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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Oh, Rob, I'm so glad you are willing to try to help your sweet guy as so many would just give up on a little guy like this and some, as you know, would surrender him or have him put down! You surely love him to bits and I believe you can take firm but loving charge of him, show him with your firm but matter-of-fact & never scary/frightening training what is unacceptable and acceptable when he meets another dog out on the leash and once that's behind him and he's doing that well, can advance further than that in how to re-socialize him so he can be around dogs in a home setting, after further retraining/re-socializing him there. Those are a whole new set of training sessions.
Even after his re-training in dog socialization, I'd tend to keep a lead on him for quite some time in a home-setting when he's around other dogs until he's gone more than two years without trying to attack and if he can go that long w/out flexing up on another dog, it will show he's likely as predicable as any dog will be around any other dog in any social setting.
No, I'm no behaviorist or anything like that, I've just always worked with helping dogs since I was a teen, foster dogs and otherwise, many of them deeply troubled and learned what different things work to help them from my own experiences over the years, and read just about every book I can get my hands on, in print or audio, about canine behavior. You can, too. Read your local and other cities libraries out of all their canine and canine body-language books and scour your second-hand bookshops for dog behavior /body-language books that are not older than 20 -25 years(older than that they are usually so old-school that they aren't helpful) and you will learn how to help your baby and rehabilitate him. Read all you can about positive-reinforcement training, too. Lots of information is on the internet, too. Let me know if I can help in any way. Jeanie
Keep us updated on how he's coming along, won't you please? And good luck and blessings to you both. Jeanie |
I have began his new training regimen today using chicken treats and walking in fast circle should he bark, snarl or take up a belligerent stance with any dog, certainly the swift nipping alpha style showed a result, the look of bemusement on his face said it all. I will indeed persevere with this approach. I will endeavour to keep you appraised of events as and when they begin to unfold, that is of course unless I am banned for having to reply to judge and jury, this as one subscriber has already suggested, that others, who may write in here, may well become. Jeannie, but seriously I really cannot thank you enough. Kind Regards Rob.