unless hes not smart enough to realize how dangerous it was, we suspect he was trying to intimidate all of us so that well stop using the path. Im still going to take my guys there but I certainly hope I dont run into him again!
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