My siberian Husky who is 20 months old. Acts good when she is with me,but when visiters come other she.....?

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jumps on them,steals their food, and sometimes she is possive over everthing and her food, but only with visiters. When Iam with her at the dog park. She wont let me touch another dog,or if another dog gets near me she protects me. the other day my 2.5 year old cousin was over and was eating a cookie and my dog lola tried to steal the cookie but bit his lip.

PLEASE HELP
I exercise her everyday and have took her to obedience class. and too add she reached the high counter grapped her certificate from her class and shreaded it to pieces.

Answer 1

Let me guess - obedience class was Petsmart??? or Petco??? or one of those other kitchy kitchy koo 'please do it and lets be postive about this even if you are trying to kill the dog next to you' operations ??? Let me guess "please sit, sit- I'll give you a cookie"? Headhalters and weird martingales and other funky pieces of equipment???

Frankly, if that is what they did, you should get your money back!

You need help. Huskies are dominant dogs and fond of getting their own way. They are NOT for the inexperienced owner. (And Golden Retrievers or dogs like that don't count.) You have to be very determined, very unyelding and very insistent. Also need to be able to deepen your voice and roar NO and grab her and pin her flat on the ground when she ignores you or does what she wants. You have to be, must be, the ALPHA and enforce rules on her behavior in all situations.

She is being the Alpha - the leader - and you can take a hike as far as whether you do or do not want her to act like that.

Alphas take the food from lower ranked dogs in the pack. Alphas nip and grab the lower ranked pack members when they don't immediately do as the Alpha wishes. Alphas knock over the lower ranked members of the pack to establish their dominance. Alphas round up the lower ranked members of the pack and won't let them near other unknown canines to socialize. Alphas chase off unknown canines and keep them away from their pack.

We are talking the ultimate ME, MINE, MINE, MINE, ME FIRST personality.(and right now you are a lower ranked member of the pack and don't have any say in the matter.)

(By the way,I'm sure some poster is going to drool over that TV person - Milan - who throws dogs on their backs and claims to be able to train them in an afternoon. Uh huh...everyone has their delusions. Try that with a Husky and they will fight back no holds barred - they are not that far descended from wolves and having the belly exposed to an "attacker" means they are going to die. There are other and far better ways to get control - but on the other hand, having to spend more than an afternoon isn't good TV.)

All of the "positive only" nonsense does not get it. Would you always obey speed limits if there was no chance of getting a ticket. I can postively guarantee one thing about "postive only" training and that is that the dog will absolutely positively ignore you and do what it wants if that is more fun or interesting or just because it wants to, than doing what you want and getting a treat.

You have to make her behavior cost her. You have to communicate in ways she will understand. That is the roaring at her in a deep voice; pouncing on her and grabbing her by the scruff and hauling her back; the shoving her flat on her belly, leaning over her with the upper body, frowning and putting your finger right at her nose lecturing her; the swat on the nose, and if necessary, grabbing her ear between your finger nails and pinching (EXACTLY what the Alpha dog would do to her if they disapproved of her behavior.)

Unless you want problems with her finally really nipping and hurting someone or another dog, you have NO CHOICE.

Now when she is being good with visitors or other dogs,she gets smiles and happy voice and praise.

As for the jumping up on visitors, get a collar and leash on her before they arrive - and I don't mean those silly headthingies. Forget a flat collar, you won't stop her. Get a properly fitted slip collar/choke collar and if that isn't enough, a pinch collar. She leaps, you haul her backwards and take her off her feet, down whe goes flat on her belly with yu getting up in her space and getting after her.

By the way, in AKC obedience competitons only two collars are allowed: flat buckle or a choke collar. All the rest of that stuff is illegal in the ring.

IF she is that dog aggresive and territorial (about you) , get a pinch collar on her - and USE IT

I've dealt with Huskies like that - I won which is rather amazing considering I only weigh 98 lbs but not so amazing when you understand that I was more psychologically dominant than the dog.

If you were within 60 miles, I would say come on over with her, nd I will show you how to fix and how to persuade her that the behavior stops NOW.

Short of writing 30 pages of text, the best I can do is send you to find someone who IS qualified to show you how to get her under control..

Now you both need a GOOD obedience class - and that is NOT Petsmart or Petco.

GO here to find contacts in you area that can help you locate and obedience trainer who works with all breeds and who does AKC obedience competitions competing at what they claim to teach – no proof of ability like winning:

http://www.akc.org/clubs/search/index.cf...

http://www.akc.org/clubs/search/index.cf... (set on all breeds)


http://www.akc.org/clubs/search/index.cf...

Even it they are an hour or more away, they will know other people all over the state.

Answer 2

Your girl is a brat, plain and simple. Not easy for you to hear, but going strictly by the words you have written, you have not given her the discipline she needs to be a good pet.

By discipline, I don't mean hitting her. I do mean by getting her under control and not allowing her antics.

When visitors come over, leash her! Tie the leash to your waist if necessary and keep her under physical control. If you don't get her under control, you will soon have no visitors.

Your dog's biting a child's lip is way, way out of line. Going for a cookie or not, she made contact with her teeth and a human's skin. Completely unacceptable behavior.

YOU have to teach her better.

Start working on alpha behavior with her. Learn about NILIF (nothing in life is free). Enter into another obedience course, with a different instructor as apparently the last one didn't teach you a whole lot.

Another good place to go is to Sibe Rescue. Call/email some of the people who work with unwanted Sibes. Ask them how best you can go about rehabilitating your dog.

YOU are the only one who can help, though!

Answer 3

siberian huskies are very intelligant dogs and require alot of
exercise. they were bred to pull sleds, and if shes not getting enough exercise shes creating a job of her own. when guests come over, put a leash on her and make her sit and stay as guests enter your home. if she tries to jump up on them make a leash correction, also have your guests ignore her. as for the cookie, i suggest you keep her away from small children when they have food. she sees children as lower than her in the pack and will continue until you obtain pack leader and incorporate it to your children as well. the dog park shes guarding you, stop this now. make her stay and pet the other dog then release her from the stay once shes passed that exercise, if she fails set her up and try again until she passes. this way she'll get the message that your the pack leader not her. enroll her in another obedience class, a tired dog is a good obedient dog. the more training she gets the better control you will have over her.

Answer 4

Then your obedience training was useless.

This dog knows you are the alpha and won't mess with you, but YOU HAVE NOT TRAINED THIS DOG. She needs limits and needs to be trained that her behavior is not appropriate, that comes from YOU.

Until she is under control, do NOT take this dog to the park or let it around children. If she bites another child, the parent CAN request that your dog be put down.

Huskies are often very aggressive dogs. CONTINUE OBEDIENCE TRAINING. Hire a specialist if you have to BECAUSE YOU have not been trained properly in how to deal with her.

Answer 5

at first, attempt feeding a greater physically powerful high quality foodstuff. Huskies desire a great style of protein so attempt feeding Innova mixed with Evo. Evo in itself is in basic terms too plenty protein for a canine i've got self belief so a nil.5 and 0.5 combination would in all probability be stable. additionally, if she keeps to drink water, in basic terms grant her foodstuff two times an afternoon for 20 min each and each. If she does not consume it take it away, and he or she will would desire to attend till next meal. i'm fantastically particular she will consume it after 2 or 3 days. that's ok if she gets a sprint thinner with the aid of fact as quickly as her eating is popular, she will income it lower back.

Answer 6

I don't know if this is true, but I have heard that Huskies are one of the "one owner breeds"
I have heard the same about Chows.
Many other breeds follow under this category.
I may be wrong about the Husky breed, so don't quote me.
Good Luck.