Yesterday I went over to work with Khori. The trainer is moving his bowl in different places in the room. So last night feeding she had me sit on the couch and she placed his bowl (raised feeder) right by where I was sitting. My foot was actually touching his. and my shih tzu was sitting on the couch too. We had someone taking out acouple dogs one at a time by him. When they did this he was taking one of his breaks off of the food. So he growled, but it was a little one. I mean, they were walking by him within a foot of him. So we added alittle stress to his eating. He starts to be okay with one thing, then she changes it so that he feels comfortable some other place, or distraction. He will have to be able to not growl with my shih tzu (Haley) is walking around, which I don't see her even getting near him, because she didn't bother him before. I want him to be safe around people and other dogs.
He played tug with acouple of the dogs on the other side of the plastic baby fence, and he acts like he wants to go in with the other 3 dogs, but when he gets in there, then he gets stupid. So he isn't ready for that. As a puppy I had him in classes with him, but I was so cautious about what puppies to put him with tho. The trainer is on a mission with him, to get him more comfortable around the other dogs. My thing is that I don't want a dog to come up to him and him go off, because he doesn't know how to react to that. He acts interested. As a puppy, he loved playing with the little dogs, like the rat terriers. We had two crawl under our fence a few months ago and my husband let him out in the yard, and of course he ran up to it. The rat terrier of course flipped onto his back and Khori was looking at him, and then my husband got ahold of the collar. Haven't seen the rat terriers since. They were always coming in to our yard, until they spotten Khori. The owners always knew where they were. He wants to play with the chihuahuas behind us too.
When he gets stressed she is figuring out a way for him to do something else. He is not quick
