Barked: Sun Jul 26, '09 8:45pm PST |
 |  |  |  | Hi everyone. Mom and I were wondering if you have ideas on how to help me control my prey drive. Here are some of the things I do to exhibit prey drive: Reacting to kitties by barking like crazy. Racing bicycles that whiz by the fence at dog parks to the point that I'm way out of sight and have gone over a fence. I don't attack them. I race them and think it's great fun. I also react by barking like a crazy girl at bicycles, motorcycles, skateboards and even the various things that handicapped people ride. Oh, I also freak-out at the things that people ride around at nurseries when they transport pots and plants and also those two wheeled things that people can stand and ride. Here is the last thing of note. I am a good girl at the dog park, but there is one thing that I do that Mom and I feel badly about. Sometimes when other dogs are moving fast and running after a ball, even if they are a distance away, the next thing mom knows, I am running toward them and barking. I have even done this to a couple of poodles and a doodle who are just good boys and the one I barked at on Saturday just stopped in his tracks and dropped the ball. If it's my Belgian Malinois friend, she barks back at me. On Saturday, Mom took me and we left the dog park so I wouldn't spoil Winston's fun. (That's when I got attacked on my way out by a mean girl poodle who has always had a thing for me and tried to intimidate me since she first saw me at the park. The last two times, it turned into actual aggression toward me.) Otherwise, I am a very good girl at the dog park and love to play ball or race at the fence between the small and large dogs. Anyway, if you have ideas about the reacting to moving things, it would make it much easier for Mom and me to go on walks. We live in a place where there are zillions of bikes, motorcycles, skateboards, riding things, etc. Thanks, my Poodleville U. pals! |  |  |  |  |
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