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Old July 19th 04, 05:13 AM
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I have a six-year-old neutered Doberman. We keep him inside. When we

leave
the house, we keep him in a kennel in our bedroom. When we go on

vacations,
we have a pet sitter (that is her full time job) come-by the house to let
him out to the yard, feed him etc. We have had the same pet sitter for

his
entire life. A couple of months ago our dog acted aggressively when the
sitter came to let him out of his kennel immediately after the pet sitter
let him, our dog bit her. Although the bite was not serious, it rattled

her
enough that she has informed us that she will no longer sit our dog.

After our sitter quit, my wife and I had the idea that we might enlist our
babysitter to both house sit and dog sit when we are gone. Our dog is
usually out when she sits and she is comfortable being around our dog. We
are now concerned that Plan B will not work. On Friday, our babysitter

was
bringing our children home from school and attempted to let our dog out of
his kennel. Our dog acted aggressively and she left the room and returned
with our dogs favorite treat but he still acted aggressively. Ultimately,
she had our 6-year-old child let the dog out. Our dog acted fine after
being released from his kennel but we are concerned about her being able

to
release him from his kennel without a family member present to help.

Any ideas on how to correct his behaviour? I had an idea to get another
kennel to keep him in during vacations and to keep him in another room (my
thought was that he might not be as territorial about another kennel in
another room). Kenneling him outside of our home does not work very well,
we have done it on two occasions and apparently our dog barked the ENTIRE
TIME WE WERE GONE.



Two things:

1) Get the dog medically checked. We had a very tame and slightly timid dog
go unexplainably aggressive over the course of a few months. I ended up
taking him to 3 different vets with no help of any kind coming from it. He
died. He had a growth on the brain which the vert said could have been there
at birth but because he was growing, it had room to expand without hurting
the dog as a pup. When his skull became rigid around 2.5 years old, that is
when the aggression started. It started with aggression to our other dog,
one he used to share the same bone with at the same time. Worth getting the
dog checked in case there is something medically wrong that you cant
immediately see.

2) If nothing medically wrong in the end, with a big sized male as that
breed is when fully grown, you need a strong and imposing human when the dog
becomes like this. I don't mean that the human becomes aggressive but that
the human shows no fear and will, as I have had to do before, get down face
to face with the dog and growl at it. At one stage I even quickly flipped a
big male on his back and then held his throat skin in my mouth and GROWLED
pulling at the skin a little with my teeth while holding his body with my
hands until he stopped growling. That got the point across well with this
male who was constantly trying to counter my authority over him. At no time
was the male I had ever physically hurt but you have to realise with a big
male that you can lose him and possibly it can kill someone else if it
becomes aggressive and you need to take control of it NOW with no room for
movement. I am not a big and strong male but I am agile and strong enough to
do what I have described. After that event, I pointedly ignored the dog for
a day while he pleaded for attention and then I talked to him etc. After a
few weeks, all was back to normal and no aggression ever again.

Don't ever let a dog try to rule the roost because if it takes it into it's
head that a 6 year old child is a threat, can you live with the
consequences?

I have only females at the moment and the younger one occasionally plays
dominance games on the older one who has never cared one way or the other
about that but gets upset when the younger gets too rough. As the elder is
12 and I don't want her hurt in any way, I make sure that they know I am the
boss and I consider the elder the next. The younger is getting the idea
straight now but the point of this is that with two females who don't get
along, it seems a heck of a lot easier, in most instances, to keep them from
hurting each other than it does with two males when they are that sized dog.


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Old July 19th 04, 12:01 PM
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ALthough the problem sounds behavioral, please do take him in to the vet for
some tests. Low level pain can sometimes make dogs grumpy, and there have
also been instances of other health issues impacting aggression, like lyme
disease.


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Old July 19th 04, 12:01 PM
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ALthough the problem sounds behavioral, please do take him in to the vet for
some tests. Low level pain can sometimes make dogs grumpy, and there have
also been instances of other health issues impacting aggression, like lyme
disease.


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Old July 19th 04, 12:01 PM
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ALthough the problem sounds behavioral, please do take him in to the vet for
some tests. Low level pain can sometimes make dogs grumpy, and there have
also been instances of other health issues impacting aggression, like lyme
disease.


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Old July 19th 04, 12:01 PM
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ALthough the problem sounds behavioral, please do take him in to the vet for
some tests. Low level pain can sometimes make dogs grumpy, and there have
also been instances of other health issues impacting aggression, like lyme
disease.


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Old July 19th 04, 12:01 PM
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ALthough the problem sounds behavioral, please do take him in to the vet for
some tests. Low level pain can sometimes make dogs grumpy, and there have
also been instances of other health issues impacting aggression, like lyme
disease.


  #27  
Old July 19th 04, 01:35 PM
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"Trey Thrasher" wrote in message ink.net...
I have a six-year-old neutered Doberman. We keep him inside. When we leave
the house, we keep him in a kennel in our bedroom. When we go on vacations,
we have a pet sitter (that is her full time job) come-by the house to let
him out to the yard, feed him etc.


So you get this wonderful healthy big dog and whenever you go out he
get's shoved in a crate, if you go on holiday it's crate time again
except for a poo and eat now and then. Don't you even take him out
on walks and so on?

We have had the same pet sitter for his
entire life. A couple of months ago our dog acted aggressively when the
sitter came to let him out of his kennel immediately after the pet sitter
let him, our dog bit her. Although the bite was not serious, it rattled her
enough that she has informed us that she will no longer sit our dog.


And you're surprised? If he's had six years of that then i'm
surprised it took so long. Why ever did you choose to get a dog?
Have you thought that maybe your lifestyle just isn't right for this?
Maybe you just didn't paint the right picture in your post, but it
doesn't come over too well!

Any ideas on how to correct his behaviour?


Have you tried just being around the dog some more, going for a nice
walk once or twice a day, paying some kindly attention to him whenever
he comes over to have a look at you - that kind of thing. That's
pretty simplistic i know, but if the dog isn't happy, you can try to
cheer up his life a little first.

I had an idea to get another
kennel to keep him in during vacations and to keep him in another room (my
thought was that he might not be as territorial about another kennel in
another room). Kenneling him outside of our home does not work very well,
we have done it on two occasions and apparently our dog barked the ENTIRE
TIME WE WERE GONE.


That's one stressed dog. I don't think you need to think in terms of
tactics to trick the dog, i think it's all much simpler than that.
  #28  
Old July 19th 04, 01:35 PM
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"Trey Thrasher" wrote in message ink.net...
I have a six-year-old neutered Doberman. We keep him inside. When we leave
the house, we keep him in a kennel in our bedroom. When we go on vacations,
we have a pet sitter (that is her full time job) come-by the house to let
him out to the yard, feed him etc.


So you get this wonderful healthy big dog and whenever you go out he
get's shoved in a crate, if you go on holiday it's crate time again
except for a poo and eat now and then. Don't you even take him out
on walks and so on?

We have had the same pet sitter for his
entire life. A couple of months ago our dog acted aggressively when the
sitter came to let him out of his kennel immediately after the pet sitter
let him, our dog bit her. Although the bite was not serious, it rattled her
enough that she has informed us that she will no longer sit our dog.


And you're surprised? If he's had six years of that then i'm
surprised it took so long. Why ever did you choose to get a dog?
Have you thought that maybe your lifestyle just isn't right for this?
Maybe you just didn't paint the right picture in your post, but it
doesn't come over too well!

Any ideas on how to correct his behaviour?


Have you tried just being around the dog some more, going for a nice
walk once or twice a day, paying some kindly attention to him whenever
he comes over to have a look at you - that kind of thing. That's
pretty simplistic i know, but if the dog isn't happy, you can try to
cheer up his life a little first.

I had an idea to get another
kennel to keep him in during vacations and to keep him in another room (my
thought was that he might not be as territorial about another kennel in
another room). Kenneling him outside of our home does not work very well,
we have done it on two occasions and apparently our dog barked the ENTIRE
TIME WE WERE GONE.


That's one stressed dog. I don't think you need to think in terms of
tactics to trick the dog, i think it's all much simpler than that.
  #29  
Old July 19th 04, 01:35 PM
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"Trey Thrasher" wrote in message ink.net...
I have a six-year-old neutered Doberman. We keep him inside. When we leave
the house, we keep him in a kennel in our bedroom. When we go on vacations,
we have a pet sitter (that is her full time job) come-by the house to let
him out to the yard, feed him etc.


So you get this wonderful healthy big dog and whenever you go out he
get's shoved in a crate, if you go on holiday it's crate time again
except for a poo and eat now and then. Don't you even take him out
on walks and so on?

We have had the same pet sitter for his
entire life. A couple of months ago our dog acted aggressively when the
sitter came to let him out of his kennel immediately after the pet sitter
let him, our dog bit her. Although the bite was not serious, it rattled her
enough that she has informed us that she will no longer sit our dog.


And you're surprised? If he's had six years of that then i'm
surprised it took so long. Why ever did you choose to get a dog?
Have you thought that maybe your lifestyle just isn't right for this?
Maybe you just didn't paint the right picture in your post, but it
doesn't come over too well!

Any ideas on how to correct his behaviour?


Have you tried just being around the dog some more, going for a nice
walk once or twice a day, paying some kindly attention to him whenever
he comes over to have a look at you - that kind of thing. That's
pretty simplistic i know, but if the dog isn't happy, you can try to
cheer up his life a little first.

I had an idea to get another
kennel to keep him in during vacations and to keep him in another room (my
thought was that he might not be as territorial about another kennel in
another room). Kenneling him outside of our home does not work very well,
we have done it on two occasions and apparently our dog barked the ENTIRE
TIME WE WERE GONE.


That's one stressed dog. I don't think you need to think in terms of
tactics to trick the dog, i think it's all much simpler than that.
  #30  
Old July 19th 04, 01:35 PM
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"Trey Thrasher" wrote in message ink.net...
I have a six-year-old neutered Doberman. We keep him inside. When we leave
the house, we keep him in a kennel in our bedroom. When we go on vacations,
we have a pet sitter (that is her full time job) come-by the house to let
him out to the yard, feed him etc.


So you get this wonderful healthy big dog and whenever you go out he
get's shoved in a crate, if you go on holiday it's crate time again
except for a poo and eat now and then. Don't you even take him out
on walks and so on?

We have had the same pet sitter for his
entire life. A couple of months ago our dog acted aggressively when the
sitter came to let him out of his kennel immediately after the pet sitter
let him, our dog bit her. Although the bite was not serious, it rattled her
enough that she has informed us that she will no longer sit our dog.


And you're surprised? If he's had six years of that then i'm
surprised it took so long. Why ever did you choose to get a dog?
Have you thought that maybe your lifestyle just isn't right for this?
Maybe you just didn't paint the right picture in your post, but it
doesn't come over too well!

Any ideas on how to correct his behaviour?


Have you tried just being around the dog some more, going for a nice
walk once or twice a day, paying some kindly attention to him whenever
he comes over to have a look at you - that kind of thing. That's
pretty simplistic i know, but if the dog isn't happy, you can try to
cheer up his life a little first.

I had an idea to get another
kennel to keep him in during vacations and to keep him in another room (my
thought was that he might not be as territorial about another kennel in
another room). Kenneling him outside of our home does not work very well,
we have done it on two occasions and apparently our dog barked the ENTIRE
TIME WE WERE GONE.


That's one stressed dog. I don't think you need to think in terms of
tactics to trick the dog, i think it's all much simpler than that.
 




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