Stanzi_and_Molly

He is very noise sensitive. I've never seen a dog who hated noise as much as this dog. He is as noise sensitive as I am. We have low flying jets from Tidewater which bother him as much as the chimes from the college-on-the-hill, any siren he might hear, or the Great Dane across the street. The week the gas company tore up the street, to replace a line really messed with him. My vet who has BCs said she thought the stress brought on some of his symptoms while I had him on the first deworming regime. He is food motivated. I think I will try tongue clicking with some cheese. I could give him Mr. Barky treats. I don't want to use anything with preservatives. It is simpler for me to tongue click as opposed to having a wrist clicker. I have two clickers, but he didn't like either one, not at all.

Thanks for telling me about this book!

This is good to know, how you trained your dog. I thought I might have to get somebody else to help me.

He is an adult dog, the vet thinks he is two. But he acts almost like a pup. I know he adores me. I adore him. I feel so blessed to have him. He is at my feet as I type this. My female is behind me, behind my WC.

I have a clicker, just bought it recently.

Well probably the Dog Training For Dummies wasn't the best thing I could have read. Even it suggested for the mouthy stuff to carry a fly swatter for the nipping. I have bitter spray for objects I don't want mouthed.

My new BC male is noise sensitive. I have two clickers. He seems to really hate the noise, even if cheese is associated with the sound. Should I continue trying the clicker?

I am mostly in a wheel chair. I have not found a dog dummies training book that addresses basic obedience training from a wheel chair. I had my new BC guy taught how to sit at our very first meeting. Kept reinforcing, praising, treating him. I went to work on trying to teach him lie-down stay. I had the female demonstrate what I meant, so that took about a week of watching her lie down to get what I was trying to tell him. He will lie down on command, but not lie down stay. But he can't quite understand what I mean about lying down-stay. He wants to follow me if I move backwards. What I have been doing it count as I tell him to lie-down stay. As long as I am counting and I keep repeating "stay," he does. But I can't move. I think it is crucial to get him to learn this for safety's sake. I would like to do agility with him, but feel that it is very important to have him understand lie-down stay before progressing. I suppose that I would need to be in a class with him, but he has to learn basic obedience first. I have no idea how to teach him to heel with me in a WC. This is uncharted territory. He is also very mouthy. My friend who trains fox hunting hounds (also the mule packer) carries a riding crop when working with hounds. I had been using a fly swatter, now I have moved to a dressage whip as I am down low in a wheelchair. The fly swatter doesn't seem to get his attention as much as the dressage whip. After reading about the 4 month puppy with the nippy bitey stuff, just wondering about my newly adopted rescue BC male. Anyway, I can shriek all I want, or rattle a bag (didn't work). I can shriek and stare at the ceiling. Probably if I could walk away and deprive him of attention then maybe the shriek, then attention withdrawal might work. The dummies book suggested rattling a bag, Sigh, didn't work.

What can I do to help my new dog adjust to the commotion on the street? (when he gets his dog run, that is). I take him out as far as I can go using the rollator in the front yard. I was hoping to take him out using the power chair in the front yard but the ground is too uneven. He was fine until the street was worked on, then that messed him up. The jet noise gets him too. The chimes from the college nearby bother him, so do sirens. I'm thinking I might have to get a Petzoom Petpark until the run gets built. Meanwhile I'll use potty pads.

I adore my new 1 year old guy, he is worth the work. I spend as much time as I can (as I am retired) with him and the ten year old female. I'll check out the nose work stuff, see if that calms him. He is very affected by noise on my street. At night when I have him crated near my bed, I have to turn on the white noise generator. He was a farm dog, now a pet living in a rural city setting on a street. My yard is fenced, and I plan to have a dog run installed so perhaps these refusals about going out to do his biz will be reduced. He is my 3rd BC. Thirty years ago I had a rough collie. I have also had many dogs over my lifetime. He is my 6th herder. I feel lucky as he is very cuddly, touchable. Compared to my female who is standoffish.

I am starting to think that my new BC male is refusing to go out due to something he hears outside. Probably is a coyote, or anything as I live close to the mountain even though I am in a rural SW Va. city setting. My friend who mule packs told me about a cougar that has been hanging around her place. I have a fenced yard on a corner street. I'm getting a dog run built next week that I hope will help me. He just flat out refuses sometimes to go out, sometimes. I got him in July, had him neutered, all the usual vaccinations, then chipped. I take him out using my walker-rollator, and he is on a long chain leash. Lately, esp if it is dark, or if he thinks it might rain, or if he thinks something is outside - he stops me. He is quite protective as it seems to me stopping me from going out. He totally despises all noise. Even more sensitive than my female BC mix to noise.

Hi all. Last August, these same symptoms happened with my BC female. I got the diarrhea stopped with homeopathic remedies, including a constitutional remedy. Freaked me out regardless, since I had not ever seen this in my dog, so I had her at the vets the very next day. Every conceivable test was run. This incident took place during my mother's illness, so we had people coming and going, including hospice. All tests were negative, so my vet decided that my dog was reacting to the stress. Then said that stress could manifest as physical illness. My vet recommended Bach Flower Rescue Remedy, putting drops in my dog's water, in a mister bottle that I could spritz my dog every so often. Stanzi

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Mine sure was hectic with the blizzard. We're supposed to have more snow which is rare in Va.

They can have ultra sensitive digestive systems. I like this homeopathic book for dogs. Homeopathic Medicine for Dogs - a Handbook for Vets, and Pet Owners by H. G. Wolff MVSC. Big chapter on digestive problems dogs can have, provides dietary suggestion, besides remedies, and treatments.

Mine does not like anything out of place. Maybe this also is true of yours? She keys in on things out of place.