All the dog owners

[Bouncer]

You will need to spend 72 hours straight using the crate.

no.

[Shibby]

I like other peoples dogs a lot. The reason I say other peoples is because I don't enjoy owning them, I just enjoy visiting them.

[FrankTheTank55]

All the hours of watching the dog whisperer must have worked. No but seriously I think I got lucky and got a really smart dog. He learns so quick! Im super proud of him. He has been here over 3 weeks and only has had 2 accidents. I did the bells on the door thing and it was crazy how fast he picked that up. The only thing now is his teething, he has Piranha teeth. My hands are tore up. Any tips for the biting??? What I have been doing is when he bites to hard I just stop playing with him and stand up and ignore him until he calms down.

[Bouncer]

what kind of dog?

[curtus e flush]

SEE PIC^

[Turbo3000]

All the hours of watching the dog whisperer must have worked. No but seriously I think I got lucky and got a really smart dog. He learns so quick! Im super proud of him. He has been here over 3 weeks and only has had 2 accidents. I did the bells on the door thing and it was crazy how fast he picked that up. The only thing now is his teething, he has Piranha teeth. My hands are tore up. Any tips for the biting??? What I have been doing is when he bites to hard I just stop playing with him and stand up and ignore him until he calms down.

My husky loved to bite on my hands when he was a puppy. I thought he would never grow out of it. What you are doing is the perfect way to handle it, you should ignore him and then he should begin to understand that if he bites on your hand then playtime is over. If mine then still got out of control and kept trying to get my hands when I walked off, I would turn around and lightly grab his snout and look him directly in the eyes and give him a stern "NO". A lot of books recommend making a loud "yelp" noise, because when dogs are playing that is what they do to let the other one know it is playing to rough.

It is amazing how well the bell works, I saw it over at a friends house and had it going the first day my husky came home. He loves to ring the bell, even if sometimes he rings it just to get my ass up from studying. He is an attention hog.

[FrankTheTank55]

what kind of dog?

Rhodesian Ridgeback

[CrankinSteiN]

there is different methods to overcome the biting thing and different things work better for different dogs so if you find what you are doing is working then thats great if not then try something else.... Here is a couple other ways:

When he bites you tell him no biting with a firm tone and if he does it again you grab the bottom part of his mouth and press down on his tongue with your thumb... They really don't like this.... Try to stick to non physical corrections first but this is what worked with my dog when nothing else would because he is stubborn and wouldn't listen....

Another way is to yell OW or OUCH loud when he bites to let him know it hurts and it also startles the dog and will usually stop him from the biting..... You could do this and then stop playing with him until he comes down

There is more ways but like I said you just needs to find what works for you and your dog and go with that

[Konitz]

I hope you have a big house and alot of room for that dog, those things get huge and need alot of running room...they where bread to take down lions in hunts. But if you have any training questions let me know my family trains therapy dogs to go see people that have to be hospitalized their whole life.

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I hope you have a big house and alot of room for that dog, those things get huge and need alot of running room...they where bread to take down lions in hunts. But if you have any training questions let me know my family trains therapy dogs to go see people that have to be hospitalized their whole life.

Huge? I've never seen a huge Ridgeback. They are large dogs (basically the same size as a dalmation) but no bigger than a Boxer or similar.The lady at the natural food store has two of them and they are they are incredibly friendly and well mannered. Beautiful dogs!

[FitnessBrat]

Huge? I've never seen a huge Ridgeback. They are large dogs (basically the same size as a dalmation) but no bigger than a Boxer or similar.The lady at the natural food store has two of them and they are they are incredibly friendly and well mannered. Beautiful dogs!

And probably shouldn't be running through the house anyway :P

[BIGFELLA]

Huge? I've never seen a huge Ridgeback. They are large dogs (basically the same size as a dalmation) but no bigger than a Boxer or similar.The lady at the natural food store has two of them and they are they are incredibly friendly and well mannered. Beautiful dogs!

dalmation? man everyone i have ever seen has been over 100lbs. hers must be runts or somethn.
buy a remote shock collar, when they do somethn bad shock them. if they are smart they will stop.

[blm]

dalmation? man everyone i have ever seen has been over 100lbs. hers must be runts or somethn.
buy a remote shock collar, when they do somethn bad shock them. if they are smart they will stop.

You have just seen very large dogs fo that breed. The standard is up to 85lbs for a male and 70 for a female.

But Boxer standards are 60-70lbs and my boy is 83lbs (and still growing).

Rhodesian Ridgeback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[BIGFELLA]

after lookin at that pic everyone ive seen must have been overweight lol. 83lbs thats a big ass boxer

[FrankTheTank55]

When he bites you tell him no biting with a firm tone and if he does it again you grab the bottom part of his mouth and press down on his tongue with your thumb... They really don't like this.... Try to stick to non physical corrections first but this is what worked with my dog when nothing else would because he is stubborn and wouldn't listen....

Im going to try this. Thanks!