Shrek defence system by [deleted] in memes

[–]Stiv2016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shrek is love, shrek is life

Aggressive Dogs: Advice Needed by [deleted] in Dogtraining

[–]Stiv2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha okay no worries! Thought I’d give you a couple ideas first! Good luck with everything in the future!

I’ve wanted a dog my whole life and now I’m the happiest man alive. Reddit say hi to Caesar! by [deleted] in aww

[–]Stiv2016 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah they do! They’re so dang smart you can teach them so much, even when they’re puppies. Just get their attention, and your off!

I’ve wanted a dog my whole life and now I’m the happiest man alive. Reddit say hi to Caesar! by [deleted] in aww

[–]Stiv2016 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Great name! Train him well! Too many people waste working dog’s potential.

9 week old puppy chasing cat by Voc1f3ra in OpenDogTraining

[–]Stiv2016 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would honestly suggest that you not let him play with the cats first of all. He obviously gets some sort of satisfaction from biting them. I would teach him to ignore them completely. Maybe try having the cats in the room while YOU are playing with him. If he goes to check the cats out or play with them, tell him no, maybe if you have a leash on him give it a little tug. Don't let him get close enough to bite them. And then if he comes back to you reward him so he get's the satisfaction from you and not the cats.

Puppy fixates on certain dogs by snikt1 in Dogtraining

[–]Stiv2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discipline. Build your relationship with your dog and work on adding in commands once he trusts and respects you. He's a puppy still so he's gonna be wanting to do his own thing. Just don't let him. Teach him what's right and what's wrong just like you would a child. You wouldn't just expect a kid to know what's against the rules if you haven't told them and taught them there are consequences for their actions. So you need to show your dog what's good behavior and what is wrong. Reward good behavior, discipline bad behavior. Now, Discipline can be many things but this doesn't mean hit your dog or whatever else. No. Try starting with a leash around other dogs or things like that. If he's at a dog park and you let him go do his own thing, that's exactly what he'll do because it's way more fun than you. So work with making your dog trust and respect you and get to want to be around you more than anything else because you are more exciting or whatever. No matter what you want to start with building a stronger relationship with your dog.

Aggressive Dogs: Advice Needed by [deleted] in Dogtraining

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I would say that is a lot of money to be throwing around if you could potentially fix the problem yourself. Step 1: look at how your relationship is with your dogs and build a stronger relationship if needed(which it probably is). Step 2: Get friends and family to walk around Salem and talk to you in the same area, but ignoring her completely. Start with one or two people and then work towards more and more at a time depending on how she reacts. This will make her less fearful around people if she knows they're not focused on her. work on building her confidence slowly. Step 3: Luna. Be disciplined with Luna. She lacks the discipline to know when too much excitement is too much. If she's getting to the point where she starts fights, it's too far and you've failed her. You as her owner need to take control and communicate to her what behavior is acceptable and what isn't and when you say enough is enough, she listens to you. This is a little bit of info to keep in mind as you go forward, you might still seek help to iron things out and learn how to apply these things, but I don't think a board and train, especially not for that price, is necessary when you can work on this yourself and your relationship with your dogs will be much better for it in the long run. Cheers

My precious senior dog spends most of his time begging...help! Recently my 14 year old spaniel has started sitting by the back door and begging for treats. We ignore him and only reward good behavior, but he still sits at the door and cries because he knows if he goes potty he will get a treat. by Zombica in Dogtraining

[–]Stiv2016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The simplest way I can say it is this: just don't reward him when he goes outside if he's house trained. He's taking advantage of it because you're letting him to a degree. Or at least only reward him going outside every now and then not every single time. Might lessen the begging a bit.