Today we took the dogs to get their yearly check up and get groomed. We got to the office in plenty of time and dropped of Mr. Murphy with the groomer and walked Diggy over to get his exam.......let me start with a little description of Diggy. Diggy is very muscular and at first was always friendly with other animals. We had him since he was 6 weeks and he was such a cuddly little fart. When we moved here we left him and Max with my brother. My brother has two dogs too and they are notorious for getting out and taking off. One day my brothers dogs and our two got out and Max never came back. They scoured all over for him but we never found our Max (still a very delicate situation). Well after that Diggy would loose his mind at the sight of another dog. I swear he would go plain nuts whenever he saw another dog. He was OK with Murphy when we got him. I think mostly because Murphy was just 6 weeks old. However he was still very aggressive towards other dogs. It was a fight to say the least to take him to PetSmart or anywhere else. We tried training, hell we tried it all and nothing seemed to calm him. Over the last year we have worked extensivly with him.
IT FINALLY WORKED. Today when I took him to PetSmart he calmly walked by numerous dogs. Now I was set for a struggle with him, I was so pleased that I decide to test my luck....and my dog. I walked him by the room with the huge window, that has the daycamp area for dogs. There were at least 10 dogs in there. Some even jumped at the window and barked. Diggy started to pull to get closer. I calmly said "leave it" and he did!!! He just turned in my direction and kept going.....I was so the proud owner!!!
They both got groomed and Diggy got his yearly. I have to take Murphy back on Thursday but this time I will be a lot more relaxed about it all. I'll be sure to take some pictures and post them tomorrow.
