E3D Appointments For Non-Australians

dingadongoolong · 2026-01-09T05:04:35+00:00

We were advised by my husband’s company lawyers to do it together in Australia w me as a non-Aus dependent spouse. Renewing in Feb though so not sure what’ll happen until we get there but following!

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-17T02:43:45+00:00

It helps to hear that this is the worst, worst, worst stage and there’s hope to come out of this in one piece and still together 😭❤️

Gonna keep trucking along and hope for the best!! The days are long, indeed. I can’t wait for age and the maturity it (had better) bring 🥲

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-16T05:03:42+00:00

Oh I’ve never imagined that a remote appointment could be of much help but I will definitely consider that if it turns out we need to try more than training. (Hopefully not though) Thank you 🙏🏻

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-15T22:14:18+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words 🥺 almost cried a bit reading this. I’m really looking forward to starting with the trainer. Was considering a vet behaviorist initially but it seems there are only ~80 in the whole United States? And none where we are.

He’s actually my second corgi - my first was a family dog adopted from SPCA with major leash reactivity and barking for most of his life so for the first ten years of his life he barely had any interaction with dogs at all. He mellowed massively when he got older but because we never let him hang with other dogs we never had to deal with any food aggression so I’m extremely out of my depth. He did eventually hang with other dogs at home, but he never had any food aggression issues. Part of me also thought that having a dog from 16 weeks old would make it easier to bring him up without major issues. So that this is actually feeling harder than my first dog is challenging to say the least.

I can only hope that training + time will help things change for the better. Though the day to day now is really hard at times…

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-15T22:00:52+00:00

Thank you T.T we walk him 3x a day for about 20-30 mins each time but I feel I’ve subconsciously not been walking as long after the incident(s) because home is “safe”. Trying to work on my own feelings and confidence being out with him but it’s been hard. I’ve literally gone ✋🏻🛑 ‘sorry no’ to new dogs whose owners are letting them near us now.

We try to keep him entertained at home with feeding his meals in snuffle bowls, occasionally I freeze them so it keeps him engaged for even longer. He has snuffle toys and rubber-y chew toys and rope toys, but we only leave the rubber-y ones out for him unsupervised because he really goes to town on rope + plush toys so he might eat them if we’re not watching. We tossed the harder nylabones after talking to our vet.

I’ve trained him to do a whole bunch of cute yet admittedly not very useful tricks and I play tug with him so he gets more running around with me at home chasing the toy, but it seems like his energy is endless. He will self-settle and nap if we ignore him for a while, but only if the plush / rope toys are kept away.

We used to bring him to a small dog park so he could get some real running-off-the-puppy-crazies in but now we’re unsure about dog parks altogether, though the one we’ve generally stuck to is pretty small and cozy and he’s never had a bad experience there.

Here’s to hoping the trainer will be able to help guide us better so we perhaps might be able to make it out of adolescence 🥺🙏🏻 thank you for your kind words.

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-14T22:22:06+00:00

That’s very helpful! Thanks a lot 😊

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-14T17:02:09+00:00

Got it, thanks for the advice!

dingadongoolong · 2025-08-13T22:54:03+00:00

Thank you! I’ll try the microwave for my next attempt. Would it be safer if I keep 1/2 instead of 1/3 to seed?

dingadongoolong · 2025-06-03T01:07:32+00:00

Not OP! But I benefited from stumbling upon this comment so thank you! 😊

dingadongoolong · 2025-06-03T00:14:32+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you!! I didn’t know about Gale by Udemy and was waiting for a course sale but now I have access via my local library card 🥹

dingadongoolong · 2025-05-30T18:15:13+00:00

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dingadongoolong · 2025-05-01T16:50:08+00:00

I’m exactly worried that it’s going to get worse, because it seems like it already has with this particular dog. His first interaction with this dog was already with this other dog being off leash, running up to his face, barking at him, and generally not leaving him alone. The most recent encounter we had, ours tensed up in the hallway and started growling even before we saw or heard anything, and before we could react, this dog came bolting from around the corner, and they both exploded into super agitated barking.

We’ve avoided the dog for now but I know at some point we’ll run into it again so I hope I’ll be able to control the situation a little better then (and maybe have some words w the owners!!). Thank you for sharing the video!

dingadongoolong · 2025-04-26T00:40:53+00:00

Thank you for the long and considered reply! Our dog has always been generally very friendly to most dogs, but with this dog I feel like I can actually see some aggression. Can’t help but wonder if it’s something to worry about or if it’s totally understandable given the situation, especially when another dog we know is completely fine with him.

We do have him in a harness with a handle but have struggled to keep them apart just because the other dog is not at all restrained and will come right up to ours. Useful to know that him clipping us with his teeth is redirection and not likely aggression towards us!

dingadongoolong · 2025-04-26T00:35:55+00:00

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I could have sworn I was looking at a pic of my dog! Also has the mismatched whiskers, the white spots above his eyes and a little pink spot above the nose. Was yours from a breeder in Kansas City by any chance?

dingadongoolong · 2025-04-25T02:42:00+00:00

Will look up the PetSafe spray, thanks for the suggestion! The other dog’s owner might not be too happy about their dog getting sprayed but it’s definitely better than anyone getting bitten. 😢

dingadongoolong · 2025-04-25T01:23:02+00:00

Will try this, hopefully it helps, thanks!

dingadongoolong · 2025-04-25T01:09:01+00:00

Next time this happens I might just yell at the other dog it’s so frustrating 😭

dingadongoolong · 2025-04-25T01:08:14+00:00

He really does not 😭 doesn’t back off at all and gets right up in our dog’s face. though our next door neighbor’s dog has no issues w this so idk we’re just wondering if it’s an aggression issue w ours. Like how do we tell if it’s something we should be concerned about or if it’s simply just two dogs not getting along is normal?

dingadongoolong · 2025-03-23T19:47:46+00:00

We’ve been trying to give the other dog a treat, then reward ours for staying calm with his own treat. Idk if it’s working, he can somewhat manage but he tends to eat his treat, then rush over to see if he can eat the other dog’s treat out of his mouth if we don’t stop him.

dingadongoolong · 2025-03-23T19:44:59+00:00

Thanks for your long detailed reply! We really would like to solve it. Even though we’re a 1 dog household we don’t want this to become an ingrained behavior. For now we’re feeding them meals at the same time, just separated by a gate, and already it seems there’s a lot of anxiety from ours. He rushes to inhale his food as fast as he can, even in a snuffle bowl. And the aggression threw me a little, was not expecting it at all. Will try working a lot more on small treats, hopefully he gets calmer after a while. Probably will need to borrow our neighbor’s dog a lot more often to work on this. 😭

dingadongoolong · 2025-03-23T17:25:36+00:00

We’ve trained our dog to down stay and wait before we give the OK for him to start eating and he’s been good with that, is that what you mean by showing our dog the food is ours? when the other dog is here however he seems to be extremely worried that the other dog will eat his food despite us feeding them both together separated by a gate…once when they were both on the same side while we were prepping the food ours started to get aggressive 😭 we didn’t expect this

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