I am adopting a gorgeous 1 year old submissive female Rottweiler. Lucky for me her foster parent has already taught her basic obedience. But I still want to get the point of view of others, on training and caring for such a big powerful dog. I would like to hear from other responsible dog owners.
Sure, certain forms of aggression are manageable. I personally have seen proper obedience and discipline aid in curbing animal aggressive and possession aggressive behaviors. However, I feel that HUMAN aggression is one thing that should not be messed with, and that any human aggressive dog should be destroyed, for both the owner’s protection, and the dog’s sake.
Why is it that people suggest training for human aggressive dogs? Am I naive? Or are they?
Our family has a mini aussie and we are planning to get another pet but for my daughter who is 7 yrs old now. Whats a smaller breed thats easily trained and good with kids and other dogs? We are looking for a dog that doesnt have ALOT of energy as our aussie does…
We will be atending obedience school with the new puppy as well. We are curious what other’s would recommend.
I have been mentoring for 6 years with a dog trainer who has been teaching and training dogs for forty years and I still have a lot to learn. My mentor has so much knowledge(judges, teaches, knows all the AKC rules and standards and runs obedience programs) but still does not claim to be an expert. I do not understand why with all of the aggression problems and behavioral problems that we see in dogs today why a test or at least some kind of formal education is not required before someone can label themselves a trainer. I think it is crazy that one can just order a correspondence course and in under 6 months brag of certification as a dog trainer.
I only ask because I was at a petsmart and a woman was there trying to get her dog to sit. The dog (not a puppy)was jumping up on people as they walked by(scratched a little girl in the face) and all she did was to repeat sit, sit, sit, so I got tired of watching and I told her that if she wanted the dog to listen to her she needed to give the command once and if he did not do it to help him do it with a pop on the collar and a push on the rump. Well you would have thought I told her to beat the dog, she told me her trainer(petsmart employee) who has been training her dog for six months does not recommend such harsh methods, they use positive reinforcement only and that most people frown on abuse. All I could say is good luck and tell her I hope next time your dog hurts somebody”s child due to your lack of control they do not hurt your dog or you.
Yesterday was my puppy’s first day at a Puppy Training class at Petsmart. He’s a 13 week old shih tzu puppy.
At first I was a bit hesitant about enrolling my puppy there, but in one of the Petsmarts here in Southern CA, I found the “trainer” of all trainers! She’s the mentor of many Petsmart trainers here in the Inland Empire (California, US). She’s also one of the CGC evaluator.
She’s wonderful! The first class was already very helpful and informative! There were 2 other pet trainers in the class, and anyone is free to ask them questions. It was so cool because 2 of the puppies in that class were actually the head trainer’s puppies!
Do you have any experiences with Petsmart’s training classes or any other company’s? Did you like their techniques? How was it?!
He’s about 5 months old and he’s a bigger sized dog. He always jumps on me or when I walk in front of him he’ll get right in front of me. When I tell him no he doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention and when I smack him-no matter how hard- he thinks I’m playing and it gets him more excited. I don’t know what to do because I know he’s just being friendly and he doesn’t know what he is doing is bad but I need to get him to stop. (I can’t afford obedience class)
We have a great pyrenees who is 4 years old, a wonderful dog. He currently lives out on pasture with a small flock of sheep. He has been a very devoted to them. He is not obedience trained as his job has been to live with the sheep and keep predators out. Now the sheep need to be sold and my question is Could this dog be turned into a family pet?
