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1) How To Stop Aggression At The Front Door–In Less Than Two Minutes

We had been doing a lot of traveling.

We were in Bogota, Colombia– a very “dog friendly” town–probably because of the constant spring-like weather. Or maybe because, surprisingly enough, the Colombian people are very warm and friendly–especially when it comes to their love of dogs!

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As we walked up the five flights of stairs to Aunt Rosalba’s condo, I could hear “Moneena” the Shih Tzu, barking her little head off.

Moneena is 5 years-old and she is Aunt Rosalba’s “only child,” as she likes to explain it.

Well, Moneena makes the rules in Aunt Rosalba’s house. So, when I told Rosalba that we could fix this behavior… she looked at me skeptically.

See, Aunt Rosalba didn’t have any dog training equipment. But that wasn’t going to stop me.

The fortunate thing about a lot of these smaller breeds–like the Lhasa Apsos, the Poodles, the Bichons and the Shih Tzus is that they are extremely smart and they are very, very trainable.

The problem was that Aunt Rosalba was treating Moneena like a child… and not like a dog.

Well, fortunately she had a leash. Not the type of leash I prefer (a six foot leather leash) but one of those thin nylon leashes.

But that was good enough. Here’s what I did:

Since she only had a harness for Moneena (which you cannot use to correct unwanted behavior) I just took the leash and ran the end of it through the loop, like you would when you tie a slip not. This is the same basic premise that the chain dog training collars use.

As long as you’re careful to “tug and release” – the dog will understand the correction. This trick won’t work on big, powerful breeds. In fact, I prefer to use an actual training collar, even on small breeds. But we were in a pinch.

Once I had it on Moneena, I sent Carla outside to pretend she was a visitor.

Moneena heard Carla walking up the steps and immediately started barking. But this time, I had the leash on Moneena and I told her, “No!” and gave a firm tug and release on the leash.

Moneena looked up at me, as if to say, “Huh? Nobody has ever told me ‘No’ before!”

I told Carla to knock on the door from the outside, because I knew that Moneena would think it was just a fluke. But I was ready to teach her that if she barks, she’s going to receive a negative association. Normally when she’d bark at the arrival of a person to the condo, Aunt Rosalba would pick her up and tell Moneena, “It’s okay, it’s okay,” all the while stroking and petting her.

From Moneena’s perspective, Aunt |Rosalba was telling her, “Good girl! Be more aggressive.

Well, after I corrected Moneena the second time, she looked up at me, and I could tell that she understood.

“Carla–knock on the door, one more time,” I yelled to her, outside.

THUMP, THUMP, THUMP.

Moneena didn’t do anything. Not a peep. She just looked up at me.

“Good girl! What a wonderful, beautiful girl!” I showered praise.

Moneena had made the right decision.

We did it a couple more times, and each time Moneena made the right decision and received nothing but love and praise.

And then Aunt Rosalba took her and spent the next 15 minutes in an orgasm of pride and joy at what a wonderful and smart dog Moneena was.

And that’s okay.

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