On Thursday, 23 August 2018 14:38:34 UTC+1,
www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
On 23/08/2018 12:46, tabbypurr wrote:
someone:
However, beyond a certain point, the dog becomes essentially irredeemable as
you pretty much can't teach old dogs new tricks, and in particular you can't
unteach them their current ones.
their ways can be changed, but only if you remove them from the problem human or teach the problem human some sense. Generally neither of those happens.
Wholeheartedly agree. People are always the issue. Always expecting dogs
to act and understand "human" It's humans that need to act and become
"dog" The amount of people that think just because someone's owned a
dog should read "been owned by a dog" in the past makes then an
authority on dogs... and stupid people that see size of dog as the issue
letting small dogs get away with dominant, possessive, aggressive
behaviour because they don't see it for what it actually is.
Dangerous dogs can be safe IF handled correctly. An example is police attack dogs, trained to attack people but don't kill people or attack the officers.
My mate had a GSD that failed Police training because it couldn't clear
the highest obstacle. It had had it's teeth filed to give them flat
tops but the surprise that they found out by accident was when someone
pulled out a toy gun and the dog jumped and grabbed the gun. Did it
every time without fail.
All dogs can be re-calibrated given the correct leader unless they have
underlying medical issues, people on the other hand let emotion get in
the way thereby creating a pathetic, weak and feeble pack member that
Dog will instinctively need to take over the role as "pack leader"
generally without any leadership qualities that would be learnt from
early pack life.
Dogs have a certain mentality that the human needs to understand. Lots of people want dogs to be something else: they're not, they're dogs, and nothing ever changes their mentality. It's just how they are.
IMLE small dogs are the most aggressive. I guess they have to be to survive in the wild.
NT