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Hi, i need a bit of advice please.

My nearly 9 month old BC puppy seems to have gone a bit potty. Although she still pulls on a lead (working on this), off lead she has been very good. She comes to call and never goes too far away.
But in the last 3 weeks all this seems to have gone out of the window. I have a real job on my hands getting her to come to call when we are out walking in woods etc and she is tearing off ahead.

What have i not done that i should of or is it an age thing?
I havent changed her food or anything.

What should i do? It is getting so that i now dare not let her off a lead or longline anymore.
Thanks in advance :confused:
 
Ah, it's TEENAGE TIME! She is just turning into Kevin, you will have, at most, another nine months of this, at least three - keep on top of her! :)
Keep her food as additive free as poss, as Katie suggests, as in, you don't give squash, Monster Munch or Smarties to hyperactive kids x
 
Thanks for that, I did wonder if that was the case.

Food wise, she has Burns and chappie. She has this on vets recommendation due to a lot of dodgy stomachs, but i am open to other suggestions.

Am i right to keep her on long line then? I can honestly see her legging it over the horizon!
 
Yes keep her on the line as long as you need :D Just do as much recall training with her as you can.

I would dump the chappie and find something with a little better ingredients or better than that go raw.

Fish4dogs is a great food for dogs with sensitive tums :)
 
guess now with the reduced daylight and her getting older you just havent emptied the batteries enough!!!! find her an active friend and a safe place and give her an hour of hooley time with no restrictions!if you cant get her an active friend then i would suggest a very long walk 3 hours plus! and some training classes in the week.
 
Only using the chappie as vets recommended and she refuses to eat kibble alone.
Cant do raw for various reasons. I will look into fish4dogs.

she does have a lot of exercise daily, most off lead till this week.
But thanks for help :)
 
ofcourseyoucan said:
guess now with the reduced daylight and her getting older you just havent emptied the batteries enough!!!! find her an active friend and a safe place and give her an hour of hooley time with no restrictions!if you cant get her an active friend then i would suggest a very long walk 3 hours plus! and some training classes in the week.
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I didn't think that you were 'allowed' to excercise a puppy of 9 months for that amount of time? I am not picking honestly!! but genuinly interested :D
 
Yep sounds like the teenage years! Don't worry, it happens to almost every dog and eventually they do remember their training!

If you can step up all her training so that you can re-divert her attention back to you and remind her that you work together. Recall is a tough one and you may be better off keeping her on a long line (not long lead, but a really, really long line, very light weight, that she can forget about, but that you can step on and stop her right after you have recalled her. That way she can't go further and she is surprised to find out that you can still control her even when she thought she was free). The long line is a bit of a pain, you have to keep making sure it's untangled and free, and sometimes you need to run behind the dog with the end of the line but a few weeks on it (OK months if you are unlucky) and the recall problem is solved!
 
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