Are you aware that almost if not ALL REPUTABLE VETERINARIAN ANIMAL BEHAVIORSTS AND HUMANS SOCIETIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADVOCATE FOR DOGS are appalled by how unsafe techniques that aren’t backed by science and actually can do more harm than good? So no you actually can go very wrong following Caesar. Please I do not mean to offend, but there is so much awful advice confusing people, so I feel compelled to help educate. I read books giving me wrong training and I saw the deterioration in my dog, so I know feel very passionate about proper humane training techniques as even slightly aversive techniques can affect our dogs in negative ways. Please read leading experts in the industry such as Dr Ian Dunbar or the late Dr Sophia Yin!!’

my idea would to lower the amount of food the dogs get and take away some of their toys for a period of time.

I think different approaches work with different dogs and with a Shiba gentle unyielding has give me the best results, but I’m a new adoptee of an older Shiba who has some good habits and some bad ones. So much still to learn.

I think different dogs speak a little different language so to speak and Cesars works better with other dogs, the problem is that he works with such extreme cases that if you watch his shows and emulate that behavior you are giving a disproportional and misunderstood response to most dogs….

I trained two dogs to stop jumping which will probably stop the biting. All I did was anticipate the behavior and raise one leg so that when they jumped at me their chest hit my knee however hard they chose to jump. Softer jump, softer hit, etc. In a short time (and you won’t get it right in time every time) they stopped jumping because they were slamming up against me and it hurt them. I used no vocal stimulus and other than raising my knee ignored the behavior. It seemed like they didn’t blame me, but figured it was their jumping that was hurting them as they were basically slamming into me. I think vocal response included with this might give the idea you are intentionally striking them, but when you smile at them and they slam your knee they are a little confused and figure hey, maybe slamming into this person isn’t a great idea, slamming hurts.

hope this helps someone

Hello Tera,

Two things that help with my dogs –
1. Bite inhibition training
http://shibashake.com/dog/bite-inhibition

2. Short timeouts
http://shibashake.com/dog/puppy-biting-how-to-stop-puppy-biting#timeout

Here are some other things I do to communicate with my puppy and stop bad behaviors.
http://shibashake.com/dog/how-i-trained-my-husky-puppy