I promise you it gets better. One day you think “oh, I’ve nailed that bit of training” and then the next they are twice as bad but I find with so many of the issues I face that time truly is the greatest resource. Our dog, day by day, is working WITH US rather than against us and we are starting to win battle by battle.

At 7/8/9 months I used to daily wake up with knots in my stomach thinking “ok I need to take her out to the toilet, what if x,y.z happens”. But I promise you it just gets better. The things you worry about soon become something you laugh about.

Don’t get me wrong, our dogs still a little shit at times and has 1 or 2 things I would rather she didn’t but ultimately if I look how far she has come, those things are nothing.

I promise, it gets better! Stick in there, you’re doing so much better than you think.