Well........ I am not a trainer and I am certain I will be drummed out of town on a rail if I tell you how I would handle this....I have never physically injured an animal or a child, but I do not allow this "challenging" behavior, from neither animal nor child....and this is not a problem I have had to continue to deal with! I have had a couple of young adults that I bought as breeders, that had issues with exactly which of us is alpha.....I resolved it quickly with a swat with a rolled up envelope....just a regular white, letter size envelope....I think it was the immediate response to the behavior that stunned and shocked them, not pain associated with the swat...... that they were not going to get away with doing that....problem immediately resolved and have not had a repeat of the issue again. I am sorry but I will not tolerate a dog snapping at me.....or a child for that matter! Everyone around here is spoiled rotten and loved on relentlessly, but if you snap/growl/challenge my authority as the leader of the pack, you will be corrected. Then after you get an awareness of the immediate correction in the babies, you can then take time to do the "treats and leave it command", used to prevent the situation where additional swats with a paper are ever needed again..... |