How to stop a dog Chasing Cars?

eagle10

I have a 10 month old female border collie and she has an awfully strong instinct to chase cars, I only have her for 1 month now and dont let her off the lead unless she is in the park.

She is obedient and follows all basic commands like sit stay down and recall.
I am about to address the issue of car chasing but not sure yat what approach to take.

Has anyone else dealt with such a problem

Cherry Blossom

Head off to a very quiet area somewhere with an accomplice and a bag of treats. Take her for awalk along a strectch of road and begin to teach her to 'stand in'. Tell her the command and get her to sit close to the side of the road or on the pavement and reward with a treat. Once she gets the idea you can get your accomplice to drive past slowly and as soon as she shows any sign of focusing her attention on the car, give her the command and let her see and smell the treat but don't give it to her unless she stays sitting untill the car passes. Keep doing this until she pays no attention at all to the car and then you can gradually increase the speed of the car.

eagle10

adrenalinjunkie wrote: »

Head off to a very quiet area somewhere with an accomplice and a bag of treats. Take her for awalk along a strectch of road and begin to teach her to 'stand in'. Tell her the command and get her to sit close to the side of the road or on the pavement and reward with a treat. Once she gets the idea you can get your accomplice to drive past slowly and as soon as she shows any sign of focusing her attention on the car, give her the command and let her see and smell the treat but don't give it to her unless she stays sitting untill the car passes. Keep doing this until she pays no attention at all to the car and then you can gradually increase the speed of the car.

I shall give it a go starting tonight thanks

Jinxi

My 9 month old border collie is the exact same. Has all her commands but when near a road with fast mocving cars, she crouches and starts after the car. Much better in the estate and around the house. i.e. slow moving cara. She is just never allowed near the road off leash. I correct her when she gets the stare and crouches. I use food as a distration and give praise when she ignores it. But I feel like I am fighting a losing battle here!

eagle10

Jinxi wrote: »

My 9 month old border collie is the exact same. Has all her commands but when near a road with fast mocving cars, she crouches and starts after the car. Much better in the estate and around the house. i.e. slow moving cara. She is just never allowed near the road off leash. I correct her when she gets the stare and crouches. I use food as a distration and give praise when she ignores it. But I feel like I am fighting a losing battle here!

Same with me also.
In the estate when a car passes I tell her to sit praise and treat but she is still mad to go.

Time and persistence maybe the only cure

juanyjuans

My dog chased a man on a bike.... so I took the bike off my dog

TooManyDogs

Jinxi wrote: »

I correct her when she gets the stare and crouches. I use food as a distration and give praise when she ignores it. But I feel like I am fighting a losing battle here!

Sometimes the dog can get too far down the behaviour to pay attention to the handler, especially with obsessive behaviours. Correcting her before she stares and crouches could give you a much higher success rate. Most dogs will either ignore cars or glance at them and then look at something else nearly straight away cos they're not worth more than a quick look, so I'd correct her if you see her glancing for more than a couple of seconds at a car, even a tug on the lead or you calling her name should bring her attention off the car and back onto you, breaking the cycle of finding, staring, crouching and then herding the car. Dogs also get a stillness about them when they're about to do something explosive like attack a car/person/animal so if you can catch her in the 'stillness' and re-direct her attention onto you then you should have a much higher success rate.

gretna

Just wondering did your Collie every stop trying to chase cars?? if so, how did you achieve it. I'm having the same issue with my 7 month old pup. Thanks