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Old 10-25-2007, 07:05 PM
jlaack jlaack is offline
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Re: Dog "challenging rank?" or just looking for attention

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I am doing the putting him on a lead when we have visitors exercise, and when that doesn't work I have to put him outside,
If this doesn't work than you aren't correcting him. Try having him to lengthy downs. Start of asking for a down for one minute. If he gets up replace him. Increase to 3 minutes, 5 minutes, keep adding time (for up to 30 minutes). Use this when you have company over till he settles down. If he helds his down and appears calmer than let him greet (still on leash). If he doesn't settle down than I would recommend the same as I did to the OP: instruct visitors no voice to the dog, no eye contact, no physical attention and return him to the down.

We started doing this with our dog and it works incredibly well if it is enforced.
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