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Originally Posted by Maximo  Marking: is the dog neutered?
Crating should never be used as punishment either.
if you don't already, give the dog a schedule for feeding, exercising, playing, sleeping. Structure is calming. Try taking over the responsibility of feeding him and walking with him. If he has to look to you for food and walks, he will likely develop more respect for you.
Get involved with the dog by playing fetch with him for 10 minutes or more. Work on teaching him some tricks. |
He is not neutered, but I doubt doing that now will help with the marking. However, that possibly could help with aggression, right?
Crating is never used as punishment, just for sleep and during times when we are not there.
His life is fairly structured due to us both working and having to be structured ourselves. He gets out of his crate first thing in the morning and gets to go outside to do his business. Then he gets to come back in and eat while we get ready for work. When we are both gone, he stays in the crate. As soon as we get back he gets to go outside again, most of the time with one or both of us, then he gets to come back in and eat, then play time/petting while we are watching tv, then he gets to go out again before he is crated again at night to sleep.
He loves to play fetch and both me and my wife play with him. I play with him as much as she does. We teach him tricks as well. Nothing I have tried has worked with this dog.
It's not only aggression towards us, it is toward the other dogs as well. I'm not sure that makes much of a difference in how to handle him, but he constantly attacks our lab puppy if he gets too much into his personal space. It seems like any time he doesn't get HIS way or something annoys him, he turns to aggressive behavior.