Thank you.

This is several years ago. She is still with me, and doesn't often let me out of her sight. She has become a top agility dog, and talented trick dog as she enjoys all forms of clicker training. All dogs are different. Not all dogs benefit by the same form of training. Bundle is very special. She is nothing like any of my other dogs. And she would never end up anywhere as any dog I take is for life.

Yes, she was born 'in the wild' into a feral pack on the outskirts of a town in the countryside. The whole pack of around 28 dogs were caught. None of the dogs had had contact with humans. It was quite a big story in the news. The story was followed and reported by an association that deals with situations such as this here in France (You may have heard of the Bridgit Bardot trust) . She was approx 10 months at the time she was caught. All the dogs were put into kennels and then fostered. Bundle was fostered for three weeks before I had her. For those 3 weeks she was tethered on a long line in a walled garden. I first heard about her from an advert in the news asking who would take a dog that you couldn't touch. She is not a fearful dog but very suspicious by nature. She is extremely smart and I put her success down to that, and how quickly she could work with a clicker. So no, she had never had a home, and she was indeed feral. I am still the only one that can really handle her, and she is still quite difficult (but really loved )

Thank you. Yes, he really was.

I create the possibility of touch, but the dog making a choice . Reward very small behaviours that go in that direction. Bundle is very smart. She works stuff out quickly.

Thank you. Bundle has been with me now for over 5 years. She is still difficult to touch, but I always encourage and reward her touching me so she has lots of control , and no force. I have different methods, and have helped many wild and nervous dogs. Some of them take a very long time. They are worth it ! Bundle has been a very rewarding dog, but she isn't cuddly, and is still 'blocked' in many ways. However, she's happy and competes in agility (recently qualified for Crufts) and is a very 'big' member of our family.

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kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5fdp4qqp7-mi6s This shows how she is. In a few weeks she is off to Crufts to compete in agility as she qualified for a final , in the international agility. Yes, she is very much still around !

Thats good to hear. I fell in love with her story when i stumbled on her first training videos from 5 years ago. you did a great job.

Pug ! lol

Fortunately I think the proof is there, that this was the way forward for her. Food based training only works when stress levels are low enough, and if you know anything about feral, you can't 'buy' them with food. As my previous comment: she has become a top international agility dog and talented trick dog. I am still the only one that she really responds to. She had stress at the start yes. But my assessment of her was not of a nervous or timid dog, but just a suspicious dog. This was why this form of training was best for her.

I ask because I have Fibromyalgia and other conditions and find my dogs a support untrained. My local government says I have one too many dogs, I have 3, and I'm trying to find ways to train them to prove that I need them , plus without serious training none of them would go to another family. I have had them since birth. Trying to train them , but finding it too intensive or difficult or expensive with all together with my disability. I have no problem with them, they are fine with my teen & adult children, tolerate my ex but dislike other dogs and people. I am mostly housebound