How to stop puppy from biting or chewing?
Unfortunately for your furniture puppies love to chew, this is something you cannot just stop, but you can advert chewing to an “acceptable” chew toy. Also chewing can be used for bonding and also is good for the rest of the dogs life to help with boredom. When a puppy is chewing on something or as you see your puppy go to chew on something it should not be chewing on say no and replace the unwanted chew toy with the correct chew toy. When your puppy begins to chew on the correct toy you must give positive reinforcement, this is paramount in helping the behavior stick and your puppy will learn more quickly.
How to stop adult dog from chewing or jumping up on furniture?
It is your job to communicate with your dog their boundaries and what is acceptable behavior. Establish clear rules with your dog, enforce these rules consistently and with every household member. Adult dog chewing can be a result of boredom, destructive behavior, separation anxiety, lack of exercise, mental stimulation, stress, fear, and hunger. Chewing and jumping on the couch can be fixed using the same techniques replace the unwanted eather chew toy or bedding with an appropriate chew toy or bedding. After removing the dog from unwanted behavior always give positive reinforcement when the pet performs the positive behavior. See the above question for technique on eliminating chewing.
How to stop dog from barking?
Several steps can be taken to help with your dog barking, depending on the reasoning for barking. First, you can simply isolate your dog from the reason the dog is barking. In some cases it is good to ignore the barking definitely do not respond to the barking or get angry. You can also make your dog comfortable with whatever it is barking at, say the mail man, make your dog sit next to the mail box when the mailman is there. You can also teach your dog the “quite” command I have had success in teaching it the “bark” command first. Last but not least expend any extra energy the dog may have. The dogs anxiety level will decrease and therefore so will barking.
How to stop dog from jumping up?
Usually the most problematic moment when a dog jumps up is when someone enters the room. When entering a room or when a guest enters a room ignore the dog until it is in a calm state. Giving the dog praise when it is jumping up just reinforces the behavior. Simply do not pet the dog until it is on four legs.
How to help with my dogs separation anxiety?
There are many steps that can be taken for separation anxiety but all are specific to the case. Some steps include; exercising your dog, dealing with your dogs boredom with new toys, products like thundershirts. There are many ways to help but are specific to the dogs situation.
How to stop my dog from begging for food?
No more table scraps. Feeding your dog while you are eating establishes your dog as your equal. Your dog should eat after you which is customary in wild dog hierarchy.
How to stop my dog from digging holes?
Adding a deterrent to the hole will help. Also catching them in the act and adverting there attention is the most effective way. Also your dog may have to much pent up energy, exercise can fix this behavior as well.
How to potty train a puppy?
Giving you puppy frequent potty breaks will help with your puppies chances of success and will intern help training along. Reprimanding your dog after they have defecated or urinated in an inappropriate location does not help you, you must catch them in the act. If you are using pee pads your can use those to guide your dog to the correct area. You must give them praise and positive reinforcement after they go in the correct location.
How to leash train a puppy?
There are many steps you can take in the puppies early life to help condition them to like the leash and collar. Introduce the pet to a leash and collar early. Make sure the leash and collar are the appropriate size for the dog. Also introduce during playtime and give positive reinforcement during correct leash training behaviors.
How to ease an overprotective dog?
There are so many causes for overprotective dogs usually starting with the owner.
Here is an interested article about how to help with over protective dogs.
Why Is My Dog Doing This Behavior?
For the most part, Jealousy, Over-protectiveness, Possessiveness, and Resource Guarding (especially of people) is a learned and reinforced behavior that owners have fostered, rewarded, or allowed their dogs to do because:
They misinterpreted their dog’s behaviors
Many owners never recognized the dog’s initial behaviors to be problematic so they never stopped or corrected the dog from doing the behavior. By not stopping the behaviors, the behaviors continued, grew worse, and then it spread into other aspects of the dog’s functioning.
Accepted behavior
Some owners think that their dog being overly protective of them is an acceptable thing for them to do. They even secretly like the “special attention” they get from their dog. These owners do not understand that they are grooming a dog to be a biting hazard and an out of control ticking time bomb. Once you allow a dog to control humans, unlike in Schutzhund training, you will have no control over when, how, and whom he controls.
Lack of supervision
Sometimes owners have not been very good about providing consistent supervision, leadership, and guidance where their dog’s behavior is concerned. If dogs are not clearly shown which behaviors are acceptable, if the problem behaviors are not corrected, then the dogs will assume that what they are doing is acceptable behavior.
Parameters and limits for acceptable behaviors must be made by the owners or the dogs will choose and set their own limits. Also, if dogs are missing critical socialization skills they may lack the understanding of how they should politely interact with humans. The human/dog relationship is not entirely a natural partnership. It is a learned/taught behavior so make sure that you teach the rules that go along with this relationship.
Rewarding bad behavior
Sometimes owners don’t understand that they unwittingly reward the dog’s bad behavior. All behavior is purposeful and for a dog to keep doing the behavior it means that the behavior is being reinforced at some level. That means that the dog is getting a payoff for exhibiting the behaviors.
Dogs, by nature, are reward driven. The dog has learned that he can make humans do what he wants, that he can affect his environment, or he has learned to get attention, even if it is negative attention from the owners by doing the behavior. As long as there is a reinforcement for the behavior (sometimes the payoff is that he is allowed to do the behavior), the dog will continue the behaviors. Removing the reward is the first step toward changing the behavior.
Overindulged dog
The Dog has been overindulged, allowed to do as he pleases, with no real rules, limits, or consequences for his actions and now he views the house, the contents, and the people in the house as HIS possession. People have good intentions when they shower their dogs with excessive love and attention but it seldom ends well for either of them. The dog has been led to believe by the actions of the owners that everything belongs to him. This is sometimes called the Princess (or Prince) Syndrome.
Applying human social rules to a dog, placing no limits on the dog’s behavior, not correcting a dog’s behavior or correcting him inconsistently, and not providing solid leadership for the dog does not convey love to a dog. It sends the message that you are not able or unwilling to provide leadership and most often the dog steps up to the plate not because he WANTS the job, but because in his understanding, there is no one currently filling this position.
For dogs, strong leadership is equated with safety and survival of the pack so if the human is not displaying recognizable leadership skills then the dog feels it has no choice but to step in and do it. As a rule, most dogs are not laying in wait just itching to step in to take over the leadership role.
Most dogs would prefer that someone else filled this position. Dogs that are thrust into the leadership role left vacant by unaware or unmotivated humans are very often nervous, anxious, and generally unhappy about being forced into this role.
Dominant temperaments
Sometimes dogs are born with a naturally dominant temperament. The temperament of the dog is determined 50% by nature and 50% by nurture. One only need look at a litter of puppies to see natural pack order at work. Some puppies will be naturally laid back and submissive and some puppies will be naturally dominant.
The naturally dominant dog in the hands of an unaware or novice dog handler can quickly turn into a behavior nightmare. Couple the naturally dominant personality of the puppy, the challenging time of hormone fuelled adolescence when rules and boundaries are being tested, and add to that the unskilled or unaware owner who gives the dog insufficient guidance, rules, or structure and you have all the ingredients for the perfect behavioral storm to be brewing.
Owning and living with a dominant dog is only a problem when the human owners of this kind of dog do not have the proper skill set to know how to work dominance or if they are unmotivated to sufficiently train the dog. Early obedience training and firm rules are a must for the naturally dominant dog otherwise he will be running the household in no time.
Now That I Helped Create This Behavior, How Do I Stop It?
The key to stopping the behaviors is to address the power balance within this relationship. Currently the dog feels like it has superior social ranking to the human because the behaviors of the humans have demonstrated to him that he is indeed “top dog”. Since in nature it is perfectly acceptable for a dominantly ranked dog to own, possess, or take a resource, the social ranking of the dog must be addressed and changed by the humans. In order to do this the humans must reorder and restructure their own behaviors and choices.
Umbilical training
Use the Umbilical technique as described in the article, Establish Leadership With Your Husky Using The Umbilical. This technique helps to shift the dog from “me” thinking to “we” thinking. Naturally dominant dogs and dogs that have been created to be dominant by their owners think and make choices for themselves. They think for themselves and they make the rules for themselves. In this state of mind, there really is no partnership between human and dog.
The Umbilical process forces the dog to follow the owner’s moves. It makes them aware that they are not in charge and it gets them in the habit of looking at the owner and watching them for their next cue. Be prepared, that dominant dogs are initially not very happy about losing their “throne”. The task of re-balancing power and re-establishing yourself as one who is in charge is a process and it takes time. But really when you think about it, your dog did not suddenly become a dominant tyrant overnight. His behavioral issues were created over time and it was a process too.
Obedience classes
Sign up for obedience classes. Obedience training for these dogs is a MUST. Training work helps to drive home the message that there is a clear leader and a follower. A good trainer or behavior specialist can help you help you develop better dog handling skills. Obedience training helps establish much needed and previously lacking rules, boundaries, and behavior limits for the dog.
Teach your dog the LEAVE IT cue. Whether your dog is resource guarding an item, you, bullying a guest, or demanding attention from a human, the LEAVE IT cue helps to reinforce the message that he cannot have or get what he wants from this situation. LEAVE IT, DROP IT and PLACE (GO TO) are all great tools to redirect a dog’s controlling behavior and to put the control back into your own hands.
Corrective training
Make a commitment to correct the behaviors consistently and immediately. If you are inconstant with your corrections, you are teaching the dog to be more persistent with his bad behavior. A dog’s world is very black and white. Rules are ALWAYS or NEVER. Unless you ALWAYS correct the behavior, the dog will assume that rules need NEVER be followed.
Constructive love and affection
Learn a more constructive way to show your dog love and affection other than indulging him to the point of neurosis.Over indulged dogs are not happy. They end up being out of control, neurotic, anxious, and a hazard to bite. Please, it is okay to show love to your dog. Just make sure that your actions benefit your dog.
Far too often the things that people do to their dogs and for their dogs in the name of “love” serve to make themselves feel better in the moment. They don’t correct their dog because they don’t want to be the “bad guy”. They think that by letting their dog do whatever he wants that this will somehow make the dog happy. It does not make them happy at all. Dogs value structure, order, and knowing what to expect.
Without the security of these things dogs feel anxious and afraid. Please, if you love your dog (and I know that you do), love him enough to do what supports his needs. Don’t assign him human values. Do not try and meet his needs by trying to apply human social values on him. These social values really do not translate well to dogs. They have their own set of hierarchical social values.
Institute a “work for it” program
Most dogs with behavior issues are under the impression that they are entitled to own everything because everything has been always given to them. Food, toys, treats, choice of sleeping spots; they have it all given to them. Especially in the case of naturally dominant dog, they should be given nothing for free.They should have to “work” for every meal, every treat, and every toy they get to play with. Working for it teaches them self control as well as it reinforces that there are no free rides. At the same time it also teaches them that having patience is rewarding.
Also, these dogs should never be allowed to think they own anything. You, the owner, should be the only one who owns anything in the house, yard, car etc. You own all food, toys, beds and furniture. The dog gets it because you ALLOW him to use or have it. By human social values this sounds horrible and mean but dogs have a totally different view of ownership.
Humans give and share to show care, affection, and social acceptance.Dogs either own it, want it, are trying find a way to keep it, or they accept that someone else owns it. Many jealousy and resource guarding issues are about dogs owning, wanting what someone else has, or being afraid of losing what they have.
If there is nothing for a dog own, there is nothing for him to worry about losing, and then there is nothing for him to fight to keep. In multi-dog households dogs should not being allowed to own anything. This becomes crucial to keeping the peace in the household.
So gather up all the toys and dispense them sparingly. No more free flowing dog treats or free feeding. Give treats only during training and for compliance. No more letting dogs up on the furniture or on the bed while you are re-establishing your social rank. In multi dog households, all dogs must be relegated to a lower social ranking than you. That means the dogs must ALL have the same rules. Every dog must have the same consistent expectations for behavior.
Up the physical exercise for the dog
A physically tired dog is much less likely to have the energy to be a bully or a dictator. You can address two issues at once by umbilical training your dog using a waist leash while you walk or run. Exercise for the dog and umbilical training to re-establish leadership all in one activity.
Consider spaying and neutering the dog. While intact dogs are not always automatically going to be behavior problem, the combination of a naturally dominant dog combined with rampant hormone fueled cocky behavior and you have the recipe for disaster. Add to this mix a dog that an owner that does not train or sets limits on his behavior and you the makings of a dog that will surely end up being given up to a shelter and eventually put down because he was not adoptable. This outcome is absolutely avoidable.
What If The Problem Is The Addition Of A New Person Or Dog Into The Household?
Quite often the addition of a new family member in the household can really get a dog’s nose out of joint. The green eyed jealousy monster will often rear its ugly head when a new member of the household is suddenly in the picture. Your dog, who may have been behaving fine, suddenly resorts to being destructive, peeing in the house, resource guarding, growling at the new member, or just generally behaving really badly. Many people are at a loss of what to do with these behaviors.There are few things that you can do to make this time better and regain control of the dog.
Often when a new person enters the relationship, a relations dyad now becomes a triad. Your dog may see the other person as an interloper or a rival for your affection and attention. People usually try to address this issue by giving the dog lots of affection and attention when the person is not there, or in the case of infants, when they are sleeping. But this only reinforces that it is the presence of the person that CAUSES the dog to feel neglected or ignored.
So to fix this issue, give the dog treats and attention when the new person is there so they begin to associate the presence of the person with pleasant things. In the case of an infant, have the dog nearby and toss treats to it while you are feeding the baby or changing a diaper. You can also have the new person give the treats to help the dog to associate new positive feelings with the new person.
Do not respond any aggressive behavior with physically aggressive or aversive methods of correction or you will only escalate the behaviors of the dog. Aggression against aggression does not serve to eliminate the problem. Manage the behavior for the short term and the long term. For the sake of safety you may need to muzzle the dog for the short term until long term plans for desensitization and counterconditioning are implemented.
Also, if you give the dog dramatic attention when he acts aggressively to the new person, this attention will only serve to reinforce the dog’s behavior. Do not reward his behavior with your attention. Instead of getting angry, shouting, or having a lot of drama, quietly remove the dog from the area for the time being. This is not a long term solution to the problem. This is simply managing the problem in this moment and not rewarding his bad behavior with your attention.
Increase the exercise for the dog. A tired dog is far less likely to have the energy to be so rebellious. If you know that you have guests coming over, make sure that you exercise the dog before hand. If you have a new live in person or baby, go out for a walk as a group. It helps to reinforce the “we” mentality and demonstrates the cohesiveness of the group.
During this time of readjustment for the dog, make sure that games like tug of war or overly exciting games are not being played. The last thing you want is for the dog to become more excited and more volatile than he already is. Opt for quiet calm games.
How Can I Prevent This From Happening With My Dog Again?
If it has already happened, then use the tools I gave you to eliminate these behaviors. Then to make sure that these behaviors never return, apply what you have learned.
- Don’t over indulge the dog.
- Set limits and rules for behaviors.
- Know what strong leadership looks like from your dog’s perspective. Be a strong leader for your dog so that you do not get relegated to lower social ranking position again.
- Take your dog to obedience classes to forge a relationship with your dog. Make sure that everyone in the household participates in the training of the dog. It helps the dog to understand that all the humans have equal ranking over the dog.
- Make sure that your dog receives adequate breed specific exercise and mental stimulation daily to keep your dog from become bored and unhappy.
- Before a new person moves it, desensitize the dog to the new person.
- Before bringing in a new dog, make sure that dog are compatible to each other.
- Be willing to be honest about your dog’s behaviors. If you see the dog beginning slide back into bad habits, that means that you have done the same. Don’t make excuses. Make a commitment to address the problem right away.
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