Has anyone ever experienced a dog waking up on the wrong side of the floor?
Seems Harry wakes up moody half the week, and you can just tell he is going to be difficult just by the way he looks at you.
This carries on for the whole day, including bedtime, where he will just state me down. When he is like this, he is put in place for most of the day, as he refuses to nap. The next day he will wake up and be perfectly normal.
When he is moody, I ignore him, and have to be firm, as those are days he tries to get pushy, barky and persistent. Sometimes I think he is just trying to be plain dominant, but he gets quickly corrected with the e collar for that. Example being leashed up or unleashed from the outside tie out. Those days he will posture over my hand, and stiffen his head as I unleash. I say nope, and correct, he backs off, and he gets sent to the kitchen. I do not let him play with toys those days either, as he tends to throw them around, than stand and stare at you.
And we are over run with foxtails. I may have to blowtorch them. I have to pull them off him daily, they don't go farther than the hair, but seriously annoying!

I am not complaining about his attitude by the way, just find it quirky. On his food days, he is wiggly bummed, panting happily with a dopey face, but than the next day, he acts like he has a bee in his bonnet.

His reactivity is gone, no more car freaking out, my timing for that is spot on. The only thing we can't get past is the barking fits around the four wheeler. We don't use it with him anymore. And he is on leash when Jim has to use it, so he doesn't chase it or get out of control. But at least there is no more taking it out on the leash or me, so he has come a long way!
I think he just gets so over stimulated with it, that he just loses his focus. Will have to practice turning it off and on now that fall weather has come here.
Hopefully the cool weather sticks around, as we are getting plenty of nice walks in!

 Quote: Becky Niedbalka

Has anyone ever experienced a dog waking up on the wrong side of the floor?
Seems Harry wakes up moody half the week, and you can just tell he is going to be difficult just by the way he looks at you.
This carries on for the whole day, including bedtime, where he will just state me down. When he is like this, he is put in place for most of the day, as he refuses to nap. The next day he will wake up and be perfectly normal.
When he is moody, I ignore him, and have to be firm, as those are days he tries to get pushy, barky and persistent. Sometimes I think he is just trying to be plain dominant, but he gets quickly corrected with the e collar for that. Example being leashed up or unleashed from the outside tie out. Those days he will posture over my hand, and stiffen his head as I unleash. I say nope, and correct, he backs off, and he gets sent to the kitchen. I do not let him play with toys those days either, as he tends to throw them around, than stand and stare at you.
And we are over run with foxtails. I may have to blowtorch them. I have to pull them off him daily, they don't go farther than the hair, but seriously annoying!

RE: 180-degree Mood swings...

Short Answer: Never had a dog act that way.

Long Answer: ?RAGING CHEMICAL IMBALANCE -- Can dogs be Bi-Polar?

RE: Foxtails (grass awns)...

Only Answer: TORCH 'EM -- They come from the Pit of Hell

I can see an imbalance maybe, he will try to relax, even on good days, but pops right back up again. The place command on the Kuranda bed helps, as he gets really shifty on the floor.
Even when exhausted, his off button is broken lol. But he minds me, so I let him just have quiet alone time, and we do zero interaction, unless it's walk or potty times on his weird days. I still train, but everyone else ignores him. And I keep it short and sweet.
Sometimes, but not all the time, it coincides with off leash yard time. We cut off all off leash time for now, and keep to structure and calm quiet in the house, loose leash heeing in the yard. On walks, mid way he gets off leash time by the river.

Our front and back are foxtail hell, and Jim unknowingly weed whacked them the day before I was going to burn them all to hell. He didn't know the damage they can do to a dog. But still a pain.

Any herbal remedies for a chemical imbalance? Tho he is almost 11 months old, and has plenty of learning to do, and is getting so much better in impulse control, I wouldn't mind giving him something healthy that can settle him down a bit. Vet does not come up til possibly November.
Bach's rescue remedy didn't seem to work at all. On prev groom days, I would add some to his water, and saw no difference. Rather, when I changed the way I handled him, I saw a bigger difference. That and the dd collar. I just ordered 2 new ones, as he outgrew the 13.

I am super happy with him, and he is great company for me, and a gentle giant with the kids. Everything with him is supervised, so he never bothers them, and they can play with him just observing, in a down. I watch his body language, and don't allow heavy staring. Staying on the ball is a lot of work, but I can see the difference in him everyday.

Just re reading, maybe he just is sore from hard running, and that's why he could be finicky. He is like a horse in the yard, galloping and racing around in the foxtail free areas. I check him for the dang things before we go in, which he happily lays down for on the deck.

Or maybe I am the imbalanced one, lol!

 Quote: Becky Niedbalka

I am not complaining about his attitude by the way, just find it quirky. On his food days, he is wiggly bummed, panting happily with a dopey face, but than the next day, he acts like he has a bee in his bonnet.

"On his food days. . ." ???

I'm sure that's a typo, and it's supposed to be, "On his good days. . ." But then again, if he only gets food on certain days, I can understand him being grumpy on the other days.

Lol, damn phone auto corrects real words, but never spell checks.. good days Lol!

Still can't get used to a touch screen! My mind is faster than my typing!

He eats better than I lol. Shipped from Ontario! Less than half the cost than it would be from Winnipeg!

Today was a good day.

On Friday afternoon, after a 2 hour walk, I took him on a slow walk with the four wheeler.
Stopping when he barked, and correcting him for focusing on the tires, we managed a 20 min slow walk in first gear.
Than Saturday, Sunday and Monday, he regressed. He stole a ball Saturday, so when he was put in a down, and the ball was put away, this was outside, he released himself. He refused to down again, so as I put pressure on the leash and pushed his shoulders down, he turned his head and snapped. He was on the dd collar, so I lifted.
Sunday he had a drama fit going into place, so stayed on place for the whole morning.
Also, Friday we had a van towed, and he had a growling barking fit on the vehicle and the people. I did not k ow they were coming that afternoon or he would have been put away. It is what it is, I firmly said no, and put him away, him struggling the entire time to look back at them.
The vet had told me when he was getting fixed that he was going to be a handful, as he was grinding his teeth the whole time we were in there and choking himself on his collar.
Any thoughts. Do you think the four wheeler caused his regression? It would be a pity, as skidoo season is coming. We cannot put him into a trailer or the skidoo bogan, as he will flip out the entire time, even with me sitting in there with him.
We managed the jeep training, but once we hit the highway, he gets set off again, and has to be put into a down so he cannot see out the windows. We tried the crate, in the jeep, he tipped it flipping out.

Better in most ways, still a struggle in some. I refuse to even attempt biking with him.
Once again, I know I am all over the place here. I put in a request for a Skype session with Jeff Gellman, of Solid K9 Training, to see what he has to offer.

Just seems stupid how I say how great he was doing, and how glad I was I hadn't been clawed in a month, and now I have scratches down my torso. I was totally unprepared. I feel now, his grumpy behaviour was possibly him still being dominant.
If so, how do I change my entire routine to accomplish the kind of training he needs. Does anyone have a strict step by step I can adhere to daily?
Some days dogs can make you feel like such a failure.

 Quote: Becky Niedbalka

On Friday afternoon, after a 2 hour walk, I took him on a slow walk with the four wheeler.
Stopping when he barked, and correcting him for focusing on the tires, we managed a 20 min slow walk in first gear.
Than Saturday, Sunday and Monday, he regressed. He stole a ball Saturday, so when he was put in a down, and the ball was put away, this was outside, he released himself. He refused to down again, so as I put pressure on the leash and pushed his shoulders down, he turned his head and snapped. He was on the dd collar, so I lifted.
Sunday he had a drama fit going into place, so stayed on place for the whole morning.
Also, Friday we had a van towed, and he had a growling barking fit on the vehicle and the people. I did not k ow they were coming that afternoon or he would have been put away. It is what it is, I firmly said no, and put him away, him struggling the entire time to look back at them.
The vet had told me when he was getting fixed that he was going to be a handful, as he was grinding his teeth the whole time we were in there and choking himself on his collar.
Any thoughts. Do you think the four wheeler caused his regression? It would be a pity, as skidoo season is coming. We cannot put him into a trailer or the skidoo bogan, as he will flip out the entire time, even with me sitting in there with him.
We managed the jeep training, but once we hit the highway, he gets set off again, and has to be put into a down so he cannot see out the windows. We tried the crate, in the jeep, he tipped it flipping out.

Better in most ways, still a struggle in some. I refuse to even attempt biking with him.
Once again, I know I am all over the place here. I put in a request for a Skype session with Jeff Gellman, of Solid K9 Training, to see what he has to offer.

Just seems stupid how I say how great he was doing, and how glad I was I hadn't been clawed in a month, and now I have scratches down my torso. I was totally unprepared. I feel now, his grumpy behaviour was possibly him still being dominant.
If so, how do I change my entire routine to accomplish the kind of training he needs. Does anyone have a strict step by step I can adhere to daily?
Some days dogs can make you feel like such a failure.

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Bumping this also!

Hopefully Jeff Gellman can get a handle on this situation.

If not then this dog may be to much for you to handle.

According to Jeff, I am not punishing strong enough, or being strict or firm enough. Shut the heart off and basically man up and take control.
So we muzzled up, popped the prong on, and for 15 min of the beginning of the walk, with all the rolling, and nonsense, as Jeff calls it, we kept walking, literally dragging him, and than it just clicked. He was great for the rest of the almost 2 hour walk.
I only have had a quick fb messenger chat with Jeff, so no schedule. But obviously I just don't stand firm enough, and vocalize too much instead of just enough, let's go.