My mom's dog

[Tai Takahashi]

Is a total p***y.
He marches around the house all Mr. I Own You And All Your s**t all day long but the minute I put him on the treadmill he's a pansy a** wimp who's gotta cry and run to mommy cause I made him do something.

I put him on it three days ago and he actually started clawing and biting me to get me to let him off. It wasn't a fear response either cause he'll stand on it, sit on it, get up in the other dogs' faces while they're on it, etc. He was just mad at me.
The worst part is, my mom feeds into it!
The more dominant and hyper he is, the more she pays attention to him. She FINALLY got to the point of making him lay down somewhere instead of following her every second of the day and y'know what he did? s**t in the house. Been doing it pretty much every day that he doesn't get what he wants. neutral

I am so done with dogs forever.
See, MY dog isn't a dog. She's something else in a dog's body, I'm convinced. She's calm, lazy as hell, doesn't bark unless she needs something, will walk on the treadmill without incident, walks on a leash without incident, knows and obeys basic commands and she's the ONLY dog we've ever had like that!
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Just... yeah.  

[KuroAkaNeko]

Your mom's dog sounds... SPOILED D:  

[Tai Takahashi]

@Kuro: Spoiled doesn't even cover it. He was supposed to be our farm dog. He was trained to guard property/livestock but within months my mom was making all these exceptions, "It's raining/cold/hot/etc. he has to be inside.", and my dad was adding to it by tying him up/bringing him in whenever he started barking at something (which he was TRAINED TO DO) instead of going to see what was going on so, within a year, he was a house dog.
Now, he wants absolutely nothing to do with the livestock, we're right back to losing things to raccoons, possums, etc. because he's NEVER outside, but he still has the dominant behavior that was trained into him 10 years ago.

So, I have a hellhound living in my house. neutral
My mom's second dog, a female lab mix, is worse than him though. She's dominant and flat out neurotic. You can't do anything with her without her vomiting/peeing/pooping/barking her fool head off/destroying something because my mom praised her for being that way. I don't believe it was intentional but when the dog is throwing a b***h fit because there was one rumble of thunder two hours ago and you sit there, petting her and baby talking at her, she's gonna throw a b***h fit at every noise for the rest of her life.

@DM: See, your dog sounds like mine. All dogs would be like that too if people would just take the time to train them properly but people get them because they're cute and not because they can handle them. Then they don't bother to learn what needs to be done to have a functional animal BEFORE the animal turns into a holy terror.
Even something as simple as smacking them lightly on the nose when they're barking excessively helps a lot but noooo...  

[Tai Takahashi]

Eesh, yeah, getting a dog when it's already over 3 years old is pretty much suicide. xp

Have you watched any of Caesar Milan's training stuff? He's pretty good, imo.  

[Tai Takahashi]

I only got to watch a few episodes of his show, to be honest, but I lovelovelove him. I wanna get some dvds to play often enough that the people I live with will start getting it....
It's funny though, my mom has this friend who despises Caesar with a passion and is convinced he's this horrible, abusive guy that doesn't know what he's doing. I was talking to him about it once, telling him that I was gonna do some of his stuff with my dog, and this guy went on a tirade while his own dogs were barking excessively, peeing, pooping and tearing up the couch blankets behind him. I wanted to laugh SO HARD. Really, your training method is so much better, hm? rofl