My dog is a fighter.

[MOhillbilly]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Yes. I put up with it to an extent.

put a stop to the licking. take her by the muzzle EVERY time she licks and tell he the 'NO' command. If she fights clamp down tighter. This does two things. Shows your ABSOLUTE DOMINANCE & disassociates the dogs lickmother for milk response.
pups lick the mothers face for milk, it actuall triggers a response in the mother hormones that drops her milk.
But once those milk teeth get sharp what happens? Mom puts a stop to the lickin by runnin them pups off. at this point (weening) you become mother.



Absolutely. She's actually a bit timid towards me, I have to be careful with how harsh I am correcting her or she'll hide from me. I'm pretty sure she was beat before we got her.

try the foot stomp w/ a no command. the vibration of the floor foot stomp really seems to work for me. I dont know how tight you and the dog are but she shouldnt be timid of you to the point that she hides. I know shes a handfull, shes a teenager, FIRM BUT FAIR.
remember those last 3 words always and shell come out of it in a year.

Good point, I need to work on that. Mostly our play time is getting out to let her run or playing fetch with a tennis ball. To get her to release the ball I just stick a finger in her mouth and pull the ball out.
i use 'drop' for a release command.




No, actually. She and her brother were abandoned by the city dump then taken in by Castaways, a local charity that rescues dogs. We adopted her from them.
At the time we asked about her brother but they wanted to separate the two because she was dominating him.

sounds like you got a banger use caution. FIRM BUT FAIR.
hope you two make a good run at it.