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My Pug Wants Something in a Car
We have a 5-year-old neutered male pug (Gunther), and have walked him
virtually every day, with no problem with wanting to chase cars, since he was a puppy. He had always been insensitive to cars near him. A month or so ago, he started to lunge at cars at a busy intersection we cross during our walk. At first, we thought it was because of red cars (our daughter, who was his first mommy, had a red Mustang). But dogs don't know colors, right? Then we thought that it might be at cars similar to the SUV she and her husband own. Then we thought it might be any car with a female that might look like our daughter. But he continues to lunge at non-red, non-SUVs, non-female-driver cars. Lately, we have walked him with a harness (rather than just his collar) to save him from attacking something in traffic. I carry little treats to reward him when he ignores the traffic. But he never does. Any insight would be appreciated. Jim |
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Once they get the urge to chase it's hard to break them. Brandy chased cars
before I got her. She was even hit and it didn't phase her any. I had my land lord drive down the lane and wail her with water balloons that put a good scare in her and she quit it the rest of the time we lived there. It was 5 years later Mike was walking her in the woods off leash and he circled back around by the main road instead of turning around and coming through the woods Well guess what, she took off at full tilt after a State Police Car right down the middle of the road. Thank god its a back road and not well traveled so there was no other traffic. My advice is don't turn your back for a second and ever think he's over it because all it takes is that split second and they are gone. Celeste "Jim Thomas" wrote in message oups.com... We have a 5-year-old neutered male pug (Gunther), and have walked him virtually every day, with no problem with wanting to chase cars, since he was a puppy. He had always been insensitive to cars near him. A month or so ago, he started to lunge at cars at a busy intersection we cross during our walk. At first, we thought it was because of red cars (our daughter, who was his first mommy, had a red Mustang). But dogs don't know colors, right? Then we thought that it might be at cars similar to the SUV she and her husband own. Then we thought it might be any car with a female that might look like our daughter. But he continues to lunge at non-red, non-SUVs, non-female-driver cars. Lately, we have walked him with a harness (rather than just his collar) to save him from attacking something in traffic. I carry little treats to reward him when he ignores the traffic. But he never does. Any insight would be appreciated. Jim |
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