My one year old goldendoodle has been to pet training classes, he is fairly well behaved at home.
When people come home, he jumps on them and scares kids with his excitement. All the training tips from the class isn't working. Another major problem I have is, he is way too playful. At the dog park, he tries to play with all dogs, most of them play with him well, but some older dogs get annoyed by his puppy energy. They snap at him and some even bite him, my pup still doesn't learn to back off.I thought over time, he will learn this, but every trip to the dog park is very stressful for me. I am worried that he might get bitten by some other dog. He doesn't come to me when I call during such situations. That is the reason why we invested in an expensive "sportdog training collar".
Now with this collar, we use it at the lowest vibrate level, once my dog feels the vibrations, he just sits down or just go in different direction. He doesn't obey instructions, he just shutsdown. please hel
I don't want to hurt him, but at the same time I want him to be safe. I feel bad to increase the vibrations. Don't know what level is tolerable for him, since he is shuting down or resisting strongly for the lowest vibration itself.

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I asked a question referencing the prong collar, as my lab/staffy mix is bullheaded and will not catch on to walking nicely on any training leash. I received quite a few answers telling me to get my dog in obedience school and I need to train my dog. We have invested a lot in our dog. She has been to an obedience class and we have had an in home trainer. I am not offended at all by those comments because I know how diligent we are on a daily basis with her. Do people just assume that all dogs are easy? She is very very stubborn and has a mind of her own. Anyways, I am writing this to say don't assume people haven't trained their dogs if they need help with a training issue. Thanks! Have a lovely day!!!

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She barks at everything from knocks at the door, doorbells, (on TV and not), and other dogs and people walking by our back door. We got her from the pound about 5 years ago and still can't break her of this habit. She just doesn't understand "no" and a little smack on the nose along with it. Any ideas? Not interested in shock collars or anyhting like that.

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I just adopted a male black lab who is about a year old. I dont know anything about his past. He is a very sweet dog, and is really gentle natured. But recently he just started becoming really aggressive whenever i pull on his collar (leading him without a leash).
Please help this is getting pretty bad. Its almost where i cant control him with a leash.
Tonight when i was leading him back to his crate he almost bit me!

PLEASE HELP!

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