Just come for a moan really.
After months on the long line and working very hard on making Henry believe that all the fun begins and ends with me, it has taken just a few weeks for it all to fall apart again. The trigger has been a lovely little bunch of dogs (and owners) who we meet every morning. The owners meet up and chat while their dogs play together, often for up to an hour. Sounds lovely, right?
With Henry finally off-lead, all was going well until he got tempted into this little group. They are a lot of fun, so as soon as he sees them in the distance, he just legs it over to them, whether I want him to go or not. And this week, he's started joining ANY group of dogs he likes the look of (of which there are many because of dog walkers) and generally ignoring me. I could walk off, get in the car and go home and he wouldn't be a bit bothered.
Everything I've been trying to reinforce with self-control and looking to me for direction when we are out and about has unraveled and I'm going to have to find somewhere else to walk while I go back to basics again with his training. I know what I have to do, I'm just SO fed up that we are back to in this situation yet again.