hannibal lecter dog

 
this is what our poor beast looks like when she goes for walks now. she doesn't like it that much. she's got her muzzle, gentle leader and a backup attachment from the gentle leader to her collar. poor thing. she doesn't like it much. now at least if she gets to an uncontroled aggressive dog we know at least she can't hurt it (but if it does happen, it'll undo any of the training she's learned).
we had a woman last nite let her yappy little dog (who was stressing wombat out) come even closer to wombat (and wombat didn't have her muzzle on). the woman was on her property with the dog on a lead. the dog started bouncing and barking at wombat. wombat got stressed and not listening to us. the woman let her little yappy dog drag her closer to wombat and zac just had to yell (as politely as he could when he's yelling) for her to take her dog away from ours. i managed to drag wombat a couple houses down and into a park where we calmed her down and got her to re-focus. its hard when she pulls on the lead cuz the training we're doing focuses on positive behaviour and rewards. when wombat doesn't listen to us and tries to pull away her gental leader pulls on her and its uncomfortable. then she'll associate other dogs with uncomfortable instead of treats (the trainer told us not to use the choke chain because even though it give us good control, she'll associate other dogs with a pain in the neck). hopefully one day we won't have to fear her being aggressive towards other dogs and she won't need the muzzle.