How to get 6mo old mal to stop "attacking" us? - Page 3

Never ever crated one of my dogs, just educated them...
All of them knew when to stop, I only needed to look at them.

Something went wrong during the last months, you need to think about your realationship to your pup.
Who is the boss? Who is the runner up and who is the looser of the family right now?
Does your pup "only" interpret sitting=playing or is this more?

Contrary to the other comments over here we´d start bitework immediately - a tired sportsman is a satisfied sportsman...
and the focus would change soon.

Good luck!

First you have to come to the realization that your the issue!!! At 6 months you have a dominance issue IMO you probably have too much dog... Seek training help once you've realized who or what the real issue is. Or this one little issue ( which its not) will blossom

This is a dominance issue and must be stopped immediately or your puppy will continue to push you around as an adult. Alaskan Malamutes have a high "pack mentality" and your young pup is trying to figure out where he belongs in your pack (family). There are various ways to stop your puppy, whatever route you take you must be consistent and firm to get positive results. I would seek help as soon as possible.

Sawtooth, the pup in question is a Belgian Malinois, not a Malamute. :) So the behavior the pup is showing isn't as anomalous for the breed as it would be were this a pup from your breed....but it DOES still need to be addressed, and quickly.

Everything is not about dominance with a 6 month old pup. Very few 6 month old pups will seek dominance when raised with a group of older dogs of their breed .. dogs do not form wolf packs as much as family and kinship groups just as humans do. If you watch older dogs around puppies they make a lot of small corrections without traumatizing or making the puppy freak out. Maintaining trust while teaching is a problem as old as humans and dogs. Puppies like human children try different approaches to interacting with their environment and different approaches to getting what they want from those around them. Puppies will jump up on their humans and chew or mouth on people and other dogs if there are no negative consequences and this activity gets them attention and some form of acknowledgement that they seek. Human children will act out in various ways to get attention and puppies are no different. Dominance and aggression toward their human family by a puppy is seldom the motivation for what the original post described. The solution to the OP's problem is to stop letting the annoying activities by the puppy be fun for the dog and then satisfy the pup's desire for attention with a more productive activity.

Has the op responded?

Not yet.

Except for their 2nd post early on, protesting that they do give their pup loads to do.

If you check the Leerburg site you'll see that they recommend expens in the living room for supervised down time.

Should have gotten a GSD :) Mals are machines. Built for speed. They are not couch potatoes. They want to work, must work, have to work. If you kennel this type of dog they can become tail biters. Long sessions retrieving a tennis ball hit with a racquet or bat. Exercise and more exercise. Good luck.

Have you tried an e-collar? In the book The Art of Raising a Puppy written by the Monks of New Skete they recommend using an e-collar, especially on difficult to handle dogs. Since the mal is only a puppy I would try the lowest setting first and give the command when you push the button. If it works you can tape something heavy around a regular collar with duct tape, and the pup will think he has the e-collar on. This may or may not work. Just a suggestion.