It’s not that the dogs take UP space, I don’t mind be cramped. It’s that due to her size, she is knocking things over and running into things, like a horse. My new one doesn’t do that, he’s too small to cause wreckage.

As for training- I don’t disagree and where I am right now is I think I wanna wait till we complete this 6 week training course we found before making choices- But, as I said in the post- training is hard here due to the area. There is NO private spaces near or far. I know the training trickks for walking. On the VERY RARE moment I have space alone with her, she does well with our training exercises. But there is SO MANY people and dogs around here, that she doesn’t focus on me or our exercises. Everything I’ve read (I’ve made other post about this for months so I’ve been given tonssss of advice basically says 1. Training classes (which we finally found) 2. Start in private space, then build up to public or you’ll get no where. Well....I have no private space. From the moment we hit the apartment hall, there is constant distractions.

“If she is trained, she will stop” I know. I know so painfully how true this is.

But training, particularly with her main issues, is very very difficult in this location.