Hey, You had mentioned that Shep shows some dog aggression (or reactivity) when in agility class. And Control Unleashed is on the way to help you with that (WOOT!)
Be careful about doggy daycare situations with dogs that have reactive issues. It's just too hard to manage the amount of dogs that most daycares work with and still keep an eye out for dogs who are stressed in a situation like that.
Daycare can be a place where is reactivity increases, rather than decreases. Mostly because he'll be faced with all sorts of "active" and high energy dogs and might not have the tools to deal with it. I'm NOT saying this will happen, but just that reactive dogs often really don't do well in daycare situations.
He's really only reactive ON LEASH. We have been working on his attention on me in reactive situations, but daycare seems to be somewhere where he can relax instead of being anxious!
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You had mentioned that Shep shows some dog aggression (or reactivity) when in agility class. And Control Unleashed is on the way to help you with that (WOOT!)
Be careful about doggy daycare situations with dogs that have reactive issues. It's just too hard to manage the amount of dogs that most daycares work with and still keep an eye out for dogs who are stressed in a situation like that.
Daycare can be a place where is reactivity increases, rather than decreases. Mostly because he'll be faced with all sorts of "active" and high energy dogs and might not have the tools to deal with it.
I'm NOT saying this will happen, but just that reactive dogs often really don't do well in daycare situations.
Let us know how it goes.
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