jessica ginter Webboard User Reg: 02-04-2015
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Hey all I guess I should introduce myself. I live in Romania an american did vet school here. Have endurance horses and of course train and own dogs. I have had gsd's for it seems like ever have competedin sch and IPO . I now also have mals . OK long story sorry to get to the point. My male mal died about four months ago he was ...oh my god... So I looked around for another . after talking to a friend I found a six month old female. High drive loves to work...etc that is what this guy said. Well we go to pick her up. Bring her home and she is totally a different dog. She is scared of everything . she doesn't want to play nothing. My question she has changed a lot since then but could the stress of moving have caused such a huge temperament change ??? Has anyone else experienced this ???
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She is doing incredible. Loves life loves to play retrieves anything and everything is curious . its like a totally different dog. She still is not a friendly with strangers dog but she will go up to them and say hello then she ignores them. But all this took two months . would this be considers a dog with bad nerve??? Is this more or less a mal thing ??? My male did the same thing but not so drastic .just was very aloof .
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I would say it might be that she was not the most confident dog, could also have been a lack of proper socialization/exposure when younger and she also could have been going through something of a fear period at that age. If she had bad nerve, I would say that it would still be showing in a lot of behaviors. People with more experience than I should be able to speak better to that though
I can't speak for the breed as a whole but a lot of what you describe fits the experience we had with our female Mal, Bailey. She was a holy terror at that age. Lots of fear aggression to both people and especially other dogs. With at least people now she is friendly but aloof, which is exactly how I like it. She will go and check them out, maybe allow a single pat, then comes back to my side. I believe that is a characteristic of Mals, their aloofness. With us, her family, it's a different story. Very affectionate and loving. Other dogs, she's still nervous but able to stay under control with us at the helm, a vast improvement that I think comes with age and maturity since she is now 6 years old. I think you'll find a lot of the crazy behavior will be with her for her entire life, because she's a Mal, but the edge wears off with age and she eventually mellows out quite a bit. Not sure I ever want to go through puppyhood again with another Malinois.
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Thanks for the replies . I really love the breed they give there all and then some. It is just such a turn around I was blown away. We did the pack structure exersises and lots of excersise lots of going on walks no pressure. Then about two weeks ago I said I need to get some basic ground work started for BH so we did two to three sessions of marker training per day and she just thrived . I also started the raw diet. I still have to do a lot more outings down town but I am just amazed at the radical change. From scared of everything to curio use happy and inquisitive .
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Another question she now goes everywhere with me . but is fine not showing fear. Would that still be qualified as environmentally unsound?? I asked the breeded later and he said he had not taken her anywhere the whole time he had her. So at six months she actually began to be socialized. Supposedly she was no allowed to interact with people till then also and was encouraged to be a guard dog.
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Thanks for the advice. We are having fun socializing and she seems to be getting even more curious so hopefully we are on the correct path. I am so glad she is enjoying herself because she is a very happy dog and it was hard to see her so stressed but she thinks things through and then figures it out for herself and then its OK no more problem and maybe even decides that we need to play.
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