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[Lisa]

Gillian give me a ring later in the week. Sounds to me like she needs a dogmatic head collar and that fixing under the muzzle. If you contact Nettie and get her measured up we will get one in the post. Will have a word with you about distraction techniques BUT I do find that the whippety type smaller dogs that fixate on cats sadly are usually the most firey about it

[julies]

Hiya

Hopefully you're using a double ended lead with it If so I clip one end to the harness on the spine and the other clip I take round her chest to attach to the oppposite shoulder to me .. so if she's on my left then the lead goes round her chest and attaches to the clip on the left shoulder ... now if she goes demented like my Lucy used to ... you'll need to catch her as her adrenalin kicks in to be very effective but even so this should help ... when her head and ears go up or she begins to sniff the air (bu**y sighthound) then I'd drop the slack of the lead around her chest too so you have the loop round her chest/neck but hold it in two hands .. difficult to explain sorry ... this gives you a lot of control and takes the pressure off the head and neck and by doing this we find in TTouch they are less reactive ..you have one loop of lead that's attached to the back of the harness which goes from the harness clip to your left hand (if shes on the left) then round her chest and the lead in your right hand comes from round her chest and also attached to the clip on the left shoulder - or if the lead's not long enough attach the second clip to the harness ring in the centre of her chest.
The loop round her chest can now be manoeuvred up and down her neck so you can control and turn her body .. use two hands, loop of lead in both hands (like holding a wheelbarrow) so to ask her to move to the left take your left hand with lead loop out above/across her body and your right hand with lead loop pushes against her right side, to ask her to come to the right take your right hand with lead to the right, your left hand with lead comes across her body and look where you want to go and go It's easier than it sounds trust me you can control her with this and if you can say a firm 'leave it' whilst you're moving then praise her when you have moved her they do get the idea Promise Oh and do remember to relax the lead so it's NOT continuously pulling her- in TTouch we look to put the dog in balance so allow the dog a loose lead to become more balanced however do still have the lead short enough that if she kicks off again you can just apply contact again to move her.

I'd also look at her food and check it's less than 20% protein cos in my experience (and others may disagree ) greys can be hyper if their food is higher than 20% or they can have intolerances to cereal, beef, chicken or rice so it's worth changing the food to see if that's making her hyper too My Lucy is itchy on beef and hyper on Marrowbone snacks

Hope this helps a bit

Julie x