We got a nine month old Doberman Pinscher in the pound last month. He's great with this six years old and our niece and nephew. Apart from some curiosity in the beginning, he's even been excellent around our felines. He isn't hyper, he's friendly towards our buddies who go into the house. He's a large lap dog really and that we love him. However we're getting a dreadful time mingling him and in most honesty we do not quite know how to pull off doing the work. A couple of days ago we'd a yellow lab run on him and that we were afraid he'd panic, but all he wound up doing was jumping around and licking. Lately we have were built with a bull dog transfer to the area and he's getting absolutely none of this. Immediately upon seeing him he will get into defensive stance and begins woofing. Today the bull dogs owner and that i attempted introducing them. I had been wishing he'd have a similar reaction he did towards the lab, but rather he wouldn't stop woofing also it appeared as if he was attempting to jump on the top from the bull dog. We left at this and made the decision we'd repeat the process another time when my husbands home. He's only 10 several weeks now. We want him to have the ability to socialize and that we really do not want other dog proprietors fearing us. Can there be anything we are able to do? At 10 several weeks is he still trainable?
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Definitely still trainable. Look into obedience training classes. This is a great way to train him and get him socialized in a controlled environment.
Sign up for some obedience classes.. You’ll learn how to train him, and you’ll get socialization around other dogs and dog people in class.
Take him anywhere and everywhere, introduce him to everything you want him to find acceptable. Praise him when he is doing good.
yes, at 10 months he is still a puppy. he is probably just trying to learn to socialize. Dobermans are very good dogs to have. They also like to protect there families and surroundings My Doberman also will crawl up in bed with me during the night sometimes just to be close to me. so yes I can relate to the lap thing.she will even watch over my cokatiel she even gets along with my neigbors cat although she does act curious with it. I do use supervision when shes around other animals
You can train a dog at any age and the dog isn’t too old to train but it likely was removed from the litter prior to nine weeks so it didn’t learn how to properly interact with its own species – never learned to ‘talk dog’ so when one comes around he reacts out of fear of not knowing what they are ‘saying’ to him — either with fear based aggression or terror – neither good and neither really easy to deal with. Obedience training that is motivational and progressively trains you to interact with the dog around other dogs and to listen to you and what you want will be a ongoing situation. It won’t be fixed in one or two rounds of obedience classes. He will have to learn that he can trust other dogs without them actually being in contact with him. Don’t ‘socialize’ him with other dogs yet — he has to learn to trust you first and to trust you with other dogs around and that they won’t ‘hurt’ him which he can’t really tell if they will or won’t so trying to get him to interact with them at this stage is more detrimental that helpful. I have had to train dogs like this a lot over the years and it takes patience and consistency on your part and understanding that he can’t understand what the other dogs are doing – it is sort of like plopping you down in some foreign culture where people are blathering at you and you can’t tell if they mean you harm or good — instinct is to preserve yourself based in the fear that they could be meaning you harm. The only way you learn to accept them is if they don’t push you are you aren’t pushed into them and you learn that they are not meaning you harm – same with the dog. Good luck
You need to make it crystal clear to your dog that you are the master or alpha. When he’s barking at another dog (either fear or aggression barking) he needs to know you’re the boss. Tell him it’s unexceptable, make him sit, lie down, obey your command. Most dogs want their owners to be the boss, they feel more secure then. Your dog maybe needs to feel that you’re in charge around the bulldog, that every thing is okay. Don’t re-assure him by petting when he barks at another dog, tell him NO! you”re the boss and you have the situation under control.
As far as socializing just take him everywhere, in car, around block, etc. Watch Caesar videos and Leerburg.com has a great dog forum for learning also.
Hope this helps you
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