12/11/2025
This big goofball is Stone with Barb's Dog Rescue . He will be available for adoption soon, so get your applications in!
Ok, his story...
Well, he was a stray and brought into the shelter with another dog. But he was soon E-listed due to his behavior. (I believe the other dog was adopted.) Because he was a behavioral E-list, he was New Hope which means only certain rescues can pull him. Feel free to ask questions about that in the comments. Anyway, a trainer saw his E-list post on social media and wanted to help and contacted Barb's Dog Rescue to help pull him. That trainer struggled and even came here for a lesson to try to help his extreme dog reactivity. The trainer was unsuccessful and Stone needed a new place to land that could help him.
So here we are! The first video is me working with him as soon as he is dropped off. He has been numbed to the prong so the E-collar is going to be key! I am starting him on the functional/ guidance aspect of the E-collar instead of just corrective.
The 2nd video is our third time working, I decided to take him for a walk down our street. At the end of the road there are 2 houses with dogs that run the fence, which helps with training! That's not sarcasm, it really does help. If you avoid the problem, it never gives you the opportunity to correct it and grow. And your dog doesn't learn how to trust that you will take care of them, the situation, and be a leader. Right before I started recording we had passed by the 2 houses and he did better than expected. (I have seen what he is capable of in his reactivity.) So then I went back a little and recorded it. There are some E-collar corrections, but he did really really well! He is learning to look to me and listen no matter what il the distraction.