DEFIANT AND EVIL PUPPY - Page 2

I would find a well known trainer that can deal with aggression, NOW;  I do not necessarily think this is aggression right now but it could later escalate into something you do not want to deal with.  If there is a specific time that all this goes on crate her before the demon hour and say night, night.

Then if need be let her out to take care of business and then back in her crate until AM or whatever.  I will bet she is teething and very tired and very very much still a baby so you need to treat her as a baby but NO she cannot continue to bite you.  Bad girl...  shame... distract her with heavy duty tug/chew toy.  Bop her on the head with it a couple of times to remind her she can't bite you if need be, but she is a baby and now a baby with a bad habit. 

Good luck with her,  Nan

Yes, defiant describes a german shepherd pretty well.  Evil NO.

Hi and thanks very much to everyone here

We have literally returned from good walk and she started to become tetchy and chewy so have played with her for a bit - she was very well behaved during this time and now chilling in her crate so think I may use her crate more regularly for short periods and see how we get on with that.

I am very conscious that she is very much still a pup but believe me there is very much a transformation when she is performing so going to take the advice offered in order to hopefully find something that eases the situation.
I use food as a reward and she is generally very good but perhaps the teething thing making her mega grumpy.

  Redirect   redirect redirect....name of the puppy gsd game

  Carry treats, balls, rags , ropes anything you know is good for puppy in car, truck , pocket, day or night..

   do not do the scuff yet...that is to and for a training dog that is in obedience and doesn't obey its ALPHA master.  You have to show your puppy how to act...after all , you are the NEW ALPHA MOMMIE>

 YOU must be the pack leader but like you want...with POSITIVE reinforcements..Be aware.  it is an OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER   repeat   repeat process.. DOGS learn from repeating the good and not the bad.   ONLY reward good behaviour and good actions...  YOU Have a 2 second rule to give the reward or the pup forgets why he got a reward.   USE it... 2 seconds to his mouth with a tiny bite...not a dinner portion...the reason is you want him to want more rewards by doing right and what you want...but you train with    redirect you dog to a good action...later you can correct ,

  READ in the book below how puppies act that are highly prey driven..ball driven , and fight driven..You may have all three..and that is a good thing..

   READ  SUSAN BARWIG and Hilliard book    METHODS and THEORY of SCHUTZHUND>.

   Order the book if not at book store or some PET online places still have the book..

   YR

I would agree more with the posts of asomich, Nansgsd, and YR, stop fighting with your dog, you are only proving you are not dominate to her. Submission to an alpha is offered by the less dominate, by forcing her into a submissive posture you are showing her you are an alpha want-to-be. You are giving her notice you are equals and the more dominate position is a contest to be won, do you think you can win this battle when she is fully grown?

I agree your pup has no idea how to act listen to them, it takes a long time for a pup to learn how to act a long time!!!! For a gsd pup!


Not helped by the fact that my husband works away and thinks he is going to return to a perfectly well trained pup!


YOur husband needs a reality check lol GSD's mature at 3 years old lol You are in for a serious ride depends how hard you work but grabbing your dogs scruff or doing stupid things like flipping it over are not going to help you.  For now start NILF.

Believe me, I too thought my pup was the devil incarnate himself, now at 6 months he is close to being a model citizen.

If you notice, mr. Hyde will come out about the same time in the evening. Be smarter than the puppy. You are smarter, right? Well, utilize this time as playtime. Take the pup out before it happens every night and play. Wear it out while bonding. Teach the pup what is appropriate play. Your pup has spent most of its life biting littermates while playing.

Biting littermates while howling...."here's Johnny!"

 If Bonnie is anything like my girl, she is overtired and cannot settle on her own.  I used to have to put Maya in her crate at about 7:30 every night until she settled.  They are just like babies at this age, they won't settle.

Maya has EPI and looking back I can attribute alot of her "wild child" behaviour back then to her disease. She was probably so hungry and tummy sore that I couldn't see it.

Rule out all illnesses before you are too hard on her. This is just some personal advice from my own experience.

Find a trainer.  Getting advice from an internet forum is like looking on the internet and then performing surgery on your best friend.  No matter how well meaning the advice NO ONE here can see what she is doing.  Find a trainer .