I have previosuly written about our GSD who was barking to play. While laying on the couch, he would come up to the wife and bark at her for attention and because he wanted to play. He does not do this to me, but just to the wife. We had gotten advice to ignore him, and that is what we are doing.
Now the problem.
He has figured out we are ignoring him, but he does not stop barking and now he has resorted to nipping the wife while she is on the couch. Now, he canonot be ignored. She has tried to push him away with her elbows, but he still nips ans barks.
He has also resorted to nipping at her heels and legs when she is walking, and when she tries to correct him by using NO, he will then start to bark at her. He does not do this to me at all. Only her.
I suspect he believes she is lower in pack then him. Any suggestions on what to do next?
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Are you sure the dog doesn't need to poop? Or just hasn't had enough exercise and needs to be taken out? We have tile floors and rugs all over my house, if my dog needs to poop or hasn't had enough exercise, he'll start dragging the rugs around (even the one with the heavy coffee table on it). My solution is to take him outside and play fetch for 10 minutes and let him run off all his energy, then he'll chill out for a while.
yep, we figured that to and he so we take him out and he goes, but then he returns to the nipping when he gets back inside. We exercise him and walk him for two hours daily.
My mum knows exactly how your wife is feeling! I think it is most definitely a pack order issue. My mum is unwilling to participate with training etc, but if your wife's on board IMO she should go through the groundwork at the least with her. Good Luck!
My post for my mum has a lot of good advice from members: Help Please!
I would not put up with this if I were your wife. Instruct her on how to scold the pup for this behaviour. (ie; hand around muzzle with little shake and a "no bite" command, or an actual scruff shake and a "no bite!" command.) Same for barking, if the dog barks (in a bratty way for attention), command quiet etc. and give it some sits/downs. If the dog is wanting attention, make him earn it first.
If you nip this bratty behaviour in the bud now you will all be happier for it (including your pup). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Grabbing the muzzle as a correction rarely works. Most of the time it makes things worse, the dog just wants to come back with another bite. You could also make the dog very leery of it's muzzle being touched in the future.
I'd be tempted to stick a prong and tab leash on this dog when in the house. If it misbehaves then correct to the appropriate level. I've recently recieved this advice from the board regarding a small problem I had which I though may have been dominance/pack related.
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