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by sands904 on 10/12/2009 at 9:19 AM in Logan

On Saturday we took Logan and Lacey to their play group. Logan was very excited as normal. I took him into our little corner of the yard to work on calming him down. He seemed to get calmer a little quicker this time which is great! He remained on leash the entire play group this time. We walked around watching the other dogs and saying 'hi' to one every so often. He did pretty well with most of them. There was one little Bulldog mix that he wasn't too fond of. He lunged toward her everytime we walked by her. She seemed a little afraid of him, not that I blame her...

Other than her by the middle of the play group he seemed fairly comfortable with the other dogs. By the end he was even standing next to the Bulldog mix without reacting. So all in all it was a pretty good time. Hopefully a few more and he can be off leash and play a little. I think that is what he wants to do he is just not sure how to control his emotions yet. He gets overly excited and then reacts to the other dogs.
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by sands904 on 10/1/2009 at 11:52 AM in Logan

So we took Logan to another play group last night....definitely nothing like the first. There were a lot more dogs at this one. We let him off leash at first like the trainer said to but that didn't last long. He kept running up to all the dogs and barking/lunging toward them. I got him back on leash an took him off to the corner of the yard and calm him down. I had to do this many times at first.

He eventually calmed down enough we could walk around the other dogs and he was fine for the most part until one of them came up to him. Depending on the dog he would bark/lunge toward them or be just fine. I worked with him for the entire hour making sure to let him know he was doing good everytime he looked at another dog without reacting. By the end he was a lot better. I am going to try this again at the next play group and maybe someday my sweet little boy will be sweet to other dogs :)
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