dirty diesel boy. newbie

Tara wrote:Welcome sounds like you've had your hands full, but if you need any specific advice, feel free to ask, there are plenty of people on here that will be happy to help or share their own experiences. Is there no way Diesel is playing? Staffs are known to play rough, so is it definitely aggression or is he just being playful and doesn't know how to act?

DragonTheStaffie wrote:Welcome to the forums, and I'm sure you'll learn a lot from here.
If your boy was taken from the litter to early that's why he doesn't know how to socialise, because they learn that from the mum and the puppies.
Just try to be calm every time you see a dog, trust me I know how hard it is as my dog has bitten 5 dogs badly, it wasnt my fault that he bite the dogs as I asked them to put their dogs on the lead and they wouldn't listen...

Just keep calm and I'm sure you'll be ok specially if you go to classes he'll be seeing a lot of dogs and learning how to play and socialise.

DragonTheStaffie wrote:Yes I know the most important command to let your dog of the lead is come, I your dog doesn't come when called it shouldn't be of the lead! But what annoys me is owners who let them off the lead and just walk and their dog is nowhere near them, and when you tell them to put their dog on the lead they ignore you, that's what does my head in and then when my boy bites and won't let go they start crying? If they cared they would of listened when I warned them!

I do let my boy of the lead in a field that has fences and where I can see if other dogs are coming in, I leave once someone comes though and everytime I see a dog I put mine back on the lead if he of the lead, I don't like just to walk him as it doesn't tire him out as much as playing fetch... But I'm always careful on everything!

My boy knows his commands very well though, if a dog walks past the fence on the other side and aren't coming in I actually go to the fence (he can't jump it) and tell him to sit and lay down and focus on me while the dog is barking or whatever

hi. we have a fenced off private school field near us, i ave been tempted to let him off, but im scared in case he sees another dog before i do. i really dont know what he would do. he is very much a clingy following dog so if i was in that situtation i would run the other way. im 90% sure all would be ok but its that 10%, we been training today, about 10 other dogs there, today was a bad day he growled at all of them, then over park, that was mission, football players, dogs, kids, joggers, bikes. it all adds to hes excitement, he was desp straining to get to players on pitch so i just calmly stood there and watched the game. after 10 mins he was not interested and just sat down. I have a long way to go. i will be gutted if he cant be trusted with other dogs. im gonna talk to head dog trainer at training tomorrow night cause hes doing it loads. me rambling now lol

We've recent rescued a female staffy cross and he loves her, only dog he gets along even though she's always jumping and stuff he's very calm, we rescued my boy as well a year ago and he's afraid of dogs but he is an amazing and calm dog and very obedient, only noticed how amazing behaved he was after dealing with the new staffy we got she doesn't know anything my even her name and is crazy when you take her out, good thing is she's friendly my boy wasn't when we got him so it made socialising hard.