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Jun
When your visitor is ready to interact with the dog you can tell your dog that it is OK to greet them. Allow dogs to greet and interact only in a safely enclosed area where leashes can be dropped with a go play cue when its evident the dogs are compatible.
Before you step into a dog park again its important that you are able to recall your dog in case your dog starts to become aggressive whenever he greets another dog in the area.
Get my dog to greet other dogs. Once you are close enough to the volunteer and other dog that the two dogs can almost touch each other stop and command your dog to say hi while giving your dog enough slack in his leash to be able to greet the other. Here are some tips on teaching your dog to not be aggressive and to politely greet other dogs. Get the Recall Training Correct.
Before you step into a dog park again its important that you are able to recall your dog in case your dog starts to become aggressive whenever he greets another dog in the area. Recall is not the easiest of training and will require some. In a lot of cases our dogs get excited and bark and pull towards other dogs because they want to see them.
The first step to stopping your dog from barking at other dogs on a walk is to change the expectation that your dog gets to greet them. Its not a good idea in most cases to introduce dogs on leash anyways. There is no need for your puppy to greet other dogs on-leash.
On-leash greetings are not natural for dogs and are much more likely to lead to fights than off-leash greetings. Your puppy should learn that seeing another dog leads to a treat from you and then continuing the walk without greeting the other dog. Dogs learn by making associations and you want your dog to associate other dogs with pleasant things never punishment.
The first step is to reframe what an oncoming dog means to your dog. From a safe distance your dog determines the distance not you have your leashed dog view another dog. The Labrador on the right is a gregarious friendly dog who gets overexcited every time he sees other dogs and highly frustrated when he cant dive in and greet them boisterously.
Unfortunately for him many dogs misinterpret his incoming missile approach as an attack and hes provoked many dogs into defensive aggression. Each class they learn to approach another dog on leash and then we take them out at home and they see another dog and can become frustrated when they are not permitted to go greet or play with the other dog. Many trainers now discourage dogs from meeting other dogs while on a leash.
If a dogs life experience around other dogs is to strain to get to them to say hi or excited over. If your dog is totally uncontrollable around other dogs this is actually the sort of dog teacher your dog probably needs. Using a drag-line during playtime can also be super helpful.
If your dog is starting to get out of hand you can use the line attached to a harness to reel him in. Teach your dog to focus near other dogs. A dog might bully a certain dog who they dont like but may get along fine with other dogs.
A bullying dog might pick on a dog who they perceive to be weak or fearful or might inadvertently bully other dogs by simply being obnoxious and overbearing often due to overstimulation or because they werent properly socialized as puppies. Pain or discomfort caused by walking or training equipment whether or not the equipment is specifically designed to cause it can become associated with the other dog and a dog who initially was just frustrated at not being able to greet may begin to. I have tried your 5 steps to stop my dog from going after other dogs but it has not helped My dog is a French bulldog she is a rescue dog she came from a place that has other dogs a puppy farm she was 4 years old when she to me I have had her amost a year and the problem is getting worse she loves people and children and is not.
As soon as they see another dog they bark scrabble and pull dragging their human toward the other dog until contact is accomplished whether the other dog likes it or not. Allow dogs to greet and interact only in a safely enclosed area where leashes can be dropped with a go play cue when its evident the dogs are compatible. If one dog is positioning his head over the top of the other dogs head walk away.
If their jaws are tight and theyre not breathing walk away. What you want is a relaxed posture with loose wagging tails and relaxed jaws. It is common and good for dogs to sniff each others butts.
Believe me they think that our hand-shaking ritual is weird too. Often the other dogs would investigate the urine which gave the new dog some breathing room. Lisberg hypothesized that urinating gives dogs an opportunity to communicate with other dogs without continuing to be sniffed directly thus breaking the tension that is so common when dogs who dont know each other are greeting one another.
A big part of the silent message we send when we greet other dogs is respect for them and the willingness on the humans part to let a dog come greet us. One of my friends Ingrid walks her two terriers past my excitable Pomeranians. Ingrid stands at a five- or six-foot distance from me while we chat.
When your visitor is ready to interact with the dog you can tell your dog that it is OK to greet them. Say hello is a good command to use for this. Give a treat to your visitor and ask them to drop this on the floor as the dog approaches.
A dog thats spinning in circles jumping up and down or barking and yipping is not a happy dog. These are all signs of over-excitement. The dog has excess energy and the only way her brain knows how to deal with it is to work it off physically.
Unfortunately people often interpret these signs as happiness. The first step to polite greetings. Teaching your dog to sit consistently in every circumstance you ask of him will be the foundation of his new polite greeting.
Sit when greeting people becomes the new jump or when greeting other dogs the new lunge so. Dog owners invest lots of time and money to try and train unwanted behaviors like not jumping on people and even just one person can cause this training to regress and confuse the dog. If youre greeting a dog that jumps up on you simply turn away or back up and ask the dog for a sit or other easy behavior.
Keep your new dog separate from other pets. You can introduce them outside on neutral ground while on leashes for just a few minutes. In the house use crates pens and gates to keep them apart.