Train My Dogs Myself

Two small dogs with behavioral problems/training issues?

I’m 16, and my mom has not done any training with our dogs. I started training them like a year ago, and now they are house-broken, don’t beg, sleep in the bathroom, know some ‘commands’, walk nicely and don’t bark half as much. I feel pretty proud of myself. Goofy will not bark at people, but is very leash reactive with dogs. Dude is not agressive, but will whine and bark to get to people and other dogs. I have no clue how to stop this. When a dog is near, I put Goofy in a sit. When the dog gets close, he reacts. People are un friendly where I live, if they were friendly/nice, I would ask them to help me.

There is a dog training school close by. I think I’m going to enroll Goofy in it. Do you think it would be a waste of my money/time? She is known to be a very good dog trainer.
Yes, she is a positive-based trainer. I hope it’s not going to cost too much money.

Can I find a dog training schedule online?

I trained my basset hound with out a real tentative schedule but my pit bull needs more structured training, he does not have behavioral issues, and is generally a good dog, his issues include, jumping not sitting when told, barking out side, and so one. If any one knows of a planned training schedule online, that is like Day 1, do this, Day 2 do this, and so on and so forth.
Thanks,
B

DS: Why dog training classes rarely address behavior issues beyond puppy/beginning classes?

I was just thinking and pondering that all the dog training classes I’ve seen no longer address behavioral issues pass beginning. Or do yours?

Is there a reason why most dog training places don’t address correcting behavioral issues in classes pass beginning classes? Since behavioral issues will most likely also come up pass puppy months and/or a 8 week beginning course, why wouldn’t they also address them in those classes? It’s weird to me, because I would think they would continue to.

Given, intermediate and advance classes need a lot time to teach new cues/proof old ones but I think behavioral issues should also be addressed. I don’t know. Any opinions or experiences?

My dog has behavioral issues and my brother abuses her, what should I do?!?

My dog barks when the phone rings (she’s afraid of it), and I’ve been training her to go lie down and play with a toy instead of barking. It started to work, she was slowly responding but then, whenever the phone rings and I wasn’t right there to give her the command (I can’t be here all the time! :’{) My brother kicks her REALLY hard incase it’s his gf so my dog goes off whimpering and growling (not barking). I try to tell him to stop, it’s not helping, but he won’t even bother listening to me. He tells me I should train my dog, and at least he’s doing something to make her shut up. I try to tell him that he’s slowing down the training, but he won’t believe me! And then he’s all like, “Ohh, dog, why do you hate me??” When he tries to snuggle and the dog away.
It’s really frustrating and usually I go off crying when he does this to her, what to do? It’s so hard on me and my furry friend !
obviously I’m not going to send my brother to jail, I might be frustrated with him but I don’t HATE Him!
thanks everyone. I’m deleting this after picking a best answer so not to make him look like such an a-hole. (even though he is.)

Dog has behavioral issues and keeps running away?

I bought a 10 month old Australian Shepherd from a dog rescuer this past April. He is a sweet dog, and he has good intentions. We had an Australian Shepherd in the past almost identical to this one, and he was an amazing dog. We never had any issues with him chewing things up, and he never tried to run away until he turned about 16 in human years. We think it was to breed one last time with the Aussie nextdoor to us in the country.
We now live in the city, in a sub-divide community. Our Aussie was just fine the first two weeks. He has no issues with potty-training. He does bark quite a lot… Actually very much. I have never met a dog who barks like this. He cannot stand to be left alone. If he goes out to potty he has to come in as soon as he’s done or he will bark for hours on end with no let up. He constantly grabs any object he can find to chew it, so we have to hide everything. Our shoes go in the front closet, remotes go in a drawer, toys stay in locked rooms, etc. This worked until we realized how smart he is! He can open doors!
He also feels that he may be Alpha sometimes. He thinks he may eat from the table where we eat which is not acceptable. I smack his nose when he tries, but he only tries again. (He is only about 1 year one month right now in human years by the way). We were recommened to crate train him but he howls all night in his cage. If we let him out he’ll chew anything. He ruined a desk and even a $600 blanket… Among other things.
We walk him every day for about one hour, sometimes more… But he is hard to walk. He walks us, I should say. He walks to the point where he chokes himself so I have to being a bottle of water and a bowl for him. He also barks at certain types of people… It may not sound correct but if someone is wearing a cowboy hat he barks wildly at them. Also if they are mexicans (dark mexicans). We are a mixed family of white/mexican/hispanic so we have people over a lot..
Our recent issue is that he tries to run away a lot. We don’t know if this is a breeding issue but we never had this problem before and our old Aussie was never fixed. I plan to fix our dog soon to see if it helps but is there a reason he may act this way? We need to get it under control because he is very hyper and it scares some people. He isn’t mean, He is just hyper. He will jump on you and whatnot. If anyone has advice or a good website I would love that!