How To Deal With A Dominant Dog

First and foremost, you must show your dog that hemust give you total respect. The easiest way to accomplishthis is to take away all privileges. That means confinement.Until you have completed training, and establishedyourself as the Alpha, your dog's life must be changed.In the beginning stages, your dog should be in acrate, kennel run or chained. He should have absolutely nofreedom. He must learn that you control his life.This is how it happens. When I put my dogs throughthis type of training, they began to look forward to it. AsI pulled up in my driveway, I could hear them acknowledgingthat I was home. When I looked outside, I found themstanding up, and alert as ever.They showed me they were ready to work. They knew Iwas 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 inorder to win my female too. She had always looked to him forprotection.Please, don't feel bad about having to confine yourdog. It will last only as long as this type of training is inprocess. If your dog is a barker, then you should considerinvesting in an Innotek No Bark Collar. Some dogs will displaythis behavior (increased barking) when you change theirlifestyle.Now you can also issue corrections when your dog isbarking during late hours. It will fix the problem, but do youwant 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 meanwhat you say. If you tell your dog to go into a down/stayposition, you had better make sure he does it. He should complywith anything you say. I can mow my grass with the lawnmower and my dogs will remain in a down/stay right near thearea where I'm mowing.They know they had better stay right there until Iissue a release command. This shows them they can trust me. Italso reinforces the fact that they can't do anything unlessI allow it. Mowing the grass in their immediate presencewas a strong distraction that I implemented for proofing.


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