Hello list. I have this bitch that makes me want to say ooooohhyaaa to the drives and at the same time, she is a little monster to deal with. I don't want to hinder her drives but at age 6mos. is there anything that I can do about her running up the front of me and....lets say...biting my chin? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> When I take her out of the crate she is like a wound tight spring and I love her energy, but I would like to deal with her jumping up and biting my chin without squelching drive. I have begun leash corrections with a flat leather collar only and she is responding to that so I may have stumbled on the solution already. This is my first experience with such a high drive dog and I am both loving and paining it at the same time Her lines come from Congo Vikor, Gent od Policie, Natan Busecker Schloss,Iro z Pohranicni straze, Catja vom Kirchenholz. So I am a firm believer in "be careful what you wish for". I am in GSD heaven
I had this same problem with my pup at about the same age. He's a very high drive working bred Dobe and nothing worked to stop that "in your face" greeting. Claw marks were part of my life at that time. One day when I had tied him to a fence post on the training field. I couldn't even approach him he was jumping at me so wildly. We kept him tied, my training director put a tab on a prong collar and gave it two quick pops when he jumped up on her. Then we put a long line on him, keeping him tied to the fence post. She stepped back, I approached and she popped him when he tried to jump on me. Then we removed the long line, left the tab on, kept him tied and I went back alone a few minutes later. He attempted a half hearted jump, I popped the collar with the tab and he immediately went into a nice sit. From that day on he happily greets me with jumps in the air but doesn't make bodily conctact. I tell him he's wonderful, give him a sit command and pet and praise him.
I forgot to address the charging out of the crate situation. I give him a "wait" command as I begin to open the crate door. If he tries to charge out I simply close the door in his face telling him wait. Doing this enough times actually makes him wait because the game gets old after awhile. The tab is used with a sit command to stop the "jumping in your face" part of his behavior.
BTW, my boy's now 8 mos. old and none of this training has squelched the drive. It actually has contributed to self control and focus during aggitation work. While we're waiting our turn I can softly say "wait, easy" with a couple of light taps on his tab and he'll quiver while watching the other dogs being worked. As the decoy gets closer to us, he barks and carries on. Then when it's his turn, look out. Everything he held in gets released on the decoy!
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Her lines come from Congo Vikor, Gent od Policie, Natan Busecker Schloss,Iro z Pohranicni straze, Catja vom Kirchenholz. So I am a firm believer in "be careful what you wish for". I am in GSD heaven
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