I'm assuming your Mom is the only one she'll obey?
As the other poster suggests, I'd rule out a medical issue first, and then back to the trainers. But... it might be an idea for all of your family to take part in training so she learns to respect *you*, not just your Mom teaching her how to react to other people. As odd as it may seem, the dog needs to be taught that she's at the bottom of the totem pole - that all the rest of you are dominant over her. That doesn't mean hitting her or abusing her, but in a pack situation, if she bit a higher-ranking dog, they'd definitely put her in her place.
We have that issue to some degree here - the dogs try to get away with more with Greg than they do with me. They recognize me as the Alpha, but they regularly push Greg to see how much they can get away with. Not to the point of biting or being aggressive, but they don't listen to him as well as they do me. It's taken lots of work on his part to make it clear to the dogs that they need to obey him too.
In the meantime, sounding like a dog helps. A low, mean growl in your voice when you're telling the dog to do something, especially "back off" gains the dog's respect more than a light happy cheerful voice. In this case, it sounds like it happened too fast, but a low, LOUD, growly "stay" or "You stay there!" might save your other arm next time around.
Highly doubtful it's a medical condition. She's plainly just a c*nt who was never trained properly. The fact that Mum and only Mum feeds her doesn't help so for the next week I'll be the only one feeding her while Mum is out of the room.
She knew she did wrong today as she laid in her pen the majority of the day with her paw over her face. Mum stepped up and punished the dog as well (and by punishing I mean, not paying any attention to her or talking to her).
Switching up roles and locking her out of the bedroom will go a long way to knocking her off her pedestal.
Something else I thought of, although from your description, she might be too old, or you may already have her doing something similar... but if she's still agile, you should get her to do agility runs. And by that, I mean *you*, which will not only help her use up some of that crazy border collie energy, but will put her in a position of really wanting to please you and seeing you as dominant.
I hope your arm heals quickly, and that everybody figures out a way to get along.
As the other poster suggests, I'd rule out a medical issue first, and then back to the trainers. But... it might be an idea for all of your family to take part in training so she learns to respect *you*, not just your Mom teaching her how to react to other people. As odd as it may seem, the dog needs to be taught that she's at the bottom of the totem pole - that all the rest of you are dominant over her. That doesn't mean hitting her or abusing her, but in a pack situation, if she bit a higher-ranking dog, they'd definitely put her in her place.
We have that issue to some degree here - the dogs try to get away with more with Greg than they do with me. They recognize me as the Alpha, but they regularly push Greg to see how much they can get away with. Not to the point of biting or being aggressive, but they don't listen to him as well as they do me. It's taken lots of work on his part to make it clear to the dogs that they need to obey him too.
In the meantime, sounding like a dog helps. A low, mean growl in your voice when you're telling the dog to do something, especially "back off" gains the dog's respect more than a light happy cheerful voice. In this case, it sounds like it happened too fast, but a low, LOUD, growly "stay" or "You stay there!" might save your other arm next time around.
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She knew she did wrong today as she laid in her pen the majority of the day with her paw over her face. Mum stepped up and punished the dog as well (and by punishing I mean, not paying any attention to her or talking to her).
We'll see how it goes.
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Switching up roles and locking her out of the bedroom will go a long way to knocking her off her pedestal.
Something else I thought of, although from your description, she might be too old, or you may already have her doing something similar... but if she's still agile, you should get her to do agility runs. And by that, I mean *you*, which will not only help her use up some of that crazy border collie energy, but will put her in a position of really wanting to please you and seeing you as dominant.
I hope your arm heals quickly, and that everybody figures out a way to get along.
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