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Jason Kasd
I have a very large backyard surrounded by a 6ft chainlink fence. I have basically no money and i am desperate. My dogs go over or under the fence. theyve never attacked they just explore and romp around but my neightbors are frustrated though-- they bark at their horses--. I cant afford shock collars, fence extensions, etc. I am flat broke. Basically if im not at work im with my dogs. they are 1. we play fetch, tug, walk, laser light, etc.. they sleep in my room, they get lots of attention and i love them to death but if i cant keep them out of the neightbors yard my parents may get rid of my puppies
Answer
If you are flat broke, then you don't let your dogs outside unless you go with them. Confine or crate them indoors when you're not home. When you get some money, you can put "baffles" around the fence top and bottom, or else build a proper dog run and keep them inside.
If your dogs keep getting out, one of the neighbors will get fed up and shoot them. So if you can't/won't control them, re-home the dogs before that happens.
If you are flat broke, then you don't let your dogs outside unless you go with them. Confine or crate them indoors when you're not home. When you get some money, you can put "baffles" around the fence top and bottom, or else build a proper dog run and keep them inside.
If your dogs keep getting out, one of the neighbors will get fed up and shoot them. So if you can't/won't control them, re-home the dogs before that happens.
cute dog becomes mean with a bone?
Muchka
My cutest 1 year old cocker spaniel turned mean when I bought him a bone. He growles and bites my daughter and husband. What to do - to take the bone away or discipline him? How?
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It is sometimes called food aggression (for edible bones) or resource guarding (for food/water bowls, bones, toys, crates/beds, etc). I have not been able to cure my oldest Golden of it largely because she came to me from an abusive situation. If your dog has been abused, it may be best to simply give her space when she gets the occasional treat. With my dog, we carefully regulate what kinds of toys and foods she gets so that she is rarely given known triggers. If she does get something and is guarding it, we distract her with a piece of cheese or a spoon of peanut butter and while she's occupied, someone takes the toy. For non-abused dogs, this issue can usually be dealt with by general obedience training and properly establishing pack hierarchy in your household. As much as I dislike Cesar Milan, if your dog has not been abused, you might try his methods for this problem with your dog. If you haven't done an obedience class, that's another thing you should do.
Properly trained, a dog should have no problem giving up anything, even food, to its owner. My other two dogs have never had a problem because they were raised from puppies to know that I am in charge and I may take anything from them that I want. I can tell my Lab that something is 'mine' and she will let me take it from her mouth and adopt a submissive posture (especially avoiding looking at the toy or making eye contact with me). The release for her is actually "[her name]'s turn" which means she can take the toy or the food from my hand and play with it/eat it. Teaching her this was simply an extension of obedience training. She knew she had to listen to me and I simply had to teach her what I meant when I used those command words. If your dog knows to sit, make it sit and stay, hold the bone down near the ground a few feet in front of the dog and do not let the dog move from sit-stay. After an appropriate amount of time, tell it that it may take the bone. Generally, the act of making the dog stay reminds it that you are in charge and your are giving it this bone. Work next on distracting the dog with a better/tastier treat and taking the bone while it is distracted. Then allow it to see that you have taken the bone and repeat the sit-stay procedure. Don't do this all the time - only when training the commands you choose for taking possession and giving the dog a turn. Over time, after you take the toy and then give it back, the dog may become less aggressive. Only when you are sure it is safe and the dog will not bite should you allow a young child to do the same exercise and the child must be supervised.
Related skills to teach the dog may include things such as not begging. My Lab was taught to back away from my table on command so that she would not beg. This helped to establish the pack order as well. By setting myself up with a plate of food on a tv tray (because it was closer to her nose level than the kitchen table and because I could set it between her and myself), I told the dog to 'back up' and pushed her backwards until she learned what I meant when I said those words. Eventually, she knew that she had to stay back a certain distance and assume a submissive posture (keeping lower than my plate - even if I sit on the floor she lays down, and not looking enviously at my food). Some people also use the sit-stay method for feeding as another way to enforce dominance. I don't use it because my three dogs tend to use meal times to establish the pack order amongst themselves and I don't want to mess with the order they have at any given moment by inadvertently feeding the wrong one first. If you have one dog though, it's another possibility.
It is sometimes called food aggression (for edible bones) or resource guarding (for food/water bowls, bones, toys, crates/beds, etc). I have not been able to cure my oldest Golden of it largely because she came to me from an abusive situation. If your dog has been abused, it may be best to simply give her space when she gets the occasional treat. With my dog, we carefully regulate what kinds of toys and foods she gets so that she is rarely given known triggers. If she does get something and is guarding it, we distract her with a piece of cheese or a spoon of peanut butter and while she's occupied, someone takes the toy. For non-abused dogs, this issue can usually be dealt with by general obedience training and properly establishing pack hierarchy in your household. As much as I dislike Cesar Milan, if your dog has not been abused, you might try his methods for this problem with your dog. If you haven't done an obedience class, that's another thing you should do.
Properly trained, a dog should have no problem giving up anything, even food, to its owner. My other two dogs have never had a problem because they were raised from puppies to know that I am in charge and I may take anything from them that I want. I can tell my Lab that something is 'mine' and she will let me take it from her mouth and adopt a submissive posture (especially avoiding looking at the toy or making eye contact with me). The release for her is actually "[her name]'s turn" which means she can take the toy or the food from my hand and play with it/eat it. Teaching her this was simply an extension of obedience training. She knew she had to listen to me and I simply had to teach her what I meant when I used those command words. If your dog knows to sit, make it sit and stay, hold the bone down near the ground a few feet in front of the dog and do not let the dog move from sit-stay. After an appropriate amount of time, tell it that it may take the bone. Generally, the act of making the dog stay reminds it that you are in charge and your are giving it this bone. Work next on distracting the dog with a better/tastier treat and taking the bone while it is distracted. Then allow it to see that you have taken the bone and repeat the sit-stay procedure. Don't do this all the time - only when training the commands you choose for taking possession and giving the dog a turn. Over time, after you take the toy and then give it back, the dog may become less aggressive. Only when you are sure it is safe and the dog will not bite should you allow a young child to do the same exercise and the child must be supervised.
Related skills to teach the dog may include things such as not begging. My Lab was taught to back away from my table on command so that she would not beg. This helped to establish the pack order as well. By setting myself up with a plate of food on a tv tray (because it was closer to her nose level than the kitchen table and because I could set it between her and myself), I told the dog to 'back up' and pushed her backwards until she learned what I meant when I said those words. Eventually, she knew that she had to stay back a certain distance and assume a submissive posture (keeping lower than my plate - even if I sit on the floor she lays down, and not looking enviously at my food). Some people also use the sit-stay method for feeding as another way to enforce dominance. I don't use it because my three dogs tend to use meal times to establish the pack order amongst themselves and I don't want to mess with the order they have at any given moment by inadvertently feeding the wrong one first. If you have one dog though, it's another possibility.
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