MeetUp #2

One thing I've learned over the years, is the more time a dog spends around other dogs, the less he/she will be distracted by them. 


By a show of hands, how many of you get excited about seeing another human? Not someone you know, or haven't seen in a while, but just another human?
Now if you'd been living on a desert island for months and months, and only saw another human every once in a while, how much more excited would you be?
You see my point? You don't? Well just pretend you do ok!? 

David, sits before he saw the other dogs...or more, before he realized the other dogs were, dogs!

Meeting the group!

A loose leash! Hallelujah 

The rest of the group, while we fell behind

Obviously I was paying great attention to my dog here. lol. Gotta make sure we'd checked into Foursquare!

Sleeping David

Exactly, and since I have "all this time" now.. I thought to myself, why not go on some of these walks that i get emails about on a weekly basis? Not only does it force me to get out of the house, but it'll be great for David to get used to "working" around other dogs calmly!

So I RSVP'd and we set out this afternoon for the park.

It went, pretty much as I expected, at first he didn't realize these were dogs his brain was seeing, but once he did it was on. Once the group started walking, I quickly realized we were going to have to lead the 'pack' in order for David not to practice a lot of pulling.

Ahead of everybody, Dave walked nicely, glancing back everyone once in a while to make sure everyone was still following. We walked about a mile or so, before David was tired enough to walk beside the other dogs without jumping on them. The other dogs seemed to realize he was a "baby" and didn't so much as grumble at him, so it was up to me to let him know this was not acceptable.

After we broke off, I drug Dave through a couple more stores before heading home for the day. 

While at the park, we were able to identify other areas to work with him on, so we definitely will be doing this as often as we can!