Pet Behaviourist costs

teddysmum

Jaymie_kate wrote: »

At less than a year your dog is still too young I would think and just needs some training which you can provide. Watch youtube videos of popular dog trainers like Caesar Milan. Extremely aggressive dogs are more of a concern and unless your dog exhibits this I don't think professional help would be necessary.

Caesar Milan has a bad reputation for using cruel methods; the last thing a timid dog needs. all training should be done with kindness.

teddysmum

I suggest looking for a qualified APDT member who will run individual classes then integrate a dog into a wider group.


One, whose classes I used (no problems), turned a squealing border collie, who'd spent two years in a crate at the end of a framer's drive into a friendly dog who loved agility, ending up competing and turned a GSD, due for euthanasia because of perceived aggression, into a gentle dog who was used in schools, to educate children on how to behave around dogs.

calicocat

This is how CAV was with other animals. I have a not too friendly cat, and he was in my house scared of everything, plus stopped and barked constantly if he saw another dog,as you say on the horizon too. His way was to bark lots and jump in the air, your dog is to fall flat, same thing (uncertainty). Plus stick to me due to fear of said cat even moving.:)

CAV initially stuck to me like glue due to psycho cat in my house and refused to go on a walk as he was scared . I found like I said when I could see it coming on the horizon was to jump around with a ball , occasionally treats if he focused on me not the stress, and basically try to ignore the stress trigger.

Re : iron.
What does he really like doing. Which is his favourite room/ toy. What I did with CAV was what he was uncomfortable with, I moved to an area he was .
I picked what he was comfortable with and made him think things could be ok in that area even though what was happening wasn’t his comfort zone. In the end, his need to feel ok with me and be with me, plus have fun overrode his fear.


I don’t think personally this needs intervention right now from outside , I think this is doable with you.

I had never met a dog like CAV before, it isn’t easy,and you worry so much for them, and to be frank we don’t always understand them . It is a learning curve, but when you both get it, it’s great.

teddysmum

doglethercollar wrote: »

Easy ways to stop a dog simply by barking at others, you can just use an Ultrasonic Dog Bark Control to stop a dog barking by seeing to others would result in to easy tricks for a dog behavior..

Most of your post makes little sense, but though not a cruel as a shock collar, a high pitched noise can be very distressing for dogs.


Like the trick of surprise (eg dropping a can of stones near the dog) these methods can lead to problems with another dog present, as the 'innocent' dog feels it's being punished, too, but either doesn't now why or assumes that its behaviour is inappropriate ,leading to a change in that dog's manners.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Is he a Gun Dog or Pastoral breed? The lying down sounds a bit like a confused marking game/prey response, as does the taking your hand in his mouth. If he's got all these instincts buzzing around in his head, but doesn't know what to do with them, it's not entirely surprising that he overloads at times - and the steam iron bubbles and hisses like a snake and stuff comes out of it, whereas the vacuum cleaner is just another motorised thing that gets pushed around.


With the insurance, if you look at it another way, he's got a mental illness - which is why it would be counted. And whilst he isn't aggressive, he's so fearful that if he were trapped in a scary situation, he could respond by becoming so out of fear - the prospect of him taking another person by the hand and their completely overreacting (because they've just found themselves with a dog 'going beserk' and then reporting an attack to the police and suing for damages - there are people like that out there -causing a car crash through running onto a road or potentially scaring a horse that has scared him or is accompanied by a dog and throws its rider, is also very expensive, so he does present an increased risk to Insurers.




It's worth dealing with it now, not just for those reasons but, as you say, he needs to be happy, even if it does affect his insurance premiums for the rest of his life (assuming you go through insurance and the vet and don't keep it quiet, something which I certainly wouldn't recommend, but could be hard to trace).

melbury

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Is he a Gun Dog or Pastoral breed? The lying down sounds a bit like a confused marking game/prey response, as does the taking your hand in his mouth. If he's got all these instincts buzzing around in his head, but doesn't know what to do with them, it's not entirely surprising that he overloads at times - and the steam iron bubbles and hisses like a snake and stuff comes out of it, whereas the vacuum cleaner is just another motorised thing that gets pushed around.


With the insurance, if you look at it another way, he's got a mental illness - which is why it would be counted. And whilst he isn't aggressive, he's so fearful that if he were trapped in a scary situation, he could respond by becoming so out of fear - the prospect of him taking another person by the hand and their completely overreacting (because they've just found themselves with a dog 'going beserk' and then reporting an attack to the police and suing for damages - there are people like that out there -causing a car crash through running onto a road or potentially scaring a horse that has scared him or is accompanied by a dog and throws its rider, is also very expensive, so he does present an increased risk to Insurers.




It's worth dealing with it now, not just for those reasons but, as you say, he needs to be happy, even if it does affect his insurance premiums for the rest of his life (assuming you go through insurance and the vet and don't keep it quiet, something which I certainly wouldn't recommend, but could be hard to trace).

He is a very nervous Bearded Collie:(

We will take him to a behaviourist who has been recommended, but have decided not to claim on insurance.