Aggressive Dog Behavior - How I Am Curing My Dog

I've got a acknowledgment to make. I own a psycho dog. Seriously. Of all the dogs I've endemic over the years, I've never had one this aggressive.
Recently my wife and I saw an ad in the cardboard for a Bichon Frise. Normally these dogs are actual expensive, but the owners were giving this one abroad for free. That should acquire been our aboriginal warning. But, our babe capital to acquire her actual own pet, so we agreed to acquire this one.
As it turns out, the dog, about a year old, had been kept in it's cage in the abode all day continued while the owners went to plan all day. As a result, the dog developed some actual anti-social behavior. How could it be otherwise, aback there was actual little befalling from day one for this dog to acquire any amusing alternation with added humans or animals? So the owners absitively to get rid of this actual advancing dog.
Our new dog is a admirable dog, and is a acceptable allotment of our family. But appropriate from the alpha we knew we had to do some re-training. This dog would bark and actually chaw the groomer, the vet, and anyone abroad who came abreast her alfresco of the actual family. In fact, the vet even had us accord her a allaying afore bringing her in for an examination. Alas, the allaying had actually no aftereffect on this top activity dog that had such an advancing nature.
One archetype of her aggressiveness is how she reacts if anyone comes to our home. If the doorbell rings, the aggressive, careful aptitude of the dog bliss in, and she rushes to the aperture accessible to annihilate whatever she finds there. I would not wish to be the one at the door! One of the after-effects of her accomplishing this is that she's broken down two sets of blinds that we acquire on the window next to the door.
We scolded her ... we took a bi-weekly afterwards her ... we approved abounding things, all with no success. But again we began acquirements some absurd accordance training techniques that acquire been alive great. One of those account was purchasing a baptize canteen that has a squirting top to it, so that if the handle is squeezed, a beck of baptize comes out. Some humans use them for spraying their plants. So, whenever our dog would appear active and barking appear the door, we would just accord her a little eject of water, which she hated.
After application this for alone a abbreviate aeon of time, we acquire noticed a huge advance in our dog's behavior if anyone comes to the door. Most times, if the doorbell now rings, she just runs and all-overs on the couch, wagging her appendage and cat-and-mouse to see who's at the aperture if we answer. No barking, no growling, and no blitz to chaw the face off the being continuing at our door. We accumulate the baptize canteen by the door, and occasionally if she forgets herself, and old habits bang in, we artlessly grab baptize canteen and appearance it to her as she's active appear the door. No added squirting of the baptize is necessary. She artlessly sees the bottle, gets the point, and goes aback to her bed.
There are several added account we are currently implementing to advice barrier the advancing dog behavior, and they too are alive out perfectly. It's nice to see that we're able-bodied on our way to alteration our psycho puppy into a candied puppy that's absolutely a amusement to acquire about the house.