Hi Christine
Welcome to this site! I see you've joined the Behaviour Group - I'm member there too but I'm afraid that group does not seem to be very active. Behaviour issues are usually discussed on the main site and all join in.
Have fun!
Susan

Happy Birthday Christine!!!  Excellent opportunity to take plenty of pictures of your lovely Riley    :-)

Thanks for the invitation Christine and very happy to become your new ES friend!!!  Cuddles to Riley, although not sure I can believe that he exists until I see a picture of him  :-)  :-)  whenever convenient Christine, do not wish to put pressure on you.

Hi Christine, thanks for the friend request!! Would love to hear all about Riley, how old is he? My three are a real handful sometimes being all boys and all fairly young but they are all spoilt to death in a nice way lol!!

Hi Christine, yes have been reading your thread about bike chasing...mmm....i agree with most things the others say about putting riley on the lead at the moment but that does not solve the problem of course.this is something mine, fortunately don't do, we live in a very rural area so they are used to bikes, runners, horses and deer but funnily enough where we walk, cows are freely grazing and two of them will bark and bark at the cows for some reason, they don't chase, just bark. We tend to put one of the barking ones on the lead and then the other one is not quite so brave!!! I certainly think there is such a thing as the terrible twos for dogs!! we enlisted the help of a behavourist just recently as my boys had decided it was quite fun to "gang up" on other dogs and be really scary as there were three of them. the guy reassured us that they were not agressive just being boys as they are all quite young, he also told us that dogs will be a problem aged 2yrs, 4yrs and 6yrs ( we had one 2yr old and two 4yr olds!) due to hormones and pack hierachy. fortuntely for us it took very little to regain our role as leaders and all is calm at the moment. a professional may well be able to give you help and things to try as it does sound as if something has triggered this behaviour so might be worth looking for someone. I wish i could be of more help, all i can say is they do grow out of these things and then usually find something else to keep us on our toes!! Do hope you find a solution and will be watching to see what others suggest. Love chris xx

Hello Christine,

It's good to be friends,thanks for asking me.

Howard