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Steve told me the same about Bella when she used to sulk in the backyard and the only way I could get her attention was to go out to her and pat her. He rightly pointed out that she was treating me like a follower. Much easier to figure out dogs when you know how to be a packleader.. That's OK neatz. I understood what you meant by being a tyrant

This was a joke settlvr as OP was not setting boundaries before and has decided to do so now. So we were talking about relative tyrany.

Thursday update: We have taken our show on the road today and headed off to the dog park. Took the dogs in one at a time and let them run with other dogs. After a few recall practices they started racing back to me ;) full pelt. I managed to recall them away from chasing birds, running with dogs and sniffing good smells. By the end of half an hour the dogs were responding most of the time without a stimulation. Bella even did a sit stay in the middle of dogs playing. When it was time to go, I called their names and they sprinted to me from the other side of the doggy park and sat to put on their leads. Someone has kidnapped my real dogs and replaced them with these perfect angels . That's the first time I've been to a dog park and not been embarrased

Excellent work Tyrants are popular with dogs.. It is hard not to coddle your dogs. I would much rather cuddle than boss around but dogs need this. I don't know if this is a gundog thing or a pointer thing. Bruno is not headstrong like bella so it might by pointer bitches only. Being bella's owner is a constant battle because she is headstrong and very intelligent so she can think up lots of ways to train me ;) . She used to have me trained to pet her when she looked despondent Have fun being a tyrant

Hey neatz. My Bella used to do this occassionally, it is a form of emotional blackmail . It sounds like a leadership issue with you following her particularly as she is also dominating you at times. Vizslas are very similar to my gsps and the can get headstrong. I don't let my dogs on the bed or the couch and I practice the NILIF (nothing in life is free) program (google search it). Once you figure out how to be the leader rather than the follower your Vizsla will stop trying to dominate you. Leaders are higher than followers, they eat first, they go through doors first etc etc. I suggest you do some reading or take her to training and find out how to be a good pack leader. Good luck :D

You need to stop him doing it now or it will get worse. What I suggest is: Everytime he does it, push him away with the lead and stop moving. When he stops, start walking again. Repeat endlessly until you could scream (screaming is optional). You have to show him that you won't take him anywhere if he misbehaves. At 7 months he is old enough for discipline. I'm not sure about the harness. I don't know what sort of control they give you for correction. I use a martingale collar - a limited slip choker - which works really well for correcting bad behaviour. Good luck

I think he's just having fun. Is Jack on a lead? If so, you can simply give him a little tug to correct the problem. If not, put him on lead and correct him. Have fun

Well done. I love all the dogs on their mat. Bit different to how you described it before. I better go and purchase some mats myself. Bella and Bruno are missing out.

I honestly believe he's not past the point of no return. I still haven't met a trainer who has given the both of us a fair go. I think there's two reason's. They think he's in the too hard basket or they simply don't have the experience to deal with it. One trainer did tell me he admired me for taking him on........ I have been watching this thread with great interest RottyLover01. I vote go and see K9 Force. If you send him an email he will tell you how long he needs but I'm fairly sure he does 2 hour sessions with a follow up sometime later so you should only need 2 nights accommodation. Also, Sydney is not 15 hours from here, it is only 10 and then another hour to K9 Force land. It's up in the mountains and is a very peacefull spot. BTW your boy is absolutely lovely. I love rotties I'm waiting for your success story to appear next

Scent hounds are a challenge and Beagles are not known for their superior recall . Well done on training the husky, a friend of mine has been trying for years without success. Good luck sorting her out.

Beagle ears are OK too I suppose I don't think it works as an antibark collar as it has no automatic settings. I have been using it to reduce barking while I'm here by recalling Bella (my barker) whenever she barks and that works well. My dogs don't bark excessively though, I just have one whinger in the street so have reduced their noise down to minimal. I also lock them in a dog run in the middle of the yard when I'm out - not very often cause I mostly work from home.

Daisy is even the right type of dog - has lovely pointer ears Better warm up your credit card cause there's a bit of a cost incurred... Go on, sign up

K9: well your reasonably safe way up there, but I am working on a long distance e collar so I can keep those doing Distance Learning Packages in line.... lol.. Thank goodness I'm safe . I won't be purchasing a long distance ecollar for myself :D We had another success today. It was finally time to add my last level of distraction at home - possums. I left the dogs in the backyard and waited for 6pm for the possums to appear. Both dogs started making their possum racket and running in circles. I called them and stimmed them and they ran over to me. It has never never been this easy to remove my dogs from the possums . Bruno usually takes 15 minutes of coaxing and bella can take 2 hours. Also, both dogs are so worn out from all the mental stimulation that they spend heaps more time sleeping

Do you have Bella in a wire crate outside at night? Or is your crate a plastic closed in kennel type of crate? Mine is a wire crate. Both dogs are crated side by side with a heavy tarp on three sides and a sheet divider between them. I had also tried covering the crate completely at first but this also did not help.

Bella used to have tanties in her crate when possum's landed on it. I tried ignoring her and most times it worked. Sometimes nothing worked and she was still hyper-excited four hours later. I fixed this by following: - put her in her crate when she was overexcited - sit beside the crate with a jar of treats and reward quiet behaviour - at the same time, I gave her the "quiet" command everytime she made even the slightest noise - I kept calm and did not yell - this took about half an hour I had to do this a few times that week. She never has tanties in her crate any more. I don't know why this worked but it did. I would consider the medium crate for overnight. Bella and Bruno have smaller travelling crates which are only big enough for them to stand up and lie down in one position. I'm a bit worried about Anzac being able to bend the bars on his crate. How strong is your crate? Good luck eta--- disclaimer: this is not the preferred way to get your dog quiet in a crate, this is only for special cases. The preferred method is to ignoring the noise, make no eye contact, do not speak, do not pat the dog. Reward only quiet behaviour. - don't wan't to lead anyone astray!

How's it going ridgygirl. You got those girls under control yet?? Doesn't really happen that fast but I'm curious to see whether any of these steps are working.

That's fantastic news Ruthless I have had similar success with keeping the dogs much quieter by upping my leadership using nilif.

What a fantastic result you had being able to control your dog in the presence of animals . That's my aim as well but I'm not quite there yet. Another couple of weeks. The sit at a distance is fantastic. My two picked this up very easily because of the training course we're following. I am doing this to give my dogs more freedom :p , as you said, without endangering the safety of other people and animals. Can't wait to try it out in the real world but I have to be patient or Steve will beat me up

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A velcro swimming JRT.... I love it I have been practicing inside as well and find both dogs now follow me to the bathroom and to my bedroom which are normally out of bounds . Much better than the previous run away dogs. We have been working on distraction levels out in the big wide world so today I ran both dogs through all the exercise in the backyard again and they were spot on! Next I have to find a bigger yard or a longer lead cause this is getting too easy for them. They also follow all the commands without their collars/leads on . Week three coming up!

I tried that but he wouldn't budge

An ecollar is an electronic device with a remote which you can use to train dogs. I am using it at the moment to train my 2 gsps in the perfect recall (see thread down the page). My training course is through K9 Force and his website has lots of info. Also Marks, has information on his website. All this information is on this thread: E collar links I agree with Ravensmyst001. A chat to Steve from K9 Force is a good way to go. You can email him from his website and he also posts on here. Have fun

I agree with redii. Don't beat yourself up about this, most of us, including me, have lost it and screamed at our dogs in frustration I have been following the progress of Meriment with 3 JRTs - two bitches that he had to separate. This is his thread which you might find intersting: Aggresive problems fixed. I am sure one of the trainers will help with advice. I love Bunbury - except for the wind... Good luck

Do you have a crate at all? As the problem occurs after tea, you could crate them turn about so they both have time with you but can't get to each other. Just a thought. Hope you get it sorted out.

I agree you need consistent rules. I am lucky cause I'm the only one I have to agree with - still forget the rules sometimes though I started one room at a time and that seemed to work. Keep him in the kitchen and take him out regularly. I can tell mine need to go cause they start sniffing the floor. I would take away his inside toilet as this will just confuse him. With teaching him to toilet in one spot outside, I think you need to get him to go anywhere outside first . I think a couple of days of constant watching should solve the problem . If you both take him outside every half hour for a number of days and not take your eyes off him it should work. Good luck BP