Hi everyone,
It has been a long time since I posted on this forum. Firstly, I must thank everyone who helped me with great knowledge and advice when I first received Kaspar (maltipoo) as a puppy. It has been almost 2 years now and Kaspar is full active, happy, into his toys but most of all happy to be hanging around my sisters older Pomeranian named Jube.
Kaspar and Jube are in door dogs and so far are well trained in most aspects. But recently we have noticed a massive massive landslide in characteristics with Kaspar..
A few examples are as follows:
- If Kaspar is on our sofa or im holding him, he will growl when Jube comes close. I put him down straight away or move him off the sofa as well to tell him its not cool. it still persists.
- Kaspar barks at everyone that he does not recognise until he gets their attention (usually if they give him their fist and he licks it then hes all fine again and throws like a ball or kong at the person lol).
- Kaspar was trained in a puppy school amongst a lot of different dogs and was also introduced to jube very early at probably the 4th to 5th week mark at home. All was fine but now when we take him for a walk, he is completely aggressive, barking and going nuts to the point that recently (the last straw) we were at a beach and he went crazy at another dog. He swung so awkardly and was reversing to the point he got out of his full body harness and dived and attacked the other dog..
My brother in law had to dive onto kaspar to stop him and kaspar bit him on the hand as well.
From then on, I have been too afraid to take him outside. I dont know how its changed, we thought we took all the right steps to condition and socialise him but it seems hes decided to go against everything...
I would love to know what I should be doing to solve this. Your assistance would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance
It has been a long time since I posted on this forum. Firstly, I must thank everyone who helped me with great knowledge and advice when I first received Kaspar (maltipoo) as a puppy. It has been almost 2 years now and Kaspar is full active, happy, into his toys but most of all happy to be hanging around my sisters older Pomeranian named Jube.
Kaspar and Jube are in door dogs and so far are well trained in most aspects. But recently we have noticed a massive massive landslide in characteristics with Kaspar..
A few examples are as follows:
- If Kaspar is on our sofa or im holding him, he will growl when Jube comes close. I put him down straight away or move him off the sofa as well to tell him its not cool. it still persists.
- Kaspar barks at everyone that he does not recognise until he gets their attention (usually if they give him their fist and he licks it then hes all fine again and throws like a ball or kong at the person lol).
- Kaspar was trained in a puppy school amongst a lot of different dogs and was also introduced to jube very early at probably the 4th to 5th week mark at home. All was fine but now when we take him for a walk, he is completely aggressive, barking and going nuts to the point that recently (the last straw) we were at a beach and he went crazy at another dog. He swung so awkardly and was reversing to the point he got out of his full body harness and dived and attacked the other dog..
My brother in law had to dive onto kaspar to stop him and kaspar bit him on the hand as well.
From then on, I have been too afraid to take him outside. I dont know how its changed, we thought we took all the right steps to condition and socialise him but it seems hes decided to go against everything...
I would love to know what I should be doing to solve this. Your assistance would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance
