Dog Trainers/ Breeders...Please Help

[Brindlebtch]

Fudgie is on the right track as is everyone who said this is a dominance problem, no hormones involved. What a thoroughly unpleasant dog.

I had a client's bichon for a while who was a lot like your poodle. It got to where it was a pretty OK dog until it went home and went right back to it's old ways. I really didn't like that dog. Now it adores me and every time it sees me comes running up to me and wants to be petted. Ew.

I'm not going to say what I did even though it is basic training for tough cases because I don't want to be called cruel. Had enough of that.

You are going to have to be a real hardnose and very persistent and consistent.

 

[Fudgie]

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LOL, I just laid it out there without care of the cruelty people! I bit a horse once that decided my upper lip was hers to bite. I bit her on the end of her nose hard and she NEVER and I mean NEVER bit anyone again! All I can say is my dogs were never abused, just corrected! Like my momma always told us as kids, you bite your sister you might as well plan on being bitten by ME! and she did! It only took once, and you did not bite again. Same thing as a dog or cat or horse or cow or pig or goat or chicken, we are all animals to a point! Dominance works! You don't HAVE to be cruel just consistent and firm!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

A friend of mine is the kennel technician for an iditarod veteran. He said, ask the iditarod veteren anything about correcting a dog aboud anything and the veteran would respond "Bit 'em on their ear!". I've been assured that they, the veteran and the technician, really use this method of discipline.

 

[redhen]

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I'll have to try it..

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I'll have to try it..

They are both a couple of cards!

I'll be talking to them and one of the dogs will slip the leash and dissapear for a couple of days. I'll hear the owner scowl and say "When he comes back, I'm biting his ear OFF!"

The dogs come back once they've got the running and frolicking out of their system and realize they are hungry. Silly pups.

 

[Felicia]

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If you have any questions, just pm me. I train dogs, and mostly work with problem dogs and dangerously aggressive dogs. Its all positive reinforcement. It can do wonders.

 

[BarkerChickens]

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I did that too a cat once (he had dominance issues). Then, I felt really bad afterwards (and I covered by teeth with my lips so it wouldn't hurt him too much, but I still felt bad).

Personally, DHs method (and now mine) to establish dominance over the dogs, is put them on their back, sit over them (so your legs straddles the dog and his/her back feet are behind your butt). Depending on the dog, we either hold the front legs with our hands or just rest there until they settle down (and submiss). Every time to dogs tries to show dominance, do this and teach him/her whose boss. They hate it, but it has worked with all of our dogs. One of our dogs (60 lbs) had a big dominance problem (but not aggressive at all). It worked great for her and, while she is alpha to the dogs, she knows that DH and I are alpha to her. Once you get this down (or rather the dogs gets it!), YOU go out the door first, not him. Alpha leads. Ours know that "OK" means that they are allowed to run ahead of us (or "go outside" of course), but our front door is off limits unless we go out first.

The rest kind of falls into place!

 

[ShrekDawg]

not sure sorry maybe call Victoria Stillwell (from Animal Planet's It's Me or The Dog) or Ceasar Millan (from National Geographic's Dog Whisperer), both are amazing dog trainers exspecially Ceasar i would reccomend calling them if you can't solve it the shows are great too good luck and I really hope you solve this.

 

[()relics]

Older dogs that have spent most of their life with little or no "correction" are very hard to "reprogram".....I have worked with several and can tell you that you will have your hands full BUT you can do it....I am a no hit trainer, horses,dogs,etc....Yeah, I mostly work with birddogs and Qhorses but have stumbled into the non-hunting dog arena a couple of times. I rescued a Lhasa Apso that was 8. He showed many of the same signs that your dog shows. He came around after many months of constant correction and praise. He also liked the regular feedings. I said I would never hit a dog and I really don't think I want to put a dogs ear in my mouth, apparently some people do, But I do like the ear pinch as a correction cue. Just double the ear and gently pinch it....Don't squeeze it to try to hurt them but just pinch the ear and correct the dog verbally. If he doesn't listen pinch harder until he does...soon you won't have to pinch at all, you will give a command and if the dig doesn't listen begin to reach for its ear...He will respond. After awhile you won't even need to move your hand. Now the biting...This is not a good thing....A dog should never touch you with its mouth....PERIOD....Not mouth you, not bite you, not even open its mouth towards you as a warning....PERIOD... If it insists upon using its mouth to warn you, you need to immediately correct it....If the dog bites hard and is able to injure your hand, get some heavy leather work type gloves. Do somethoing that you know will cause him to bite , then firmly JAM your gloved hand down its throat...WHOA, not really, but you get the idea. Keep your hand in its mouth until it pulls away and tries to release your hand....Give him another chance and see if he NOW wants to bite you after you repeat the "annoying"action....This may go on for awhile but don't let him win...If the dog just nips at you as a warning without trying to bite you. Grab its front paw, which will probably then make him try to bite you, and stick the paw in its mouth and force its jaws closed on its own paw....They will figure out, "I think this person doesn't want my mouth on them" and that will be that...Sounds easy...sometimes it is sometimes it isn't....But you wouldn't want your dog to bite one of your friends that has come to visit...
good luck your dog needs you to train him.