Gabrielle Meyer Webboard User Reg: 12-12-2008
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Ok a couple questions. I've started to notice while working with my dog that when he misbehaves and I got to correct him he seems to act out more. Generally hes a softer dog that doesn't need hard corrections but of late its been taking harder corrections to stop his misbehaving. Hes starting to growl and snap at me and my boyfriend when were out walking him and he gets corrected for either growling or lounging at other dogs. Is this re directed aggression or? Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
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Ok a couple questions. I've started to notice while working with my dog that when he misbehaves and I got to correct him he seems to act out more. Generally hes a softer dog that doesn't need hard corrections but of late its been taking harder corrections to stop his misbehaving. Hes starting to growl and snap at me and my boyfriend when were out walking him and he gets corrected for either growling or lounging at other dogs. Is this re directed aggression or? Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
More info.
Exactly what happens, at what distance from the other dog, what do you do first, etc.?
Gabrielle Meyer Webboard User Reg: 12-12-2008
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Generally he starts reacting to the other dog right when he first sees it. When I see the other dog and he starts reacting going stiff I turn and start to walk in the other direction. This use to be enough to break his focus on the other dog and we'd continue on our walk. Now he turns around and continues trying to get the other dog. When he goes to turn around and lunge at the other dog I pull the leash to correct him with his prong collar and this is the point where he generally turns to growl or snap at me or my boyfriend, whichever is walking him. I tried using softer or harder corrections with the same result with the harder corrections getting a more aggressive response. His other misbehaving is his growling at our other dogs and people.
Gabrielle,
I have a question, I don't know if it at all relevant, but how old is this dog, and how long have you had him/her? How many other dogs do you have? I'd kinda like to know the breed of your dog too. What is the living situation enre to the dogs together and the family, etc.
Mostly I'd like more background and everyday stuff. It doesn't sound like this is anything new, just something you decided is a problem that isn't getting any better. Back ground please.
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It sounds like you're correcting the dog WAY too late. Once he's already in a reactive frenzy, the prong collar corrections could be enough to push him over the edge. Ideally you find a way other than corrections to deal with this. This thread had some good discussion about handling a reactive dog. Maybe you will find some helpful information there.
Gabrielle Meyer Webboard User Reg: 12-12-2008
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Hes approximately 16 months old, I got him when he was 10 months old from a rescue, hes an argentina dogo. We have two other dogs a 3 year old female border collie mix and a 9 year old male argentina dogo. All are fixed. He ignores our other dogo but doesn't get along with our border collie so they are kept seperated.
Gabrielle Meyer Webboard User Reg: 12-12-2008
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People who come to visit or who walk bye us on our walks. He'll growl at them when they walk bye him be it in the house or out walking.He doesn't lunge or try to bite them just growls and avoids them.So now when people are going to come over he is put in his crate or out in his kennel. He'll also growl at our border collie mix and lunges at her. We now keep them seperated. He avoid our other male dogo.
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