I have a soon to be 3yo male neutered GSD who is extremely animal agressive. Has attacked neighbors 3 dogs. Goes after the cows, birds, rabbits. If it is an animal he's after it. A local dog trainer told me he could correct this in 3 days. Anyone have similar experiences or info. about trainer success in correction. I would love to get another GSD to be with him. He's great with people but hates animals.

Pam,
I may be lone here, but I doubt it, if I had a trainer tell me he could fix sever animal agression in three days, I'd probably say 'ah yeah, see ya later'.

So your dog is dog aggressive. Is it territorial? Or flatout fight.

Is the aggresion on the other animals prey driven?

What ever, I'd look for some other trainer to deal with your problem.

If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy

my gut instinct is that he cannot help Maeson. I bought a protection trained shepherd from him 20 yrs ago and he was a great dog, over the years I lost contact with the trainer. Maeson left our property and went to the neighbors farm, a friend seperated him from their cattle dog, he had their small housedog in his mouth, did not bite down but swung his head several times and threw the dog, chased the 3rd dog back to their front porch. By the time I got to him all was done. The man that tried to seperate them said he made no advances toward him, but was determined to get to those dogs.

I have a Cane Corso that was very prey driven, no confidence and would try to hurt other animals and children who screeched. This is what he was like when we first rescued him from the shelter. Now after working with him and exercising him he has learned to avoid his triggers by looking to me first. I am always aware of everything he does and correct him for the littlest thing. You just have to work with him and find what interests them. Interests them by meaning making them mentally tired. Now I am not saying that he still doesn't isn't prey driven and he gets prey excited like most prey driven dogs, but he has learned to respect what I ask of him. Commanding him to avoid the distraction before it starts, which makes him in that excited frenzy state. Also I kennel him if he is not being worked with. Less chances of him messing up and more chances of him succeeding. Also one last thing they must respect you before you ask them to avoid things, or they won't.
I would also get another trainer's opinions that specialize in animal behaviour. If he is attacking other dogs in the neighborhood it sounds like he has no property boundries and that is dangerous. People can be easily bitten trying to break up dog fights, not a lot of people know Ed's way of breaking up fights. Besides you do not want an animal control officer knocking on your door telling you your dog has attacked or killed too many neighborhood animals and he is going to be put down.
Please do not get another one until he is under control. It will be called a pack when it is 2 or more. They will both do it, it is learned behaviour. You do not want that on your shoulders.
It will be better if you train him yourself. Have the confidence and it will be a better bond between you and your dog.
Good Luck! Tammy

Pam,
Is this new? Or something that has been on going for awhile and he just happened to get away that one time?

If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy

 Quote: pam gibson

I have a soon to be 3yo male neutered GSD who is extremely animal agressive. Has attacked neighbors 3 dogs. I would love to get another GSD to be with him. He's great with people but hates animals.

Perhaps it's only me, but if I had a dog that attacked other dogs as yours does, I would not be considering bringing another dog into the mix.

You have a lot of work ahead of you to manage and correct this problem as much as you can. Focus on that, rather than bringing in another dog<g>.

leih

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Has attacked neighbors 3 dogs.

Is he outside without a leash? How is the dog's life managed? Is he loose outdoors with no containment? Or did the three dogs he attacked come onto your property? How were the attacks triggered?

Also, I would not consider adding a second dog to the mix at this time either.

 Quote: pam gibson

I have a soon to be 3yo male neutered GSD who is extremely animal agressive.

Are you neutering in hopes to decrease the aggression? There are several articles here that talk about that.

 Quote: pam gibson

Has attacked neighbors 3 dogs. Goes after the cows, birds, rabbits. If it is an animal he's after it.

I have the same questions as the others have already posted.

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A local dog trainer told me he could correct this in 3 days. Anyone have similar experiences or info. about trainer success in correction.

Did this trainer explain the methods he/she is looking at using? 3 days.....I would put money on it that an e-collar will be involved.

 Quote: pam gibson

I would love to get another GSD to be with him. He's great with people but hates animals.

This, unfortunately, should be the furthest thing from your mind right now. There are serious issues that you need to address and see if you can get a handle on before trying to introduce another dog. That would probably only add to your issues.

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I would love to get another GSD to be with him. He's great with people but hates animals.

I have to agree with Carol. I think the statement there speaks for itself.

I would love to get another dog to be with him. Obviously that is not going to happen unless I feel completely satisfied that he would not hurt another animal. We live on a 13 acre farm. The 2 acre yard is totally fenced with driveway gate and gates to pasture in place. He makes no attempt to get out of the yard. We have cows and he will run the fence line with them but they now realize he cannot get to them. He is secured so he cannot get to the neighbors dogs now and they now make no attempt to come near our property. He has been this way since I brought him home at 7 weeks. There were no other animals for me to socialize him with at that time as we were in rental house as our farmhouse was being built. My gut tells me the trainer is not going to make any headway in 3 days and no he did not tell me his technique. I guess is that I will settle for a one dog family.