I was paying extra attention to this the last 3 days and i noticed that about 8 of 10 people: hold their dogs close preemptively (most of the time nothing happens wiht those) dogs bork and need to be held back people cross to the other side
Is nobody bothering to properly train their dogs anymore? What is happening in the dog scene? is anybody else experiencing this?
A coworker got a German shepherd, insisting she grew up with the breed and knew how to train them and exercise them properly.
She went to a training class where she and her dog theoretically learned “heel”, coworker just didn’t listen. I had the dog on a leash, commanded “heel”, it came right over to my left, and coworker was baffled because she didn’t know her dog would do that.
If my coworker is at all representative of the average dog owner, it’s the owners that need the training.