The redirection doesn't seem to work. When he is fired up, I will TRY to redirect him towards a toy and he just keeps going at my hands. I don't think it is an aggressive issue, rather I think he just has a REALLY strong prey drive. He is a little over 5 months and I can't imagine why he is still biting us. If I get very firm, it just seems to fire him up as well.
So for now, the alternative is for me to put him in the crate or put him on the tie-out in the garage.
He constantly jumps on us and when we pinch his toes, he just gets more fired up and jumps AT us but not on us...all the while nipping at us. He is pretty aggressive with toys but will drop them, especially for food. Like I said, I do believe at this point it is a strong prey drive but why did WE have to get a pup from the pound with so much drive!?!?!??!? LOL
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If your dog isn't responding to a correction for bad behavior, you're simply not giving him a strong enough correction
This is SO true, and it only took me 6 months to figure it out on my own. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Once I figured out that I wasn't correcting my dog hard enough for her to perceive it as a correction, then everything went smooth as silk!
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Redirection is a popular concept with the no-force/ positive trainers, the only problem with it being that I almost never see that it works with any dogs in training. In fact, I see the redirection training concept fail so often that I suspect that the canine brain is lacking the hard-wiring for the concept of "redirection" to work with them.
I agree 100% but it is almost impossible to correct him when he has the leash in his mouth! Also, he would also need to wear the prong the majority of the time being out of the crate. On most days it's about 9-10:30pm when he becomes a werewolf....sometimes I wonder if he is right in the head the way he acts.
For instance, yesterday he was out of the crate alot all day and had quite a bit of excercise (especially for a 5 month old pup) but still, at about 9:30pm he starts running around like a chicken with his head cut off. It's hard to explain but he looks like a little psycho when he does this and no matter how much I try to control him, the only option is for him to go in the crate to calm down.
Did you get my PM? I would love to hear your answers to the questions I had.
In the end, we just want to be good dog owners with a good dog. In other words, we are TRYING to do the right thing...but sometimes we don't know what the right thing is. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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