Dog thread!🐾

[Pampered chicken girl]

Can someone give me advice? I have a 10 month old male Bullmastiff named Drax, and he is so darn stubborn in every way. First of all, he's not getting the hang of going potty outside. He goes #2 in the house at least once a day. The other day he went #2 three times in the house and #1 once in the house UGH.

Take him outside once an hour or once every 2 hours, and after every meal, drinking, playing, and napping.

Whenever he has something in his mouth, I confront him super nicely with a kind calm voice, and when I put my hand near him to grab the thing in his mouth, he snarls at me!!! Does anyone have any tips for me?

You need to come up to him assured and confidently, don't baby talk and don't hunch over. Try to bring something of high value like a really good treat or his favorite toy and show him, say drop it, give him the reward when he drops what he was originally holding. If your using a treat let him smell it

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

I’d start with the basics. Will your dog sit and stay when you tell him too (or what ever commands you’ve taught him)? If he won’t, then he has no respect for you and sees nothing wrong with snarling at you. If you haven’t taught him anything then I believe that’s where you need to start. He needs to know that when you tell him to do something you expect him to do it. Do basic exercises that involve him having to obey you. Make it fun and enjoyable for him, short and sweet. But if he decides the he doesn’t want to obey you he should be held accountable. If you tell him to stay, he should stay and be corrected if he does not. Do this with everything. He should start to respect you and understand you are the boss. That is where I’d start, just to make your relationship better. For the snarling, I’d counteract the behavior by teaching a “drop it” or “out”. Give him something he likes and have something better in your hand to reward him with (that way he’ll be willing to drop it). Once you know he understands the command I’d start correcting him when he doesn’t drop it, but I’d still keep it fun for him! With a better relationship and the understanding of an out command you should be able to take things away from him without him snarling. But it all depends on your effort, consistency is key. If he is truly aggressively resource guarding, it might be more then you can handle, but if he is just being a brat he should be fine if you work hard. My advice is for the snarling. Everybody has their own opinions, that is mine. Some will tell you to never correct a dog, but that, in my opinion, does not address the root of the problem, which is most likely lack of respect. If you are just teaching a new behavior then positive reinforcement only works great. I would NEVER correct or punish a dog while they are learning, it is unfair and the dog doesn’t understand. Once the dog fully understands the behavior and just chooses not to, is when I would. But if you are modifying behavior, positive only rarely works. This is just my opinion. Hope you can get it figured out!

Completely agree with this too!

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Can someone give me advice? I have a 10 month old male Bullmastiff named Drax, and he is so darn stubborn in every way. First of all, he's not getting the hang of going potty outside. He goes #2 in the house at least once a day. The other day he went #2 three times in the house and #1 once in the house UGH.
Whenever he has something in his mouth, I confront him super nicely with a kind calm voice, and when I put my hand near him to grab the thing in his mouth, he snarls at me!!! Does anyone have any tips for me?

First off he needs to learn potty in the house isnt ok. If you cant watch him he needs to be kenneled, in a x pen or outside. Bells might help ive found puppies atleast in my case have found it easy to ring the bell and alert. Sometimes we miss the signals.


Secondly that is resource guarding and he is getting his way by snarling.
Start with a high value treat (real meat is the best, freeze dried or air dried) and a low value toy. Teach him you take the toy he gets a treat eventually moving up high value item higher value treat he will learn its ok for you to take things from him

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Anyone here have the kong jumbler?
If so what size are they?
Petsmart had a biy 3 get 2 toy free deal and i have a gift card to use.
I was going to order it now. But im checking on size of the jumbler.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Anyone here have the kong jumbler?
If so what size are they?
Petsmart had a biy 3 get 2 toy free deal and i have a gift card to use.
I was going to order it now. But im checking on size of the jumbler.

We have it but I forget what size it is as I didn’t buy it. I think it’s the large/x large though as it’s pretty big. I could be wrong though.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

First off he needs to learn potty in the house isnt ok. If you cant watch him he needs to be kenneled, in a x pen or outside. Bells might help ive found puppies atleast in my case have found it easy to ring the bell and alert. Sometimes we miss the signals.


Secondly that is resource guarding and he is getting his way by snarling.
Start with a high value treat (real meat is the best, freeze dried or air dried) and a low value toy. Teach him you take the toy he gets a treat eventually moving up high value item higher value treat he will learn its ok for you to take things from him

We have bells on our front door, but the problem is that like you said, sometimes we don't hear him ringing his bells (if he even is ringing them, which he's likely not.) Its so frustrating too because I would take him outside for an entire walk and he would refuse to go potty, and right after his walk he would go #2 or #1 inside the house. That's a good idea about stopping his resource guarding! Every time he does that, we back away cuz we are afraid of being attacked or something, so that basically lets him know that snarling gets his way He would definitely give me a toy happily, but I'm not sure if he would apply that training to real life when he has something that he wants.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

You need to come up to him assured and confidently, don't baby talk and don't hunch over. Try to bring something of high value like a really good treat or his favorite toy and show him, say drop it, give him the reward when he drops what he was originally holding. If your using a treat let him smell it

I've tried confronting him using many ways but none have worked, and one time I did try the treat method but he just ate the thing in his mouth before he ate the treat and he didn't hand it over to me!

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Take him outside once an hour or once every 2 hours, and after every meal, drinking, playing, and napping.

Yes we already do that But thanks for the advice

 

[talkinboutchickens]

I’d start with the basics. Will your dog sit and stay when you tell him too (or what ever commands you’ve taught him)? If he won’t, then he has no respect for you and sees nothing wrong with snarling at you. If you haven’t taught him anything then I believe that’s where you need to start. He needs to know that when you tell him to do something you expect him to do it.

He knows sit and shake and he is not getting the hang of down.

For the snarling, I’d counteract the behavior by teaching a “drop it” or “out”.

we say "give" or "drop it" when he has something.

Some will tell you to never correct a dog, but that, in my opinion, does not address the root of the problem, which is most likely lack of respect.

I agree with you, whenever he does something bad he is put in his cage for that.



@Squawkers, @Pampered chicken girl, and @Ilovemychicks08 thank you so so so much for the great advice, I really do appreciate it! And I will try to work with him on those 2 problems that he has using the advice that y'all gave me

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

We have it but I forget what size it is as I didn’t buy it. I think it’s the large/x large though as it’s pretty big. I could be wrong though.

Well i ordered the large one. I hope it isnt to small