James b asked:
How do i stop my 4 years old rescue centre dog from attacking other dogs and motorbikes. At present he has to stay on a lead and i want him well behaved so i can let him off.
How do i stop my 4 years old rescue centre dog from attacking other dogs and motorbikes. At present he has to stay on a lead and i want him well behaved so i can let him off.
call the dog whisperer
Sometimes these dogs are so damaged mentally that they never completely adjust even though they can still be wonderful pets.
Call Maury Povitch.
dont bring him near other dogs
Training! Not just for the dog, but the handler also.
have you tried taking your dog to obedience lessons,
even the best of dogs can be tamed sometimes you just need a little help
have a look in the yellow pages or google it
Sounds like you need to spend some time training your pet!!!!
training school
Take him to obedience classes at petsmart.
you say he was a rescue dog. You will never know fully why he behaves this way because you dont know why these things upset him. I woulld suggest you dont let him off the lead but buy one of those extending leads instead so you can give him the feeling of freedom but also still have control to a certain extent.
what you do is get a choke chain(it’s not abuse unless you strangle your dog with it) and a leather leash(this will keep your hands from getting too many blisters). now take him outside. and if he starts to bark or go after something, pull your chain for 1 split second and FIRMLY tell him no. then if he stops, give him a treat. this will help magerly. as long as you do it constantly. and in time, he will be well behaved.
Sounds like he needs lessons, although if he is attacking other dogs, I would try for some private lessons……..
I’d have him muzzled too
Watch the Dog Whisperer, Ceaser Milan on the Discover Channel. You may need to get a professional dog trainer.
watch dog whisperer
Your dog is not well socialised with other dogs. He can learn how to behave himself, and eventually to be friendly and play like a normal dog – depending on his breed. Some breeds are harder than others.
Dog training classes are the only way to tackle this problem. He needs to be around other dogs. And it will teach you how to handle and contrl him. Mention the problem with motorbikes to the trainer. Hopefully they’ll know people who have bikes that can drive around near your dog, then get off the bike, take off their helmet and feed him.
He needs to be trained and go to a vet for any advice.
if he attracts other dogs only when they come on your property,then he is protecting your place. We have a neighbor dog that comes over here and plays with my dog in early morning hours,but if my dog goes on his property the dog will get in a fight with my dog. Their is not much you can do,but don’t let other dogs on your property.
I have a rottweiler she never attacked any dogs she just wants to play with them but she had a bad habbit of trying to bite at bicycles and anything else with wheels that went past her includeing vehicals. So when i took her out for walks i used a choker collar and pulled her close to me when something would go past us there were a few times i had to use a muzzle the older she got the less she tried to attack things and i think the choker and muzzle helped.
I think your dog probably wasnt socialised as a puppy. So i would try the choker collar and muzzle and do some obedience training with him.
good luck!!
Time and patience, you need to make sure you have full control of recall, then he will come back to you no matter what. Use a harness rather than a collar, and an extending lead, get him used to just being around other dogs, and start to let him off lead when there are none or few other dogs about. Everytime he comes back to you reward, don’t punish bad behaviour just reward good behaviour. Good luck
I **** to say it but you may not be able to stop him – I have had a dog which was kept away from other dogs for the first year of his life as he had mange (a skin condition) then when we did start walking him in the streets, parks etc he would attack all other dogs – it was kind of like he was affraid of being attacked so he attacked first… one day he tried to attack a dog and I stopped him with the lead so he turned around and attacked me – I was a teenager at the time and just took him home and didnt say anything to my parents as I thought they would have him put down – later that day he attacked my father in our own yard – they sent him to the police as they were looking for dobermans of his age to train as police dogs – a week later they called saying he was too nervous for their uses so my parents allowed them to put him down.
My sister and her boyfriend were living with me (a few years later) and he had a dog that attacked any male dog he came across he was great with female dogs and even better with kids it was just male dogs – unfortunately he was also an excellent jumper and could jump our nearly 6 foot fences – we found out about this as one day a man came to the door and said that he chased our dog home and he jumped our fence back into the yard – apparently he had let himself out of our yard and jumped into his yard – attacked his dog and then left again – we took him to the vet who tried female hormone shots but they did not help, he was already desexed so we tried putting a chain on his collar so he broke the collar – so we tried a chain around his neck he broke that so we tried a larger heavier chain – he hurt his throat trying to break that – we ended up having to put him down – he was given every chance my sister and I are both dog obedience instructors and this dog was VERY smart he could open doors (even the ones with round door handles) he learned any obedience things he was taught much quicker tham usual – he was a beautiful dog in most ways except his **** for male dogs – sometimes they are just born with the agression in them – we dont mistreat our dogs in any way they are loved like any pet and treated like one of the family.
My suggestion is go to your vet and see what they have to suggest – also try obedience training if you havent done so already – sometimes this is all thats needed – other times unfortunately the safest thing to do is to have them put to sleep by your vet but obviously this is the very last step you should definately try other things first.
The main thing you have to do is reinforce the recall command.
Get an extendable lead and walk the dog at maximum extension pull him back in a number of times during the walk, as you do so issue whatever command you use for recall, or use a clicker or whistle, bring the dog in to sit and once he is calm give him a treat and make a big fuss of him.
Do the recall lots of times whether there are other dogs/distractions about or not. Eventually it will click with the dog and he will start to return to you a lot easier and eventually, with lots of perserverance and patience, he should on every occassion come back and sit by you. If you do the training every day it will eventually happen, one thing is though do not overdo training as the dog will lose interest and get bored.
I had to do this as my dog wouldn’t return to me, it is frustrating but the moment when it all falls into place is great and worth the effort. Good luck
lol get a trainer
Training! you need him to go to dog classes, we took both our rescue dogs there, as my dog hated being on a lead and would try and lash out!
That clicker training is really good stuff!
take him bak to the rescue centre ask them for a playfull adult dog preferably oppisite *** take the dog outside with the none aggreser let your dog see him play put a muzzle on the agresser and let him go lots of dogs have this problem and it is ussaully because he is fritend and does not no how to deal withit so he will be aggresive with time and patients u can sort this problem it also could be due to no interaction and no sociolization as a pup this is important kind regards
u should have trained it when it was a puppy there is nothing to do about it now
I had more or less the same problem with my Border Collie (God rest his little soul), he was attacked and after that he started attacking other dogs, nothing I tried worked with him, even dog training (ha for a Border Collie). I always let him off the lead, and found the only thing that did work was if I shouted after him ”Leave him alone” a few times, and low and behold he would’nt attack. As for the bike, I never really had that problem, only when he was a pup, he grew out of that one.
When ever your dog goes for the attack, shake a small pop bottle filled a quarter full of small stones at her vigorously then put it away in your pocket.
This worked for my dog within a week.
Don’t forget the treats if she walks past a dog without barking or attacking and talk to her softly when you see a dog approaching.
Muzzle him….also take him for behaviour lessons
i hav had the same trouble with my recue dog, i got him when he was three now he is ten and dispite all my training efforts and money spent there is verry little differecnce in his behovour aroung other dogs.
u will just hav to keep him on a short leash and b ever watchfull and plz muzzle him.
i would only sugegest keeping him if u r sure u can handle theese issues.