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AnaSilva

by AnaSilva on 03 August 2015 - 20:08

Well as I said somewhere, Flavio (the owner of Becky) always considered Becky like a dog very "soft" and submissive, mainly because my Isa ALWAYS bites Becky, for everything and anything, and she never did anything to Isa. We, ME the girlfriend (typical men... lets not listen to women) and the people at our school/club, always said to him that Becky is EVERITHING BUT submissive and soft, he never heard us. So now, Becky is 1 year and a half or so, we have a problem, Becky is to becoming a highly reactive dog and even is no longer obeying some basic commands with Flávio in obedience classes...

The advice they gave us at school, was to put on hold the bite work, and to focus 100% on obedience. As well as begin to to focus a lot on commands involving submissive dog positions as "down" or "dead". And at home his attitude has to change, no more kisses (his it), no more let her jump on top of him, no more let her wander at will in her walks on lead or jumping on everything and and anything at will (our bed, sofas, etc etc)...

Latin man mania as he has, he can not even admit (to me at least, to be fair he does admit it to others) that I can understand a little of the matter and, if it isn't our coach to tell him he does not hear, but I have the coach on my side MUAHAHAH Tongue Smile

In your opinion, and who have experienced the same, what else can we do to control the beast? She is not aggressive for no reason but react to many things, especially if the Isa also react, and Isa reacts to all ... Even in relation to the street cats for example she pursues them but once she managed to corner one and she did not hurt him, became confused and barking immense at him but didn't touch him... She is very suspicious and uncomfortable with small children, but does not approach them. But if Isa eg start barking dog to another dog Becky reacts immediately to the dog aggressively.

Never hurt anything or anyone because for better or worse she is controlled and when Flávio says "no" it's NO, and she stops and she stops whatever she is doing and returns to position of "together", but we want to make sure that the problem does not scale..

What is your advice? What tipe of work or exercices can we do with her for him to reestablish him self again as the "dominant" one?

Thanks in advance Wink Smile


susie

by susie on 05 August 2015 - 20:08

Your girl needs to get her focus on Flavio, he has to become her universe, the "world outside" has to become second choice.
Your boyfriend needs to work on the focus.
While watching the obedience clips it was clearly visible, that there is no bond between dog and handler ( not in case of " they don´t like each other", but in case of "as soon as something interestingly happens, my handler becomes second choice" ). Your girl is desinterested during the obedience, she needs positive stimulation, no matter what helps ( food, toy, voice, handstand, whatever ). She needs to become eager to do what Flavio wants.
Classical conditioning: action-reaction (correction, praise, release ).

Off topic, but there is a difference between being dog submissive and handler submissive. Two different trais...
Be careful around young children, she might not see a difference between dogs and toddlers ( not that seldom, although most people don´t want to hear this ). Right now Isa is telling Becky what to do, not Flavio. Becky needs to stand on her own, without back up from another dog.

This is an internet analysis, that said, in case you have an experienced training director who knows your dog in person, better believe himWink Smile


Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 06 August 2015 - 01:08

Ana, make sure your boyfriend sees Susie's answer ^^^ !!
It is very important that the two of you are "singing from the same
hymn sheet ", ie consistent and in agreement on what you are
doing and how you are doing it.

AnaSilva

by AnaSilva on 07 August 2015 - 11:08

Thanks!
We will keep training and working with Becky, teaching her and mostly learning with her =)

The problem is trying to understand what we can do to get her focus... We tried the thug and she gets SUPER focus, but on the toy and not on Flávio... With food she doesn't show much interest, only if she gets really hungry, and then it happens the same as the tug, she gets focus on the food and not in Flávio...
The other day she tried to chase a street cat and Flávio got really mad at her so became very rigorous with her, she immediately stopped the chase, with no command needed she went to a heel position, ears totally low and back, but her tale was not in between her legs and she was not scared, just being respectfully... May be our coach is right and Flávio needs to be more harsh with her... She used that situation to his advantage, gave her a bunch of different commands and she began obeying him immediately and waging her tale always looking at him, she sometimes does that but it is not common on her...

Will explain to him your advice and take it in consideration for sure ;)
Thanks again...





 


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