In late August I took in a 2.5 year old GSD. he is my third dog-I always like a challenge- I also have two large mix breed dogs that are about a year old. The dogs have settled on their order and that went well-no blood! Now that I have had this dog for about 3 months he has started to become animal aggressive with the neighbors dogs across the street. I do have an electric fence which he settled into very nicely and will not even go near normally. The other day the kids and my husband were out back and the dog went around front and ran across the street to take on a schnoodle (fixed female) which was on a leash. Not ot say he has not been over here before. I was also told by a neighbor that he went after one of thier two goldens(fixed male) a few weeks back. noone mentioned it to me until they saw me at halloween.He has met other dogs in the neighborhood without a problem. I am trying a stronger electric fence collar to see if that helps to keep him on his side. I have not seen him go anywhere near the fence he sits and waits for the kids to be done playing on the street. I also have been working with him on obeidience he does very well if he is on a lead but does poorly offlead on the recall or when another of my dogs is around. He has not left the yard for about a week and we only know of 3 times that he ever left the yard

This dog can be very submissive and when yelled at or choked for getting into the trash has been known to urinate. He is very good with the kids and does not show any other type of aggression unless you give him canned food-this is no longer practiced in this house. Dry food can be taken away from him and he can be called away from it canned food he will snarrle and growl I am not going to take the chance...Treats and toys he does not get aggressive over however he does try to run to keep it going around you. He does suffer from seperation anxiety which is getting much better at least the house is a lot quieter when we leave.

We have had other dominant aggressive dogs in this house in the past some have gotten to stay others have found new homes. IF you can think of something else for me to try plese let me know and how can I test him to see if he is going to be aggressive to another dog? Are there signs I should watch for besides posture? Is there a way to tell before I try to socialize him? I was thinking of obiedience class just so he would be around other dogs not on a social level just a see they are there and they will be okay sort of saying.

Thank you for your time I am keeping him under a watchful eye.

Diane

I think this dog needs to be dragging a leash inside the house to make corrections if need be and kept on leash when outside and strong willed big dog can willed itsekf through the pain of being shocked by a electro fence, if they really want on the other side.

I don't think it should be off leash until its off leash Ob is better. Some big dogs even though their off leash OB is good still should always be on a leash, just because PS. Just my opinion you know everybody got one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />