Aggressive dog-a german shepherd mix

A desperate owner because of the dog's behavior. Dog-dog agressivity. A kind of danger to the others...

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[dentalgoggles]

I feel sorry for an owner who is looking to a trainer for guidance and being instructed to use punishment techniques instead of addressing the root of the dog's reactivity issues. I feel sorry for the trainer who has not come into this new century with updated, scientific, and proven behavioral modification techniques and who does not realize that punishing reactive behavior without changing the dog's state of emotion will cause it to "act out" in a different (and likely worse) way.

[catalin30]

@dentalgoggles yes you can feel sorry...

but you miss a point

you don't know what a painter wants to create, after just few lines on the paper.

There are stages in training, so preparing the owner and growing confidence in his mind is one of them.

The dog should feel his owner confident in his maneuvers to recognize his ascendent. So... after this stage,the owner mentaly prepared and the dog recognizing some leash suggestions and obeying to them, starts modifications the state of his mind. ;)

[catalin30]

@dentalgoggles Try rehabilitating a dog in that context and with that behavioral problems using clicker training or some positive techniques at this stage could be waste time. I have a logical theory in training based on dog's natural instincts, which is very efficient(I won't describe it to you now).

[OneGoodBite]

Catalin, you're absolutely right. Though I've been into clicker training for a decade. When it comes to aggressive, vicious dogs that are causing severe damage, the problem is simple: You don't get a behavior you could reinforce with positive means. The dog has learned that it is his aggressive behavior that is successful. There is no way to ignore it. If you don't stop the dog's attacks you simply won't reach a stage where you could work with positive reinforcement.

[catalin30]

Everything is logical. Clicker training is poetry... it is beautiful, but it has its limits, it doesn't work all the time.

In the present, I am using clicker training combined with other training methods getting dog training of all kind of dogs, reliable.

Sometimes I am using pure clicker training method but not for obedience in real life, real situations... I am using it only for training dogs for movies and commercials.

[catalin30]

@dentalgoggles After some stages, the dogs receives rewards for some behaviors and meet the positive associations with the context.

Don't worry, the dog is ok now, he never made victims as you think that he could do. The owner is good as well ;)

[prettybaby2703]

like what Cesar Millan said, a dogs attitude reflects how the owner raised them...sooooo true! If dogs are trained as early as two months and was socialized properly then this aggressiveness will not occur but then again, aggressiveness depends on the root whether the dog lacks socialization or had trauma...I can very well relate coz I have a dog whom I turned into a monster bec. I spoiled it..but my other dog which is GSD was raised properly...so he turned out to be how I wanted him to be...

[deyan125]

@lottabubbles725 so you just proved you know nothing. the dog is not being punished in the video, DUH. but by looking at his posture and how stressed the dog looks while being "obedient" it is clear that the training techniques used to get these results were of course forceful and punishing. you cant justify that no matter how hard you tried

[deyan125]

@OneGoodBite false, i have seen dogs that are so aggressive they attack their owners of 5-10 years and trainers that were actually reputable were able to rehabilitate the dogs using a clicker and positive reinforcement techniques. so if you say that the dog is just too aggressive or is too out of control or whatever, then you could probably pass as a reputable trainer in romania, but that is nothing for you to be proud of. NO dog is too aggressive for positive reinforcement

[deyan125]

okay, first of all there was no sign of aggression from the dog. he/she was simply over excited. there is mistake #1. second after the "16 days of training" you can clearly see by the dogs posture, tail tucked ears back, that the training methods used were forceful and negative. so congratulations now you have a dog that went from just way too excited, to now living a stressful and sad life. maybe this training proccess should have started with the dog getting fixed.

[Dominique6586]

we gotta put ours down because he's to BAD trys to kill anything that isn't family .

[lottabubbles725]

@dentalgoggles where and when is the dog being punished? I missed it.

[dentalgoggles]

@catalin30. Thanks for the response. I most definitely understand that one must get the owner motivated and build some confidence and I commend you for making such efforts. However, here in the US, there is a Mexican man with a TV show with "quick fix" videos like this that has caused many problems for dogs and owners. Furthermore, If a shelter worker treats a reactive dog like this, and it tries to defend itself from the harsh corrections, the dog is deemed unadoptable and gets killed.