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You are wrong. Our Lab would lick it off my daughter's chest when she had a cold. There's an issue here more serious than just biting on a leash. Good luck John.
...I doused it with a bottle of some 1 million scoville unit hot sauce, he just kept chewing.
Quinn once found a 3 oz can of pepperspray that I keep in the car for various reasons. Mark 4, the stuff the LEO use. He had punctured it in, no joke, 15 places. He just kept chewing away. He had drooled all over the car and I couldn't sit in it for a week after the car detail company came by to work on it. He just had a big grin on his face.
I can understand using Bitter Apple, Listerine, or any of the other various home remodies for a mouthy pup, but we are talking about an agressive dog that is ATTACKING a leash. It could just as easily be any human body part he is able to grab. Very few dog owners have ever seen or know that this serious and dangerous type of behavior exists. Vapor Rub or something else will do nothing and leash chewing is not even the issue here. It is a respect thing and a serious one at that.
We have a dog a the club the LOVES his handler, but sees her as a littermate and nowhere near in control. A correction from her can and often does lead to serious bites. Bitter Apple wiould do nothing.
I never suggested bitter apple. And for bites on the handler, no I wouldn't suggest dousing oneself in Vaporub. For the leash, yes. My malinois has had moments of displaced aggression and gone for my arm, for that he gets a collar correction that knocks that idea right out of his head.
As for your club member, who in their right mind often takes serious bites from their dog?
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You are wrong. Our Lab would lick it off my daughter's chest when she had a cold. There's an issue here more serious than just biting on a leash. Good luck John.
Yes. I know it's easy to get a little O.T.; I do it all the time. But it would be good if we could drop the VapoRub sub-topic.
I sure do agree with Al and Howard and others about sending my dog away to be trained without me (for anything; if I can't do it myself and need help, I will still be right there), but I hope it works out, John.
I'll take the answer to PMs, but it needs to be said that we are talking about a whole 'nother type of dog here.
This dog needs to learn about respect, and the leash biting is nothing more than the outlet this dog displays. There are worse outlets. Remove the leash attacking and you only remove that outlet, it will resurface somewhere else. Damming the river only works until the river finds another way.
John, I hope it works. It is not the choice that most would make, and not the choise I would make (I feel that it needs to be dealt with at home) but I can respect that you made your choice. I am curios who you sent you sent him to...
Edited by JessicaKromer (10/05/2009 09:46 PM)
Edit reason: Oops, sorry Connie, I took a break for dinner. But I'll let my post stand... :)
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