Member Ed
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Chances are he just wanted to interact and did not know what else to do. You would have to see it to be sure. I would just keep an eye on it for now.
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My puppy does it to me on occasion when he is supper exited. And he definitely does not see me as a playmate. Robert’s advice is not to put your face where the puppy can reach… cuz that is what they do.
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I think I’ve seen a similar question. The answer was to add consequence to her non-compliance… a long line was the suggestion for that… not an ecollar.
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Mine is on to week 15 or 16. Same behavior of getting everything in his mouth. I don’t remember my previous one, but I think it is kind of normal. I probably should teach the leave it too. But I would not expect them to avoid anything on their own and at that age I’m not sure how reliable they would be at leaving it. Most of the time I just get my hand in his mouth and get whatever it is he’s got. If they are on a leash it makes it a bit easier. Let us know how it goes!
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There was a similar question in Friday’s q&a. That dog might have been aggressive, as opposed to super enthusiastic, but it kind of amounts to the same thing… the dog being reactive where we want him to be neutral. Robert’s answer was to increase the distance and to keep at it. There is no need for him to play with other dogs. My pit was like that. This was many years ago. I took the chance and had him play with dogs from 2 different neighbors. Everything went well with those. OTOH, greeting every Bailey met was kind of playing Russian roulette. We had a few incidents, but luckily nothing physically serious. I would do it differently today.
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Friday I was walking down the road with my 2 adult dogs and this lady came down the street with this tiny dog barking his lungs out. I saw them coming and we stepped out of the road and into someone’s lawn waiting for them to pass. She looked at her dog. He was still barking up a storm and choking himself on the leash. And she said “I don’t think they are friendly”… 😂😂😂.
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Does he know easy? I tell them easy when I think things are going in the too rough direction… for example my 100lb 4 year old shaking a toy with a 30lb 15 week puppy attached to it. I tell her easy and she knows to dial it down a bit. Then there are behaviors that I do not want, and those I stop. For example at the end of this clip the rottie is picking up the leg of the pitbull in her jaw. The pit does not like that. So I told them hey and they broke up and went into their 3 separate ways. I do not want the pup to pick up on that behavior. As Robert says, you just do it. Maybe someone has a different idea, but I do not think that tools like leashes, collars, etc would be helpful. If they did not break up I would just get in there and put my hands on the dog, probably hold them by the scruff of their neck, not pulling the dog is important as it can cause damage to what they have in their mouth. That last part, breaking up a dog entanglement, Robert went over this in a couple of YouTube videos. They were probably chats, so I do not have a link for those. https://youtu.be/Skk0FvMg_do
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I wonder how much a set schedule may influence resource guarding. Probably the majority of ppl considers a set schedule part of structure. We don’t. Sometimes I feed my dogs as soon as I wake up. Sometimes before they do their obedience session, sometimes at 1:00 pm. The same with all their activities. I wonder if a set schedule gets the dog to be entitled or that things just are. With my dogs they never know what is going to happen when. We did not plan to be different, it just happen to be that way.
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We taught easy for taking treats, but we/they generalized to mean less intense.
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I agree with Melvin. I think that corrections too early, particularly strong corrections can destroy a dog’s confidence and make him/her a pile of nerves. The associations will be with one thing and not the other… so the dog may look solid one minute and have an erratic behavior a minute later as something triggers that fear/behavior. Then you have to decode what it is and try to fix it. For pet dogs the owners will make up some weird explanation, like “he does not like that corner of the house” etc. I’m going through that with my 4 year old rottie, who is a monster and a sweetheart until you put her in the same room with one of those metal pens we use to contain puppies. Meanwhile I’m trying to be very measured with the puppy not to make the same mistake again.