Alpha, Beta... Who's in Charge? Training Barley
by Lorine of The Dog Team
When I leave the room Barley follows, stepping on the back of my slippers. When my husband takes her off the leash to go with him to do farm chores, or have a run, she refuses to leave the back deck by my office door. The only way to make her go with him is to leash her and she spends the whole time frantically lunging back towards the house, or staring at the back deck.
So I began a regime of training her in small doses to be separated from me. I wanted her to stay in one room while I moved a few feet away to another (still within sight). She simply leapt over the gate and joined me. I put up a higher gate. She leapt it with ease.
I tried a room with a door (she could still see me through the door window). She leapt at the door, throwing herself at it repeatedly - thump, whap, thump.
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