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What do I do with a aggressive or Alpha dog?
Rocky is 8 months old rat terrier min pin, and we have had him since he was six weeks old. Up until this past week he has been very loving dog. We could pick him up and pet him whenever we wanted. But now he nips when we try to pick him up or pet him unless he wants to be petted. What is the best way to break him of this?
More information: The dog was fixed at 5 1/2 months and he is just completing his first eight week course of puppy classes at Pet Smart.
Obedience, obedience, obedience... you need to teach him that nipping is not acceptable behavior and that you, not him are in control. He needs to be scolded with a firm NO and then ignored. If he keeps it up, consider isolating him / time out for a couple of minutes. Dogs crave inclusion and when you take it away, you are setting yourself a its "master"/alpha.
Also, consider doing other things that sets your dominance, ie. making the dog sit or lay down on command before being fed; feed your own family food before the dog gets its own; make it sit and wait to be invited in or out the door with the humans always crossing the threshold first.
You can also lay the dog on its side and make it stay there in a subservant position until released. With a dog this size, this can probably be done with ease of one hand. Another technique to display dominance over the dog is to stand behind it and lift the dog up so that its back is to your chest and its front paws are still on the ground and the front paws are up. You wait until the body sort of goes limp (submission). This position is for larger dogs, so you may have to adapt for this smaller breed, but same idea.
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