[quote]Spartiates wrote:
My old dog died a couple months ago.
Got a rescue puppy who was about 4 months old at the time. Maybe got him a little too soon: I don’t know. He was very sweet for the first few days, and has been nothing but a royal pain the butt since.
He’s now gone through a six week training, he gets a big exercise at least once a day.
He’s a little over six months, and has stopped teething, so I’m really losing my patience with him biting everything and sticking everything in his mouth.
I’ve had puppies before and they were about a billion times easier. He’s a bully. He bullies guests around, he tries to bully me around. He’s super destructive. He barks all the time. He will be really sweet for about 30 seconds at a time, then decides he has to bite the person unlucky enough to be petting him.
I’m really fed up with this dog, and I really feel terrible about it, but I’m really at the end of my rope with him.
Does anyone have any advice or tricks?
He’s generally fine out in public, but as soon as he gets ‘comfortable’, whether it’s at home, in the care, or at someone else’s house, he becomes pretty mean and destructive
I don’t want to get rid of him, on the otherhand, he’s nothing but a source of stress, and I feel like it’s not fair to be ‘angry’ and ‘resentful’ of your pet, but that’s where I’m getting.
[quote]iVoodoo wrote:
I flip my dogs on their back and grab their throat when they act up.
Obviously I’d never choke out my dog, but once they realize you could end them and choose not to, they’ll be a good dog.[/quote]
This is by far the most ridiculous thing I’ve read in a long time! & on this site, that’s saying something.
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Actually, it isn’t. My dog is a pit mixed with boxer. I do that all of the time. he is a rough dog. I can play rough with him and he knows the difference between that and me trying to reprimand him.
Showing dominance with a dog that can kick your ass is a GOOD IDEA, not a bad one.[/quote]
If you are doing it all of the time, then you are missing the positive reinforcement opportunities most likely. [/quote]
Um…that is positive reinforcement…[/quote]
Lol great point.
[quote]iVoodoo wrote:
I flip my dogs on their back and grab their throat when they act up.
Obviously I’d never choke out my dog, but once they realize you could end them and choose not to, they’ll be a good dog.[/quote]
This is by far the most ridiculous thing I’ve read in a long time! & on this site, that’s saying something.
.[/quote]
Actually, it isn’t. My dog is a pit mixed with boxer. I do that all of the time. he is a rough dog. I can play rough with him and he knows the difference between that and me trying to reprimand him.
Showing dominance with a dog that can kick your ass is a GOOD IDEA, not a bad one.[/quote]
If you are doing it all of the time, then you are missing the positive reinforcement opportunities most likely. [/quote]
Um…that is positive reinforcement…[/quote]
…plus I give him tons of positive reinforcement. He’s a good dog. I tell him so when he does things that I want him to keep doing…like barking when someone is at the door…or NOT turning his water bowl over for the 50th time in 90+degree heat.
