New year's resolutions

Destressing my life with Grey. We're on to day two of this and so far we're having a great time. I decided after chatting with friends, to take a step back with Grey's lead walking training. We've gone back to just going out for his runs in the car and working offlead together for a good hour. He's been much more relaxed and so have I. Just having a little breather from the daily stress of hanging on to the lead as he pulls around on it and is generally too switched on.

He's been much much better anyway in his behaviour towards greeting other dogs. Has been more attentive and has come away from quite a few onlead dogs that he had spotted and was on his way over already to say hello to.

I've been talking to someone about Grey's early life before I got him. The importance of early puppy stimulation and socialisation from when their eyes and ears are open at 3 weeks old. It's no secret that you should choose your puppy carefully and ideally, they will have been exposed to many experiences of normal family life. Perhaps Grey's reactiveness coupled with his early illnesses and prolonged dental treatment have come together to explain why he's a very sensitive and reactive dog to outside stimuli.