MalinutK9: Rehab Day 7

Day 7..the last day, of the first week pack structure training program, on solving dog to dog aggression. The entire week, was full of hard work and constant challanges! I must admitt, we all are exhuasted and running low on energy, but day by day, we making progress!!!

Today, we walked twice, for 2 hours each time, working on our usual training routine. No signs of aggression, during any of these excercises!!! Due to their good behaviour, I have added two new excercises to the program!

The first one being both males taking a sniff at each others bottoms! Tyson paid no attention to it, but Nero was not about to let that happen! Tension, dirty looks, hackles up and growls...but I wasn't going to put up with it! Worked on it for about 10 minutes. Switching them around, letting one walk behind the other, while allowing them taking a little sniff now and then. Suddenly, Mr. Nero gave up..laid down and let Tyson sniff him all over!!! Now the second excercise being switching the males, on to the opposite side of my legs, Tyson on the left and Nero on the right! Again, no problem with Tyson! Nero had handful of issues with it! We were battling around, for about 30 minutes, with some severe aggression outbursts! Just when it seem like he was giving in, he completely flipped out, this time turning his aggression at me!!!! He recieved one hard correction, and was placed on his side, until total relaxation! Then we started all over again!!! He still was tense, but showed no aggression! We practiced this on our evening walk again, where he snapped few times, but nowhere near the same way, he did in the morning! It will need, few more repetions, for him to fully understand, that walking on the right side is as safe as walking on the left!!!!

Based on his issues with switching sides, I have made him eat tonights dinner, on the right side, which is where Tyson usualy eat!!! He didn't mind it!!!