Hello Sheba
Thank you for the nice welcome. Seams to me that you have really a big problem over there. You know that pup like to play and of course and bit in all kind of things. They have a big hunting drive. The thing is that children are scramming playing and moving quickly, this is for a pup very nice to play with and bite in or jump to. The normal character from a German shepherd is very protecting his family. Normal after one year this biting is getting less and less. But in your case it is I think different and you have an alpha dog. Is meaning he like to be the head of the family and don’t like someone else to be number one. That can be because he is from working lines and is breed for that. So it is in his genetic. The problem already started in the beginning and maybe you did not react properly on his behavior. But how could you he was only a puppy. You have to handle this with care so you must be hard to the dog but also not to hard because you can break his character and that is I think not what you want. Ok I will try to explain you what you can do. There are more ways to solve the problem. 1.) Get a good color with sharp nails in it not flat but sharp, a long line about 10 meters. Put the dog on the line and let the children play outside. Let them scream move quick run, but the dog can not get to them. The moment the dog likes to go to them you say loud NO and a the same time you pull hard and when I say hard it is not a little. The dog has to jell then you did it good. You call the dog to you and stroke him and speaking nice and soft to him. So the dog learns if he stop directly and come to you he is a good boy. This you have to respite a couple of weeks. The dog has to know how the boss in the house is. If he reacts well on that you let your children do that of course with your help with pulling the line but they are giving the commands. But still your dog needs to play and have a bite in something. It’s therefore good to train him playing with a ball. He can run bite and play. The second way is a way I normal jus with young dogs, I take them at there color pull them up talking loud not to that put there nose against my one and look them staid in there eyes, then I don’t talk but still have him up, slowly put him down and wail your doing that say again a loud NO. If he start to make protest against that when you are pulling him up say louder NO and pull him higher until his entire feed are from the ground. It is a little difficult to say what is the best because normally I have to see the dog how tuff he is. It’s a shame I’m not living close by, seems a very interesting dog. Where does his blood line come from? Czech Republic? Try this and be consequent and “hard” but NO is NO. Hope that it will help you, if not please feel free to ask me again. Thank you for the welcome hope to hear from you soon how it is going.
Respectfully yours,
Alex van der Kuijl
K9 Dogs Europe
Phone +420-604-513723
