Muzzle

[failedmydog]

Does anyone use a soft muzzle or any muzzle on a dog?

We have a referral to a behavioural trainer but our youngest dog is very stressed and is guarding our property, he's started to really get stressed with any delivery's and delivery drivers entering the property.

He will run and bark at them, no growling just threading behaviour.

We have a sign up to not enter, we have let everyone know to call, knock or let us know so we can put him away and he's not always inside.

But now we have a situation where while waiting for the training to start I'm actually concerned he will escalate .

Any other suggestions? As I think we maybe waiting a while for the referral.

Not all day no, my DH works from home so most of the time the dogs are inside or with him under supervision, this is just for the odd occasions when he's on calls or the dogs are outside without him being able to supervise.

Ah, makes more sense now.

I suspect the challenge you're going to have is that getting a dog used to a muzzle can take a while - especially to build duration. So you'll still need a solution until then.

Much depends on how much training you do with the dog anyway - i.e. how much he is already used to learning new things.

Chiraq Patel's training tends to be very good - lots of emphasis on the dog having a choice and choosing to do what you want. Kikopup does a good video also.

Thank you I'll take a look at those.