Question:
Hello,
First I would like to thank this forum for the very helpful advice posted. It has really helped both my husband, myself and our "puppy" survive our first few months together. Our JRT is 6months old and very recently neutered. Both my husband and I have been working with him to sit, stay, come, walk on a leash since getting him at 8 weeks of age. He typically listens when we are training him and is pretty well behaved. However, just recently (in the past week or so) "Ernie" has started lunging at people when we take him out for a walk. When he sees a person walking by he will growl and lunge at the person even if they are not paying attention to him, and when we try to correct him, or sometimes grab him out of the way he will snap at our hands. The first time this happened a woman had stopped to pet him and when she put out her hand he latched onto her coat sleeve and would not let go. Since that incident we have been very watchful of people approaching us on our walks, and don't let strangers pet our dog. We have also been using a training collar which seems to help a bit, but he is still "crazed" when another person walks by. We have been socializing him with a variety of people up to this point - so we are a bit suprised that this is happening. We live in an urban area - so this behavior has to stop asap! I would appreciate any advice that you may have. Thanks for your time.
