With her friend feeding Jack through the muzzle, she had managed to get the drops in for a couple of days. Yesterday she was trying to do it by herself.
Jack exploded.
Millie made no noise. She rushed into the kitchen. Without even stopping to look or sniff who I was, she flew up at my arm and bit me.
He has attacked a couple of people and only didn’t cause injury because he was wearing the muzzle at the time. On both occasions, to his humans, it seemed without warning.
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Why would a friendly young Labrador jump up, grab clothes and bite people whenever he gets excited? Absolutely no impulse control around people, that is the problem. Beautiful Beau is a big strong Chocolate Labrador. He’s 9 months of age and his teeth hurt. With no impulse control, his biting Read more
Why would a normally friendly little dog suddenly bite someone coming into the house? One of their little dogs bites a friend entering the house. Everything changes. He is now muzzled when people come and when he’s out. The whole situation is very stressful for everyone in the family. The first goal, Read more
It’s hard picking up the pieces when a conscientious and well-meaning dog owner has been following old-fashioned, dominance-based advice. Advice using punishment and intimidation through ignorance. They believe what someone who sets himself up as an authority says is the way to do things.
It’s also extremely upsetting for the owner when their eyes are opened. Fortunately, things can only get better now.
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Why was Wilson swallowing dangerous objects despite two major operations? The dictionary definition of pica in medicine is the “pathological craving for substance unfit for food” Dictionary.com. I would hardly interpret Wilson’s ingesting of inappropriate items as a ‘craving’. It’s not constant. From my questioning the behaviour is likely to happen under Read more
Their understandable reaction to his running off with a twig for example – chasing him, enticing him, bribing him then maybe forcing the item off him – is now actually making his ‘scavenging’ for things like twigs, leaves and bits of paper and eating rubbish a lot worse.
The chase that ensues will be stimulating and maybe even a little scary and Chutney is responding with the beginnings of resource guarding behaviour.