Q&A with ‘The Paw Man’ (699) – Missing Bricks In The Foundation Patricia Becker-Smetters I’m sure you get millions of questions every day… Paw Man Actually I only average getting 4 or 5 questions per day….. it just feels like a million :) Patricia … but was wondering if you could give me a clue as to how to stop this behavior in my adopted Chih. He gets along with small to medium dogs but when he encounters my Lab or Greyhound he lunges at them snapping. My Lab could care less but my Greyhound is becoming increasingly less tolerant of this. Since all of my dogs (6 total) are very well trained they are not in crates when we are not home and would prefer to keep it this way. Any suggestions on how to get him to stop this behavior? Paw Man There’s really not enough information in your question for me to give you anything other than a very vague and generic answer. I really need to know; 1. What age did you get this dog and what do you know of its previous history? 2. What training has it had before you got it and after you got it? 3. What are the details of the conflicts the dog has had that you know of? 4. How do you normally discipline your dog’s when they do something wrong? 5. Does the Chih have this reaction to any other dog or thing? 6. Do these conflicts only occur around you, or in your absence as well? 7. You say all of your dogs are very well trained, so I need to what to what level they are trained? And a bit of history on your exposure to training would assist as well. Generic answer; Carry out controlled exposures of your Chih to your Greyhound. The moment your Chih starts to show any of the precursor behaviors to aggression (focused stare, body tension or lip curling) then pair that behavior with an aversive and keep the dog in situ, ie. Keep it in the reaction zone, as removing the dog once it has shown these signs would be rewarding them. Where to go from there depends on a lot of things that are unknown at this stage, but essentially you get the dog used to longer and longer times of proximity to the other dog (building tolerance) and then build on that, from tolerance to acceptance.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:39:40 +0000
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