Training help

[valerie]

Before i brought my GSD home i read up on how to train him and feed him.We have had him for 3 months and he will sit ,he does that good but he wont come,he darts out the door every time it opens,he barks alot and most of the barking happens at 3 in the morning,he growls and barks when the family sits to eat even though i feed him the same time we eat.He finishes his food and comes for ours.He gets into everything and tears things apart.I kinda been training him on my own because my husband babies him and lets him do whatever.He doesnt realize that a gsd can be a handful if he isnt trained the right way. When i try to correct my dog he gets defensive and acts like im being cruel for trying to correct his bad habits.It is my dog,i love him but he is getting out of control.Its getting to the point to where when i tell him no or stay he barks at me and my husband and lunges at us.My husband has a bad habit of praising him even when he is bad and i cant seem to get him to realize that we need to be praising him for only good behavoir.i WANT TO ENJOY MY DOG but he is making it hard by being so unruly.The way i correct him is i tell him no and then get up and walk away.When he has calmed down then i will praise him.My husband says no while he pets him and praises him then the dog starts biting him and sometimes he bites hard.I told him that he is confusing him and only adding on more bad habits.Can someone please tell me how to address this.I'm stumped.Am i correcting it the right way or is my husband?

[Elaine]

You already have an out-of-control dog that has zero manners and is becoming aggressive to both you and your husband. If things don't change there like right now, someone is going to get bitten and it's the dog that will lose. Your husband is ruining your dog and your relationship with your dog. I have no idea if you know how to handle the dog either.

You have got to get this dog in a good dog school immediately so you can learn how to train him properly. Your husband either needs to get on board with this or you need to rehome your dog.

[MaggieRoseLee]

Your puppy is just confused, getting bigger, and learning he can push everyone around.

It doesn't matter WHAT your husband does (or doesn't ) if you decide to get a handle on this and up your leadership role. When I go to my parents home, it doesn't matter that they are more permissive and don't train dogs... my dogs listen to me in my home and away. They know and understand when my lips are flapping they need to pay attention...

This 'leadership' is NOT about ALPHA and being a dictator around the house. It's about being consistant and firm and giving clear information with equally clear consequences. Those consequences may just mean my pup is going into the crate for a time out, not necessarily about corrections and punishment...

EXERCISE is key to all training. Miles and miles and miles of bonding, fun, exercise that you can add tons of small training sessions as a part of. The more tired from being out that our dogs are, the MUCH better behaved they are when in the home.

This is what I do when my pups come home:

YouTube - Glory B (11 wks) and Bretta Lee (5 yrs) Hiking in the Woods

YouTube - Glory B (11 wks) and Bretta Lee (5 yrs) Hiking in the Woods

DOG CLASSES! You can take the dog, doesn't matter if your husband participates. Both mental and physical stimulation for our pups PLUS we are learning to be trainers.

Here's my agility class, we started when Glory was 10 weeks old!

YouTube - GSD Agility Class - 5 months old

YouTube - GSD Agility Class - 5 months old

CLICKER TRAINING!!! So much fun, clear to our pups and works so well!

YouTube - How To Teach Your Dog to Listen (leave it alone)

YouTube - How To Teach Your Dog to Listen (leave it alone)

TRICKS!!! Teaching a trick is the least important part of teaching a trick

YouTube - crazy tricks of crazy puppy - Le, 3 months

YouTube - crazy tricks of crazy puppy - Le, 3 months

[Sunstreaked]

Maggie, I swear, I just LOVE you!

[ZAYDA]

To be honest you didn't read enough. I don't mean to be rude but as mentioned your puppy is a puppy and will do what comes natural until you correct him and teach him what you want.

Everything you mentioned as a problem with your puppy lies with the owner not the puppy. Classes are your best friend sign up ASAP and please buy a good how to train a GSD book good luck

[MaggieRoseLee]

Originally Posted by Sunstreaked

Maggie, I swear, I just LOVE you!

[ZAYDA]

Originally Posted by MaggieRoseLee

You are good Maggie I must agree.
You can send me videos of your beautiful girls in training any time even though it's just a walk in the woods it's always training and bonding I
love it.

[Good_Karma]

I swear by NILIF (Nothing in Life is Free). Google it.

[PaddyD]

Parenting a dog is like parenting a child. You have to work together and your 'child' has to know that he will get the same response to unwanted behavior from either parent. When one parent undermines another just to please him/herself he/she is confusing the 'child' and he will become a selfish manipulator because he can only rely on himself.

[MaggieRoseLee]

Originally Posted by PaddyD

Parenting a dog is like parenting a child. You have to work together and your 'child' has to know that he will get the same response to unwanted behavior from either parent. When one parent undermines another just to please him/herself he/she is confusing the 'child' and he will become a selfish manipulator because he can only rely on himself.

While I absolutely agree that an ideal situation is for all the humans in the house to be on the same page............. I know that doesn't always happen.

I do know that as long as at least one of the adults takes this seriously and takes the dog to classes, does tons of socialization and training OUTSIDE the home (ie away from the influence of the humans who aren't helping) then the dog can really start turning around.

In fact, usually when the other people start seeing the dog ONLY obeying the one person, only listening and following the one person......then they start jumping on board to some extent cause they can see maybe there's something to the training after all!

Lead by example is what I say. And get that pup out of the house to get a good start.