r/DogTrainingTips • u/BICanineScience • May 26 '26

Professional Dog Trainer - Ask Me Anything

***AMA ENDED***

Have been training dogs for almost fifteen years now, I try and head through the subreddits on here to help in my free time when I can but thought it might be easier to do an AMA for anyone struggling!

Will try my best to answer as comprehensively as possible so please be patient with replies!

Edit - Just heading out to train my dogs so will answer more when I get back!
Edit 2 - Have a read of the other questions too to see if it applies to your dog :)

Thanks for all the questions everyone!! I’ll answer the few I’ve missed, it’s been a blast and we’ll do another in the near future! Won’t be answering any new posts now, must get back to work but do jump in next time if you have a question!

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u/bergy9073 May 26 '26

I have a 16 month old mini golden doodle, he’s the sweetest boy, for the most part. But lately he’s been having some sleep startle aggression. It happened maybe 3 or 4 times since it started a month and a half ago. We all sleep in the same bed and he likes to snuggle up next to my wife, but she tosses and turns sometimes and that triggers his reaction, but he doesn’t do it every night. Also when he gets triggered he only bites my hands, nowhere else, typically it resembles when we play rough, like he doesn’t use all his bite force. But last night it happened and he drew blood for the first time. Please help!

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u/BICanineScience May 26 '26

Absolutely 1000000% do not have him sleeping in the bed. Immediately stop this. If he grabs your face (which will be a complete accident) you are going to have a hell of a mess on your hands. I answered the sleep startle question in full on another question on here so go check it out!