Two GSDs maul a lab pup

I always wonder why people don't train something to a dog who is tiny, but instead try and introduce it later on - much to a grown dogs distain! Its one thing me trying to do it to my two JRTs (but then they have been taught that I can do what I want with them lol ) but another to a dog with a bite like that!

TBH I think I would have stopped at the first nash myself!
 
He is still a youngster - they are basically rewarding him for growling at them....by retracting then coming at him, (laughing, funny!) retracting then coming at him. It's a head on challenge to a young, unsure-of-himself male dog.
 
It just goes to show the difference with dogs though, Roly just that face to me all the time, when we're playing a gun-ho game of I'll-pull-a-legs-off!
 
I know the tooth brushing isnt funny (made me quite uncomfortable), but if someone wiped toothpaste up my nose and then tried to poke me with their finger repeatedly, I might just have words too! Hmm, got the dentist on Thursday, I'll ask him to try this method, see where it gets him!
 
Kitsune I get that with Whinnie, too, she play fights big style with me, always had, but wont do it to such extremes with other people, know she is old, they are not as long or crazy, but I still get the lip curl and pretend snap at me, if she ever actually gets me, she runs and hides with her ears pinned to her head and I have to go and find her to give her cuddles (rescue so she thinks if she bites she is out). I am the next above her in the pack so I think this is why she plays with me.
 
god i was freaking out there didnt know what i was going to see, and on video. so glad it was cute and firendly.
 
I think this post needs re-naming: Lab Pup Mauls Two Fully Grown GSDs! lol That's just chewy :p

Mouse does a full lip curl when she's play fighting too, Jim does a half hearted one
 
First vid is very cute! I don't know why the woman cautions the dogs, if she saw what mine do to each other she would faint! The GSD has the entire JRT in his mouth at times and the JRT goes ballistic to retaliate (all in good fun, but with loads of vocal accompaniments!).

Second vid, I also can't see why some people find this funny. It's very dangerous to provoke and encourage this reaction. Puppies should be taught to have their mouths examined, but if this is a rescue this is not the way to approach remedial training. Very dangerous, I don't like it at all.

Re the lip curling, I was told that this can be a breed characteristic and mean 'play with me' rather than 'I warn you', the difference being in exactly how it is done. The Spitzes do the 'play with me' lip curl while throwing themsleves down at the front (you know what I mean? The universal play with me crouch), will respond with the 'play with me' lip curl if you do it to them first and the GSD seems to have picked it up from the Spitzes. The 'I warn you' lip curl is totally different, the bitch Spitz does it when the others piss her off.
 
I'm glad other people get the lip curl too. Although I have to say I could do a similar video with Roly, in play and it would look very similar to that video. Maybe I will, just to see the response!
 
I didnt find the vid funny, but I dunno a big GSD doing that actually scares me, they have big teeth and aere very powerful, I wouldnt want to annoy one. I know whinnie very very well and can read her playful faces, noises etc etc and I know when she has had enough too and we stop playing that game. Whin has always played baring teeth, which has scared some people, but its just how she does it, paws went down, lips went up. now paws dont really go down, but lip goes up and she squeaks at me and pokes her tongue out. :p
 
I think its funny that people have dogs they can't do anything with.

I decided to clip my GSD's claws, if there was any time he was going to go for me it was then ..........

The guilotine style clipper, got stuck on his claw and was bleeding, he would NEVER have done anything to me, I told him to stay (he was laying down on his side as I'd been brushing him) ran for something to get the thing off him, he was an angel.

He never played as in fighting, if you put your hand in his mouth he'd spit it out. He was a mummy's boy (he died of enlarged spleen/heart)

You have to be able to deal with things, like injuries etc there's no way I'd be afraid of a dog I owned, not be able to see to it.

The 2nd vid is just stupid, its not funny and they need to address the situation, if its a rescue then not sure how, it is different if you've owned the dog from a puppy, as I've found with my rehomed spangle bitch, although she is an angel too. Not sure I'd want to take on a rehomed GSD though, very difficult
 
Chlo and my OH play fight all the time, he tickles her tummy, she jumps on his head, she's always since she was a baby played with her mouth open. HOWEVER, when play time is over, my OH is very much head of the pack. She's also never so much as laid a tooth on anybody - not us, not anyone else.

Think it depends on the dog. The lovely little staffi next door is gorgeous but I would NEVER play like that with her, as she has been known to on occasion show aggressive tendencies. It does totally depend on the dog =] xxx
 
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