Tips about How
To Handle a
Dominant Dog
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How To Deal With A Dominant Dog
Anthony Johnson
First and foremost, you must show your dog that he
must give you total respect. The easiest way to accomplish
this is to take away all privileges. That means confinement.
Until you have completed training, and established
yourself as the Alpha, your dog's life must be changed.
In the beginning stages, your dog should be in a
crate, kennel run or chained. He should have absolutely no
freedom. He must learn that you control his life.
This is how it happens. When I put my dogs through
this type of training, they began to look forward to it. As
I pulled up in my driveway, I could hear them acknowledging
that I was home. When I looked outside, I found them
standing up, and alert as ever.
They showed me they were ready to work. They knew I
was in control of them and they weren't in control of me.
My male is very dominant, so I knew I had to win him over in
order to win my female too. She had always looked to him for
protection.
Please, don't feel bad about having to confine your
dog. It will last only as long as this type of training is in
process. If your dog is a barker, then you should consider
investing in an Innotek No Bark Collar. Some dogs will display
this behavior (increased barking) when you change their
lifestyle.
Now you can also issue corrections when your dog is
barking during late hours. It will fix the problem, but do you
want to get up at 3:00 AM to go outside and correct your dog?
I don't think so. Get a no bark collar.
Another strong point is to say what you mean and mean
what you say. If you tell your dog to go into a down/stay
position, you had better make sure he does it. He should comply
with anything you say. I can mow my grass with the lawn
mower and my dogs will remain in a down/stay right near the
area where I'm mowing.
They know they had better stay right there until I
issue a release command. This shows them they can trust me. It
also reinforces the fact that they can't do anything unless
I allow it. Mowing the grass in their immediate presence
was a strong distraction that I implemented for proofing.
Anthony Johnson
Have a good day
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About Anthony Johnson SolvingDogroblems.Com &
Dogskills Academy are owned and operated by Anthony
Johnson. Anthony is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley, where he received his Bachelor
of Arts degree while also studying canine behavior
under prominent Israeli dog trainer Alon Geva.
He has worked as a technical consultant and dog
handler for the Canine Communications video production
How to Keep Your Dog Out of the Dog House.
Anthony has also lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where
he worked with Tom Rose, an international Schutzhund
competitor and author of Training the Competitive
Working Dog and Dogs That Love and Protect. In
addition, he has trained dogs for the Dog House,
Inc., a kennel and training facility also in Missouri.
Anthony has done training for obedience, competition,
behavior modification, drug detection, tracking,
schutzhund, police work, agility, film, and personal
protection.
He is currently raising 2 Rottweilers "Hercules and
Zeena", while running the web site, Solving Dog
Problems.com, and providing other dog trainers with
information about how to make money in the fascinating
and lucrative field of dog training.
Copyright 2004 by Tony Johnson
All Rights Reserved.
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