Donegal

Welcome to the forum, Donegal. Nice first post. Your sentiments echo exactly those of at least one other current member. That's my experience with my dog agro Amstaff and the first time in my life I have had to deal with aggression. I didn't raise my Amstaff any different to any of my others and for some reason unkown to me, he just developed a hate for other dogs at around 5 months old, strange dogs that is, not my other two older dogs, he's fine with them as I guess my other two are his friends. So for my dog, the Cesar style training worked a treat which got his mind off the other dog and snapped him out of the agro state to be able to use positive conditioning on him from there. The other trainer's methods on my dog, could never seem to break down his attention for other dogs or reduce the distance between them and him where he would react. Nothing seemed to ever overide his focus on another dog and it was like once a method of correction was used to get his mind off the other dog, then we were able to move forward in his training, but until then it was like a loosing battle.

I think Cesar Milan does a good job with aggressive dogs and I wished in my case with one of my dog agro dogs that I had chosen a trainer who can deal with the problem head on as Cesar does instead of the three trainers I intitially hired that didn't help my problem much at all. My first three trainers didn't do physical corrections and although we achieved good focus clicker training with treat rewards without distractions of other dogs, when mine saw another dog, none of this positive conditioning worked and he wasn't interested, just intent on becoming agro towards the other dog. My last trainer who actually fixed the problems with my dog and taught me the key areas to concentrate on didn't alpha roll my dog, but did physically correct him head on as Cesar does and was able to settle him after two corrections which to me was like magic compared with my previous trainers using other methods. My dog was a total nightmare around other dogs and now although I watch him and will probably never trust him completely, he's fine with other dogs and is often quite sociable and freindly, but he has never since showed an aggressive response after training in Cesar like methods.