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"Trey Thrasher" wrote in message nk.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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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