re: Dog thinks he is Alpha, suggestions? update p.9

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and take his feeding bowl away during feeding time. All great suggestions that are non-violent. 

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Take video of you taking his bowl away. He'll make it a violent situation.

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oing over there tomorrow while my g/f is at work. Will hold his arse down and make him summit. Then take him for a walk and make him walk in the middle of the street not sniffing anything. He will be downwind of me smelling my high protein diet. Probably will do the staring contest later that night and take his feeding bowl away during feeding time. All great suggestions that are non-violent.

Like I said in the first post. This is not my dog. I'm all for smacking around a dog when the time calls for it. My first initial response was to smack this dog but I'm glad I did not do this in front of my g/f. I don't want her to think I have anger issues. She has seen me blow up after watching football games. Doing these other methods will show her I'm the loving, caring, and patient type.


Ready for the beta comments. Yes, the dog is alpha right now and that is his house. That will change tomorrow. Maybe I will re-read some of the beta comments to pump me up right before I get ready to hold him down.

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You are a fricking idiot. A chow will attack you if you do that, you need to learn to be the pack leader. Either hire a trainer or learn how to do it, if not frick you and enjoy getting fricked up tomorrow.

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My inlaws have installed a doorbell by their back door made especially for that. It's right at the height for their dog to push. They have trained him to push it whenever he needs to go out. It's loud enough to hear all over the house.

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white people!

The taking food bowl away and other dominance things might when the dog is still a puppy, and you can easily overpower it. I'm not convinced it's the best method, but I don't claim to be some animal training expert. Common sense says that this is a terrible idea to try with a fully grown, aggressive, and fairly powerful animal. OP is going to get his jugular ripped out.

This thread has serious thread of the year potential. I haven't laughed this much on the OT in a long time. I'm down to toss in some money to get OP to film this shite

Well I know you were looking for non violent suggestions, but this worked for me:

Room mate brought over a chow mix that he was watching for the weekend. It was very aggressive, but he could back it down if it was growling or barking at me. He went to the gym (leaving the dog home) and my GF came over. When she walked in the door the dog started growling and barking very aggressively at her. I used the same tone and words he did to try to get it to back off but it turned and began barking and growling at me. I immediately did my best Tom Dempsey impersonation and kicked the dog with everything I had right underneath it's chin...it damn near cut a back flip then scurried off to my roommates room while sneaking glances at me. That dog wouldn't even so much as look at me for the rest of the weekend.

Not sure if that means I became the "alpha", but I sure as hell didn't have to put up with it's shite anymore

If the dog is not as bad off as you say then I would try some other methods first, before you get your head eaten off.

Try getting a pinch collar. Take him outside with the collar on and you will likely gain control really quick. Take back over control inside the house..if you are eating and he sits around begging then put him in the kennel. It may take a little time if the dog is stubborn and he now feels like he's in control, but it shouldn't be that hard to do.

I had a boxer, who was a great dog. Pinch collar worked great for him when walking. It took hardly no time at all to get him on track. Inside the house he was always fine, except for tearing up the couch one time, but I had another dog who taught him how to do that. Those things, with a few arse whippings and you should be ok.

12 stitches, 4 butterfly closures, and a tetanus shot.

We need an update OP.

Slam it's arse on the ground and hold it by it's neck. You can do it without hurting it and completely controlling it. Do it a few times and you show you're the boss. We rescued a basset and I had to do it twice and it's all it took. It was trying to show who was boss to our other dog when I came in and "dominated".