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Hi Charlotte B

You are very correct & right. I don't want my dog to be very aggressive & ferocious.

Thanks for your advice


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I have a 4 month old male dobermann dog in house. My Dog is very soft & friendly to everybody even to the strangers,But the basic intention of buying the dog is for security purpose. I want my dog to be aggressive & ferocious to the strangers. Please advice me how to get my dog like these behaviour mentioned.
Answer -
Why would any reasonably sane person want an unpredictable, crazed killing machine in their home?
That is what a dog like you describe is.
When you will do, if you train your dog to be this way is, have to quit your job and stay with the dog at all times.
An animal this dangerous cannot be left unguarded. You will spend a lot of time and a lot of money paying off lawsuits because of the dog attacking someone, or HOPEFULLY NOT, killing someone, perhaps a neighbor or friend's child that tries to pet it.
The first bite may be just cost you a lot of money, and may not result in the dog being taken away from you and put to sleep, depending in the city and state you live in.
the second bite, just about anywhere will result in your dog being taken and put to sleep.
One other possibility, that I have known actual incidents of is, the dog will get tired of the abuse you give it, and turn on you, and kill you.
Did you not read or hear of the dogs that attacked the girl in the hall of the apartment building she lived in, and killed her?
They were dogs that had been trained the way you want your dog trained.The owner has been convicted on manslaughter, and is serving a prison term. Do you want that?????
The dogs you hear of attacking a family member, usually a child, have been trained like you want your dog trained.
Loaded guns laying on the tables in your home would be safer.
What better protector is there than a Police dog?
They are not trained that way. They go home with the officer that handles them and play and sometimes sleep with the officer's children. They greet friends and strangers that mean no harm, with a wagging tail, and friendliness.
A stranger that does not belong there, because they mean harm, will be set upon.
My dogs, all 4 of them, and every dog I have ever owned, are friendly to strangers. Go out to greet the mailmen to get petted.
They cuddle and play with my grandchilfren, and any other child they can get near.
Come in my house, after I tell you no, or when we are not at home, or we are asleep, and I will call the police to come and pick up your body.
I bring strange dogs and cats to our home, because I do rescue work. My dogs share their food and water dishes wit them.
I have had one person bitten by a dog I owned, in my 70 years. A man tried to force his way into my home, way back in 1956. He said he was a salesman, and asked if he could come in. i said "No, I wasn not interested in what he was selling." He said "I will just come in and show you, and pushed the door to come past me. My German sheppherd growled and showed her teeth, and he backed off.
My neighbor's husband came home as she was trying to push furniture between the man and her, he ran out the door. Had her husband not come home, she may have been killed. she certainly was in a dangerous situation.
The man got away, my husband was out of town. About 2:00am, my dog suddenly bolted through the door growling and snarling, chased the man to his car and bit him, and pulled him out of the car he was half into, and held him while I called the police. The man was a wanted rapist. He went to prison.
I went back in my house and went bact to bed and to sleep. I was safer that if I had an armed body guard.
Every child in the neighborhood crawled all over that dog.
That is the kind of dog you want, not a dangerous killer.
Wanting such a dog is extremely irresponsible, and if you care no more than that for the dog and for people it will come into contact with, you should not own a dog or have control of one.
The way you raise a good protection dog is this.
Treat the dog with kindness. Make it a member of the family. Get into a good obedience training class and learn the proper way to train and handle a dog. NEVER hit the dog!
Raise the dog like you raise a child. Teach it the proper way to behave, set down rules and you be the head of the family, but you teach with love, not with cruelty.
Make certain the dog has the proper diet, and medical care. That is your responsibility.
A proper trainer will teach you have to train your dog to have a good, safe friend to live with you, and to protect you.
If you don't trust that, and are so insecure you have to have a killer to protect you, take martial arts classes and make a trained killing machine out of yourself. If anyone breaks in on you, you can dispatch them yourself. And give the dog to someone who will treat it right.
You won't have to worry about lawsuits and having the police come into your home, confiscate your dog and put it down, or if they can't get control of it, possibly have to shoot it before your eyes.
When you teach a dog to be aggressive and ferocious, you teach it to be that way to your friends and yourself.
Think about it.
Charlotte


Answer
charlotte34Hi Vencat;
I am so glad you responded to my answer, and very glad my gut impression was right, that you were dealing from a position of mis-information, rather than from a mean spirit.
You have a dobe. They have protection to their family built into their genes.
The closer friend you are to him, and the more kindness you show him, the more protective of you he will be, but make no mistake about it. Dogs, like children will get the upper hand if they can. The more independant the personality, the more he or she will want to be the boss. The parent has to be the head of the family for the children to grow up to be responsible adults. The same is true with puppy people. You can make a good dog out of a spoiled brat, but it is really a hard road to go. LOL
It is ok,even good to love them, pamper them even, but they must respect the order of authority.
Laugh at him for his cute puppyness, but don't laugh when he chews up your best shoe. That is not cute, that is disobedience. At the same time, recognize that he is a baby and will lose his baby teeth and get new ones. Teething is the same for them that it is for children. The gums swell and are uncomfortable, sometimes they hurt a lot. The baby and the baby dog need something to chew on the help these new teeth come in, and to soothe the pain in the gums. A shoe makes a good solid thing to chew on, but if you give him an old shoe, has is he to know he can't chew on the good ones?
Get him a Nyla bone at the pet store.
They are a hard rubber toy that cannot be chewed up in pieces that can choke the puppy, and they last. They have holes in them, and you can put cheese or peanut butter inside. This will give the puppy a treat that is both good tasting and healthy, and the gums will be eased, and the new teeth will be helped through.
You can get a smaller on for puppy size for now, and a bigger one when he gets bigger. the exercise from the chewing on the hard rubber will also strengthen the ear muscles and help those Dobe ears stand up nice like they are supposed to.
Those jaw muscles will also be strengthened, and if he ever has to sink those jaws into an intruder, they are going to give him a good firm hold .
My German shepherd did not have a nyla bone, they were not available back in the 50s, but she had hard rubber sqweeky toys, and she chewed them all the time. When she was 3 months old, her ears were standing at a point like they would normally at 7 or 8 months old. Beautiful!
You know though, we do live in a riskier time, so some martial arts classes so you can help him out with the protection is a win win for you both.
SUPER HEROES!LOL
Have a good life with this young man, and write me any time I can help you with anything.
Charlotte