I have a 17 month old rottie. I have trained him in basic dog obedience according to the basic dog obedience video. He performs all of the commands with no problems except for the occasional correction. He has never challenged me while doing obedience or at any time. Here in the last week or so,Ive noticed while he is laying down if I go to pet him he growls at me.He has never done this before. This evening I was petting him while he was laying down and he growled at me then snapped at me almost getting me in the face. He had his prong collar on and a leash. As soon as he did this I corrected him with a level 10 correction and then he growled me again so I corrected him again then he stopped. Is this aggression or him trying to show dominance. Thanks
More information would be helpful. I wouldn't necessarily think dominance if this is the first incident you have ever had with him. I'd think possibly pain or feeling threatened and acting defensive or being stressed by other factors in his environment (example....a dog that fears thunder acts out as a thunder storm approaches and he feels cornered) and so on and so on...
In referencece to the questions, He has not growled or snapped at me before. He lives with 3 other dogs he does growl and snap at the occasionally.The prong collar was on him at he time because I just got done doing training with him and was leaving it on him for awhile until I took it off. As far as medical issues he just went to the vet two days ago for a checkup and the vet said he was very healthy and the bloodwork showed no abnormalties. Thank You. Thomas Miller
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Thomas, Has he been checked for hip displaysia? There was another person on here who had a dog show sudden agressive tendencies. It turned out he had HD and was experiencing pain that they didn't know about. Rotties get this fairly often. I would suggest getting him x-rayed if you haven't yet done that just to be sure.
I agree, if you just got done training him his bad hips could be acting up. Were his parents hip cleared? (Even if they were, I might still suspect HD).
Is he neutered?
17 months is about the time they start "feeling their oats" and climbing the ladder so to speak. Has he been challenging the other dogs?
He has been x-rayed for hip diplasia. He had a penn hip test done. He recieved a .65DI on his left and a .62DI on his right.
From what I understand he needed to be more towards .30DI.70% of all the other rotties in the group had tighter hips than he does.
In other words he shows signs of hip displasia. After his test about a 6 months later I had him neutered.As far as his hips giving him problems it doesnt seem to cause pain and he doesnt have no problem getting around but I do believe they do hide pain better than we do. Thank You. Thomas
I do believe they do hide pain better than we do. Thank You. Thomas
That's a definite YES. Molly is lab/pitbull. Recently I took her to the vet for a skin infection and the vet found a badly infected ear. All my previous dogs would have been digging, rubbing and acting all out of sorts with such a bad ear infection. I didn't even know she had it until I took her in for the skin problem. Rotties, pitbulls, amstafs and similar breeds tend to have a very high tolerance for pain.
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