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Hi Adrienne thanks for the great advice! We will give those a try and if we think that it is more aggression than anything we will certainly see a professional once Victoria is no longer in lockdown. Susie

Hi I am writing to ask for help as some of the other topics don’t cover exactly what I need help with. My puppy is a kelpie x heeler and on Sunday he will be 4 months old. He can be quite aggressive and bites too regularly especially when the bites feel worse than a nip. One trainer told us to do an ah ah ! or put him in the laundry for couple of mins each time and though that worked for my friends dog who is a beautifully behaved dog now they have not worked for Archie. During play he gets too rough jumps up to grab the rope or toy at the part we are holding and grabs our hand, giving a pretty rough bite. He also gets quite aggressive if we need to adjust his collar or fix the lead even if we are doing it gently. When we walk around the house he will often jump up on us and bite or grab our clothes putting holes in them. We have bought lots of toys for him to chew if teething is the issue including Kong’s and we put a treat inside though he gives up after a few mins if he can’t get it out. We give him lots of positive attention even when he’s quiet and resting. Lots of praise when he does the right thing and he’s picked up on other training really well. Sit, waits till we say go to eat his food and today we started to introduce the positive interruption noise like in the video but will this technique help when he’s biting? We can be on the couch and he will come and start biting. I’m worried if we don’t get this aggressive biting under control before he’s too much older it will be too late. We play lots with him to keep him active throwing frisbees, balls play tug lots of interaction to keep him active as he’s a working dog. Please help! Thank you.

Hi Adrienne thank you so much! We will give tge treats a go again and hopefully he will start to prefer going outside so that he gets a reward as opposed to getting nothing inside. BTW your plastic bottle with kibble is awesome for keeping him occupied and not chewing our slippers! He hasn’t got it down pat like Einstein yet but I’m sure it won’t take him long lol! Susie

Hi everyone! I have a 14 week old kelpie x heeler puppy who is beautiful but is hard to toilet train. We take him out regularly (originally every 30 mins now about every hour) and we used to reward with a treat but he started watching us as he peed doing the tiniest trickle just to get a treat. Cheeky boy! So we started praising with “good boy!” when he peed but now he doesn’t excited anymore about the good boy praise. It is hard to tell the signs with him as he regularly walks around sniffing everywhere possibly looking for any food scraps lol so I can’t tell if a pee sniff or just looking around sniff. He is crate trained at night (4-5 hrs before he starts whining - sadly it’s usually 4am!) and then I take him out and put him back in the crate for another couple of hours. We take him out after he eats and usually he will pee and/or poo but still at some point we will see pee on the floor. It happens so quickly we rarely catch him and if we do we say NO! and take him outside. No other punishment apart from the NO. If we put him outside on his own I am not sure he pees. It seems like he just sits at the door whining and scratching to get back inside. We are now trying the ignoring method till he is quiet before letting him in but then he would pee inside as he didn’t actually go while he was outside. When I take him out he just wants to dig up the garden, chew leaves off the ground or chew his toys even after repeatedly putting him on the gravel where he normally goes or on the grass. Please help ! My daughter got shingles I believe from the stress of potty training. Thank you!