It was so cool to have Calla walk beside us and not jump on people as they greeted us. It was such a pleasure to walk with her. We could take her food dish away while she was eating from it and she would just look at us as if she was questioning, “Why?”. No aggression. Way cool. She stayed off the couch, which was good because it was a corduroy fabric, dark blue. She had very white hair and it stuck to the fabric of the couch. No more, she stayed off. Barking was still an issue, one which really bothered our neighbors. We found out that the Kuvasz have a high tolerance to pain. We put one of those shock collars on her that will send an electric shock to her neck when she barked. Didn’t work. In fact, they won’t stay in a yard with “invisible fencing” either. Invisible fencing works similar to the shock collars in that the dog wears a collar that will give the dog a shock if it comes too close to the wire in the ground. The dogs will simply run across it - they’ll get a quick shock and it’s done. Pretty much it goes like this - “If there’s a will; there’s a way out”. Since we never played any games that included jumping, Calla never knew she could jump. So jumping over the fence wasn’t a problem. Digging under the fence was. I watched once when she dug a small hold and slid under the fence sideways. If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t have believed it. Putting her poop in the holes kept her from using that hole again. That was a neat trick told to us by a friend who had the same problem. Dogs don’t like digging in their own poop. We had a lot of it all along the perimeter of our fence! The classes helped us with taking her for a walk and control around people, but not from barking and digging.

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