NFR Need some help training my one year old dog
- Thread starter Swimmy
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for a high anxiety dog my suggestion is as much as possible take the dog everyplace you go socialize the heck out of it. I say this because my wife has done this with with what I thought would be little yapping pain in the ass house dogs. they are very well mannered & don't bark much unless it night time and they hear something enter the yard when we are all asleep.
Swimmy, the good news is that you can be retrained and given insights that can get you exactly where you'd like to be. Email my sister at servicedogtutor@gmail.com tell her your situation and see what she says.
Older dogs are trainable, just have to be consistent. Treats as rewards for good behavior every once in awhile with consistent positive affirmation every time good behavior is exercised. I've personally witnessed the "heeler" trait trained out of the heeler. Sure, every once in a while he reverts to the puppy behavior but it's forgiveable and usually is the result of the humans neglect. I used to use "good boy" as positive affirmation in a training scenario. Now I just say "good boy" cause that what Jasper is.
You haven't given us anywhere enough information for anyone to give you advice other than to enroll in obedience classes or find a trainer. An aggressive/protective barking dog moves forward a teeny-tiny bit with each bark. A tentative/frightened barking dog moves backwards. An aggressive dog raises it's hackles. A tentative dog tucks it's tail. There'll be a lot of behaviors going on other than just barking and nipping and you need to be aware of them.
You can train or retrain a dog at any age - or at least I've been able to retrain them, YMMV - but you have to figure out what the dog is actually doing to know how to work with it.
(I've never dealt with what Cesar Milan calls "red case" dogs, just dogs with stupid, bad habits).
You can train or retrain a dog at any age - or at least I've been able to retrain them, YMMV - but you have to figure out what the dog is actually doing to know how to work with it.
(I've never dealt with what Cesar Milan calls "red case" dogs, just dogs with stupid, bad habits).
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