So... again about my almost 6 mos old Westie. She is very good (well, except for when it comes to eating kibble, but we are fixing that with cooked food ) and a happy little creature.
However, she has this really obnoxious habit where she grabs on to my shoes and hangs on. It is usually when she doesn't want to come back inside from outside, but not only then. We would be walking towards her play area, and midway between the apartment and the final stop she starts grabbing my shoe with her mouth and hanging on really tight. She hasn't punctured any shoe yet (it's not just one particular pair of shoes, it's whatever I am wearing at the time), but it's getting to be really annoying, not to mention that it's behavior that is very undesired. She does that whenever she feels like it, and I tried saying NO, I tried stopping and waiting for her to let go (which she does, but then the second I start moving again, she's at it again), I tried once just turning around and going back home - I don't know what to do! We used to take a puppy class (she got injured, then she got spayed and we had to drop out, so we'll probably take it again), and the trainer there told me to have her watch me to get her attention - which she does, but then she's right back doing it.
I seriously don't know what to do about this at all. The problem is that it's outside and away from the house when this happens, so I can't really put her in some sort of timeout or just ignore her. What do I do, any ideas on how to stop this?
Thanks in advance,
Corina
However, she has this really obnoxious habit where she grabs on to my shoes and hangs on. It is usually when she doesn't want to come back inside from outside, but not only then. We would be walking towards her play area, and midway between the apartment and the final stop she starts grabbing my shoe with her mouth and hanging on really tight. She hasn't punctured any shoe yet (it's not just one particular pair of shoes, it's whatever I am wearing at the time), but it's getting to be really annoying, not to mention that it's behavior that is very undesired. She does that whenever she feels like it, and I tried saying NO, I tried stopping and waiting for her to let go (which she does, but then the second I start moving again, she's at it again), I tried once just turning around and going back home - I don't know what to do! We used to take a puppy class (she got injured, then she got spayed and we had to drop out, so we'll probably take it again), and the trainer there told me to have her watch me to get her attention - which she does, but then she's right back doing it.
I seriously don't know what to do about this at all. The problem is that it's outside and away from the house when this happens, so I can't really put her in some sort of timeout or just ignore her. What do I do, any ideas on how to stop this?
Thanks in advance,
Corina