|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
04-11-2015, 09:16 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aspen, CO, US
Posts: 544
| Inappropriate greetings Sometimes Ruger will approach someone he doesn't know very aggressively. Now, he's on a leash and easy to hold back, but to the person he's greeting he looks like a pitbull in full drive. His tail is wagging, and if I let him go he will jump, bump and lick. He just wan't to play, but obviously the person on the receiving end doesn't know that. I try to make a joke of it, "He just likes pretty girls," but it really is bad behavior. If he knows you he'll just sit and wait to be petted -- sometimes even if he doesn't know you. Also, if you have the "balls" to just reach down and pet him he's fine. Thanks for the help. I've got a chick magnet that scares away the chicks. |
Welcome Guest! | |
04-11-2015, 09:35 AM | #2 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
Posts: 22,140
| I don't know if this article best describes your dog's problem but this is a link to the types of preparation training, redirection, corrective halfter/leash apparatus and desensitization I would first try with a dog like you describe. Many sessions for a good two months should begin the fix: https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/virtu...reactive-leash and: https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/virtu...erconditioning
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-11-2015, 02:11 PM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aspen, CO, US
Posts: 544
| Good articles, but not sure they hit the mark. I have no idea who he will bark and lunge at, a snap at the leash and moving away ends the problem. A reward might work, but when do I give him the treat? I don't want to reward the bad behavior so the timing has to be perfect. Funny, if I put a bark collar on him he is calm and gentle. Should I walk him with a bark collar always? The article did tell me something: As he has never bitten anyone, he may feel restricted and upset that he can't interact with the humans he comes across. When turned loose in a park he only barks and lunges at humans walking "by" the park, not humans or dogs in the park. As with most dogs he'll just walk away if you ignore him, however most people will not do this. Petting him, which doesn't "appear" to be a good option, settles him right down. Pulling back or flinching just aggravates the situation. Very frustrating. |
04-11-2015, 02:31 PM | #4 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
Posts: 22,140
| He could likely still use desensitization training and socialization techniques so that he behaves appropriately around all he approaches, preventing him from ever going pitbull, Rottie or Yorkie-devil on any dog or human. If he were mine, I would reward only after he gives the behavior I like to mark that behavior vs. turning and quickly walking away with him, moving very fast in the opposite direction so that he has to focus only on keeping on his feet and up with you, before he goes ballistic but any time he begins to focus in on, alert to or tense up when approaching another human or dog. Eventually he should begin to see which behavior gets him a reward and which gets him quickly removed from the scene for even thinking about going ballistic and begin to police himself as he finds out the former is ultimately more self-gratifying. To be a good dog handler of a highly excitable dog, unfortunately, you have to watch them like hawks when out on walks and stay ahead of them to prevent behavior you don't like and reward behavior you do, which eventually teaches them which is more rewarding. They eventually get it, just don't give up on the training for it can take two months to get them on board and longer still to imprint their brain with your good behavior training techniques.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-11-2015, 08:17 PM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aspen, CO, US
Posts: 544
| Good advice, and sounds like a trainer I was working with. He used leash control, a little snap, but warned me that I have to pick up on Ruger's signals early and make sure to stay ahead of him. I do this, but in this case I may be a little behind. I wonder what would happen if I gave a treat, for Ruger, to the people he is calm with, but nothing for bad behavior. |
04-12-2015, 09:49 AM | #6 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
Posts: 22,140
| Quote:
But marking his calm body signals by handing him a treat every so often as he approaches a stranger with calmness of attitude and body or the instant you see him begin to amp up and focus in on, alert to, anyone or any thing, you turn him and rush him the opposite direction, should in time, teach him which approach is more rewarding to him and he should begin to police his own greeting behavior in order to get his reward and please you. Good luck!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart