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Are we door mats?

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Posted June 14th, 2007 by Buster
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Please tell me your thought.

Buster's cousin Elliot, a 15mth toy poodle, literally walks all over his owners, if they are sitting on the lounge he walks over the top of them and climbs onto the back of the lounge and practically sits on their heads.
When they are in their bed he walks up and down their bodies as if they are his mattress to get where he wants to go.

Is this a dominance issue and should they try to prevent it or is this just normal behaviour?

Walkies

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Posted May 22nd, 2007 by Buster

I’m wondering if you could help me?
>
> We are having problems walking Buster, our 5 month old boxer (we have
> only had him just over 1 month). He walks fine, if not a little
> distracted, when we start our walks, he gets a little edgy with loud
> noises and people walking around but we are working on that, our
> problem is when we turn around to come home, or even if we take him
> around the block so we are coming from the other direction he starts
> to pull so bad that he chokes, wheezes and gasps for air. It’s quite
> frightening to watch and that’s with him wearing a harness. Last night
> we tried to put a Halti on him which was such torture for him and us
> that it lasted 1 minute before we took it off.
>
> We can’t understand why he wants to be home so badly, this has even
> happened when we have been visiting and we take him for a walk he got
> off and ran straight back to the place we were staying.
>

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