my friend has a dog that attacks anyone it sees even the owner how can this dog be teached?

Question

my friends dog has a dog she adopted the last owner gave it back she couldnt handle it
if you try to touch the dog it growls at you and might even attack you if you reppremend the dog it will attack you
i went to say hy and i touched it all of a sudden it jumped up and bit me on the leg this dog is severely traumatized how can this dog be trained to be loving if you cant even touch him?
this dog has major trust issues with humans
i told her to give it back but she doesnt have the heart to do that
im afraid that it might attack her although it has in the past and left a scar
is thr any suggestions you can give me in order to help this dog?

Answer 1

According to our Vet a dog that is this aggressive needs to be put down immediately as delay may result in someone getting injured or worse. Especially an innocent child. We had an aggressive dog and our vet said not only would we liable should someone get hurt since we owned the dog but if we gave it away knowing the dog was aggressive and the dog bit someone even though we no longer owned the dog that again we could be liable. We had no choice but to put the dog down.

A dog like this is considered to be a danger to society.

Answer 2

There really is no way to teach a dog to be nice espeacially if it has been abused by a past owner. Unfurtunattley the saying "A dog never forgets" is the truth. They don't try and judge any one person. So if he has been abused by one person then he beleives that he is being abused by another. You can be as nice as you want to an abused dog that is aggressive but unfortunatley they will remain aggressive. And it will only be a matter of time before it hurts a small child or gets loose aand hurts someone else.

If the dog is still young young you can try and take to some obeidence classes to try and calm it down, but a warning there will be other people and animals there so I would be leary to take it anywhere where there might be the potential of an attak. Also, this might only make the even more agreesive or only calm towards the owner so I would talk to another professional first. Maybe they could arrange a private session. This will more than likely be pretty expensive if you can find anyone. Most classes are group classes. Unfortunatley,its all about money for most obeidence classes so thats why they only offer group appiontments. Most don't even offer classes to agressive dogs.

What I would reccomend is to go to a vet first and ask a doctor what they think. If its young enough they might know some ways to help. If not really the only way to get rid an agressive dog is to euthanize them. I would give the dog the benifit of the doubt, but if there is no other way to calm it down I would definetly euthanize it.

There are some great pet adobtion places out there, and there are some that are not as good. Do some research before you decide to adobt. Make sure the dog is right for you,and what you need it for. Also,do some research on the type of dog,some dogs are naturally more agressive than others. And also how they were raised is another factor as you could have probably have guessed. But research, research, research is the best thing any pet owner could possibly do. Pets are living,feeling,animals that need alot of attention,caring,love,affection,and a sense of worth. Without this they do become agressive and stubborn.

Answer 3

I am in a situation sort of like this, only mine is a 13 wk old puppy. I have got lots of advice and am trying them. He has been an angel so far today, so will keep it up. If this is a full grown dog I dont know if you can rehabilitate it. How old is it? Is it a large dog? This could be very dangerous. It may be too late for him. It might be kinder to put him out of his misery. He must be miserable if he wants to bite everybody. It sounds like he does not trust anybody. Do you know his background?? Maybe he was abused in the past. This dog may hurt somebody badly and the owner will be liable.

Answer 4

this might nicely be a grey section through fact the accountability could be shared. Questions that would desire to help tutor who became to blame: Did your daughter understand the dogs became dogs aggressive? Did she understand that it would desire to flee decrease than the fence? Why did she permit it off lead? the place became your daughter's chum for the time of all of this? Did the dogs's proprietor understand that your daughter had the dogs? Did the owner enable your daughter to take the dogs? Did the owner warn your daughter that the dogs became aggressive, and that she might desire to maintain it on leash in any respect circumstances?

Answer 5

That dogs needs a one way trip to the pound for the long sleeping shot. Sounds like the dog is a risk, and will probably end up hurting someone. The owners responsibility is to protect the people around him/her from the dog.

Answer 6

I do not know where you live but any dog that bites is subject to be put down. Agressive tendancy's are a learned behaviors that are very difficult to correct. You MUST work with the dog. Get a gentle leader and walk the dog (dont let the dog walk you) for at least 30 mins a day. You MUST keep the dog short leashed for several weeks. You above all MUST keep the dog active and break the cycle.

Answer 7

Your friend needs to strengthen the three major rules for the good dog life.
First, Exercise. She needs to walk the dog every day or run with it, paying special attention to the dog following her pace, get a choke chain and make her pull it and say heel everytime the dog walks out of pace, if it does not learn then she will need to walk backwards and pull on the chain three times while saying heel, tell your friend not to be afraid to put some elbow grease in there.
Second, Respect. She needs to tell the dog off for doing wrong things by using a mean voice (not neccessarily a loud voice) and saying no. After scolding the dog she must not seek any contact with it. She also needs to award the dog for doing good things simply by using a sweet voice saying Good Boy!! or girl...
Thirdly, Love. She needs to play with the dog (fetch or other) and pet it, making sure she has its full attention (eye contact, bodily contact)...
I am confident in this method unless the dog is too old, anything above 8 is definitely too old to learn.

Answer 8

"this dog has major trust issues with humans"

This dog sounds dangrous. I hate to say it, but perhaps this dog is a result of poor breeding / training, and should be put down before someone gets hurt. As much as I love dogs, I have to put people first.

Answer 9

You are right to be concerned and obviously a good and caring friend. The dog is clearly unhappy and disturbed, it could even be ill and in pain. To be honest your friend can't be happy owning a distressed and angry pet either. Advise your friend to take the dog to a vet or call one out to see it. If that is difficult at least ring for advice or contact animal welfare. After all the poor dog can't do it, can it? I wish you all luck.

Answer 10

Depending on the dogs age you can take it to a class. Its hard to train dogs that have been abused. I'd speak to a professional or call any vetrinarians ofc. and ask them what they recommend.