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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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I would stay away from sticks. Try knee bones. I let mine chew them all the way down. Also I like nylabones. The huge harder ones, I think they call them for severe chewers or something (Robert does not like them). Anyway a pack of knee bones should be good. The pup still pick up anything it finds on the road/yard though. You just take it from them.
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A couple of my neighbors have sent labs and labradoodles to board and train. The dogs forgot how to walk on a leash after a few months. I think the issue is not the behavior per se, but the gap between the skill set that dog requires and what we are able to offer. So a successful board and train experience would make that gap a bit narrower, but it is not really a dog that is being fixed… if that makes sense. Like in all the dog training classes we go/watch, it is not really the dog that is being trained 🙂
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Check out the last AMA from yesterday or the day before. There was a question that was similar to yours. His advice was to stick with the leash. https://youtu.be/aOOnK-SVHoM
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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.
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Oh well it won’t upload for some reason
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Wrong picture this one with both hands LOL
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Well it gets worse cuz we were only messing around and this is what I used as a tug 😂😂😂 … which usually she does well on 😜
