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Posted on 8/5/23 at 8:56 pm to REB BEER
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it’s a Lab not a pit bull; they’re not normally aggressive dogs.
Male labs can be pretty hard headed and short fused. They definitely can be aggressive, and high bred pedigreed dogs can be kind of bred that way on purpose. No great hunting dog that ever lived was a pussy. It just takes a firm experienced owner to use them right and sometimes they can't be tamed down enough to be regular ol family dogs
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:05 pm to CrawfishElvis
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And she did nothing but pet the dog and he snapped.
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He was chewing on one of his stuffed animals.
It sounds like a "mine" kind of thing...as in this toy is mine, back off.
You should be able to train that behavior out of him.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:19 pm to CrawfishElvis
7 months old is no age to leave a dog around a kid unsupervised, you are asking for it. The dog needs to be trained not to feel threatened by people and kids, and if I was you I would seek professional help.
However, kids need to be trained also to act appropriately around animals. Leave them alone when they have food,bone, toy etc. Don’t bother them when they’re sleeping or in the kennel. There’s plenty of info online, but don’t leave them unsupervised. It’s not his fault you set him up for failure (we all make that mistake sometimes, it’s part of training).
However, kids need to be trained also to act appropriately around animals. Leave them alone when they have food,bone, toy etc. Don’t bother them when they’re sleeping or in the kennel. There’s plenty of info online, but don’t leave them unsupervised. It’s not his fault you set him up for failure (we all make that mistake sometimes, it’s part of training).
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:26 pm to CrawfishElvis
Get it fixed and tell her to smack the shite out of it if ever growls at ever again. It’s still young and small enough to be taught its place.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:34 pm to Richard Titball
Your daughters need to become the alphas, dogs are inherently pack animals. I had an older dog with three legs, best dog to me I’ve ever had. As she got older she didn’t want to walk on hard wood floors and my daughter learned to crawl and would craw to the dogs chair and the dog would show its teeth and grow. Put her down the next day, if it was a 7month old puppy you can probably break it of that, but your 6yo has to know she’s the boss and put it in its place.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:39 pm to CrawfishElvis
Find him a new home. You will never be able to trust him.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:41 pm to biglego
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You will never be able to trust him
This might be unpopular, but you should never fully trust any animal around kids, especially unsupervised.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:51 pm to CrawfishElvis
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My theory that I told my wife earlier is that he thinks we’re his owners and the kids are other pets he has to deal with.
This is exactly what it is. We have a mutt from the pound she’s near 3 now but we got her at 8 weeks and I took her to work with me for a few months to work with her. She won’t jump or an anything at me or my wife at all, but she sees my 2 young daughters as playmates and she from time to time jumps up at them. Never growls or snaps tho I’d end that shite real quick.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:57 pm to gsvar2004
A lot of nonsense on this board. You have been put on notice that you have an aggressive dog and when this dog attacks another dog or another person, you will be strictly liable… meaning, you don’t have a defense and it will be your arse.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:03 pm to Theduckhunter
Agreed.
No breed or animal for that matter is born automatically yearning to love and cuddle with young humans. It’s taught; just lone parents are supposed to teach their children not to bite other humans in preschool.
No breed or animal for that matter is born automatically yearning to love and cuddle with young humans. It’s taught; just lone parents are supposed to teach their children not to bite other humans in preschool.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:13 pm to CrawfishElvis
One thing we found to help resource guarding is “trading”. Again, this is no substitute for actual professional advice, but training the dog that letting you take something away from him will be rewarded can help. Find some badass treats that he really likes, something that he will like more than his stuffed animal or bone (cheese, liver treats, a better bone), and offer it up as a trade for what he has. There’s articles about this online. You should do it first, then let your wife, then work with the kid ( not all in one sitting though). You can also practice with food when he eats to keep him from getting aggressive around the bowl… put half his food down and when he finishes it, grab the bowl and put more food in it, so he sees it as a positive thing. Do the same with your wife and daughter.
You want him to be comfortable and not growl around food, toys, etc. but you also don’t want to pester him all the time, so be sure to teach everybody that he needs plenty of time left alone also. That way, he doesn’t feel like every time he gets something he likes, somebody’s going to mess with him.
You want him to be comfortable and not growl around food, toys, etc. but you also don’t want to pester him all the time, so be sure to teach everybody that he needs plenty of time left alone also. That way, he doesn’t feel like every time he gets something he likes, somebody’s going to mess with him.
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Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:15 pm to CrawfishElvis
He was resource guarding his toy. Not that it makes it ok.
I take the broom to my dog and beat him with it until he gives up. Rottweiler that weighs about 85 lbs. Does not injure him but it is the only thing that gets to him and I have tried everything else. He would take anything he could find and decide it is his.
If you want to keep him and keep your daughter safe, put a dog house out in the backyard and keep him kenneled outside.
I take the broom to my dog and beat him with it until he gives up. Rottweiler that weighs about 85 lbs. Does not injure him but it is the only thing that gets to him and I have tried everything else. He would take anything he could find and decide it is his.
If you want to keep him and keep your daughter safe, put a dog house out in the backyard and keep him kenneled outside.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:19 pm to Richard Titball
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Get it fixed and tell her to smack the shite out of it if ever growls at ever again. It’s still young and small enough to be taught its place.
The dog is almost as big as the kids. So she slaps it and it reacts by tearing her face off, then what?
There are too many people here that love their dogs to deeply to realize the horrendous risk they are advising the O.P. to take with this animal and his children.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:28 pm to ImaObserver
Good god; ok hear ye hear ye
No dog larger than a yorkie are allowed to be owned/cared for by humans due to potential angry loud growling. What if what if what if…
Every single lab puppy ever born in life has growled and snipped at their owner/owner family.
No dog larger than a yorkie are allowed to be owned/cared for by humans due to potential angry loud growling. What if what if what if…
Every single lab puppy ever born in life has growled and snipped at their owner/owner family.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:28 pm to CrawfishElvis
My pup had the same issue when she was about 3.5 months old. My kid went to pet her while she was eating, growled a little. Before I could tell my kid to back up, she spun her head around with her mouth open.….then I snapped. Was a combination of me holding her 40 lb arse down and told my kid to hold the bowl in front of her face and play with the food. This went on for a few minutes. Fortunately this was the only instance, but if it hadn’t have worked, she’d be digging holes in someone else’s yard right now.
Now, my kid can take the food out of her mouth if she wanted.
She was trying to be dominant at that point because I wasn’t being too hard on her, discipline wise. She learned who the alpha was real quick, and it wasn’t her.
Now, my kid can take the food out of her mouth if she wanted.
She was trying to be dominant at that point because I wasn’t being too hard on her, discipline wise. She learned who the alpha was real quick, and it wasn’t her.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:45 pm to Big_country346
Thanks for this story. I love all these coonasses talking about beatin there dog with a wooden spoon or kicking the shite out of the dog... read any professional training book and none of these methods are in there. Maybe you can rehabilitate the dog, maybe you cant. But I wouldnt listen to any of these morons who talk about abusing the dog. There is a science to dog training and it aint the wooden spoon method baw.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:52 pm to Taxman2010
Go to bed.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:28 pm to deeprig9
How many dawgs have you trained other than the lab you call a bird dog, squirrel dog, deer dawg, and ultimately a shite dawg... probably a few for you!
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:32 pm to Taxman2010
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But I wouldnt listen to any of these morons who talk about abusing the dog.
I did mentioned I kicked my dog if you were referring to me. I’ve owned several, that particular one lived 15 years and that was the only time I struck him. I had a squirrel dog I snapped at once upon a time for chewing up a wire and smacked, that was a good dog also. Out of 10-15 dogs I’ve laid a hand or foot 2-3 times altogether. Lab i mentioned earlier tried to bite my daughter who at the time was maybe 4, of course I snapped. We still kept him and he was a great dog
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