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What is wrong with my dog

What is wrong with my dog

Understanding your dog actions is the first step in dealing with dog's behavior. Unless some irregular or aggressive behavior as a response to a medical treatment, most probably, your dog didn't turn bad overnight. Most dog's behavior issues start small and grow out of control as the behavior is continually reinforced. If you want to learn how to train a dog to behave, look back to when it all began and ask yourself a few simple questions.

These questions will help you analyze your dog's behavior. You will be surprised how easy it is to turn your rebellious dog into a good and disciplined animal.

• Does a specific behavior occur only when certain people are at home?
• Is it only happening in specific parts of the house or particular areas outside?
• Are there any objects that stimulate your dog to take action?

• Does your dog do it constantly or occasionally?
• Does he do it when he's triggered or any other time?
• Did he ever change his behavior in response to something you did or say?

Rewarding bad behavior can be destructive.

In most cases the answer for the question what is wrong with my dog can be solved if only we knew dogs tendencies to repeat rewarding behaviors. A bad behavior can quickly grow out of control and the more your dog behaves wrong, the more likely he is to do it again. If you forbid his bad behavior, you will be able to break this cycle and stop the problem before it gets worse. Remember, it's always easier to acquire new good behavior to your dog than replace a bad one.

Make your own choice.

I know, it's frustrating to find your dog's poo on the living room carpet or your brand new shoe chewed up. So when you helplessly standing and asking yourself what is wrong with my dog, remember that controlling your dog's behavior is in your hands.. If you manage to succeed, you can avoid unpleasant situations such these, you'll have less negative emotions and stress, you'll appreciate the dog more and more and obviously yourself.

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Housebreaking Older Dog

Housebreaking Older Dog

So you decided that you want to adopt an older dog rather than a housebreaking a puppy. Congratulations!

Older dog house breaking can be an amusing experience yet a bit traumatic for both, you and the dog.

When you bring your dog home, he may be a bit confused, after all its not the place he's used to, it's not the food nor smells he recognize, he find the place difficult to orientate and get used to, he doesn't even know where he can rest. All in all, it might be traumatic a bit for your new friend.

In order to succeed with your house breaking older dog, you might want to conceder the followings, conceder it as free dog training tips.

• Tour. just as if he was a young puppy! Introduce him to the back yard, wait for him to eliminate, be patient. Show him you are happy that he eliminated, in that way he will gradually learn to eliminate only outside.
• First excitement. Let him get excited from his new environment, he might have been tied up all that time in the shelter and now he enjoys the freedom he gained.
• Digestions. Due to changes in the food and water he's used to, your dog might experience diarrhea. Make sure you take him out side often to a place he can eliminate. Praise him for that each and every time he eliminates.
• Education. Do not punish your dog if he eliminate inside house. Neglecting your dog's neds or lacking of basic understanding in dog's behavior, isn't his fault.
• Habits. Take your dog outside to eliminate every morning (even if he doesn't have to). Remember to praise him when he does.
• Crate. Another great technique to train your dog eliminating outdoors is buying him a crate. A night sleep or three to four hours during the day will be very helpful for housebreaking process. Dogs are well known as den creatures. A crate can be a good alternative for their garden digging tendency.

House breaking older dog can be a fun and challenging experience, if u only learn how to do it. U must have a lot of patient and good will, exactly like you raise one of your own kids to be successful in life.

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Help!!… Great Dane Training..?

I have a 13 week Great Dane mix.. She's 1/2 Great Dane and 1/2 Bull Mastiff...
She's a really sweet dog, but she just does not listen! She understands that we someone says "NO!" that she's not supposed to do that or go there, but sometimes she still does... I know that you're supposed to use positive reinforcement with danes, but sometimes it gets so annoying that I'll yell or tap her on the butt real lightly... but for the most part I just clap my hands real loudly..

Oh she also runs away sometimes when I try to bring her back...

PLEASE!! If you know how to help ANSWER!!

Thank You!!
Thanks for all ya'lls help...
And yes I realize that Harleigh is still just a young pup.. I guess I just forget cause she's so big! haha..

If you have any other training tips that may help.. You are more than welcome to share them with me! Thanks again!

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Best puppies food

Best puppies food

Puppies grow much faster than older dogs and thats why nutrition is so important at this stage and why you should give your puppy the best puppy food. It is mostly recommended to feed your puppy 4 times a day and then only 3 times a day until its about 6 month old and requires only 2 meals a day. Its also best to feed adult large breed dogs twice a day so your puppy would be ready for life with this plan. You shouldn’t let your puppy feel that it can eat whenever it wants so dont leave any food after the meal, if your puppy didnt finish his food after twenty min just take it until the next meal time that way your puppy will know that there are certain times in which it must eat.

The best puppy food is the one that will make your puppy pop brown, firm stools. If you see that this is not the case change the diet, if you gave it only moist food try switching to dry food. But keep the kind of food you chose for a while so your puppy will have the chance to get used to it. Your puppy gets used to his food very fast so dont replace one food with another too fast. Buy food that was made for puppies but dont waste your money on those over priced foods; just go with recommendations from friends or your vet. The best foods are based on chicken, rice and corn. As your puppy grows it will prefer drier foods so make sure to let it try them once in a while and see what works best for him. If you are looking for quality foods which are also cheap and if you want to get the best price I truly recommend that you'll check out Dog.com. I wish you and your puppy a healthy and long life together.

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Where can I find a female Great Dane or Bull Mastiff with little or no adoption fee?

Ohio or surrounding area - We have adopted 2 dogs already, one from the pound and another we took in for a friend. Both are smaller breeds and we have a large home on a 2-lot property. We'd love to give a loving home to a female Dane or Mastiff. Prefer they be fixed if there is an adoption fee, but will cover the expense ourselves if there is no fee. Thanks!

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I had an English Mastiff in the past and was thinking of getting a Cane corso. Any comments on that breed?

I have dominant breed training experience from my English Mastiff, but I realize the Cane Corso is a bit different. Can anyone share some experiences with this breed? Pros/cons? I have a 2 yr old who is around 2 large goldens and has learned to respect them. Besides the obvious small child advice, does anyone have some insight on this breed?

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Would a French Mastiff be considered a pit bull ?

Would a French Mastiff be considered a pit bull? In my eyes, no but I want other peoples opinion. When I hear " pit bull ", I think more of the APBT, AST and SBT. I really dont think of mastiff breeds or herding breeds.

Do you think a French Mastiff would be considered a pit bull ? I most certainly dont in my opinion.

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Can someone let me know their Old English Mastiff growth rates?

This is my first time with an Old English Mastiff and my breeder died. I need some info so I can get an idea. I would like to know the length (from nose to tail), height at the withers and weight by week at 6 weeks and till say, about a year. Thanks. I realize that each dog is different and this is just to get a general idea.

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What is the nature of a Labrador Retriever mastiff mix?

I am fixing to adopt a Labrador Retriever Mastiff mix and I was wanting to know what the nature of this dog is. What are the Pro's and Con's about this type of dog?

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This is for the person inquiring about english mastiff website?

I guess they have shut down the site. It was an excellent source of information. But the "mastiff uk" website is very similar and some of the same people are there.

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How do I register my unregistered english mastiff for AKC?

I have a one year old english mastiff that i bought off of someone and he has never had any papers his parent did or so i was told but there is no way for me to find out who they were if anyone knows how to go about doing this please let me know or give me some tips thank you.

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How do I determine what kind of mastiff I have?

I just got a mastiff pup a couple days ago, 8 weeks old. I'm not sure what kind of mastiff he is. Any suggestions on how to determine the different types of mastiffs apart??

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How can I get my english mastiff to go up stairs.?

Our mastiff used to sleep with us. Just moved to a two story and he will not go up the stairs. Tried putting treats all the way up the stairs and he will get as many as he can reach without going up the stairs. At night he stands at the stairs and cries when we go to bed, but will not venture up the stairs.

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I have an English Mastiff and she usually only drools after drinking but I noticed today she is drooling alot?

I have a 3 month old English Mastiff and she usually only drools after drinking but I noticed today she is drooling a lot more then normal don't know if its normal or not. I've read they drool a lot so maybe shes just now starting? Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance!

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Joint supplements for large breed dog?

I have a large breed dog. He is a Pit Bull/ Bull Mastiff cross weighing 95-100 lbs. He will be 2 in September.

He is a perfectly healthy dog But I would like to get him some joint supplements just to be safe because I know larger breed dogs have joint problems later on in life.

What are some good joint supplements for a reasonable price?

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Would an english bulldog and english mastiff be a good match up to be raised together?

I was thinking of getting an English Bulldog and English Mastiff, but didn't know if they would be a good match up together. And I have heard it would be better to get the Mastiff first because they can become jealous dogs. Is that true also?

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How to train a 1 year old neopolitan mastiff?

My brother has a one year old Neopolitan Mastiff that never got trained as a puppy. He's now a year old and will not listen. Any suggestions?

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What is the best sort of large breed dog to buy? One that doesn’t need a lot of time and attention?

We want to buy a big dog, just for fun, but it seems like every dog we buy they are really needy. We just don't have the time to invest in a dog (training, attention) and so would like to have some ideas regarding low maintenence dogs, but still friendly. The opposite of a Golden Retriever or Chihuahua. Any ideaS?
Hold up, the reason that I said I wanted to get a dog 'for the fun of it', is because developing a relationship with anyone, or anything is fun. If it wasn't, why would anyone bother knowing someone? There would be no reason to love anything or anyone, if it wasn't enjoyable. So for all of you losers (LISA) that think you know what you are talking about - shut the fuck up! As for the Bull Mastiff idea, thank you so much for actually reading and comprehending the question. I guess it was too hard for the others to understand. Someone didn't graduate highschool!

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What kind of vitamin should I give my Mastiff?

I want to give my 9 month old Mastiff pup a vitamin to help him with his joints. He does not have any problems yet. I just want to give them to help in the future with problems. Is there any recommendations for what to give? Thanks in advance!

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How do I train my 3 yr old mastiff?

We just adopted a 10 month old male and 3 yr old female neo mastiff, both were raised outside. We want them to be indoor dogs. How do I train them house manners? As in counter surfing, potty, no jumping on the couch, things like that. I could use helpful methods on obedience training as well. Any help would be appreciated.

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What are the pros and cons of owning a large/extra large breed dog?

I am thinking of adopting a young bull mastiff/akita mix. I have no kids, 1 cat, 1 bird, big fenced yard and reasonably large house. I am near a big park with trails I plan on walking with dog daily and have neaxt door neighbors who have an akita purebred. What kinds of problems have you had with your big dog? What do you think is best food for them? What are your average vet bills? How is your dog with your other pets? Any info you can share would be greatly appreciated.

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What should I do If My Mastiff Bites Me?

I have a 3-year-old Neopolitan Mastiff named Baxter, and he keeps on biting me! I really don't want to get of Baxter, but I have holes all up and and down my right arm from that dang mutt. Should I take him to an animal trainer, or take away his Beggin' Strips, or what?
I don't want to try biting him back. I really don't want to hurt the thing. He's still basically a puppy.

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To give or not to give calcium to large breed dog?

I brought my 10 week old Neapolitan mastiff puppy home from the breeder (who is also a vet) 3 weeks ago. She instructed me to supplement him with calcium daily. When I brought him to the vet last week, she told me I shouldn't give him calcium as he could potentially develop bone/hip/joint problems if his bones grow too quickly. Apparently this is more common in large breed dogs. Any thoughts on the conflicting advice?

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Is one bull mastiff enough for protection or should I get two?

There has been some house robberies lately in our neighbor hood, and my mom stays home alone sometimes, since I'm a dentist and I'm working. She doesn't want an alarm system. So we decided to buy a bull mastiff..She wanted to know if one bull mastiff was enough if a robber came in..She is very old.
I work 3 days a week for 10 hours so i think i have plenty of time.

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How would I introduce a baby to a bull mastiff?

I don't have children but my husband & I are intending to start a family soon. I have a large 72kg male bull mastiff who is very possessive & protective. How would I introduce a baby to him? Obviously I would never, EVER leave any child alone with even a cat.
- dog has NEVER had any kind of interaction with children.

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