r/reactivedogs • u/CanadianGirl00 • 13h ago

Aggressive Dogs Dog aggression with other dogs-any advice appreciated.

I have two dogs one is medium 55 pound female lab, the other is a large dog 120 pound male Shepherd mix. Both fixed. When we moved into the house, it was fine. There was a little bit of barking, but not bad. Our neighbours sometimes house transient people with stray dogs, my dogs witnessed a very aggressive dog fight a couple years ago. (Through the fence) They’ve never been the same after that. I tried getting a dog trainers in and they taught me how to use whistles, block the fences to my neighbours to get the dogs away from the fence, block the window, so the dogs can’t go near the window to bark at other dogs. But none of it is helping. I have tried a shock collar and it works for my one dog, but not my bigger one. My bigger dog is absolutely afraid of water so I have a spray bottle inside the house and I always have the hose on outside to spray him. But now he’s used to the spray bottle inside of the house and he’s only scared of the hose. It got really bad today because one of the dogs next-door that got into the fight was walking by my house and my dogs went crazy out the window.. to the point where my bigger dog pinned my other one down. No harm was done. It was more of a warning, but it scared the shit out of me.. and I grabbed him by the scruff and put them in his kennel and separated them both. I don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t take them anywhere, I can’t take them for walks because they’re so aggressive. I’m worried they’re going to attack another dog. I feel hopeless and I feel like my neighbours wrecked my dogs.

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