What are your dog's behavioral problems?

**wolfsoul** · 10-30-2005, 12:10 AM

Visa is shy with strangers, chases cats, whines when she sees me but can't be near me, scratches the door is she is left out too long, she goes into drive when she sees another dog running offleash when she is onleash, she grabs your clothing or jumps on you when she is confused, frustrated, or anxious.

**finn's mom** · 10-30-2005, 12:14 AM

Finn can be agressive with male dogs, usually unneutered ones. Not sure, yet, if it's fear aggression or dominance aggression. I hope to get him into some sort of advanced training to find out if there's anything that we can do about that. And, he will still get ahold of things and chew them up if I leave them out. The other night, he almost chewed up two glue sticks. I got to him before he broke the sticks open, though...

**RobiLee** · 10-30-2005, 12:30 AM

Katie and Tori are completely uncontrollable when we have company! It is embarrassing. I know it is all my fault but I can't seem to correct the problem. Both of them get so excited. They jump all over the guests and when a guest actually manages to sit down they are both right there in that person's face wiggling and waggling and breathing all over them and Katie even paws at their feet. I either have to put them outside or put them in their crates. It probably takes an hour for them to calm down and usually longer than that.

They also both dig! Big time diggers! Tori is the main one and Katie seems to follow along now. I hate it!! My backyard is a disaster. I am constantly wiping thier feet and Tori hates that. The yard is disgusting and they get all muddy!

Thats about it for my girls. Those are the two things that drive me crazy and embarrass me...lol.

Katie is dog aggressive but I don't know if that is a behavioral problem or just her akita nature

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 10-30-2005, 12:33 AM

Tango is fear aggresive with strange dogs, and goes absolutely crazy when she see's a brindle dog for some reason. She is also very shy around new people and barks out of fear.

Keeva is very dominant and protective, she can get aggressive when she's jealous of something.

Winston is weary of strangers, especially men but other than that he's pretty good.

Tia is scared of the world, she only trusts family and close friends.

**bark_some** · 10-30-2005, 12:36 AM

the jumping on the door thing is hooch's only problem i can think of right now...

**binka_nugget** · 10-30-2005, 08:57 AM

Kaedyn has A LOT of issues to work on. He has aggression issues, mainly. I think it was sparked by something that happened to him before I got him since I don't know what his history was like. He lunges at people but never bites. He actually backs up if a threatening stranger moves towards him.

He also dislikes cats, and birds (major problem since I have four). He is very picky about which dogs he likes too.

He also barks at anyone who passes our house and I swear he sometimes barks just for fun.

I've been working with a behaviorist and he is MUCH better now. He tolerates the birds, and has done much better outside. He still has a lot to work on but he's getting there.

Kai also has a few behavioral problems.. but nothing as serious as Kaedyn's. He's fearful of a lot of things.. especially cars. He hasn't had a proper walk in months because it's absolutely impossible to take him to the end of the block. I'm going to work with the behaviorist on Kai's issues soon too.

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 10-30-2005, 09:24 AM

Marta's main problems are being pushy about getting pets (even as I'm writing this she is trying to push my arm to pet her!) and barking at agressive dogs- for some reason she thinks she's "police" and will bark at dogs that are being agressive or mean at the dog park.

Adele doesn't like puppies and will growl and snap at them

and she goes nuts in the car no matter what I try! She is so happy she just runs back and forth in the back seat. I think I'll try a car-harness, but she'll probably find a way to get out...

**k9krazee** · 10-30-2005, 10:12 AM

Shadow...I can't think of any! She has always been a super good dog, no issues with people or other dogs, never has chewed up anything...shes getting older and a little more sore now so her biggest problem is growling at the younger dogs when they're playing but thats about it.

Mini...overall she is a great dog, her biggest problem would have to be jumping up on people when they come over or critter killing. She loves to go "hunting" in the backyard and usually ends up killing bunnies, squirrells, coons or opossums

Micki...hmmm, where do I begin...He is dog aggressive, he hates overly hyper dogs, he doesn't like men, he likes my dad and brothers but thats about it.But with these issues he has gotten 89% better...we still have some work but he can walk through a crowd of people and dogs now without incident, we wouldn't have been able to do that 2 years ago. He also barks and barks and barks when people come over and he doesn't shut up until they acknowledge him. He is also a critter killer, a squirrell chaser and a trash eater.

Kyra - She is terrified of new people and since shes small everybody that comes over wants to pick her up and she absolutely hates new people picking her up. She also is very noisy and is very protective of my mom.

Jack - He is super good most of the time, he gets along with other dogs when hes offleash but has an onleash problem. He also is horrible with distractions and will pay no attention to me if there is another dog nearby. We are starting obedience classes tomorrow, hopefully this will help. He also thinks hes Kyra-sized. He trys to walk on end tables or climbs on top of people that are on the couch. He also can't be trusted out of his crate during the day, he gets bored really easily and eats things...like the couch. He gets in the trash and in the laundry, if I have a pair of pants that had treats in them at one time he eats out the pockets (Micki does this too).

**Chilli** · 10-30-2005, 10:40 AM

Frisk: Barking, chasing the people that walk in our neighborhood, going off to play with the neighbor's dog and not coming when we call, snatching food out of peoples hands, begging for food, slight food-aggresion, and...thats about all.

Ethan: Now here is our little problem child

.... he attacks people if they have coffee in their hands, barking, dog-aggressive, rough-housing a little too hard sometimes, he hallucinates and acts like he sees things and barks at nothing, jumping up on people, trys to hog all the attention, chews things up, eats too fast sometimes and pukes it all up ...and a does a few others things that we need to work on, but he has improved oh so much since last year when we adopted him.

**new mom to a veiled** · 10-30-2005, 10:10 AM

Thor LOVES to get into the garbage, and pulls when on leash. I think the pulling is a game for him. When my husband walks him he pulls like crazy, and when I walk him he isn't as bad.......so guess who gets to do 99.9% of the walking!!! I don't mind.......