Newbie needs help with territorial 6 month old female - Page 2

 Turk,

Since you are already working with the breeder, I would urge you to bring this behavioral issue to his/her attention immediately. If they are truly experienced, they should know how to nip this behavior now. And it MUST be stopped immediately. In essence, YOU must let this pup know that you will not tolerate the behavior, but there are also a variety of things you must do to make the dog know that it must respect family members and humans in general. I personally would not be worrying about protection work at this point, but rather obedience and understanding of who is in charge. The dog is in charge, at least partially, and that is a serious mistake to allow it to continue.

Working with someone who is experienced will be much better than all the suggestions you get here, regardless of how good some of them are, and how experienced a few people here posting will be. Get help and get live help ASAP. 

Good luck.

First of all I would keep my dog on a leash, and under control at all times. depends on the size and the strength of the dog I would use either flat collar or pinch (depends how hard of correction the dog needs). Set up the scenarios that cause the dog to act in the dominant way and corrected every time it dose it, when it dose not reward, that way you are creating (marking) acceptable behavior and correcting the one that you don't want. If the dog is really dominant you have to be careful about the dog not Turning on you, if he dose put him back in his place (this mean strong correction). Recreate the scenarios over and over till the dogs gets it. Are you able to roll your dog on his back without a problem? Did he ever showed dominance toward you? If no than the things that you are dealing with are creatures of bad habits and not dominance. You most likely allowed to get away for way too long and now it became acceptable reaction. So the only way to correct it is, by making highly unacceptable and make the dog feel it that way. What I see is that people treat their dogs like babies they are not babies, this is not how they are allowed to act within the pack, the mother would correct that kind of behavior right away as well so there is no excuse for you not to do it. Do you have a camera? Can you take a video of these behaviors? Than we can analyze it better, and make better recommendation. For now keep the dog under your control and even better contact professional so he can show  you what good correction is all about. Plus your dog should not be allowed on your sofa is he? If he is stop this no soffa for him/her this is the place for your family not him. Do you allow him to play with anything he wants? Dose he sleeps in his create? Dose he has a place that he can call his own? You have to create good enviroment in order to make the dog understand his boundries.

And yeah micky is right it sounds liek you been spoiling the dog and letting it get away with things he should not.

okay thanks Micky D.  I'll read that article now. 

My pup just starting doing this.  She has been a very obiedient.  She listens to me.  I'm trying to get a handle on this behavior correctly. 

To the OP, you say 'especially when you are in the room'

Does the pup act differently when you aren't?

Turk always keep one thing in mind, raising dog is all about structure, there is nothing else to it. You have the correct structure you will have no mayor issues. Dog packs operate on structure so they are genetically predisposed to fallowing set up structure. There is a leader, and there are followers, there are expectation and there are consequences for not meeting those expectation. If you structure your relationship with the dog correctly you will have no issues. As well the most important thing and many times over looked is making sure that the dog has place of his own (crate) and he is taught from beginning that this is his place of peace and safety. Dogs need time out as much as we people from time to time. And as much as we people they tend to create bad habits so alway stop it right at the beginning before it's too big to overcome later on.

the pup is not completly spoiled. and she does not have the freedom to do what she wants.  Also she is submissive to me.  I can turn her over on her back, etc.  When I walk her on a lease she no longer pulls me.  She does a lot of things well.  this just started and i will admit that i did miss the beginnings of the behavior since she doing it I had to have missed it. 

Just tell her NO and give her a leash correction. Repeat if necessary. Forget about all this pack bullshit and correct the dog for unwanted behavior and praise for wanted behavior. If you do it right I 100% guarantee it will work. Dont make it more complex than it really is. Be fair. Be consistant.