Hi everyone
On our walk this morning Sparky suddenly decided to pounce at a lady I was talking to . He hasn't done this for ages - it wasn't just jumping up, he ran towards me as if coming for a fuss, which he often does when he's excited, then turned at the last minute, headed for her instead of me and hit her with both front paws instead - it was a full charge - I'm amazed she managed to stay on her feet. His instant down is pretty sharp, but I didn't have time to give the command as it was so out of the blue. We'd only been chatting for about 3 minutes, watching how nicely Sparky and her dog, Ben, were playing together. His tail was wagging and he immediately turned and ran to go back and play. I was so cross, I put him in a down and put his lead back on. I just didn't see it coming and felt awful. Well, that's me who's learnt a hard lesson - I'd become over-confident in what I thought I'd trained him to do/not to do. Next training point for us is going to be "come left" or "come right" I think, to avoid this becoming a new habit.:rolleyes: Oh - and no more cutting corners on the "easy" stuff, rushing the "sits" and "waits" to get onto the interesting tricks! It really is for life, this dog training thing, isn't it?! At least it keeps it interesting :-D