mnp13 wrote:Ruby talks up a storm when I tell her to do something she doesn't want to do, but she stays put. She whines, barks and howls. It's actually really funny... though I know she shouldn't be doing it.
Riggs, unfortunately, has started the occasional growl when he's being told what to do, and it's not a "grumble" growl. He has an injury that I didn't notice and I hurt him. Now he's very defensive about certian commands because I think that he's expecting pain to be next.
Now, before people freak out, he has a sore on his scrotum (I think it's from a scrape when he wiped out on my deck stairs, or it could be from last weekend when he ended up half in and half out of the car, squarely on his nuts.) When I stack him I grab underneith, and the other night after three stacks he had had enough evidently and told me quite clearly that I wasn't to do that again.
Yes, we're working on it. I've been free stacking him and giving him treats for standing still without me having to move him. On the other hand, he gets in trouble for growling in a "just in case you might touch me there" manner.
a-bull wrote:Well, Doc being a rescue dog definitely needs to be taken into consideration, too.
Everytime a rescue dog is bounced to a new location, pack order, rules and routines change.
I think people sometimes underestimate the toll it takes bouncing a dog from home to home.
babyreba wrote:a-bull wrote:Well, Doc being a rescue dog definitely needs to be taken into consideration, too.
Everytime a rescue dog is bounced to a new location, pack order, rules and routines change.
I think people sometimes underestimate the toll it takes bouncing a dog from home to home.
I agree with you more than I can even explain right now. Before Doc came up north, he went through a series of foster homes . . . and I think the process of bouncing has been extremely difficult on him. Extremely.
Malli wrote:hm.
well, as long as it stays a growl only, I think it might be workable.
I wanted to mention too, that I'd find a "time out" place other then the crate, to try and keep his time in there positive and relaxed. Do you have another option?
I assume you're doing nilif?
I'd also stop all people food from the hand or otherwise, if I were in your shoes.
I'd ignore it unless he got in my space. Sometimes Oscar will walk right up and put his head over my lap or inch closer slowly while whining. I immediately tell him no, move him away, and give him a sit or down. If it got too much and I had company I tether him to something farther away and turn my back on him.
thats just some ideas that I might try if I were in your shoes...
Malli
Malli wrote:hm.
well, as long as it stays a growl only, I think it might be workable.
I wanted to mention too, that I'd find a "time out" place other then the crate, to try and keep his time in there positive and relaxed. Do you have another option?
I assume you're doing nilif?
I'd also stop all people food from the hand or otherwise, if I were in your shoes.
thats just some ideas that I might try if I were in your shoes...
Malli
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