'Selectively' aggressive Cockapoo

gettingtheresometime

sheramber wrote: »

Until the dog learns ot give thins up PUT IT AWAY.

A pup in the house is the best way to train children- and adults- to be tidy and put things way.

Ah this with spades.

The beagle taught everyone to put things away quicker than any more shouting could ever achieve

jemball

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

My beagle (5) is a bit like this still but it could be with anything that he has 'stolen'. He doesn't do it all the time so it's not a case of seeing X and he must have it at all costs.

We think its when he's bored or when he just wants to draw your attention to him.....it's nothing for him to walk into the living room with his stash in his mouth parading like a model almost daring us to get it off him. One look from us to say 'really?' and he spits it out as if he knows it's not getting the reaction he wants from us.

(Strangely, for a food oriented breed of dog, he will let us remove his food even when he's eating)

I'm not sure what the answer is but how do you react when he has stolen something?

We try to distract him with a treat or 'go walkies' and then remove the stolen object. If this fails then we ignore him until he finds something else more interesting, normally food.

jemball

unforeseen wrote: »

Please. The dog is a mongrel or even a cross breed. Calling it a 'cockapoo' is just pandering to people's vanity in pretending they have something approaching a pedigree or pure bred breed.

Well, aren't you a nasty one, eh?!!!

unforeseen

jemball wrote: »

Well, aren't you a nasty one, eh?!!!

Not nasty, just just calling your mongrel by its correct breed (or lack thereof)

Oh dear. If you think that is nasty these forums can dish out nasty that will make my comment look like kind words

teddysmum

Aliss08 wrote: »

Unforeseen - why even bother to reply? The OP is, I assume, fully aware of exactly what makes a cockapoo. Perhaps a better option than a lot of pure bred/pedigree dogs with all their associated health problems due to over breeding.

Not really relevant to this thread, but I must comment that crossing does not mean less health problems.It can, in fact, mean more, as mixing two breeds with different inherited diseases can result in offspring having both.

AylesburyDuck

Goodness sake,
I have a Labradoodle, do i think i have something posh, lord no, he's a cross breed. That said, if someone asks what dog i have why would i say crossbreed when i can say Labradoodle and cut out the middleman that then ask what breeds he contains.
As for the OP, can i just ask another question, has he been done?

Money_saving_maniac

Another vote for teaching him 'swapsies'.
Some dogs are just terrible about guarding.

marlot

teddysmum wrote: »

Not really relevant to this thread, but I must comment that crossing does not mean less health problems.It can, in fact, mean more, as mixing two breeds with different inherited diseases can result in offspring having both.

I agree.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pets/10626590/Breeders-regret-over-creating-labradoodle.html

Back to the OP's problem: I agree with the people who say that training is the way forward. Start with lots of rewards for dropping on command.

My dog will drop anything as soon as a human touches it. Even if that human is only 18 months old (supervised near the dog, of course).

jemball

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

Goodness sake,
I have a Labradoodle, do i think i have something posh, lord no, he's a cross breed. That said, if someone asks what dog i have why would i say crossbreed when i can say Labradoodle and cut out the middleman that then ask what breeds he contains.
As for the OP, can i just ask another question, has he been done?

I quite agree.
He has not been done yet.

AylesburyDuck

jemball wrote: »

I quite agree.
He has not been done yet.

If it's something you plan to do then that may go a part ways towards helping the situation, but the later you leave it the less it helps.
I agree with the swapsies solution as well. My dogs get trained from an early age (along side toilet training) that toys and or food can be taken away by me at will, of course they always get returned promptly, but it teaches them not to be possesive.
Good luck with it all, i love cockerpoos, but way too much hair for me, even our Doodle is the more unusual flat coated, looks more unruely coated than curly.
I also have a pair of Staffys, never a dull moment in our house.