Sometimes the trainers are the stupidest of all. We owned a Shar Pei (Chow cousin) that was a big old baby but you had to treat him with respect because he was shy and a little fearful of other people. Everywhere we boarded him we had problems. They didn’t understand the breed.
One guy cornered him (is a no no) trying to get him back in his run. The guy told me he was vicious. A snack of any kind and he would’ve come running.
Another place they wound up putting him on murderer’s row as soon as we left because he ran to the window watching us leave while she was trying to put him up. If she had just waited til we were out of sight he would have been fine.
We finally had to stop boarding the big old baby cause everyone was afraid of him.
You have to understand the breed of any dog before you can deal with them responsibly.
Amen to that.
I’ve met “trainers” that just made me stop and stare in mute shock....and they’re getting paid big money to ruin people’s dogs.
I can’t go on vacation because of my Ibizans.
I trust _no one_ to observe the hard and fast RULES “NO off lead. NO unfenced yard. NO loud voices. NO small “prey-like” animals in their presence.”
[-one- little slip up and I could easily have a flattened dog on the road]
I do have a business card from a very serious woman who comes to *your* house, observes *your* pre-stated rules and tends the dogs in *their* own home.
If I -had- to go away for more than 10 hours, for some reason, I’d call her.