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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP we got a rescue at the start of June. He is about 2-3 yrs old and sometimes gets the zoomies if there are more than the usual number of people in the house (unrelated to exercise, food, training or entertainment). I find these things help, I say "oh no, calm down now". We sit, we encourage him to sit with us and cuddle (calmly) or we give him a chew stick to focus on.  All these help. Your dog is different but may respond similarly. Good luck. [/quote]

This is crazy but I think you figured out my dog’s trigger (OP here). Our dog does great when it’s just me and DD and he follows our routine calmly and doesn’t have zoomies at night. But DH has a pretty erratic schedule and travels 1-3 weeks/month. We also had a relative staying with us for the month of June.

The common thread with both our relative and my DH is that their presence seems to trigger the crazy behavior/zoomies from the dog. DH had to travel abruptly a day after we brought the dog home and wasn’t home for the first 9 days. Now I’m worried that the dog believes that DH is the world’s least responsive wayward sheep…[/quote]

pp you are responding to - we've had similar things going on in our house, DH traveling, an aunt staying etc. So long as their usual human is doing the usual things, I think it helps stabilize them.

Because these are rescues and we don't know the chaos they lived in previously just being patient and calm is the way forward. There's a bunch of folks on this thread who think the dogs should be treated like police dogs or something. They have no idea.[/quote]

Maybe, but [b]there are a few of us on this thread who've been adopting/rescuing/fostering/training our whole lives,[/b] and have experience you don't that shows there really is a pretty straightforward system that works.

Your rescue dog wants consistency and routine, maybe more than a dog without that history. Being "patient and calm" and doing the human thing of trying to accommodate their behavior is actually backwards in dog-speak. And putting this all on the dog's "usual human" is a great way to get separation anxiety issues.

But what do I know...  :roll: [/quote]

You are so superior to us, who you have never met and don't know how many dogs we've owned or where we got them from. Carry on, its great that even really stupid people can read and write crap on websites. [/quote]

It's sad for your dog(s) that your ego is in the way of your teachability. If you need to project and take that out on an anon poster, so be it. But you're telling an interesting story about yourself with your decision to engage the pp. A hit dog will holler...[/quote]

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