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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I wouldn't get a trainer from one of the pet stores but one of the trainers in your area that comes with a history of working with owners who lack dog skills and their website and testimonials should testify to that over and over. A good trainer can train and help even a "slow" dog learn and understands how to appeal to their particular wants and needs. Discussing what you dog can't, will and won't do here is not helping the dog in the way she needs, really, is it?
You really won't find any magic bullet here when you actually need someone to see how you train and how you interact with your dog as well as that of other household members. They will then understand what skills you and your family lack and show you how to overcome those things. It's more attitude, confidence, gravitas and an innate ability to actually read or assess a dog's sense of self and state of mind and what it needs to get/keep its attention and motivate it to WANT to do what you ask. You can learn from a skilled trainer how to read a dog and sense its insecurity, fears and actual teachable quality and then how to bypass those things and get it set for training so that she is eager to learn - even a "slow" dog.
Without those skills, you won't have long-lasting success training a dog and could wind up with a dog that one day bites from fear and aggression at times. You'll have to have a hands-on trainer and they won't accept excuses from you for why this didn't work and why that won't work. They'll just say, forget that, relax and listen to me and here is what we do first. And second. And third. And what you do when the dog loses focus, barks in your face, jumps up, back off as if scared, etc.. They will set you up for success with your dog and you too can have a great pet.
Go research and find yourself a good professional trainer with real credentials for working to train people how to help their misbehaving dogs. Training a dog without training you won't help - you have to have skills yourself or you will have a little rascal that is always acting up. That's unnecessary when it is so easy to learn how to do it right if you choose an excellent trainer. Start by calling around - talk to everybody and call the service-dog academy kennel trainers nearest you and respectable vets, animal shelters, reputable dog breeders who have/breed show dogs and ask them all for family pet trainers they know of who can work with plain, regular people who don't have dog skills.
It will cost you some $ but if you don't, your dog's behavior might very well get worse and worse and it won't be her fault at all. Sell some things or cancel some services you can do without for a while but save the money for a couple of sessions with a real pro. No pet accessories or top notch dog food or anything else is as important as helping a dog that is always misbehaving and is still biting at feet and acting out as those behaviors do tend to escalate to the point you can no longer accept them in your home. You dog is helpless to help herself and needs her loving owner to find help yourself so you can help her. |
the person we did it with is a real trainer at petsmart. and I have looked for other trainers. but the problem with that is we can't find anyone around here. I live in a small town and all u are going to get are the one at petsmart or petco places like that. what I did find online are places that are in big city and they are like 8 hours or more from me. and cost way to much for me to even think about going up that way or even for them to come down here. some don't say they would do at home work or if they did it would be way to much and if I did save the money it would be a year or 2 before I could get the money. but then again it's been a while since I have looked for something like that and they might have some closer. but then again I might be looking things up for the wrong thing online.
we thought that we had her listening and stop going after our feet for a long time. so what could make her go back on us that the thing we are not to sure about. did we do something to make her do that. she has never bit anyone the only way she would bit anyone would be if u put med in her ears and she hate that more then anything. if u give her a little while she fine goes back to playing with u like nothing has happen. but she will never go after anyone else or kids she love kids. she like it when other want to pet her.