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09-10-2014, 10:35 AM
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Re: Bitten by a Belgian Malinois
Ooops looks like I got a little confused about the meaning of 'feral'. and that post wasn't directed towards the OP in anyway. |
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09-11-2014, 01:28 AM
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Re: Bitten by a Belgian Malinois
i work at an animal clinic and we see two police dogs on regular basis for boarding. one is a german shepherd and the other a belgian malinois. both are sweet dogs but they will tear you the fuck up. i think there command words are in dutch if i'm not mistaken. it does break my heard that these breeds of dogs are taught to be these ruthless attack dogs after so many years and to put them in a family environment is a hard adjustment on them.
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09-11-2014, 03:22 AM
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Re: Bitten by a Belgian Malinois
Oh yeah, those are beautiful dogs. I used to have shepherd siblings. Their biggest joy was catching ground squirrels (dead or alive) and try to gobble them down or carry them home. I got bit pretty good by my boy once when trying to get him to let go of the 'nasty'. I guess it could happen to anyone. Maybe your boy is a little on the hungry side.
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09-18-2014, 06:54 AM
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Re: Bitten by a Belgian Malinois
This thread is old but...I had reply when I read this thread. It's great you kept this dog, many wouldn't. So seriously you rock. Second...there are a lot of things that you can do, to rehab this dog. I don't expect miracles, as the training that got him to where he is and his job are harsh and have life long affects. That said, if you did some positive training exercises with him, he could be a lot happier and possibly less of a risk. He is a working dog, and still needs a job even though he is retired. He needs a new job, a positive job. If you did things like have your friends come over to play 'treat giving stranger'..who walks by you and your dog on leash, and tosses treats at your dog at first (not sure where your dogs is at on trusting strangers, so that's the first step for the 'I want to eat you' dog with strangers...lol... Anyways, clearly everything must be done safely, but most of positively. Making a strangers into a treat dispenser, teaches him they aren't all that bad. Possibly giving you some 'slack' on the worry of him hurting a stranger. The idea is to basically change his negative (bite/police) training experiences, with new purely positive ones. Again, he may never be Lassie but the training you would doing with him, would be his new 'job'. And it could give you a lot of things, less stress, possibly a dog you could trust a bit more....and maybe a running buddy (which is another job and a huge bonding exercise). I will stop here in case you are like shut up, I'm happy the way things are...lol If you aren't and want some help and ideas. I have done this sort of dog training for over 20 years and I have worked with seriously fucked up dogs. One who was so dog aggressive he attacked himself in reflections...not mirrors...reflections! Anyways hit me up if you want any help. And I hope you hand is feeling better! |
