[Katrin]

Hello,
I can only think of two solutions. Either you find a way to distract him from these stimuli and get past them without constant negative experiences. In my opinion, it would be crucial to offer your distraction before he shows undesirable behavior! Destract him untill you reach a place were training can start. E.g. “Futtertreiben” Food-luring often works well if it is started before the stimuli appears, Attach the dog’s nose to a tube of food paste or one of those food deodorant rollers just before you step out the door. As he is not very food driven, try some cracy stuff: canned cat food, fresh tribe, fried bacon…) .

Or it might really be a good idea to think about moving. Maybee move just for a period of time untill the training becomes more solid?

Behavioral training is always riddled with setbacks and failures, that is unavoidable. But if almost every walk is linked to undesirable behavior, then it will be very difficult to achieve an improvement.

[Katrin]

He is a Malinois! Biting, fighting, defending himself in unpleasant ways… that’s his nature. If you push him, he jumps back… that’s total normal behaviour. It has nothing to do with a lack of respect, he doesn’t understand that pushing him off the couch means please stay down. Here could a short house line help you. No slipleash, he can get stuck with it.

Are you sure the dog understands your training? It sounds like you have communication difficulties. Don’t take it the wrong way, but it sounds like you’re not assessing his behavior correctly and are reacting incorrectly. I hope, it is not your first dog. If so, find someone to support you.

Does he know “Out” and “stay”? It’s always better to tell him what to do, instead of telling him what to stop doing.

Respect from a young dog can be gained through calmness, confidence and good instruction.

[Katrin]

I have been able to train a few dogs. At the beginning, I always focused on the exercises. I had dogs that performed good and with a lot of motivation as soon as the training started.
But I had problems when the dogs had to wait until the training could start or until they were allowed to go tracking or untill they were allowed to fight with the helper.

Now I pay much more attention to calmness. It is not difficult to get working dogs to work. Showing them that they also need calmness and patience is, in my opinion, the biggest challenge.Simply stopping somewhere on a walk and doing nothing for a few minutes can be a challenge. The dog should wait without doing any exercise. No sit or down, just wait and don’t disturb.

[Katrin]

Hi, I Think there are always different ways to work on a problem. I would prefere using a crate and a cover up, so the dog can not see whats outside. This is not a problem that I would put effort in training on it, if there is no problem with barking and aggressiv behaviour outside the car.

I do not 100% trust in bark collers, becaues there are dogs, that just do not understand them and than you can get trouble with her getting into the car or something else. If you use a bark coller, I would use an E-coller first and train the dog barking means stim gets on and quiet means stim gets of.