Member Melissa
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Good comments here, I have 2 Belgian Malinois X malamutes who are only 3.5mths, one low drive other is high drive & I can walk both (separate or together) on a finger each with a martingale collar, they have been to country shows (agriculture & livestock, tannoys etc), they have been on train (first separately & together), been to community centres, working on & off leash, they sit at roads (need to do more downs) & see buses, lorries, emergency services with sirens going etc. Working on recall & better engagement outside. Luring shapes inside (some commands are good), need to do more outside though. They are still reactive to kids running & playing and other dogs (entire males in particular). Fine with bikes/scooters/cars/fast trains passing 90% of time, have good ‘leave it’ too.
By the sounds of your wee dog has had none of that so far….& She’s now bigger than a little puppy, I’d get her out of there asap.
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Good advice from the other guys, only bit I’m going to expand on is the kids playing, I’ve found my boys very different. Odin can play no problem with only occasional nip which is usually a miss at the toy or general mouthyness/cheek & kids can be at floor level, run etc
Anubis on the other hand you can’t be at floor level or run about screaming & flapping your arms around him (10yr old learned this the hard way the other day, after being told not to several times), even with toys if he gets frustrated (cos you’ve not let him win) or overexcited he’ll transfer from the toy to your arm or leg with a deep bite & shake. He’s grumpier atm but I think he’ll start teething soon so maybe a part of it. He just sees play fighting (as he does with brother) as how you play & we’re working on it & for now she’s supervised with him at all times.
Basically it all depends on your dog, but don’t leave them unsupervised with puppy.
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excellent, I tried this but ended up throwing some out because they turned…I hadn’t dried them properly. thank you for explaining 🙂
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I have 13 week old brothers so I know what you mean, they play rough but there’s a point where as they get bigger it’ll get dangerous to both each other and to other dogs if they continue to think its acceptable, like neck biting. Mine do try to grab and shake each other, I intervene and tell them ‘no, too rough’, if they get really rough or its down riht aggression (for being pestered or stealing a toy) it’ll be a scruff & ‘NO’, they are learning to calm down and play instead of trying to ‘dominate’ one another.
It does sound as if he is trying to be dominant or maybe he doesn’t know how to play with another dog, I thankfully have an older & spayed gsd bitch of my mum’s that I have intro them to, she’ll play with them but she’ll also tell them off for being rude, like jumping in her face or even if they are running around too much.
dogs don’t need to bite each other to be able to play and unless both dogs know and trust one another it’s unlikely one will accept biting as a level of play, He is still young though so he’s got plenty of time to learn, he does needs to because a adult dog is far less likely to take kindly to that.
have you tried puppies classes or where these puppies just encounters in park?
and remember as Robert says you’re dog doesn’t actually need to interact with other dogs, none of my gsd males played with other dogs, nor did my female collie x (all actually avoided playing with other dogs, they just weren’t interested but would go past or be in same space as other dogs just fine).
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Mine have a thing for chomping grass and moss too, they’ve pulled up patches everywhere in my garden, they’ve also done it to find buried sticks, an egg and walnuts (which they love to chew the shells of (poor squirrel is losing its stash. 😂
other times they’ve do it out of frustration/wanting attention, sometimes just to entice the other to chase thinking he has something.
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Absolute nonsense, I live in a city in a flat (most of my city is made of flats/apartments tbh) and have always had working type dogs, GSD’S & collie x spaniel, I now have 2 Belgian mal x malamutes. I’ve never had issue with my dogs, they have been well socialised and obedient, their drive was high which meant lots of playing and walking, I would often go outside of the city to national parks taking my dogs with me camping, hiking or even horse riding.
in my opinion as long as your dogs needs are taken care of (which you’re doing), then it doesn’t matter where you live. the problem is more people not bothering to address the dogs drive by either finding work for them to do or giving them the attention they need, (i.e. leaving a high drive dog in house all day whilst at work). Sounds to me like you doing right by your dog, you could always see if there is agility centre/club nearby too, something a bit more regular, like weekly and would be fun too. 😀