When Uma sees me grab her collar, she gets all super excited as always as she knows her imminent daily walk is about to happen. But once I open the door to go walking, she’ll sit and stay put and let me go ahead by myself! This is a problem even when there are no firecrackers going on —when there are firecrackers, we don’t go out. She won’t obey my command to come. So I actually have to leash her to drag her to walk with me. It is like I’m forcing her. Yesterday was particularly bad as she was trembling for a good four or five blocks :( The trembling stopped when another dog joined us in the walk, so she got distracted.
I have found that she feels better when we both walk —instead of me going on my bike. But I feel terrible for her; it seems that she feels I’m imposing a punishment, that it has ceased being the joyful experience it once was. It has become hard to walk her even once a day :(
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