Dogs fixate on other dogs during walks because owners keep them on narrow paths with nothing else to do. Let them explore off the path for natural enrichment, or give them a job suited to their breed. A stimulated dog has better recall and comes home calmer.
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So let me ask you a question: is a dog the most valuable thing to your dog on a walk? Are you really struggling with your dog running up to other dogs? Well, that's probably because half the time they are the most valuable thing in the environment for your dog. You see, a lot of people, they'll come to beautiful environments like this, but then they'll just walk on this stone path the whole time. And if your dog isn't bred to explore, they're going to spend most of that time on the path with you. Meaning that the most valuable thing that's ever going to happen to them on that walk is a dog comes around a corner. So we're setting them up to fail. We're showing them that this is what we're out here for. So there's two things I want you to do. Number one, either leave the path, go into the actual environment, and let your dog thrive. But if your dog is bred for a very specific job and they're not really bred to explore Give them that specific job that they thrive at and bring it out here, so is that you're no longer just out on a walk, you're actually out here living life, enriching the dog. Because then also the dog sleeps when they get back and they aren't frustrated, they're not hyperactive. So a lot of the time obsession is from either understimulation or high arousal, or the fact that the dog is just really bored. And that dog is amazing.
