Dog Aggressive Dog Owners

[Anonymous]

My reactive dog is a beagle mix. She was a malnourished rescue found in West Virginia with chained, dead dogs on property. She likely had to fight other dogs for food. Dogs are reactive because they feel fearful or threatened. How would a prong collar help them overcome that? Helping them manage their behavior is better than inflicting pain on them.

[Anonymous]

My beagles are nuts on a leash. As a result, they don’t get walks. They get plenty of playtime with each other, sniffing, etc. in the backyard. They don’t need walks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:pp here. I also recommend this online class: https://yourdogsfriend.org/product/online-reactive-dog-class/
It helps you learn how to manage the reactive behavior. You may also want to try some anxiety meds for your dog.

Good luck with managing your dog. It's heartbreaking to see your sweet pup turn into a ferocious beast whenever they see another dog.

Thank you for this suggestion!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My reactive dog is a beagle mix. She was a malnourished rescue found in West Virginia with chained, dead dogs on property. She likely had to fight other dogs for food. Dogs are reactive because they feel fearful or threatened. How would a prong collar help them overcome that? Helping them manage their behavior is better than inflicting pain on them.

The prong collar is not to hurt my dog. It is because she is strong and if she freaks out and pulls, she could easily injure me or drag me into the road or to the other dog. At this point, the prong collar is "just in case". The training was to help the dog react better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will sound very odd, but what helped my dog reactive dog, was taking her to the dog park. She stopped seeing all dogs as her enemy, and as a result she stopped lunging at dogs while on a leash. after the dog park I realized that the leash was 90% of the problem. She was off leash and the dog park and had no issues at all

This is also how my dog was. Off leash had few problems with other dogs but on leash was very fearful and reactive, I think because she felt she couldn't get away. Unfortunately, off leash didn't translate to on leash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will sound very odd, but what helped my dog reactive dog, was taking her to the dog park. She stopped seeing all dogs as her enemy, and as a result she stopped lunging at dogs while on a leash. after the dog park I realized that the leash was 90% of the problem. She was off leash and the dog park and had no issues at all

This is also how my dog was. Off leash had few problems with other dogs but on leash was very fearful and reactive, I think because she felt she couldn't get away. Unfortunately, off leash didn't translate to on leash.

My dog too-- we've decided she's a frustrated greeter. The problem is that she's a mini schnauzer so her bark is high pitched lunacy and sounds aggressive which freaks people out. So, any opportunity to greet is usually squashed as other dog owners try to get away from us. The dog park helped and there are usually a few confident dog owners who recognize the issue and invite her to say hello to their (usually much larger and calmer) dogs. That helps.

https://thebark.com/content/how-manage-leash-reactivity-your-dog

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Prong collar
Shock collar
Muzzle

This.

Prong collars and shock collars only make reactive dogs more reactive.

Then wTf should we do? Seriously, can’t give them to shelter, cruel to rehome them, cruel to shock them, just let them run around and bite whomever and pay the person off?

Train them and use a leash and avoid other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prong collar
A lot of training
Avoid busy areas/ areas where people let their dogs off leash
I will actually have my dog sit and I stand in between my dog and other dogs going by if on the same sidewalk/trail - I can see that she wants to get up and run at the dog going by, but the training took and if I have her "sit-stay-look at me" she stays calm.

This is what we do with our dog selective dog. I can walk him by 9 am easily and he can walk with his friends (who are never allowed to sniff his crotch).

I walk with a whole pouch of treats. Another dog comes by and he usually goes into a sit stay and looks right at me for a treat. Yay! Unless you're a husky, whereupon he goes completely ballistic if I don't see the husky first and turn him around to mesmerize him with treats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of dogs do you all have? I'm just curious.

I have a very sweet-tempered English Mastiff. Her temperament isn't the issue, but her size will be. She's a puppy now, but if she decides to dart off as a 160 pound adult dog, I might be dragged. She's well trained and well behaved, but she's still a dog, so...

I used a chain collar (pinch), and I will invest in a Herm Sprenger collar soon.

Invest your time into training her. Lots of repetition and rewards. Remember that training dogs is really a lifelong process. My BFF owns mastiffs who are so well trained that her 80 mom with rheumatoid arthritis can walk them!

But to answer your question, my dog selective dude is a lab mix. He's a rescue whom we adopted at 2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:pp here. I also recommend this online class: https://yourdogsfriend.org/product/online-reactive-dog-class/
It helps you learn how to manage the reactive behavior. You may also want to try some anxiety meds for your dog.

Good luck with managing your dog. It's heartbreaking to see your sweet pup turn into a ferocious beast whenever they see another dog.

Thank you for this suggestion!

I took this class with my reactive dog a few years ago. It was the best of many classes we took, and it’s worthwhile. But don’t expect miracles from it! It is good for learning more tools and tricks to help manage your dog, but even after faithfully doing everything in the class, we still had to walk our dog at odd hours, hide behind parked cars at times, and carry lots of treats with us. We were never able to get to a place where a walk would be calm and relaxing. I had to be on guard at all times to be ready to employ techniques to help my dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We limit walks to once per day at off hours. Our dog would love more walks but it's not worth the stress for us. We use a lot of distraction and avoidance. I try look out for other dogs before my dog sees them, then we immediately change our route or hide behind a parked car. I always have a bag of treats with me so I can distract her with the treats. If we can't avoid another dog, I'll dump a bunch of treats on the ground so she eats them facing the other direction. I guess that only works if your dog is food-motivated. Could try some high value treat like cheese or chicken.

OMG- you just described my walk with my dog. I didn’t think about dumping treats on the ground. Great idea.

[Anonymous]

For those of you saying train them, it is not that easy. I’ve spent thousands on training including sending them away. Bottom line, dog is still reactive. Perfectly behaved in the house but you can’t take him on a walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prong collar
Shock collar
Muzzle

OMG!!! You would be aggressive too if someone used that %^&* on you.

Dogs are smart and if you can not train him without those abusive torture tools you are a tool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prong collar
Shock collar
Muzzle

OMG!!! You would be aggressive too if someone used that %^&* on you.

Dogs are smart and if you can not train him without those abusive torture tools you are a tool.

OK OP.. This is PP.. I take it back..
After reading your replies I see you are not mean and cruel but just at loss and in search for help,
I see many gave you proper responses so I just wanted to come back and apologise for the and wish you luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:pp here. I also recommend this online class: https://yourdogsfriend.org/product/online-reactive-dog-class/
It helps you learn how to manage the reactive behavior. You may also want to try some anxiety meds for your dog.

Good luck with managing your dog. It's heartbreaking to see your sweet pup turn into a ferocious beast whenever they see another dog.

Thank you for this suggestion!

I took this class with my reactive dog a few years ago. It was the best of many classes we took, and it’s worthwhile. But don’t expect miracles from it! It is good for learning more tools and tricks to help manage your dog, but even after faithfully doing everything in the class, we still had to walk our dog at odd hours, hide behind parked cars at times, and carry lots of treats with us. We were never able to get to a place where a walk would be calm and relaxing. I had to be on guard at all times to be ready to employ techniques to help my dog.[b]

This is us and our dog too. I posted about it on another thread and multiple people told me to just euthanize