well... er... girl bites dog, at least.
Ready... bite him back!
My German Shepard bit me (and others) when he was around 2 yrs. old. Broke my skin, 8 year old daughter in the house... I was furious! Next time he got me, I got him back... completely out of control.. grabbed some of his neck skin and bit it hard (did not break skin) and yelled in his face, you do it to me, I do it to you!! Never had an issue again, lived many many happy years! It's probably irresponsible to even share such a story, but we always thought it changed everything!
Great story!! I love it! You’re a grizzly, all right — !! {^)
well... er... girl bites dog, at least.
That is, after all, how dogs establish dominance and discipline. Dogs need to know where they are in the pecking/biting order.
If you let it get really out of control:
I’m not a dog expert, but it seems to me you effectively spoke to the dog in a language he fully understood.
That is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.
You do not, in any way, shape or form ever hurt a misbehaving Dobe.
They accept reasonable correction gracefully but they understand when it goes too far.
I dearly hope the OP ignores your suggestion.
The way to do what you did, -properly- is to make your hand into a “claw shape” and poke the dog’s neck.
It mimics the corrective nip/shove of the alpha dog.
Dogs “get” that.
You were -very- lucky.
That's what his mommy would do!
I recently had an older dog start misbehaving, jealousy or spite. Not biting. I was pretty patient for awhile, but one day he obviously did the activity out of spite. I immediately put the fear of God in him.
I find it funny on here that people say dogs are below children in the pecking order, but don’t be immediately harsh with them to reinforce who is the boss and what is acceptable behavior. Confusing message I see on here.
Anyway, the old dog immediately stopped the offending behavior and we are all peaceful again.
Umm no. Let me add “AH Hell No.”
You are very lucky you still have a face. What you did was dangerous and foolish and could have ended very,very badly. The reason he did not bite you back or bite you in the future was not because you bit him but because unknown to you the reason he bit in the first place had been eliminated. He had either adjusted to the cause or the cause had been removed.