Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in now and you've missed the updates,
Speaker 1: we've had this.
Speaker 2: On BRIT's dog, Delilah, her beautiful Australian shepherd that has
Speaker 2: the mind of a thirty three year old woman.
Speaker 1: That dog, i'd say like a six one, say, the
Speaker 1: mind of a thirty three year old, very specific, just
Speaker 1: such a developed, intelligent dog.
Speaker 2: You look at that dog and you go, that dog
Speaker 2: has superannuation, that dog can pay taxes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think your attitude is more like she's
Speaker 3: quite mature in that sense. Her attitude is more of
Speaker 3: a like sixteen year old that might not be getting
Speaker 3: her way well.
Speaker 2: This week we found out that Delilah has been fired
Speaker 2: from two dog walkers.
Speaker 3: So Britt fired on probation from one, fired from the other.
Speaker 1: Though, yeah, she can't keep a dog walker down. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem.
Speaker 2: We've exhausted all averages to get help for Delilah. So
Speaker 2: we found Australia's version. Welcome to the show from Austin's
Speaker 2: Dog Training Education Vicky Austin. Vicki has worked as an
Speaker 2: animal wrangler for media, television, commercials, show dogs. She's worked
Speaker 2: with narcotic scent detection dogs. She's trained dogs in explosive
Speaker 2: scent detection. She's also worked for Dog's On a Place
Speaker 2: to call Home Fighting Season Harry's Practice Better Homes and Gardens.
Speaker 2: If there's someone that confects Delilah in this country, it
Speaker 2: is Vicky Austin.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the pickup. Please help us, Hi.
Speaker 3: I don't think Delilah's on the same level of explosive
Speaker 3: detections dog she's.
Speaker 4: Okay, I meant had the opportunity.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I'll tell you Delilah's problem quickly, like her
Speaker 3: main problem. So, she's an Australian Shepherd. She's three years old,
Speaker 3: the most beautiful, sweetest, affectionate.
Speaker 1: Dog you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Everyone loves her, but when she's with other dogs, she
Speaker 3: has claimed her dog walker as hers. So whenever another
Speaker 3: dog comes even remotely close, she's quite aggressive and it's
Speaker 3: a protection loyalty thing. But I cannot since she's a puppy,
Speaker 3: and get her out of that protection.
Speaker 4: Yeah. What it is is that she is a bit
Speaker 4: of a skaty cat and her human, whether it's you
Speaker 4: or the dog walker, is her security and if other
Speaker 4: dogs are interfering with that, then it's a risk, you know,
Speaker 4: to her safety. You know, I could even be very
Speaker 4: well a risk to her life. In other words, she's
Speaker 4: not a confident dog. She's scared and she needs that
Speaker 4: human to protect her. And she's scared that another dog's
Speaker 4: going to take her human away from her.
Speaker 3: I know, are we about?
Speaker 1: Sorry? I called her a bully? So VICKI, what do
Speaker 1: you suggest? What can brit do? What can she implement?
Speaker 4: We need to give her confidence. So the very worst
Speaker 4: thing you could do is any form of punishment or
Speaker 4: scolding when she does it, because that's going to make
Speaker 4: her feel like you're rejecting me. And now I really
Speaker 4: have got a problem because you know, I've got no
Speaker 4: one to protect me. So what we would need to
Speaker 4: do instead is make good things happen for Delilah when
Speaker 4: another dog is around, so she might if she's greedy
Speaker 4: and she likes food treats, if there's another dog approaching,
Speaker 4: or you're patting another dog or talking to another dog,
Speaker 4: Delightah is getting a handful of food treats, or she's
Speaker 4: having a ball thrown for her. If she's that sort
Speaker 4: of girl, whatever it is that she likes in life,
Speaker 4: and it could even be that she gets heaps of
Speaker 4: attention when another dog's coming. So you might start off
Speaker 4: with saying hello Polly to the other dog and then
Speaker 4: oh do nanah, you're so wonderful. You know, of course
Speaker 4: you're going to get all this attention when another dog
Speaker 4: is around, rather than losing the attention whenever another dog
Speaker 4: approaches for its face.
Speaker 1: Right now, I was like, I screwed up.
Speaker 3: Well, no, what I'm actually thinking is she does the
Speaker 3: same thing with balls and food. So it's like, if
Speaker 3: you have a ball or of food, she's the same
Speaker 3: thing that aggress Yeah, aggression.
Speaker 4: The term is resource guarding. So anything she values, she's
Speaker 4: just simply trying to protect and say, don't take it.
Speaker 4: This is mine and it's valuable to me and I
Speaker 4: don't want to share it. So it's the same as
Speaker 4: food guarding, you know. I mean most people are a
Speaker 4: lot more accepting of dogs guarding food in their possession.
Speaker 4: I think we sort of get that, don't we. They
Speaker 4: don't want their food taken from them. But for some dogs,
Speaker 4: you know, depending on their nature, it can be their toys,
Speaker 4: it can be their bed, it can be individual people,
Speaker 4: or it can be the person that's there at the time.
Speaker 1: Wow, God, thank you Vicky for the help. We do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. All right, let's go. That's us for the week.
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