HELP! My dog is head butting me!
Now I have already started to curb the mouthiness using a combination of the yelp and ignore tactic. I will obviously monitor Chewy's play with any stranger esp small children. We use the ignore tactic to get him in a calmer state. This seems to happen when we want to play. He gets excited as he should to a degree, but I am not sure he realizes his own strength. I am sure I can figure out some behavior modification technique and apply it here, but I am interested to know if anyone else has come across this and how they dealt with it? Would love to eliminate it as quickly as possible without reinventing the wheel so to speak. Anyway thanks in advance guys! |
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| I think you are right about Chewy not knowing his own strength at this point...
Heart is like that too...she is getting bigger every day and I think she thinks she is still small...she is always trying to get under chairs that a couple of weeks ago were no problem and now she gets stuck and I have to lift the chair so she can get out....  --
I think its the same thing with their strength... I will be interested in seeing the responses here so I can get my training in line too!!!!! Thanks for posting this!!!! |
i feel your pain.....panda head butts me while im at the sink doing dishes....she also head butts the side of the bed when she wants to go out in the middle of the night.....  |
| our new bahaviorist tells me not to allow this behavior (cute as it may be). I am told to nudge her back and then walk away.
I have to admit we have less of it, as well as less other bumping when they wants attention now. |
| Dixie is very unpredicatable. If you lower eyour face close to hers she sometimes will just wait till you get close enough, then give you a kiss.......OR.....she does the kiss and run, by jumping or shoving ehr face into yours, and then running away..We have had bloody noses, and many a bruise on the face from her.
I just dont' trust her, so when I have my face close to hers I hold her neck fur and speak gently and softly to her. It is a joke in our house, that you dont' want to get "little missy' excited, as she is then an out-of-control bouncey sheepie... |
| Our dog is generally good unless you "blow a raspberry" on him, our other or any person in the room. The noise and blowing is seen as a threat or attack and he has responded by headbutting my girlfriend twice in two years. Avoiding the triggers and respecting what he deems as an unacceptable behavior completely eliminates the behavior, but it is still concerning knowing that he will try to take control of a rather harmless situation. |
| Unless your dog is an OES! OES seem to have this trait across the board and I think it may be a trait ingrained as part of their herding behavior. |
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