Bri
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Have never posted in here before so please be nice
I was hoping for some advice or ideas on what to do with delinquent puppy who keeps running away. We have a 1 year old JRT and a 6 month old Lab, both bitches and best of friends. When we first had JR had real trouble with her just making a run for it (ie- when opening the front door she'd go through your legs and sod off up the street) but have worked quite hard to remedy this and she has greatly improved.
However, the lab has taken to doing the same thing when out on walks. Most of the time she is as good as gold, and will always come back when called - but on occasion she will just run and run. If you try calling her it's like she cannot hear you, and we can only get hold of her once she slows down. The JRT has now taken to following her whenever she does this and wont come back to call either.
The problem we have is lab is completely inconsistent with when she will or wont come back to call, and am now getting to the point where I don't want to let her off lead, but fear if she is constantly on the lead if or when she gets let off of it the first thing she will do is run?
Is there anything I can do? Would be nice to be able to have them both off the leads up at the yard, but she is a complete liability at the moment and am worried she is likely to get herself killed...
I was hoping for some advice or ideas on what to do with delinquent puppy who keeps running away. We have a 1 year old JRT and a 6 month old Lab, both bitches and best of friends. When we first had JR had real trouble with her just making a run for it (ie- when opening the front door she'd go through your legs and sod off up the street) but have worked quite hard to remedy this and she has greatly improved.
However, the lab has taken to doing the same thing when out on walks. Most of the time she is as good as gold, and will always come back when called - but on occasion she will just run and run. If you try calling her it's like she cannot hear you, and we can only get hold of her once she slows down. The JRT has now taken to following her whenever she does this and wont come back to call either.
The problem we have is lab is completely inconsistent with when she will or wont come back to call, and am now getting to the point where I don't want to let her off lead, but fear if she is constantly on the lead if or when she gets let off of it the first thing she will do is run?
Is there anything I can do? Would be nice to be able to have them both off the leads up at the yard, but she is a complete liability at the moment and am worried she is likely to get herself killed...