| Yelling is pointless...the dog can hear you...she is not deaf, she just doesn't want to obey. What kind of collar are you using? The correction that I give my dog when she lunges is to give her slack on her leash and collar to allow her to make the mistake and to allow for a good "pop" on her slip collar. I was using a choke chain but it was not very effective...too slow because I couldn't get the right fit for her skinny neck. hold the leash in your right hand...dog on your left side...slack loosely bundled in your right hand. As she starts to lose focus and head for the other dog tell her, "leave it" or whatever command you use and give the leash a pop with your left hand. Quick pop and release. She should be paying attention to you now. If she does praise praise praise. If not, drop slack from your right hand (but not the leash!!) and run a couple steps away so that she is given an automatic correction. My trainer told me not to worry about hurting her...she is tough and basically the better (forceful) correction you give her the quicker she is going to learn that the behaviour is a NO GO. She may spin in a circle as the slack is gone and you "catch" her. But as soon as she heads in the right direction the collar will release and the correction is done. Its pretty hard for her to go after another dog when you are running in the opposite direction and knock her off her high horse! lol This is not to say you have to run everytime you see a dog but it will get her attention and reinforce that going after another dog ends with me getting a harsh correction...maybe i won't do that anymore seems how i didn't like it that much! lol Once you have her attention you can work on doing a down-stay or complete ignoring of distractions.  |