My Baby just tried to attack a doberman, help please
 

For your baby's safety, you really need to work with a professional trainer to help socialize him. No matter how well behaved another dog is, if they are "attacked" by another they are likely to respond in kind.

Plus, as I mentioned in the other post, he needs to lose the bag. Put him on a leash. The bag is giving him the feeling of superiority over other dogs. That is what I'm thinking. I could be wrong.:rolleyes:

Wow, this I never thought of, because I trained him to the travel bag as I take him everywhere, and he has never been on a leash before. I know I should have crate and leash trained him at an early age. I just hope its not too late to try to train him. And I do want so badly to have him around other dogs, I shall try to find a trainer, not sure how much something like that would cost my finances are non existant at the moment.

Thank you so very much for the response:o

You might be surprised. He might like walking on a leash!;)

When I visit my out of state brother who has a huge rotweiler, my 3 1/2 lb. Yorkie tries to attack also. My brother's dog put up with it for a while and then all at once let out a really loud bark. That set back my brat and from then on, they were best friends and slept together on the sofa and ate out of Ducha's dish. It was sooooo funny. My Yorkie, Daizee, has been socialized with so many dogs but still gets bratty and barks and tries to bully big dogs. This weekend there were 4 dogs in our house (each daughter has a dog). At first my daughter's little rescue (maltese & ?) acted like she was going to attack but after about an hour, the dogs all got along great and did so for the entire week's visit. I think you have to monitor them and I would not leave them alone together in a room. Jealousy or fear can cause them to attack and hurt or kill another dog. A dog was killed recently in my neighborhood by another medium sized dog.

Well we just gated off the area we are sitting in while I am here over night so they are not together. I don't want to get that supprize reaction out of the doberman because gizzie cant be friendly. My other sister has a pomerianian and they did the sniff thing to each other today then proceeded to ignore each other. I am going to look into this furthur when we return to Texas next week
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Macy is in agility with a 110 lb. rotwiller, a 90 lb. Wiermereimer (sp) and a Saluki, all of them could snap her in half in 1 second. She is well socialized with people and dogs but something about all the excitement of agility she becomes a little jerk. At last class she ran across the agility ring, under the fence and started jumping at an Afghan Hound's face and ears. She has no fear of any dog.

It has always been suggested that when you bring two dogs together, start with a walk in a neutral place.

You never know--BUT make sure you attach the leash to a harness, NOT the collar! Their little trachs are so delicate!

My Westie is very aggressive with bigger dogs and it worries me to no end. He's going to lash out at the wrong dog.

After going to a trainer - he has gotten waay better on walks; not lunging and carrying on at any dog walking by.

But I know that he still could not be in the same room with a big, strange dog. We just never got there. He is ok with smaller dogs; preferably female.

chester had tons of socialization when he was a puppy and had 2 classes and now that he is a little older at 8 years old some dogs he will growl and bark at dobies, pits and boxers and some dogs he is fine, the trainer thought just because he is older, I dont know

You can try training, but some dogs are impossible with other dogs. I would personally avoid situations where he is around larger dogs.

Actually he is never around many other dogs we just happen to be on holiday in michigan and my sister has a doberman and we spent the night there last night.

I would probably get a hotel next time. :eek:

We have two yorkies. My stepson has recently come to live with us with his pound puppy lab mix. My two adore Marley and they are really good friends. Still, I never leave them in a room together unattended. If we're all upstairs and I need to go downstairs to grab something, I just call Marley and have her come with me. As well as they get along, I just can't risk my dogs life on some strange trigger making her snap. Maybe it's just me but I would never leave mine alone with a dog that has the potential to kill one of them. I do want to reiterate, Marley has never shown any agression towards them whatsoever.

It was very hard for me to come to terms with this with Ringo. We eventually had to quit agility because, by then, we were off leash . . but if the big dogs approached him . . the class was in chaos.

It made me so sad that I could never take him to a dog park, etc. But I've decided that he is just not meant for that. He would not enjoy a dog park; he does not like being around strange dogs; and I do avoid situations where he would be in close contact with large dogs.

But, luckily he gets along with the ONE DOG that I asked him to - Lucy. I feel like he still has a good life even without the dog park; doggie daycare; or agility. But it did make me really sad at first.

It was our agility trainer that figured out he would do well with a small female dog. I'm really grateful for that. Now he and Lucy are best buds.:)

You are a good mom! Sometimes these things just are....and we need to accept them. I am SO sure he is a happy pup. Going to the dog park or doing agility is nice, but not for all. That is something I really have learned in rescue. We do our best to suit the needs of the pup, not the adopter. Some don't do well with other dogs and some do....or some don't like cats. There are so many out there...why try to make a pup be something he is not? Just my take of course. :)

Some dogs just can't be in public with other dogs. The point is that you tried and when it wasn't feasible, you found a solution that did work for Ringo. I always think a dog that doesn't have at least one other dog "friend" is missing a big part of it's potential life.

My grandmother had a dog that wasn't properly socialized. It HATED every other dog out there except for one of the neighbors dogs. So, every chance they got, they would get the two together to run around the yard. It was always so much fun to see this normally morose, grumpy dog turn in to a wiggle butt when her "buddy" came over.

I honestly don't know what happened to Ringo. I took him to puppy class; to agility; and tried to socialize him with other dogs.

I actually think I went TOO far out of my way to let him meet and greet every dog that we encountered when he was a puppy. Some of those dogs were not so friendly and after a few skirmishes - I think Ringo decided the best Defense was a good Offense. I really learned a lesson here. He should not have been allowed to go up to every strange dog - my fault.

One day we had an incident in Agility that I think really scarred him (and me too). At the end of class, all the dogs were allowed to play. One time I looked over and all the dogs (most a lot bigger than he) were surrounding him in a circle; over top of him. Ringo had made himself as low to the ground as possible and you could only see the whites of his eyes. You could tell he was terrified and I was too terrified to step into the circle and 'rescue' him. I called the trainer over and she stepped in and picked him up. After that, playtime was broken into big dogs and then smaller dogs.

I was really afraid they were all going to attack him; that's what it looked like. Maybe he was sending off some bad vibes; I don't know. I know my heart was racing with fear.

Anyhoo, agility was never quite the same after that and I had to really work with him on walks to ignore approaching, large dogs. He's good on a walk now; as long as I stay focused when big dogs approach and keep him at a heel.

I've sheltered Lucy much more; rarely do I allow her to greet a strange dog - unless the owner says that they are friendly and both dogs are sending off play vibes. Then I will.

Anyway, I would caution anyone to not let their dogs get into a situation that they are not ready to handle. I'm pretty sure that's what I did with Ringo.

Thanks for your kind words; I do think Ringo has a happy life now. He loves his long walks, his playtime, Lucy chasing him round and round . . . life is good!