Jokersmama
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- Feb 24, 2015
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- Joker
I'm new here, so thanks for reading and I hope to learn as much as I can!
Here is the background and problem...
Joker my 1 yr old English Bulldog is a serious and I mean serious chewer. He has already had two emergent surgeries to remove blockages from a toy, bath towel, string, and another piece of a rubber kong....yes a kong. We got Joker at 8 weeks old. He started the mouthing,chewing like a normal puppy and had his first surgery at 11 months, second surgery about a month ago. I don't know if these surgeries have just made him bitter or what. He nice to all strangers, other animals even our guinea pig. He is NOT nice to myself, husband or teenage daughters when he is told no. He bites, lunges etc. He has to be watched 24/7 unless he's crated for bed etc. He will eat ANYTHING. We started a trainer at her facility 2x a week, it has helped with his stubbornness and his basic commands. It has not helped with the aggression. The trainer has suggested the vibration collar. Any thoughts on that? Should I have trainer witness this behavior at home? Joker is not an overly affectionate dog. This is not my first rodeo with a bully, my first one was such a joy and the sweetest dog I've ever had. The stubbornness I get and understand. The mean and agressive I do not. Just today I was cooking and needed Joker to move to put food in the oven and nicely told him to move grabbed his collar and he turned around and bit my calf. I'm sad and we are at our wits end :-(
Thanks for any advice!
Here is the background and problem...
Joker my 1 yr old English Bulldog is a serious and I mean serious chewer. He has already had two emergent surgeries to remove blockages from a toy, bath towel, string, and another piece of a rubber kong....yes a kong. We got Joker at 8 weeks old. He started the mouthing,chewing like a normal puppy and had his first surgery at 11 months, second surgery about a month ago. I don't know if these surgeries have just made him bitter or what. He nice to all strangers, other animals even our guinea pig. He is NOT nice to myself, husband or teenage daughters when he is told no. He bites, lunges etc. He has to be watched 24/7 unless he's crated for bed etc. He will eat ANYTHING. We started a trainer at her facility 2x a week, it has helped with his stubbornness and his basic commands. It has not helped with the aggression. The trainer has suggested the vibration collar. Any thoughts on that? Should I have trainer witness this behavior at home? Joker is not an overly affectionate dog. This is not my first rodeo with a bully, my first one was such a joy and the sweetest dog I've ever had. The stubbornness I get and understand. The mean and agressive I do not. Just today I was cooking and needed Joker to move to put food in the oven and nicely told him to move grabbed his collar and he turned around and bit my calf. I'm sad and we are at our wits end :-(
Thanks for any advice!