𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗰 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟯𝟶 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀!

Simba from North Shields, a little Jack Russell who is very, very barky. He barks at people going past the house, out the front window, and then runs around the house barking and can't be interrupted. He barks at dogs when he's outside, goes mental at the doorbell, and he's just quite a lot to handle.

Underneath all that, he's a very, very loving dog that just loves to sit on your knee and get stroked. Simba lives in a house where all the furniture is pointed at the window because the TV is next to the window. Their owners would sit on the sofa pretty much looking out the window, and Simba would also be facing the window too and have a lot of attention drawn to it. So when he's nervous about people going past the house already, he's on hyper-alert because he's facing that way.

During the session, we rearranged the living room. We swapped the sofa and the TV around to make sure that he was not facing the window and that he was facing the back of the house instead. This immediately allowed him to relax, and even before I'd left the house from the session, he had also already made himself comfortable on the sofa and lay down and started to switch off, which he would never have done before.

This is one of those cases where something extremely simple like rearranging some furniture is enough to make living with a dog manageable. In the previous session, we also worked on other dogs and his reaction to them, he's doing extremely well and is now getting much closer to dogs and not barking at them. So well done to the family that has been working with him and Simba. We've just got the doorbell to crack now, and then Simba will be there, the perfect lovely Jack Russell.

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