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**DOWNLOADnowADOBEphotoSHOP** · 04-18-2012, 10:36 PM

IMO most dog temperament issues are owner related. You can definitely ruin a dog with the wrong owner. Be it lack of lack of training, no boundaries, abuse, neglect.
But at the same time, take a badly bred dog and socialize the crap out of it/good training and still have a dog with weak nerves.

I see dogs everyday that were PERFECT puppies at 8 weeks old, and within a few months the pup is now a nasty little biter because its owner treats it like a baby and lets it do whatever it wants.

Or even doesn't know what to do when the dog starts biting and unknowingly encourages it by backing off when it starts snapping at them. This leads to the dog biting people because it learns that if I bite people they stop doing what I dont like. That is something the dog learns, not knowledge it is born with.

04-18-2012, 10:36 PM	#5
DOWNLOADnowADOBEphotoSHOP Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 476 Senior Member	IMO most dog temperament issues are owner related. You can definitely ruin a dog with the wrong owner. Be it lack of lack of training, no boundaries, abuse, neglect. But at the same time, take a badly bred dog and socialize the crap out of it/good training and still have a dog with weak nerves. I see dogs everyday that were PERFECT puppies at 8 weeks old, and within a few months the pup is now a nasty little biter because its owner treats it like a baby and lets it do whatever it wants. Or even doesn't know what to do when the dog starts biting and unknowingly encourages it by backing off when it starts snapping at them. This leads to the dog biting people because it learns that if I bite people they stop doing what I dont like. That is something the dog learns, not knowledge it is born with.
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