posted 04-07-2003 12:40 PM            

Try picking her up *the second* she starts biting at the other dog and looking her directly in the eyes and saying "NO" very deep stern voice....or you can let dog be a dog and have the dogs she playing with teach her exactly where she belongs in the pack

posted 04-14-2003 01:17 PM            

Socialize your dog where owners have control of their dogs...try an obedience class.

Dog parks are no good.period

Last time I was at a dog park (without my dog of course) I saw so many disasters.

The first was a man with his 5 month old Germanshephard and an older man with two frieked out poodles....both men ended up threatening to kill eachother and displayed very aggressive behavior towards eachother because BOTH owners were being irresponsible.
Also, at the same dog park, people came with 3 large dogs, they left their dogs in the dog park, while they went all the way on the other side of the park to have a picnic, thus all three dogs were left completley un supervised...I HATE DOG PARKS

posted 09-13-2003 01:44 PM         

For my dog aggressive, collar slipping dog, I use a flat (buckle) collar in the yard, around the hosue, etc, then put on a chain slip collar as well for walks, and hook the lead to both. That way, if she slips the flat collar, I still have control over her, and if either breaks, again, I still have control. I do like the design of the martingales, but don't trust any collar with plastic parts (just one of my quirks), and have found none with metal hardware that I liked (most looked like they wouldn't safely withstand a 60 lb dog bolting to the end of the 6 ft lead at full speed, which doesn't happen often, but nonetheless, I want to be prepared for). I'm going to check around with a few collar makers, and see if I can't get one made to my specs, we'll see.

And here's my (non-trainer, non-expert) opinion on the dog aggression. We have 3 dog aggressive dogs... all have varying levels of dog aggression, but are dog aggressive nonetheless. The two who are more outward about their dislike of other dogs are Annie, our mini Dachshund, and Goo, the older of our two pit bulls. Both can control themselves when another dog walks past, or while we stand and talk to someone with a dog, but if a dog gets too close (for Goo, about 5 ft; for Annie, it depends on what we're doing, but 5 ft on average, closer if I had a chance to get her attention on me beforehand), it's on. Annie is by far the more controlled of the two, simply because it's easier to set up a 10 lb dog safely to work around other dogs than it is to set up a 60 lb dog, so she's gotten more work.

What I did was drill her on attention and obedience work... starting someplace with NO distractions, and staying there until when I gave her the command to focus, her beady little eyeballs were glued to my face, and stayed there until I released her. Once she had mastered the "looky" and other basic commands in a distraction-free zone, I added one small distraction, far away. Again, we worked attention until we were both sick of it, then some. I continued to add distractions, or move the current distraction(s) closer, and work her attention under the increasing distraction levels. Two rules... 1. you NEVER change increase distraction level at the same time you decrease distance. It may or may not be too much for the dog, not worth throwing away all the work to find out. 2. You also NEVER push the dog when it's not able to focus on you. If it's mind is on the distraction, rather than you, move farther away from the distraction. You want the dog to be at a distance where it can focus on you.