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Does anyone have any ideas to get Titus working??
Titus can't be around hardly anyone or anything because he gets too paranoid! He has just been neutered (almost 2y.o.) and I am trying to see if my vet would consider putting him on some anxiety meds because of he hates people in public, in my house, he can't stand other dogs... including Owen. If that doesn't help him calm down, I have nowhere else to turn. I am out of ideas. He has lost 99% of his play drive and has very little food drive other then at meal time. He doesn't have an attention span and doesn't have the focus to do more then 2 minutes of 'basic training' before he gets board. He knows how to sit, down, roll over (just for the fun of it and because he started doing it, so I put a command to it :smile: !), wait, heel, back up, leave it, and a couple of others. But more then that, he won't sit still for. I can get him to sit, wait... then he gets up and walks away. How he learned the other things, I have no idea except that he learned some of them before my sister distroyed him. :frown: He never used to be scared of much, now you can't raise your hand (just to get something up high), he hates loud noises (so yelling across the yard or house to someone who can't hear you will send him into a tizzy, or any other kind of loud noises around him), don't run towards him or he will hit the floor like you just dropped a bomb by his head, don't run away from him or he will give chace and attack you (mostly in play, unless you are a stranger), Don't look at him wrong and don't ask anything from him because he won't give it to you!
I was sucessful in crate training him, re-potty training him and we are still working on 'settel' when he gets too excited and startes jumping on people or biteing. His play will go from, 'tug'-'I will take your hand with the toy if you don't let it go' in a matter of seconds. I took him to my grandmothers house for a weekend and he did great with her. She walked outside one day and he started the 'Don't move or I will eat you alive' bark. I touched him behind the ears and told him to 'stop now'. I told him that that is 'Grandmother Johnson' and we were supposed to protect her. He turned around, looked at me and walked up to her and licked her hand and sat down.... I WANT THAT DOG!!!
:tongue: He was soooo great!! I just wish he was like that all of the time and not just with a couple of people. I know he can do it. I know that he has the capacity to learn and understand... He just doesn't want to and I don't have people that come over to my house often, so there isn't much of an opertunity to practice/teach.
He doesn't play fetch or anything, but he likes to tug. I am close to my whitts end with him. I don't know what to do. Can anyone suggest something.
P.S. No, I can't take him to any classes because of his agression towards people and other dogs (even if it is just because he doesn't know yet/anymore). I don't know about someone coming to me, that might get expansive and I don't have that to throw out there.
Titus can't be around hardly anyone or anything because he gets too paranoid! He has just been neutered (almost 2y.o.) and I am trying to see if my vet would consider putting him on some anxiety meds because of he hates people in public, in my house, he can't stand other dogs... including Owen. If that doesn't help him calm down, I have nowhere else to turn. I am out of ideas. He has lost 99% of his play drive and has very little food drive other then at meal time. He doesn't have an attention span and doesn't have the focus to do more then 2 minutes of 'basic training' before he gets board. He knows how to sit, down, roll over (just for the fun of it and because he started doing it, so I put a command to it :smile: !), wait, heel, back up, leave it, and a couple of others. But more then that, he won't sit still for. I can get him to sit, wait... then he gets up and walks away. How he learned the other things, I have no idea except that he learned some of them before my sister distroyed him. :frown: He never used to be scared of much, now you can't raise your hand (just to get something up high), he hates loud noises (so yelling across the yard or house to someone who can't hear you will send him into a tizzy, or any other kind of loud noises around him), don't run towards him or he will hit the floor like you just dropped a bomb by his head, don't run away from him or he will give chace and attack you (mostly in play, unless you are a stranger), Don't look at him wrong and don't ask anything from him because he won't give it to you!
I was sucessful in crate training him, re-potty training him and we are still working on 'settel' when he gets too excited and startes jumping on people or biteing. His play will go from, 'tug'-'I will take your hand with the toy if you don't let it go' in a matter of seconds. I took him to my grandmothers house for a weekend and he did great with her. She walked outside one day and he started the 'Don't move or I will eat you alive' bark. I touched him behind the ears and told him to 'stop now'. I told him that that is 'Grandmother Johnson' and we were supposed to protect her. He turned around, looked at me and walked up to her and licked her hand and sat down.... I WANT THAT DOG!!!
He doesn't play fetch or anything, but he likes to tug. I am close to my whitts end with him. I don't know what to do. Can anyone suggest something.
P.S. No, I can't take him to any classes because of his agression towards people and other dogs (even if it is just because he doesn't know yet/anymore). I don't know about someone coming to me, that might get expansive and I don't have that to throw out there.