Frenchie Needs Training

[Anonymous]

Hello! I have a one year old Frenchie that was super mellow and around her first birthday, she started getting aggressive toward strangers, going nuts when she hears the doorbell and nips when people come over. She quickly acclimates and mellows but the first few minutes are always so crazy and stressful. I'd like to find a trainer that can help with barking and aggressive behavior with visitors--pref not one that uses an ecollar. Any recs?

[Anonymous]

She sounds bored. How much exercise does she get?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I have a one year old Frenchie that was super mellow and around her first birthday, she started getting aggressive toward strangers, going nuts when she hears the doorbell and nips when people come over. She quickly acclimates and mellows but the first few minutes are always so crazy and stressful. I'd like to find a trainer that can help with barking and aggressive behavior with visitors--pref not one that uses an ecollar. Any recs?

Where are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I have a one year old Frenchie that was super mellow and around her first birthday, she started getting aggressive toward strangers, going nuts when she hears the doorbell and nips when people come over. She quickly acclimates and mellows but the first few minutes are always so crazy and stressful. I'd like to find a trainer that can help with barking and aggressive behavior with visitors--pref not one that uses an ecollar. Any recs?

Where are you?

Arlington

[Anonymous]

following

[Anonymous]

ignore it - if it stops quickly you're not escalating it and its resolving

[Anonymous]

You can hire a trainer to help you figure out what to do, but the training is going to need to happen when guests come over. Your guests will need to help by totally ignoring the dog (a trainer might have you get your guests to literally turn away from the dog and close their eyes and not move until the dog quiets; then when they move the dog will go nuts again and the guest will need to go neutral again —and every guest needs to do it and do it immediately upon entering the house). So a trainer can’t train your dog out of this for you.

We did a great job of training our dog not to jump on us when we walk in, but she never figured out that it doesn’t apply to guests — so she jumps on them. We should have put in the effort with friends coming over when she was a puppy to train her out of this, but we didn’t. People don’t come over a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ignore it - if it stops quickly you're not escalating it and its resolving

Bad advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I have a one year old Frenchie that was super mellow and around her first birthday, she started getting aggressive toward strangers, going nuts when she hears the doorbell and nips when people come over. She quickly acclimates and mellows but the first few minutes are always so crazy and stressful. I'd like to find a trainer that can help with barking and aggressive behavior with visitors--pref not one that uses an ecollar. Any recs?

Your dog's friend in Rockville md. They also have a resource guide that lists trainers to come to your house. All of them are positive and force free.