- thatbastardken
- Apr 23, 2010
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when you say dominate them, what precisely do you mean
is there any way this isn't a sex thing?
no
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- thatbastardken
- Apr 23, 2010
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So I got a dog from a shelter a few months ago, He's a great dane/mastiff mix and 5 months old when i got him. Apart from being underweight, there is nothing to suggest he was treated particularly poorly by whoever gave him up. I bounce between 2 properties, a suburban house in a city and on a big property in the country. He's been a great dog overall, very affectionate with my family, good with my young nephew, fitted into the pack of my families other dogs (white shepherd, boarder collie).
But when he gets around 'prey' animals, his body language changes and he wants to them chase down and rip them apart. Theres been 2 incidents so far. The first, he'd gotten away from my dad on a walk at the rural property with the other dogs and chased down one of the sheep that roam around, grabbed it and savaged it, pretty much ripped and tore its lip until it was hanging off, before my dad could drag him off. (was a bit of a horror show but i got a vet there and he managed to sititch it all back together and the sheep is healed up now) I should probabaly add he's about 40kgs already, quite muscular with big jaws and can really move.
So after that he was confined to the house and the fenced area around it. Still has plenty of room but i put him on a lead when we got anywhere near the livestock. He also liked to chase the 100s of kangaroos that live on the property and the bushland around it. I let him go because they spook and could always bounce off a lot faster than he could run. Until he actually caught one to my surprise, a smallish juvenile, by the time id caught up he'd broken its neck and tail. (Ended up butchering it, now in the freezer).
Its obviously in his nature to be so agressive to these other animals and i can see why they originally used them to pull down boars. But im paranoid about when we are in the suburban house. There's 2 cats there that live in a seperate room but if someone one day accidently leaves the door open its going to be a bloodbath. I dont know if its even possible to desensitise him to them or how to go about 'training' him not to engage in that behaviour because everytime i try and introduce him to the cats he starts trying to lunge and grab them. At this point i dont know if its a lost cause and im just going to have to segregate him and be constantly wary. Anyone dealt with this kind of thing?
hey are you in queensland? cause i know some people who would be interested in that dog if he doesn't work out for you.
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Jul 26, 2016 04:27
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- thatbastardken
- Apr 23, 2010
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got dominated, respects u too much now
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Jul 27, 2016 05:02
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- thatbastardken
- Apr 23, 2010
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E: Also, not that I'm a dog owner, but since I want to at least make sure I'm getting things straight, with (high-prey-drive?) 'driven' dogs, that behavior is something that can be controlled to an extent with patient training, but you always have to be mindful that your dog didn't magically lose that drive, they're just not immediately acting on it. So you still need to be aware of what your dog is doing at more or less all times, and take other measures to avoid disaster. Is that about it?
pretty much.
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Jul 27, 2016 06:37
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- thatbastardken
- Apr 23, 2010
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this is 100% true - a dog that wants to kill things is not a bad dog, but in fact a Good Dog and the owner should be censured for not encouraging that dog to follow its dreams in a healthy and productive fashion.
OP you are a bad person, let your dog kill at will.
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