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Originally Posted by gemy  I do agree with this. If your dog walks out ahead of you, but immediately obeys your command to come to your side, that is fine. At some point in time you will need to reel in your dog very quickly.
But small dogs or not, they should not be jumping up onto strangers or friends legs, nor snarling, gnashing teeth, and or growling at passerbyes on the street. Nevermind their family! |
Exactly. And I think some people are missing my point here. yes we all do some things now and then or our dogs do rather. and its ok. but this all started over me seeing post on other sites of people want to re-home thier dogs.
Yes, its up to the owner to decide what they want to train thier dog an what not to train them. And I bet most of those people I saw post of re-homing thier pets probably would say pretty much the same things say, well I dont think thats showing they are the boss of the family just because they do this or that. but the problem is, in the cases of small dog syndrome, most of these people ahve allowed thier dog to do too amny dominet thigs, and obviously it has gotten to the point of the dog thinking they are boss because for example, one ladies dog would bite her child everytime the child came near her ( the mother). so she had to re-home the dog because the dog kept biting her child. Well guess what, the dog is possessive of her, and likely he got that way because of mistakes SHE made in allowing him to think he owns her and that he is the leader.
I feel sorry for the dog in that situation because yeah, of course she has to protect her child, but most likely its her fault the dog got that way. not always of course, but often it is.