Nathan Williams: Dog Behaviour Specialist | Episode 1 | Choco the chocolate Labrador
I live in a shared house and I live with
flatmates and often she would jump up on
them she bites them he’s going down the
back down the stairs to put your washing
out and she’d bite your ankles should
take clothes off the line so the main
problem that I’ve been having with chaco
is that walking past another dog or
another house or something like that
she’s been biting me she gets in a kind
of almost schizophrenic type state of
mind and she just like I can’t control
her I took her along to one of the
training sessions at Centennial Park and
it’s like a group session and we got
kicked out of class several times I’ve
spent quite a bit of money buying
different things for her like I had a
whole tea I’ve had two of those
she ate through one of them and I also
worked with another dog behaviorist that
came and worked with her but we didn’t
really see any improvement there were
some things that I found useful but it
wasn’t like a holistic picture so not
too much direction of how I could change
her behavior I’ve got a little niece as
well and just the thought of having
children and Chakra around it’s quite
frightening for not knowing how she’s
gonna behave so you see that she’s got a
very strong association coming down here
so I’m not gonna push her and go too
close I’m gonna go a little bit wide out
on the grass there and my job is to keep
her at a distance and that’ll make her
feel safer as well where’s the dog we’re
about oh okay
how often do you pull it forward towards
it the answers never she’s more normal
girl you don’t need to do good girl
she doesn’t uh nothing amazing she’s
walking up and down the footpath without
attacking all reacting badly so what
you’re really saying he’s not bad girl
and stop dog knows what to do pretty
well huh damn past that house where
she’s bitten me so many times and then
just all of a sudden that’s gone and
she’s just a calm and a relaxed dog it’s
just brilliant it’s really really good I
think my flatmates Oh believe the
difference every day was a challenge
like every day I was trying to get her
so now to just have a dog that’s come
and if she’s happy she’s like a happy
dog and she wasn’t happy before I would
say to other people who are in a similar
position to what I was is just to
contact you and you know get get help
because you you’ve just instantly
changed everything within like 15 20
minutes I’ve got a completely different
dog and I wish I’d done that seven
months ago and you know so like I says
thank you for everything you’ve done
because you’ve given me so much
confidence now you know yesterday I was
considering putting her down and now
I’ve got a happy dog you know
so it’s amazing really
