I need someone to be REAL with me. My 16 month Doberman started frustration and excitement biting about 4 months ago. No issues when younger.
We do a lot of work with him. Our trainer stated we needed to get him to his threshold to teach him how to keep listening while over aroused and to work through frustration. He is getting much better at listening when excited but we are still getting bit on a daily basis. And to be honest not only when training. This happens before exercise, after exercise, after being redirected and generally all times.
I am a a point where I have been working him through this for 4 months and I need hope that these are just hard adolescent times (as I am being told) but I suppose I’d like to hear stories of those who had this type of behaviour with a young dog that eventually outgrew it with age and tough training.
We bike. We tug. We run. We swim. We do fitness exercises. We do obedience. We scent. We do trick training. We have a trainer. He gets downtime to switch off. We live in the country. We have no other animals. We are stern.
I don’t necessarily need ideas on how to correct. What I think I need is hope and stories of others who may have gone through this. I read about doberteens and being challenged and biting but not to this extent.
We do a lot of work with him. Our trainer stated we needed to get him to his threshold to teach him how to keep listening while over aroused and to work through frustration. He is getting much better at listening when excited but we are still getting bit on a daily basis. And to be honest not only when training. This happens before exercise, after exercise, after being redirected and generally all times.
I am a a point where I have been working him through this for 4 months and I need hope that these are just hard adolescent times (as I am being told) but I suppose I’d like to hear stories of those who had this type of behaviour with a young dog that eventually outgrew it with age and tough training.
We bike. We tug. We run. We swim. We do fitness exercises. We do obedience. We scent. We do trick training. We have a trainer. He gets downtime to switch off. We live in the country. We have no other animals. We are stern.
I don’t necessarily need ideas on how to correct. What I think I need is hope and stories of others who may have gone through this. I read about doberteens and being challenged and biting but not to this extent.