Thansk for the advice. He realy is a good dog, but the collar thing realy got me. I have never had a dog react this way before. I was talking to him in a calm voice(i try to never raise my voice to my dogs) and just grabbed the collar, when he spun around. I do touch his collar all the time, he is groomed 2-3 times a day, and i take his collar off and put it back on with no probs. I also hold him by the collar when petting him, and he seems fine with it. I guess this is why it took me by such suprise. But he does have a tendancy to not want to do things.

If I am getting ready to go out and run errands or something, I always have the dogs go out to go potty before I leave, and sometimes i have to con Rocky to go out, cause he just refuses. We are working on it tho, i hve been working on training, starting with the basics, sit, stay laydown ect...he is doing great.

I have been using the leash, on him since the incident. and he definitely responds much better. Like i said this is a first for me. I will call around and find out about obedience classes. hard to find ones for large dogs here.