[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Mah pup is getting better and better at walking everyday.
It is pretty bad ass.
He is pretty smart so he started adopting Alpha behaviors when we lacked. The first book we read said not to dominate rescue dogs, and only give them affection for the first month. That book is fucking retarded. The dog whisperer book is working much better. He is relaxing much more (he trusts us very good anyway), and starting to seem happier.
He still has a few things to learn, but he is coming around.[/quote]
Does he still have food aggression? I’m glad he’s working out and you decided to stick with him. He just needed a good home, good people, and some structure and routine to his life.[/quote]
He gets mouthy with my wife the more time I spend with him about the food. But he really isn’t scary once you get to know him.
(But if he starts growling and barking when he is playing and you don’t know him, most rational people will fear him. He really looks like a bully bread when he is playing, and the growl sounds viscous.)
He would never bite her, but the more time I spend and the stricter I get, the less he sees her as an alpha. He loves her, but he is my buddy. He doesn’t even look at me twice when I feed him, but then again I don’t fuck with him. I respect his space like I expect him to respect mine, but he has to listen to me while I feed him.
The long walk today put him out like a light.
He responds well to discipline and structure. It is weird. It was so hard for me to act this way at first. I felt like I was being mean. Seeing how he is behaving and seems 100% more relaxed with my yelling at him all night, I’m going to keep doing it.
We walk when I say walk, we stop when I say stop, he eats when I say eat, he shits when I say shit, he sits when he is being an asshole, etc… It is really hard for me, but it seems to be working.[/quote]
I bet it would be hard to try and be the alpha dog, so to speak, when you’re not used to it. As long as he’s progressing in a good way, definitely keep at it. How old is he again?
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The vet says 18 months, I would be surprised if he is over 8… very much still a pup[/quote]
Do you have any more pix of him?



