I'm from South Dakota and I am so not surprised that this is the kind of stuff we are in the media for after her ridiculous "METH - were on it!" media campaign. 🙄
11 months ago | 1
I have a question: I have a 3 year old male (neutered) Anatolian Shepherd/Kangal Shepherd mix. He is super well behaved on the leash (thanks to your miracle method on loose leash walking) he loves people and kids and other dogs. He is very well behaved for his breed all around and a good citizen for the most part. Except for one dog who we pass regularly on walks. I am pretty certain it is a Dogo Argentino mix, but the owner was told when he got the dog it's a boxer mix. It looks nothing like a boxer. It may be a pit bull mix, but just from research the obvious look is Dogo Argentino. It is a male, at least a year older than my dog and I am pretty certain it is intact. The owner is a big strong guy. Anyways, this dog and mine always have a 1000 mile staring contest long before we're close to each other, and this other dog always flies at us and acts like it wants to kill us, and my dog always reacts in kind. In almost every encounter the aggression is instigated by the other dog with 2 possible exceptions. I am pretty certain that my dog in these cases was trying to prempt the other dog and tell him to stop trying to hurt us. After both these times the other dog was a little less aggressive and there wasn't a massive blow up for a while. The stare off before the blowup is truly legendary. The dog's owner is a big strong guy, and he struggles to hold his dog back. My dog is trying to protect both me and himself when he reacts. He is defensive, but I don't think he hates the other dog. I am a shorter woman, and I struggle to keep my Anatolian under control when this happens, even with a gentle leader on. The big strong man is almost getting pulled around when his dog loses his mind. The aggression was a lot worse before my dog got neutered at the appropriate age, but it is not going away. I don't think that getting them together is feasible on any level, just from my knowledge of the owner and his dog. He doesn't seem to be trying to fix his dog's behavior, and this has been going on for at least 2 years. I just want to prevent either myself and my dog or the other owner and his dog from getting hurt by controlling my own dog as best as possible. Any advice? Thank you so much. I love your work and cannot express how grateful I am that you've made your training methods available to us all so that we can work towards making all our dogs better citizens. So much respect.
11 months ago | 3
Please anyone tell me whether "shot gun it" means killing or it is just a metaphore. I'm not english native, so I hope that killing your dog instead of rehoming him is not in any second a way to go...
11 months ago | 0
Beckman's Dog Training
The Podcast will be Live today at 3pm Pacific. We’ll be discussing when you should re-home your dog or if you should just shot gun it like Kristi Noem.
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