How do i make my dog protective of me?

Question

My dog is still a puppy. Is there anything I could start doing to make her protective of me? exp:If someone walks up to me I want her to growl. Not to attack/bite. please just answer my question dont tell me its wrong or I shouldn't do that. THANK YOU.

Answer 1

There is no way to make her protective of you, that is a natural trait that she will either have or not have as she matures.

If you want a protection dog, contact your local Shutzhund club and have them help you out.

Trying to encourage aggressive behavior in a pet dog is playing with fire unless you have a professional showing you what to do.

Answer 2

You don't want to encourage the dog to be too overprotective. that is a liability and can be dangerous. But depending on the breed, most dogs are instinctively protective of their people, pack and family. So don't worry. And if she doesn't show any signs now, she is still very young. Give her time to mature. You can also enroll in Protection training for dogs that will teach YOU and your dog how to learn the proper skills of protection training. While she is young, you want to socialize her and introduce her to as many people, kids, and places you can. This will help her grow up to be balanced, confident and be able to discern a Real threat than a perceived threat.

Answer 3

Do not try to teach your dog to be protective of you! The chances are good that you'll end up with a dog that does bite someone and you doom your dog to a life of being afraid of people, which is misery for a dog. Make sure that your dog has lots of positive experience with people now while it's a puppy. Find a training class and teach your dog commands so that you end up with a dog that does what you want. You could come up with commands that sound threatening to people like, SIT, DON'T ATTACK, anyone hearing that command is going to think twice before coming close to you and your dog. It doesn't matter whether your dog is going to lick them to death.
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Answer 4

If you already know people are going to tell you not to do that, then you already know it's wrong. And if you already know it's wrong and you are still doing it, that makes you an idiot. Not to mention you have a 6 week old pit - way too young to be with you - who is throwing up after meals, with your only response being to ask on Yahoo instead of taking her to the vet.

I don't know why on earth people would deliberately make their dogs unfriendly. Love your dog, and she will protect you. I have always discouraged ANY kind of aggression in my dogs - from human aggression to resource guarding - but they have still guarded my house against burglars and killed snakes that were coming towards me in my garden.

Encouraging growling is as good as encouraging attacking. I swear to you that as long as you have a strong, loving bond with your pit, she will protect you from anyone who tries to take you down.

If you don't want to listen to me, or the other sensible answers you've gotten - then start saving up for the lawsuit that's going to drop into your lap in a few years.

Answer 5

I have both types! Hah. I have four dogs. Two of them (the oldest two, ages 11 and 2) will be very protective and bark at a strangers car coming down our driveway but they'd never bite a soul, they are both gentle sweethearts. My youngest two puppies (6 months and 3 months) are very friendly and love everyone haha. But then again, when the older dogs are barking the puppies will usually join in, so we have plenty of warning when someone is coming! For example, the other day the energy Australia guy came around, the eldest dogs started barking, the puppies joined in, and when the guy got out of his ute the puppies greeted him happily while my two year old went to bail him up, but once we called him off he greeted him nicely. He even jumped in his ute tray to go for a ride when he was leaving! Overall, I'd like something that warned me if someone was coming, like my eldest dogs do.

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Answer 6

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After I started training my dog, he became very attached to me and loves to stay by side as long as he can. But just going to them won't help. You have to practice what they teach you outside of the class and you need to keep up with it at least every now and then after the class ends otherwise they'll just go back to previous habits. This course is a really good place to go for dog obedience classes. It get's your dog around other people and dogs to socialize while getting the training you need. As for electric collars, I would say to not get one. In my experience, they're only a negative effect on your dog. I mean of course you're going to need to correct your dog, but being positive and encouraging your dog works a lot faster and easier.

Every dog is different, so unless you have a german shepherd or a really smart dog, it might take a while to train her. You might get frustrated with her, but go easy. She's still a puppy and has a lot of energy. A backyard or somewhere to run will help her get rid of a lot of energy that might cause her to misbehave from boredom.

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Answer 8

We used to own a German Sheperd. She started out a nice dog. Then my parents encouraged her to bark at the door, and be "protective". Soon, we had to be cautious when people would visit. Then, when people would come over, we had to put the dog in a different room. When we would take her in the car, she would charge at the window if another dog was outside. She became a dog that was not fun, in any way, to have around. Due to extreme caution, on our part, the dog never actually bit anyone, but did try. I have owned four other dogs, since then: a Lab/Sheperd, a Lab mix, a Border Collie, and my son's dog, a Boxer mix. (Sounds like a lot, but over several years and two are still alive). I will NEVER encourage a dog to be protective. They almost always naturally learn to protect their homes and people, all by themselves. They don't do this right away, and they should not. They begin this as they get a little bit older. Then, you usually have to DISCOURAGE them from barking at things, even things that are just going by on the sidewalk, or people knocking at the door. Our Border Collie is the sweetest dog, but if she thinks someone is trying to hurt one of us, she will bark at them in a very threatening way. Both dogs bark at people if they think they are coming to the door. Our Lab mix even barked at a life-sized poster on my son's wall when she got out of the puppy stage. Please, enjoy your pup/dog. Let her learn that YOU ARE BOSS in a nice and loving way, because if you teach her to bark or growl at people now, she will believe she is in charge and you will no longer have a pet. Treat her kindly and she will protect you, on her own, if she senses danger - and dogs can sense danger.

Answer 9

The same 6 week old puppy your other question is about? Yep there is. Don't train her or socialize her. Make sure you get liability insurance on her because by encouraging her to be "protective" you are also encouraging biting. And while you are trying to make your dog "protective" of you, try feeding her tons of gunpowder. (For those of you who missed it, this was sarcasm.) Encouraging your dog to resource guard, which is what you are referring to, is a great way to create a dangerous dog. Fear aggression often starts out as a growl and gets progressively worse as time goes on. Professionally trained protection dogs are a different story but I highly doubt you could afford the price even if they would accept the dog for training.

Answer 10

It is never ok to make a dog aggressive. A dog that is protective toward its person normally does that on its own. If you want the dog to protect find a schuttzhund(sp?) trainer....if you make the dog aggressive you set yourself up for a liability. The true answer to your question is find the best handler/trainer that you can...spend your money there!