Hello,
I have a 5 month old Malshi (Maltese shih tzu) who has become very very reactive when he gets overwhelmed/ overstimulated. He tries to bite (I call attack, but because he’s so small I don’t consider it an attack). We have been taking training classes at petco and the trainer witness it while we were trying to put a harness on him, he tried to bite just for trying to put the harness on. The trainer said he is too young to be acting like this and it’s not good. Did not make me feel good at all. I wanted to cry because we have never done any harm for him to try to bite/attack.
He did bite my sister one time when she was walking him and he tried to eat a piece of burger that was on the street, she took it out of his mouth and he made her finger bleed.
At home we have used the air corrector spray, bitter spray, treating when doing things correctly but he still acts this way.
I need help, I really do not want him to grow up to be a mean dog. I don’t know what else to do in terms of training to correct this behavior.
We live in NYC if that helps anyone recommend any trainers or places. At this point I am open to any ideas because I would like to correct this asap before he gets older
Thank you!
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