Nah your dog will not bite you... or shouldn't. I train mine to not bite as a pup. Everytime the pup nips like they do yell "yipe" like another pup will if it gets bit. It teaches them to not bite....
And if my own dog ever bit me.........Well we would be at the 3 S's as far as the kids are concerned...
Yelping didn't really work for ours but we'd tell him "no bites" or leave the room which worked better for us. But he still does sometimes mouth and play bite which my dad does nothing to stop :/ he doesn't do it if you tell him no or ignore him and pretend he's not there but he pets him.
And yeah, he used to growl or bite over stuff but hes not possessive of bones anymore and I realized that while the behavior obviously is never acceptable, half the time he got mad was only when the leash was wrapped aroumd his leg and someone pulled it hard, i think he has a leg problem. But he used to attempt to bite or at least vocally protest or freeze up if you tried to get him to do something (he snaps the air) but that was as an adolescent, he has since grown up and no longer does that.
He responds really well to nothing in life is free, aka making him sit before he does anything, same thing, and positive reinforcement because he's a sensitive dog and really intelligent but he does have his stubborn moments and my brother is pretty rough on him sometimes, using a really deep voice for every single thing, sometimes straight up yelling. Works for control, which i guess is the goal, but for the finer stuff like staying out of the room when we eat or tricks, it doesn't. But I've had to start using it for recall because he won't listen to anything else now. I used to use a firm voice which worked but now nothing but the deep, gruff, scary voice works for "come." But different ways work for different people I suppose and at least he's controlled and mostly respectful now. But the problem I think comes fromfrom the inconsistencies and the different methods everyone uses. I might use a different method than my brother but the goal is still the same: getting him to listen and have rules. I think his problem is less dominance, more never had rules. My dad for example breaks every rule I try to set. Has zero rules for him. And even my brother who is strictly alpha is inconsistent. One second he's play biting or jumps up and it's cute and he hugs him, next second he is SCREAMING at him for doing it... which I think is unfair no matter the method used. Sure, dogs don't do fair, but they all will let him do one thing then complain when he does it next. No rules. Cause he's "cute" and the rules are "mean" according to my dad. And I don't even ask for tough stuff here. No feeding from the table. Ignoring him when he is being mouthy and a brat. He doesn't do it to me but my dad pets him and lets him out when he does that so he will go up and mouth him and snap the air and back up and make noises (all just sass) and dad lets him out. He used to do it when he wanted to go out but I thought it should never be encouraged. But now he'll go "but he wants to go out" and I KNOW he doesn't. He wants attention and he wants to play and my dad is oblivious and encourages it. And also like sitting before he gives him food if he's gonna do it. Just basic stuff really. All of which is "mean."..... :/
But anyway, sorry for rambling. What I was saying was if you buy the dominance stuff and have an extremely large or particular dominant dog like a GSD or something else, isn't it possible they would resist your attempts to dominate or take it as aggression and bite?
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