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C_J


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Basically I am worried that Casper is going to knock over my 80 year old upstairs neighbour and need some advice on how to stop him running

We have a shared path which has access to my front and back gardens and her side garden. Casper rarely walks anywhere when he is out of the house and quite often runs from my front garden, down the shared path and into my back garden. If my neighbour comes out of her house he will run to her for a cuddle, but always runs too fast right past her, then comes back for a clap and some attention from her. She has been worried herself that he will knock her over as he is so fast and when he runs towards her she stands still and if she can holds onto the fence

She would never complain about Casper as she loves him, but I am terrified one day he will knock her over and I would feel terrible. Obviously, when I can, I close the gate when Casper is in the garden so he can't get onto the shared path, but he has to use the path to get into my house so I can't stop him using it all the time and can't seem to stop him running up and down it!

He just thinks its a game if I try to get hold of him when I see my neighbour coming out and has no recall whatsoever when he sees her. His behaviour in the back garden is pretty atrocious actually When he is off the lead out on a walk, I can shout "Casper Wait" and he will stop and wait until I reach him and then i say "on you go" and off he goes again. Different story in the back garden though

So basically I need some advice/any ideas on how to stop this dive bombing on the shared path. Should I just be clicker training him to do a "wait" in the garden when I ask? Is there anything my neighbour could do to help too? It just seems so hopeless trying to get a greyhound to stop running!

Edit: There are also times where I just open the door to let him out and my neighbour might come out when I am not there, so I really need it to be a behaviour that he does every time he sees her? Or will I just have to keep my eye on him at all times?!

-- Edited by C_J at 11:34, 2007-04-15

-- Edited by C_J at 11:36, 2007-04-15

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would it be possible to keep him on a lead until he gets used to acting slightly calmer around the path/ your neighbour.

my lurcher was always so happy to see people he'd run too fast and end up crashin into them, i had to keep him on a lead until he'd met them and calmed down, after that he was ok.

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Try putting obstacles in his way a large flower pot,wheely bin anything that will break up the long run(as he sees it) I have the same problem with my 26 foot long hallway and had too split it up some how, so there is now a baby gate ,large lamp and china pot on stand to break up the race!!!! in the hallway.
Hope this helps. smile Nora

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One solution, though it may not be practical and it likely would be expensive, is to gravel the shared path. Our two used to race around our garden, and it really isn't big enough for them to do that so they'd invariably bang into things and hurt themselves. We ended up landscaping it to discourage them from running around too much. The gravel is the key thing, because they don't like the feel of it on their toes. Is this something that you could do?

A behavioural solution could well be to teach him a particular command that you only use in the garden, eg, a very firm and very loud STOP! Clicker training would be excellent for this, and it's a great idea to get your neighbour involved in the training. That way, Casper would learn very specifically what he has to do and who he has to do it for.

If I remember rightly, Casper is quite a young lad? He may well get less exuberant as he gets older. There again, he may not! If he's anything like Harry, he will be as excitable and bouncy forever! And don't we just love them for it..... heart.gif

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