JoB
I don’t know what Packworks did for our dogs… i can only tell you what they did for us.
They helped us understand what we could do to signal to our dogs that we were in charge when they hit triggers.
and that has greatly altered our dogs behavior.
it hasn’t solved the problems.
I still don’t know what mochi would do with a dog if she wasn’t diverted…
and.. I still don’t have people in to my house and am unable to invite anyone along on excursions if the dogs will be present. My grandchildren don’t come to the house… and the dogs are kenneled if we have visitors.
However.. solicitors don’t stay long with me holding back a lunging yuki:)
this is not the ideal solution.. at least not yet.
But i do see real progress with both dogs…
the biggest thing i see is that both dogs are looking to me before they act out now… and that wasn’t happening before.
the changes in the way we behaved were for the most part subtle… but they seem to have been effective.
I was an effective dog trainer before i met them.. i have trained abused akitas.. and that’s not an easy task.. but these dogs are as close to a wild animal as they get and i don’t think i truly understood the implications of that before i met gretchen…
nor did i understand some of the finer points about the way they had worked out their own pack issues… they divided responsibilities between them…
I may still have to end up with medication because i refuse to be isolated by my animals.. but for now we make progress and have hope.
the only place i found them heavy handed at all was with us… and my husband disagrees with me on that…
they were incredible with the dogs.