That, and phantom pregancies, bleeding etc. Neutering is best if you don't want pups.barrel said:hi i am a novice at this but can imagine your frustration, is Bailey neutered? that could explain his violent reactions maybe its hormonal? have you spoken to your vet? i ve got a girl pup so imagine if i don t have her neutered she will experience some sort of pmt????? or not. like i said i am a beginner at this but wanted to share my thoughts. good luck,
kind regards
Your dog is exhibiting this behavior most likely because he doesn't respect you and/or your husband as being the dominant ones in the "pack". The clincher is what you said about the remote. If you are trying to show him you don't want to have him grab it, then he escalates that to aggression, he feels he is the dominant one and sees you as the one testing him, not vice-versa as you believe.Baileysmama08 said:He is neutered.. has been since April. His issues were WAY more extreme before, he was as the people at the dog park called him 'crazy'. For the most part he is a good dog now, but its like he can do a complete 180% and will bite down HARD. He broke the skin in my husbands hand when all he did was try and put him in his cage for being bad, he does this thing where he stands up and get your hand in his mouth. My husband had to get stitches...
As I said he is not bad, but he is always ready to fight with us. Like tonight he was testing me with the remote. He would go and grab it and jump on the couch, then I would growl at him (my friends told me to try this as it worked on their dogs). I made it a point to keep putting the remote back in the same spot to try and teach him a lesson, in the end he wanted to fight me...
It all comes down to control, he thinks everything is his and everything he owns... how the heck am I supposed to fix this. Every trainer I have met, just doesn't grasp my issue.
Also, you shouldn't really use his crate as punishment, especially if you also use it for when you eave the house and other non-punishment things. Otherwise, he will equate the crate with punishment every time, regardless of the reason.I would suggest based on what the OP wrote - their issues are very different than what you just described -Blaze said:Hi Bailey's mama,
How quickly one forgets! :-- until I read the word " muzzle" when reading these posts I completely forgot that there was a time frame when we had to use one with Blaze. He was younger - perhaps between 6 and 9 months of age. We would find that in the evening, despite having had a good dose of exercise that day, he would go what we call a little "wonky". Just hyper, nippy with the kids. (They are 3 young boys so the same could be said for them -hyper nippy...) He would go at their socks - with their feet in them, or chase them around the kitchen island, or start chewing on the couch ,or start jumping from one couch to another. It was crazy dog time. So the pizza delivery man says to us one night get a muzzle and i'm thinking 'no way" and the next time he comes he brings the package of the one he has and the picture didn't look so bad. so I got one. It is black fabric mesh and does up up around the back of the head. Not cruel at all. We would put that on him and presto - " Mr. Submissive!" . We would leave it on him for a short time, maybe 5 -10 min and the behaviour got back to normal. After a while we'd just show him the muzzle and didn't even have to put it on. I was stressed with this behaviour at the time the time -was he a hyper vizsla? was he a bad dog? what am I doing wrong? But I had forgotten about that muzzle because there is no need to use it anymore. He is almost 17 months now. the "wonky vizsla" doesn't live here anymore. So there is a long winded successful muzzle story. I hope this helps.
