hi, I have a 17mnth old bull terrier bitch. She has a beautiful temperament and I am deffinately pack leader in my house.
She is a strong girl and gets a bit over excited sometimes. When I have taken her out for a walk she turns into a different dog. I watch ceaser milan ( dont we all ) and agree totally with his methods but for some reason my bitch will not have any of it when we are out. I have persevered and she was getting better until yesterday when we saw another dog in the near vacinity. My god I just about kept hold of her. She was on her hind legs practically screaming. Twas quite embarrasing and also very scary as if she would have got away anything couldve happened. I am female and live alone so i have no choice but too sort this out. I want to be in full control over her at all times. One thing i will mention is that i inherited her at 5 mnths old and the problem was already there. Can any1 help pls

When you say she turns into a different dog, Does she just pull like crazy? or is she vicious aswell?

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I myself if she was turning vicious would seek pro help because if u can't handle her thats a recipe for disaster.
Also iv'e found haltys work wonders for one of mine that pulls like mad and i can handle her brilliantly.

I walk her in the day on her lead n halty and of a night i walk her in an enclosed area when i know noone ain't around so she can have her run with the others.

My female IS VERY well socialised and loves other dogs, Its the other peoples dogs that don't like her so i don't take no chances.

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You gotta watch her , i got 4 bull terriers and two of them are girls ,but mine all-though they do chomp at the lead when they see another dog ,they only wanna tend to say hello ! they do play rough though and this can be problem ! If you isolate her all together from other dogs i think it could make her worse ! I would just keep her on a lead and just see how she reacts when you approch the other dog ! the thing is we can all watch ceasar on tv and be in awe of him ,but we are not him! Bull terriers can be very hard to get through to ! I remeber on the uk tv show dog borstall ,they had a bull terrier on there and they couldnt do anything with it You gotta play it by ear ! if you lived near me i could have had a look at her for you , see how see was around my dogs ect ect ..! but without seeing what shes acting like its hard to tell over a screen !

Whats that darren????

Alot of the time when you watch Caesar the dogs are wearing prong collars - if I had a prong collar on I wouldnt bloody pull either - they are barbaric IMHO. He doesnt train a dog out of a learned behaviour, he instills fear into it not to do the behaviour.
Head collars are great though - I have a dogmatic for my young dog - however it has to be said whilst they are an instant fix they do not make the problem go away - they just conceal it.
I'd join a class where the instructor is well used to dominant breeds - they may suggest you muzzle your girlie for everyones safety for the first few lessons to see how she reacts around other dogs and once they know why she behaves like she does then you can start to work on it

Best of luck with her

no she is not vicious but doesnt take any notice of me and pulls like crazy, also when she saw the other dog twas like she just wouldve done anything to get to it.....

thanks for all of your advice. very much appreciated. I have a halti headcollar but tried what the instructions said bout putting it on in the house and playing with her so she keeps it on. Unfortunately all she was concentrating on was getting it off. She wasnt even interested in playing..... therefore havent even got round to taking her out in it.

Similar to the halti but I find this one doesnt twist like the halti is the k9 bridle I bought one recently for one of mine who didn't like the halti but he walks really well on this one.

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Thats what i have got darren, It is excellent, U can attatch it to their collar aswell as the halti, so if they should (which i doubt) slip out of the halti then its still around their collar.

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