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our dog is 14 months now and does a couple of things i havnt had before and wondering if i need to be worried he will gently grab you on the hand and try and take you for a walk theres no aggresion with it also if the kids are swimming he likes to go out and swim around amongst them checking they are ok if they have thier hand where he can grab it he will gently grab a hand and try and bring them back to shore is this anything to be worried about
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Originally Posted by northdude
What is your weight like, overweight? Could he have your health interests at heart?
Most admirable. IMHO your admirable chap is totally fixated upon the interests and welfare of your family. As he is only a "young un" I anticipate that over time, he will gradually come to realise that your children enjoy being in the water, can take care of them selves in water and do not need rescuing.Quote:
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As for "your walkies" I anticipate that over time, you will gradually come to realise that he and you need to bond and get out and about more.
Frankly I am VERY impressed with your canine.
Hes an American bulldog x sharpei
One of the best dogs I ever had used to do that. In fact is favourite trick was to find and bring stray women by the hand to me. They were usually puzzled but amused by having this experience.
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Originally Posted by Martin358
That behaviour seems benign but could lead to a challenge for pack leadership in the future. Your dog is not long out from puberty. I would make sure that I lead the pack out from the house / house area. Don't let the bastard run out ahead of you and lead the pack. Make sure that you keep dominance as 'pack leader'. Dogs like to feel that the pack that they are in has a strong leader. If he does something wrong I would grab a good handful of skin on the dogs shoulder, push it down on the ground and growl just like the Alpha dog in a wild pack. No need for a stick. Those American Bulldogs are protective of their pack and aggressive towards strangers interacting with pack members and that behaviour is not what would be normally expected with other breeds. Good Luck
depends how much time you have
you can get rid of it by "crying out" when he grabs you with his mouth
a dogs mouth is its hands so it is just trying to get you to do what he wants.
I prefer my dog "asks" she (and my new old dog is learning) to do like a double take where they look at what or where they want you to go then back to you twice
i dont want my hands inside my dogs mouth unless i put them there
its not a concern but i wouldn't encourage it, whats cute now may become a problem later
agree the pulling by hand thing isnt too flash........perfectly great if house on fire and its telling you to get out...... the water thing is awesome...our big black bruiser used to do it all the time...both our kids learnt a bit of water safety /its not so scary with his help...we would put life jacket on the kids and I would wade out with them as deep as I could go and still keep them above water...then call Willy out...he would be there in a flash and kids would hold his tail and get towed back into shallows...dog loved it...he would ALWAYS put himself between them and deep water.
agree if ANY pain from hand grab...yelp so dog knows its not on youve hurt me.
good luck and good on you for asking.
theres no pain you can easily pull your hand away it doesnt appear to be agressive behaviour at all
but it is dog trying to make you do what DOG wants.........another common way is to walk infront of you/stand in your way.
nah no biggy now and your johny on the spot so will be able to judge better than anyone else.
I agree with M Duck, it's not a problem now, but will eventually lead to the dog squeezing a bit harder with one of the kids to push them down the pecking order.
I assign words for a lot of things with my dogs. My dogs know what the word "biting" is, so in this case I would say "no biting" just as the dog goes to mouth someone, to let him know that is not the thing to do. He will find another way to get you to follow him. Mine go off and come back to me a few times in a row, till I realise they want me to come outside and deal with the possum/hedgehog or other pesky critter.
Dogs don't care if they are at the top of the pack or the bottom, but they need to know where they sit in the order or there will be trouble at some stage. As they mature, it is natural for them to push the boundaries to establish exactly where they sit in the pack, and that's the time to watch for.
He sounds like a hard case fella :)
Happy pair right there :)
I have just remembered an incident about three years ago where a bloke I know had his dog being taken for a walk by his mum and one of her friends. They met up with the other woman's daughter and grandson - so not strangers, dog mouths the kids hand in play and the next day the Police arrive and the dog gets put down !!Quote:
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It may never be a problem, but it breaks down the barrier of what is ok.
its ok to mouth your hand if you decide this is ok. its not ok for my dogs to do that to me
sort of how not all manhandleing leads to a fight but all fights start with a bit of manhandeling
personally i dont want dog spit on my hand just because the dog wants to drag me somewhere to show me a stick or dead possom
to take you somewhere your dog just needs to convey to you that is where it wants you to walk by looking and holding like a pointer or just with four feet flat on the ground with a holding stare in a specific direction.
but yea if you spend all day with your dog and it is something you are ok with thats fine
i teach my dogs problematic things all the time for enjoyment and you could hone this unusual direction your dog has taken into something cool if you have the time
just remember kids have thin skin and do really stupid things around dogs that are just well behaved monsters
No wonder you two are roped together, it looks like ya going up the Himalayas :)
Cool looking muttlie :)
I would say he is still going through his galloping puppy stage, i'm not sure what age Mastiffs mature, but Rotties mature at 3, so can take a while to settle down into a fairly predicable state. You've still got plenty of time to sort him out but as mentioned before, it is so much easier to get on top of a potential problem as it develops in the first couple of occurrences, then fix it after it's become established.
My current goof bag was a rescue dog I got at 2 years old and man did he have some annoying habits
We just keep him on a long lead when on the farm when in the open as don't want him chasing anything hes good and doesn't do it but don't want to take the risk as a whole package hes pretty good when we are out he doesn't grab other people he will just stay with us if the kids are playing and we are sitting watching them after hes had a look around he will just drift between us and the kids checking everyone
haha classic, it sounds like he thinks it's his job to keep you all rounded up :) Once he realises that he doesn't need to worry about keeping track of the mob he should be a bit less anxious about if one of you are going to take off without him.
My current dofus would see someone 100m or so away at the beach, and he would take off to see them. He would go up to them do a few circles around them and then come back. Needless to say I had a fair amount of work to do to make him come back when called. I started with a long rope, but as most will know ( as with shock collars) the dog behaves differently when it's on and does his own thing when it's off. The trick is to get them to forget that they have it on, so when they think they are about to get away with it, bingo you give them the check.
