Chow Chow Question - Page 2

"No treats and unwanted love can be a recipe for disaster." - so true........

Here are the Chows, Ky-lin and Sasha. Ky-lin is the M, smaller but fiercer.  and one litter of puppies, the first. Those dogs saw more of Europe than some humans! They went everywhere with me. No problems whatssoever!
   

Would you like to hear the story of how I had to help hold a male Chow down while it was euthanized because it removed the breast of a woman while she was visiting her child's family?  No problem whatsoever,,,,,unless you are the woman who lost her breast.  Reminds of me of the knucklehead story that was on the National Geographic channel the other day about the bear that ripped a guys throat out while his cousin the trainer beat him with a cane.  http://www.myvido1.com/QWyEleTtWNZZVMZRjWY1UP_rocky-the-bear-kills-trainer

First, the guy that got bit was not a trainer, he was the cousin of the trainer who wanted a video of himself wrestling the bear for a "social networking" website.  Guess he figured he'd get laid more if he appeared like a rough and tough outdoors guy.  Rocky was on him for 8 seconds and tore out the front of his throat, the guy bled out moments later.  It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.  They deliberately taught Rocky to "wrestle" and play rough while placing body parts in his mouth.  And which part of this seemed to be a good thing??  They thought he was no problem as well.  All in the name of making money.

my chows lived thru my torment as a child. I was obsessed with Jack London novels.  I would use clothes line and make pulling harness for the chows, attach them to my little red wagon and fill it with cinder blocks or any brick I could find, then we would go up and down the road with them pulling the weighted wagon.  I never once was bitten, and they put up with enough crap from me to have gotten very angry if they wanted. 
Our chows looked alot like the ones pictured above, though we had 2 black ones, a cream with apricot ears, a red and a blue. our old man was a big chow, near 80 lbs, very heavy boned with a massive bear head.
my mother raised a few litters from them, and they were always the best parents (the chow mothers), allowing me to sleep with the puppies.  couldn't have asked for better dogs to grow up with.

as with any breed, you have the poorly bred, poor tempered ones, then you have the well bred, correct tempered ones.

I hear you Phil....... I'm new here so go lightly on me. Unfortunaely there's a story along those lines everywhere you turn or everyday in the news? YR just had one a while back about a man that thought he was Santa. And look at Sigman and whatever his name is was with the Snow Tigers.

My initial response was stating the experiences I had with my Chows for 17 years and agreeing with Uber Land on hers. There's bad experiences  I'm sure with GSDs, Mals and probably every breed of dogs let alone species of animals. I was stating no problems whatsoever with mine, everybody loved them,  and it was nice when you could stiffle the misconceptions of that breed firsthand.

Had to reread the OPs initial thread, and unfortunately WE are not present when this takes place or while this pattern was being established. Why now? Is the dog ill? Something needs to be done ASAP.

Well, here is an upate on Chub Chub.

This chow has done a complete 360.  He is back to his normal self again.

No treats, ignoring him definitely worked.  Also, to make him sit and give paw (which he doesn't like anyone touching) works great.  I just have to tell him to do something, and he does it.  No more growling, and even is letting me go to the door when I tell him to move from the door.
Glad I caught it early, and able to quickly get him back on track.  Guess he was just testing me.

Thank you all once again for your input.

Carol

Love when a plan comes together. Good job.

Thanks for the good job comment.

I am just amazed how quickly Chub Chub turned around with all the input from all of you.  Also, I think I caught him in time before it became a major issue.

He is so funny, as he follows me around all over just to make sure he gets some attention.  He did not like being ignored at all.  He would come up to me and randomly poke at me to be pet, and I just ignored him.  Believe me, it was hard, as I cuddle with him alot, and he didn't like being ignored.  Nice pointer that was.

Anyway, thanks again
and he is back to normal again.  Now just have to work on the door part some more :)

Have a great day all
and I love the pictures you shared of your Chows.  They are beautiful dogs :)

Carol