We have a three-year-old Female English Cocker Spaniel that is aggressive with larger dogs, Rottweilers and German Shepherds in particular. The last trainer we went to literally wanted our dog to respond to our thoughts with no other direction. Needless to say, this did not go well. Thank-you D.K. Dear D.K. I swear the dog-training […]
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Child Aggressive Dog – Is Socialization Possible? I have a two year old male cocker spaniel that amongst other things is child aggressive. When he was a puppy he had extreme anxiety around strangers as a puppy. Someone would approach to pet him and he would scream like he was injured. He is now better
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Can You Change a Dog’s Name? I got an email from a marketing representative a little while ago looking for some exposure for a contest and normally those emails enter my eyeballs and get lost somewhere in my head, going no further, but along with the contest information (which was for naming a company’s cat
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[youtube OSLsc2fifoI] Hi John, I have a two year old male cocker spaniel. When he was a puppy he had extreme anxiety around strangers as a puppy. Someone would approach to pet him and he would scream like he was injured. He is now better but still very cautious and isn’t the type of dog
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Child Aggressive Puppy in Need of an Exorcism Hi John, We have a ten month old puppy and a seven month old granddaughter; the problem is our dog is very jealous of our granddaughter and shows aggressive behavior in the form of non stop barking, jumping up and trying to nip her. Cedric wants her
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Early Socialization And Ongoing Training Are More Significant Than Dog Size When it Comes to Child Aggression Hi John, I always enjoy your column. I was somewhat surprised to read that dogs need to be socialization to children. Perhaps I have largely been around dogs that were socialized at an early age to kids, but
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