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Originally Posted by brunie's mom Honestly...I would change trainers. Any trainer that would hang a Lab puppy by a prong collar is NUTS!!!!
Try that with a Rottweiler and the dog may just turn on you! Get your DF to stop hitting and yelling at the dog. 
You need to find a trainer that works with positive training....the "yank and pull" training (compulsion) is not used by most trainers anymore. The dog must understand the command first.
I agree...put him in the crate if you are unsure if he will counter surf...put everything out of temptation. No shock collar for this !!!!
Rottweilers need leadership and training....but if your DF is yelling and hitting the dog someone will get bitten eventually. Since you have not had him for long....trust and leadership should be built on....hitting and yelling does not do this.
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For goodness sakes, this is the 3rd time I'm trying to reply to this thread. Hopefully I will not time out again before I finish.
Basically I was previously trying to post what brunie's mom said. So I just replied to her thread to say I concur.
Leadership for a dog is a mental thing not a physical thing (read that a few minutes ago in another thread here). Stop hitting the dog!!! You should be building a relationship of trust and I would recommend ditching the trainer also. Just because a dog is a rottweiler does not mean he is a hard dog and it doesn't mean you will automatically have dominance problems with the dog. Yes, the breed does lend itself to having to be firm and consistent with them overall, but even a breeder will tell you that each dog is an individual and their personality will vary. Each dog has it's own temperment, mine is not a hard dog either, so he doesn't get treated with doggy boot camp at home. I am not constantly having to "put him in check" to keep his dominance in line or anything else like that. There are punishments in my house, as well as rules, and they are enforced accordingly without hitting him.
Also, I really thing you can set your dog up for success by doing as brunie's mom suggested - either crating the dog or keeping food off counters. I suspect if there is nothing for the dog to get off the counter, the counter surfing will stop. But to lay a trap for the dog so you can zap the crap out of him just seems cruel !!!
Just my two cents!
