Thanks for the responses Everyone!
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Originally Posted by dexterandalana  Dexter is exactly the same. he has severe agression problems. he will BITE any child and any new man and some women that he meets. (for those of you that have seen his videos, i know that seems surreal!)
it is completely our fault because he traveled with us to Costa Rica for 4 months when he was still prety young. they treat animals very different there and he was the smallest dog by far. so he got a lot of negative attention from the locals (people running up to him and snapping and getting in his face. he became very afraid of new people and fear breads aggression. 
we are looking into geting a behavourist to see him also. i love to go shopping with him, but its gotten to the point that i cant because even if a sales associate comes to talk to me, he goes crazy.
i understand your frustration becuase this isnt something that you can easily repeat to get a good result. cant ask a guy off the street to come help you train your dog to like new people for a few hours.
we had dex out at a friends cottage a few weekends ago and we tried the "ignore" tactic and it worked ok. basically, the one friend there that dex had never met, we had him wear boots all weekend and ignored when dex went after his feet. after a little bit, dexter gave up and stopped biting him. harder to do this with children, unfortunatley.
anyway, if/when i hire a behavourist, i will let you know what they say. it sounds like they have similar problems! |
I am sorry about the problem with Dexter, but at least I don't feel so alone now
Please let me know if you are able to work through this behavior, I would be very interested in how it goes!
