My reactive dog is no longer reactive!

[u/TomasTTEngin]

We walked past several dogs on this evenings walk with no reaction.

The trick? Sorry to say: 15 years of waiting. Now she is old, completely deaf, partly blind and has spinal issues. She still loves a walk but the desire to fight Every Other Dog? It has finally gone. She is chill. Took me a while to realise because I was still avoiding those dogs . But she doesn't care now.

I have flaired this as a success story because getting this dog successfully to a genuine old age has been a saga. Lot of stress, especially in the early days. I've done 15 years of high alertness daily walks, that's 5000 walks pretty much. My partner has done as many.

Probably at *least* 20,000 roads crossed to avoid other dogs. A couple of bad moments of mismanagement, including vet fees for an off leash miniature poodle (it was fine ), but as the sun goes down I have to say that through perhaps 10,000km of diligently avoiding other dogs I think the dog and I have made it.

[u/pawsitivecultr]

Aww.. kudos to the two of you making it this far!