I found this on You Tube while searching for info on different methods for training dog reactive/aggressive dogs. The dog I exercise for a friend "Troy" is reactive to other dogs.
In the video you don't see exactly what was done and you can't tell if it was really 5 min of 5 weeks?
Mary Velazquez Webboard User Reg: 12-24-2007
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I once worked with a dog labeled "aggressive" at a shelter. He was labeled too aggressive with other dogs to be adopted and no one would take him out of his cage.He would bark and lunge at every dog he passed and it looked pretty mean but I think it was something hed probably done as a puppy, but now that he was an adult everyone thought he was just bloodthirsty. I put a training collar on him and with one good correction he was magically fixed.
I believe that dog was never aggressive but he had never had a correction in his life, and had definitely not been shown what was wanted of him so the first time someone did he responded pretty well. Turned out to be a good dog.
Im no professional but maybe thats what happened here.
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Quote: Mary Velazquez
I once worked with a dog labeled "aggressive" at a shelter. He was labeled too aggressive with other dogs to be adopted and no one would take him out of his cage.He would bark and lunge at every dog he passed and it looked pretty mean but I think it was something hed probably done as a puppy, but now that he was an adult everyone thought he was just bloodthirsty. I put a training collar on him and with one good correction he was magically fixed.
I believe that dog was never aggressive but he had never had a correction in his life, and had definitely not been shown what was wanted of him so the first time someone did he responded pretty well. Turned out to be a good dog.
Im no professional but maybe thats what happened here.
My first thoughts exactly! One of the first training collars I was taught to use was a prong collar for my overly aggressive dog. He got into check rather quickly as he'd never been corrected with a bit of pain involved. Eventually we had to move to a dominate collar which only stopped the aggression at the moment in time. Needless to say, he truly has aggression and we had to move to training to release the aggression. If I would have thought he was magically 'cured' like the video suggests, I would have been in a world of trouble with my dog and a guaranteed lawsuit.
I think it's doing a disservice to label this dog "aggressive", when no training had been taken into consideration. Because truly aggressive dogs, IMO, it can never be trained out of them, only managed. Which is the case with my lab (yes, a lab).
Flooding can backfire in a big bad permanent way. Flooding IMO should be left to the best of the best in the dog-behavior world (not me), and even then wouldn't be my choice. JMO!
I didn't think it was possible but was curious about the flooding and I did think the 5 minute fix was comical, just think you could have all aggressive dogs in the world fixed in no time.
I have already switched to a harness with Troy two weeks ago because of that and didn't want him to associate corrections mainly self corrections every time he sees another dog.
Besides the exercise I will be setting up some desensitizing once I figure out Troys threshold distance.
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