Member Cory and Lisa
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Great info! We really thought that (2 dogs)could have helped us previously but there were other issues. We are listening to our breeders advice but are still doing our due diligence for our family to make this dog as successful as possible in our home. With what we have learned and experienced we are in a much better position to take this dog in and manage its migration into our family. We are very excited about this and are studying!
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Female has what we have been hearing. We will likely have two eventually but that would be a male and a female. Our breeder has actually chosen a male for us but would pick out a female that would be good for us too. Neither are shy or overly confident but are only 4 weeks old and we have met them already to really try to have them familiar with us.
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Thank all of you for your response. I asked about commands because there are so many with similar meanings (down,plats) (climb,up) we just want to be consistent. Ed we put her down. As you know she bit everyone in my house, except my wife. We used three different trainers and Robert’s advice her not being normal for a female mal. Finally, after another unprovoked attack on my daughter we found a trainer in WY who was interested in trying to help her as a last ditch. My wife and I drove 30hrs across the country to hand deliver the dog to him. During the drive the dog broke free of its tether and attacked me as i was sleeping and my wife was driving. We left the dog with the trainer and after 6 weeks the trainer said she is a single person dog with no children dog and that he would consider putting her down with her history. So my daughter (very comfortable with Phoebe and knows her)in-law picked her up since she had a friend with Mal experience. She wanted to meet her. 4 days later she was bit bad and the dog broke her wrist. I had the dog put down, she was not right and we sent a specimen away to UCLA to have her genes tested. Soooo, we want a Mal, we have learned and continue to learn this breed. We have the time, energy and a good level of experience to train this dog. We study a lot (daily) and have a good breeder (not an unknowing Amish breeder which knew nothing about these dogs and was just selling them). I believe we got a bad apple of a dog (sucks because this devastated my wife) yes we made some mistakes too, first was a horrible breeder. So commands, sex, temperament, drive, structure and consistent work with this animal we believe will help us have a functioning canine member for our family.
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Anyone answer these?
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Absolutely! We are learning and so is she. She has been awesome with everyone in our house! Love her to death. She seems to have two levels of prey drive? Fun and crazy at home, inside and out. Take her to town and barks in the car at moving cars and walking around barks at cars and runners. She stressed out. Almost like two different dogs but she is still not aggressive. She calms down once she meets other people and dogs.
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The Mal puppy phase is very bittie. We play with her a lot so they get excited. I tried to work on teaching her to stop (no command) and place her in a sit from early on, before it became out of control. This seems to have taught her to disengage. But it’s think with these dogs the mouthyness somewhat comes with the territory.
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You certainly have to becareful in the early stages. We refrain from early hard play. Still play but have limits. We worked hard to find a lower drive Mal. If she gets too crazy we tell her to sit and she stops. Not always easy but we work on that from the very beginning with her to practice disengagement. You have to know what is too much before your dog.
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We still have not received any results back. Not sure if we will due to Covid-19. We pick up a new female male, Klhoe. She is now 4.5 months, full of energy, mouthy as heck, we work her all day, everyday and she is awesome. Hasn’t bitten anyone lol.