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We call him Max as Murphy is so long, haha ;D Sometimes he is Max-Murphy, we just can't make up our minds. Only yesterday he had an outburst of fury, jeeeez I've never seen a dog switching from friendly/curious to furious SO quickly and so unpredictable <_<" He starts a full attack with shaking, tearing and biting very hard. I wear a leather jacket and leather gloves *yeah, thank god it is getting summer...* and still, I look like I've been heavily mistreated :U my right arm is a mess, bruised from elbow to hand :< And all of this just because he didn't want to have his collar put on. He could have growled or snarled but noooooo that would have been waaaaaay to easy :'D He is banana, lol, completely and utterly banana but never the less we love him <3
So, biting dogs, screaming kittens-what would I be without this madhouse?
Credit as always goes to Kim Patrige who is such a darling
So, biting dogs, screaming kittens-what would I be without this madhouse?
Credit as always goes to Kim Patrige who is such a darling
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I know a Bernese named Max!!!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ov9lrex044rfu7/Max.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ov9lrex044rfu7/Max.jpg
I think it would do you and your dog good if you enrolled to dog training school. I've been lucky enough to have naturally patient and well behaved dog, one did got angry once because I stepped on him by accident and it bited me on my foot.
But yeah, it is not healthy for you or your dog that he errupts into anger for trying to put a collar on him. If you wnt to avoid future problems and have a better and stronger relationship with this cute dog, I recomend dog training school.
But yeah, it is not healthy for you or your dog that he errupts into anger for trying to put a collar on him. If you wnt to avoid future problems and have a better and stronger relationship with this cute dog, I recomend dog training school.
I second this. Mental instability and the ability to turn on the owner will only get worse, because if the dog is allowed to do as it pleases it will think he's the alpha. Very important to have a calm and stable dog who feels completely safe, especially the larger breeds. If he's not afraid to turn on the owner then he is not afraid to turn on other people, and may severely hurt someone some day, a small child for example, if they try to put something on him or cling to him.
He's a beautiful dog!
It's very interesting to read your stories of rehabilitating dogs, and I'd gladly hear more of them. It's especially interesting to hear of a dog who has no warning threshold between annoyance and violence. That's pretty scary. Once again, I'm tremendously impressed by your dedication to these poor lost souls.
It's very interesting to read your stories of rehabilitating dogs, and I'd gladly hear more of them. It's especially interesting to hear of a dog who has no warning threshold between annoyance and violence. That's pretty scary. Once again, I'm tremendously impressed by your dedication to these poor lost souls.
Oh Max-Murphy, yes, he is stunning! And a sweet nature as long as he is not triggered. He and especially Bongo turned my arms into one big mess, haha :'D Meanwhile I wear protection as soon as I open their kennel, just the other day I had Bongo attacking me again-from friendly playing to biting in seconds. Both of those dogs mean it when they bite, according to James O'Heare they can't be resocialized due to the uncontrolled nature :/ Well, so far James can write what he wants to, I do agree but still, we try. With Max-Murphy I am training self-control and sit. Sit, sit, sit, he has to sit a lot: before he is allowed out of his room, before he eats, when other dogs pass his room etc. A few weeks ago he got an outrage of fury (a new volunteer was too close despite my warning) and he went flying at that man. Out of reaction I shouted my "SIT" and tadaaaa: Max-Murphy actually sat down :'D He was very angry, biting in the air but he sat, nobody got injured. I want that sit to be an automatic behavior so he does it without thinking, like a kind of reflex. It is so very, very difficult to find a person who is willing to give a dog like that a home... In fact it is close to impossible I think. One needs to build up a lot of trust and needs to be aware that a soul like Max or Bongo need management all the time, every second. They can't help it and I am positive they don't want to be the way they are, they just had the misfortune to spend some time with the total wrong human. A human who wrecked their souls and then abandoned them. That part makes my heart bleed as I keep on thinking "how can you?"
I know I certainly couldn't rehabilitate a dog like that, and (notwithstanding the Dunning-Kruger effect) I consider myself above average in dealing with dogs. But I know I have limits, and a dog with no warning threshold is a long way above them...
Heaven knows I'm not an expert, but I find it very hard to see how a dog like Max-Murphy could ever be rehabilitated into any kind of 'normal' home, even with an owner who's extremely good with dogs. I have no idea how you could begin to teach a dog that there are degrees of escalation (walk away, look uncomfortable, growl, snarl, snap at the air) before you actually get on to BITE. Yet you seem to have taken the first steps with that 'sit'. I'm really impressed.
My sister is a teacher in a school in a rather poor town, and they have a few kids who are very socially damaged in ways that seem partly similar. When these kids have a disagreement with someone, they don't know any way to resolve the issue except by attacking them. The home lives of these kids can be horrible. It's ugly to think that Max-Murphy's may have been even worse. I wish him luck.
Heaven knows I'm not an expert, but I find it very hard to see how a dog like Max-Murphy could ever be rehabilitated into any kind of 'normal' home, even with an owner who's extremely good with dogs. I have no idea how you could begin to teach a dog that there are degrees of escalation (walk away, look uncomfortable, growl, snarl, snap at the air) before you actually get on to BITE. Yet you seem to have taken the first steps with that 'sit'. I'm really impressed.
My sister is a teacher in a school in a rather poor town, and they have a few kids who are very socially damaged in ways that seem partly similar. When these kids have a disagreement with someone, they don't know any way to resolve the issue except by attacking them. The home lives of these kids can be horrible. It's ugly to think that Max-Murphy's may have been even worse. I wish him luck.
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