Btw, sounds like you need to take him out for some walks during the day if you can, or hire a dog walker. According to Cesar Millan, these super hyper-type dogs especially the large ones need a ton of walking. He asserts that walking them properly establishes you as pack leader and once you've got that established everything else falls into place. But walking them properly means you have to walk out the door ahead of them, in fact you have to make them wait patiently (not hopping around madly) for you in order to establish yourself of owner of everything including the front door and porch, sidewalk etc. This makes it necessary for them wait for you to allow them to make a move.
And once you are walking, you have to make sure they don't walk ahead of you or pull you, as, in the dog world, this means they are dominant. So you may have to get a special harness to get them to "heel". We found a great harness for that purpose that we use on our Yorkie who pulls like crazy. It's called a Sporn harness and it does not pull on their neck. Instead it has straps (that come with fleece covers so they don't chafe) that go under their armpits and connect to the leash in back. Dogs are sensative under the arms, so if you pull on the leash, or they pull on the leash, the straps tighten under their armpits and they instantly slow down. It works like a charm on our Yorkie who was incorrigable no matter what kind of harness we used.
Btw, whenever Pookie does something that we don't want her to, like bark at our cat, we make that sudden sharp "Pssshhht!" sound that Cesar does and that instantly makes her stop what she is doing. But if she only hesitates and continues the behavior, then we sometimes tap her on the shoulder to make her stop along with the "Psshht!" sound. And if that doesn't stop her (she's stubborn) you can also grasp her firmly on the shoulder with your thumb and two first fingers and push her over on her side. This is what dogs do (the fingers are like a bite) when other dogs in a pack misbehave or overstep their bounds. I did this with Pookie when she got aggressive while I tried to put her in her carrier to go home from somewhere and she didn't want to get in. She never tried biting me again. |