[nagdu] stress, how much is too much?

[d m gina]

Do you know when you would be doing this kind of traveling again?
if it is down the road, I would keep working him.
if it is in a couple of weeks I would try a gentle leader on the 
pulling hard times, and if it still didn't settle down, then I would 
figure he was stressing out, except for smaller trips and walks.
Is his work still good around home?
Original message:
> I'm wondering how your dog's show that they are stressed and how much is
> too much?

> a bit of background...a few months ago I went to an all day meeting out
> of town.  This involved about 8 hours of car travel there, an overnight
> hotel stay, the all day meeting, another hotel stay and the car ride
> home.  Monty has done all of these sorts of things before and since.
> Before this weekend he showed few signs of stress and they were minor.
> However for some reason still unknown to me Monty had a tough time this
> particular weekend.  His signs of stress included: looking at everything
> incessantly, startling at noises, lip licking, difficulty relaxing  at
> relief breaks, shaking and pulling like a crazed maniac in harness.

> For me his signs of stress were pretty high.  If he had continued at
> that level I would have stopped working him.  We have struggled off and
> on for the past few months with smaller episodes of stress/anxiety.
> Overall things have improved dramatically.  Occasionally he will do the
> lip licking and the looking at everything, but he's not at a level that
> I feel is risky to his or my health or  safety.

> Recent messages to the list and my own situation caused me to think
> about and ask the questions: How much is too much?  What would cause you
> to quit working a dog completely? What would cause you to quit working a
> dog in a particular situation?

> Julie


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