This is Snowy! She's a full blonde GSD, We have just sent off a DNA test to see if there's anything odd or unusual about her other than her fur colour (Results are pending).
Any advice is welcome, I know people have a lot of differing opinions, especially about crate training, obedience training, behavioural training, feeding and supplements. I am pretty new to all of this and will take any advice or recommendation that is offered.
Thanks for reading.
- We adopted her at 4.5 years old (3 months ago) and she is proving to be the most wonderful doggo I could ever want.
- She is very reactive around other dogs due to a complete lack of socialisation.
- She has lived her whole life not being walked (Just let out onto the patio for pees and poos).
- She was only 24kg when we got her which we thought was a tad underweight. (This is a link to her old food).
- We have started crate training (Only feeding her in the crate for now).
- Using positive-only training methods we are managing to re-direct a lot of her reactivity towards dogs (using shredded chicken) but she's still uncontrollable when she sees cats, foxes and squirrels. We are using a front lead harness to help redirect her and to stop her from pulling so much.
- We are looking into balance training although we have heard mixed opinions.
- She gets 2 walking/training sessions per day, 30 minutes to 1 hour each.
- She is now a healthy 30kg and we are feeding her half and half cold pressed and raw.
- We are giving her supplements such as Full Spectrum CBD oil, green-lipped mussels, spirulina, dried kelp, turmeric and boswellia extract.
Any advice is welcome, I know people have a lot of differing opinions, especially about crate training, obedience training, behavioural training, feeding and supplements. I am pretty new to all of this and will take any advice or recommendation that is offered.
Thanks for reading.
