@@tomdavisofficial awesome video... Although we have a Caucasian shepherd who has turned out absolutely unbelievable (with help from your videos might i add), we knew he was never gonna be a German shepherd and have seen the guarding instincts first hand so i would personally consider any of the Livestock guardian dogs as inherently hard to train because of how powerful and strong their guarding instincts are...
Really? Shiba Inu more so than a Basenji? That's interesting. I've been a Basenji breeder [have mostly African imports] for many, many years...and it sounded like a Basenji to me.
My daughter has a Shiba Inu. She got him when he was already one year old. She has trained him to be a Therapy dog. He's very smart, but also gets very excited when we come to visit her. It doesn't surprise me that you say they are cat-like as my daughter is more of a cat person, owns two cats and last year took her dream trip to Japan.
I have a Shiba Inu, he's definitely cat like and stubborn, but he was easy to train in my opinion, sits at the door and waits for the okay from me, goes to his place on command, goes to my left side with the "left" command, etc. BUT when he doesn't want to or doesn't feel like doing those commands he will bark and not obey me lol. But I love him to death
Sounds like my mule. He was wonderful when he wanted to be good but if he started out refusing to do anything I told him to I would just put him back in the pasture because I knew it would be a horrible experience.
As a dog trainer myself, I agree with you on your choices for difficult breeds to train. Have you ever worked with a German Indian Dog? I have and they are another very stubborn dog. They are that way because they are part Siberian Husky and Malamute. They also have German Shepherd and Chinook. My personal favorite dog is the Shetland Sheepdog. They are smart, energetic, and very loyal.
I have had 2 Great Danes. And I was honestly surprised to hear you include them in this video. My 4-year-old Dane is the sweetest dog I have ever seen, and she was so easy to train. It only took a few days to potty train her when she was a puppy. We recently had to put our 11 year old dane down. She was a little more difficult to train when she was a puppy, but not by much.
11 year old Great Dane? Wow, that‘s amazing…you must‘ve really watched out when she was young..! I know a lot of them part after 6-8 years, way too early, sadly!
I have a Husky and he’s my first dog ever 😄 it helped that I watched tons of videos on dog training before bringing him home, I’m talking years of reading and watching videos and I loved the breed since I was a kid so I kinda knew what to expect. I started training him as soon as he settled into my home and when he was around 6 months I contacted a dog trainer in town and he helped a lot, my Husky is food motivated so it’s quite easy working with him to the point that I get compliments on how good he is but it was and still is a lot of work. If I can offer any advice I think you should have very clear communication as Tom says often and establish boundaries at home and never change the rules, they’re extremely smart and they will try to challenge you and your guidance constantly, they’re bred to be independent thinkers and strong willed so you have to work around that.
Breed education and knowledge is so critical when choosing a furry friend. It's a 10-20 year commitment and should be taken very seriously when considering a dog that works with your lifestyle and willingness to invest time into it's enrichment
Sheltie and BC owner here :) My sheltie has been a greater challenge than most BCs I worked with, just because he is so incredibly sensitive. I absolutely cannot recommend this breed to just anyone. You have to be a very stable, calm, non-correction oriented person to truly raise them right. And their reactivity is normalised even amongst breeders &watered down to them being "vocal"... Truly heartbreaking tbh
I have had 4 Shelties over time and only one came from a breeder. The 3 others were rescues. I personally have never encountered the extreme sensitivity you are experiencing. But as a professional dog trainer, I can tell you the extreme sensitivity can be seen in any breed. 9 times out of 10 it is genetic, or poor breeding selection. No one can dismiss the possibility of abuse or chaos in the breeders home. Fear in a dog can definitely increase and multiply. I would suggest getting professional counseling from a certified behaviorist b fore that happens.
@suannepinoniemi6524 It's more of a problem in pure British lines :) But then again, I don't train professionally but rehabilitate and habituate shelter or rescue dogs so my view can be different.
@ thank you for what you do to help our furry buddies. I have heard that this affliction can be more prominent in some genetic lines, but I will also add that after 14 years of training, we are seeing a great number of fearful (some aggressive) dogs (all breeds) where owners are thankfully reaching out for help. I have witnessed a lot of very fearful dogs rehabilitated through gentle but well rounded training with their owners. I need to let everyone know a lot of dogs develop fear because of their isolation! If you want to prevent your dog from developing fearful behavior, walk them, take them, gently expose them to as many different places, stores, neighborhoods, open outdoor malls, use your imagination. So that new experiences won’t be so traumatic. They will eventually look forward to it and you will too. Let people greet your dog, pet them, give them a favorite treat to give to your dog.
I have a Siberian Husky that I board. She was so aloof and terrible at recall when she first came. 2 years later she listens to me, better than the owner but she’s one of the only dogs that cannot be off the line while walking. All characteristics mentioned are spot on.
Our rich neighbors have one…by choice. He is loud, cannot go off leash, but very friendly and cuddly. Plays well with my Saluki rescue mix, too. However, if you don‘t own a hous within huge fenced in yard, better not get one.
Love the mix of opinion with a side of history/breed background. (And also, can we vote to have a drumroll in each of your future RUclips videos please?!🥁)
I have to add my breed to this list. I have a Great Pyrenees I am doing obedience and performance with. He has been one of the most challenging dogs I have ever trained in my life, and he is extremely sensitive to any type of correction, as well as he is not food, toy, or attention motivated.
Shiba owner here and I agree with you 100%. My girl is food motivated and loves to walk, play and hike, but without food in your hand good luck getting her to listen and respond to anything. She knows all the words... you've just got to have food in your hand and hope that it is of higher value than whatever else has her interest. Off leash is not an option, even in secluded woods due to lack of recall.
I agree on the first two (husky also has wanderlust so they are like "see ya, I'm going out on my own to explore." As for GDs, I've seen severely aggressive GD (well, one actually) and I've worked with some really nice ones that just needed training. Any large breed, especially a guarding breed, should be owned by someone who is prepared to put in the training work. And to Tom's point, if you're going to get a dog from a breeder, make sure that person is a real breeder who cares about the breed, not just about the money.
Have a male Ridgeback also.. the most unique dog we have ever owned, if i had to sum up i would say an all-round family guardian dog who just adores his people but can be stubborn and really doesnt give a hoot about strangers... generally so placid but i have never seen an on switch in a dog so much when he is challenged by another dog...this can make them challenging to train because of their size but again amazing dogs
Hi Tom. I just had to laugh when you listed Shibus as the hardest to train. The first Shibu i worked with was about 2 decades ago and i was excited to work with a new oriental breed! Oh my god! What an impossible dog. I just absolutely could never form a relationship with him. He just couldn’t care less! It was actually hilarious. He was the worst dog to train. I guess I helped the owner, but mostly by making her realistic about the nature of her dog! My second worse was an Afgan hound i rescued as a training challenge 30+ years ago. That dog had zero common sense. He laid under a standing horse and had his leg broken when the horse stepped on him. I was able to obedience train him, but he was never completely house broken, so weird! I’ve had great success with other sight hounds, as i love sensitive dogs, but Tony, the Afgan was memorably difficult. I agree about huskies. They are charming funny delinquents who normally are just in the absolutely wrong situation!
Crazy thing about huskies: a friend had one but his neighbor would keep calling authorities because he saw it sleeping in the snow. No matter how much my friend tried to explain that the dog preferred the snow to the warm indoors, it didn't matter. He even had a dog house - but he still preferred the snow. As for Danes - as a trainer I can understand what you mean: you are only going to see the ones that have not been trained properly from puppies. I've owned them since the 70s and find them incredibly easy to train - they are so eager to please. That said, if you don't do it right when they are young, they can be nightmares because of their size when they are adults (I would never rescue a dane). My last one is a covid pup and saw no one but my immediate family for the first two years of his life; he has a boatload of mental issues.
One point that a lot of people miss is when is the right time to buy another dog. My answer is when your current, well trained pup is still alive and healthy. From our recent 7 dogs, we only really trained the first one...the first dog trained the second, the first and second trained the third and on. Not that we did not have specific behaviors to work on, but the leadership role of the older dog made subsequent pups much easier. Also, a young dog in the house can be very good for maintaining vitality (within reason) in an older pup.
Depends on the space you have available. In your heart and your apartment. Took me 3 years after my first dog died to get another rescue, and she was such a challenge, I‘d never have done it if I‘d known what lay ahead. But I love her and she is amazing with any critter, be it dog, bird, duck, cat, deer, …the works Humans…not so much. Rescue from Romania
I used to have a GSD/Belgian Shepherd mix (Terueren) and she loved to work. She was so eager that she sometimes didn't have patience enough to wait for me telling her what to do, she started guessing 😅 I taught her, for instance, to jump up onto big rocks on command and she thought that "for some reason mom likes when I jump up onto big rocks" , so she started doing that expecting praise and candy. I loved her so much but unfortunately she was very reactive (my fault, I know, I didn't socialize her enough). Now I have a five months old Golden Retriever puppy and I thought that she would be less of a turbo dog. Oh, was I wrong. Either that or I'm getting old. She weighs 37 Pounds (nope, not fat, big and sturdy, English type) and the other day she wanted to catch a leaf and made my husband fall to the ground. When he came home, he thought it was a baaaad baaad idea to get another dog. He loves her and is usually very stoic, but he doesn't want to look like a fool in front of the neighbors.
I had a great dane and a boerboel and eventually ended up haveing a great dane mix boerboel pup grew up to be very protective and very loving he was great with kids and people but terrible with other dogs sadly he passed at 7 years old from cancer , now i have a 10 month old boerboel pup and trying to get him stabalized with his anxiety and socialized but i guess its difficult because his in the fear stage
Lol i have a shiba and a great dane. Spot on with the shiba, this is my third dane though- and they have been angels. My shiba is highly food motivated, was not trained when i got him, and is now a pretty good dog(got him when he was two, and not a good dog) With danes it is important to train them early bcause of their size- and are naturally skittish- but environmental socializing gets rid of that by month 8😮
Час назад+1
I have a sait berard/pyrenese. 120lb dog which weights more than me. Pulls like crazy and now I'm not able to walk her. Am I better of with a prong collar, as at the moment she's walked with a harness. Plus I have a old englishbulldog. Both great dogs. Just can't walk the big one. Chases everything. She's 1 years old.
If you want a dog that has looks like a husky or shiba, but more trainable, look at the finnish lapphund. Are they still a bit stubborn? Yes. Definitely have some personality. But smart, trainable and can be very calm in the home. Don't find him very sensitive to corrections either.
@@tomdavisofficial I know someone with two. I hate his training techniques. It’s all about punishment. I refuse to visit because I don’t trust the dogs or his ability to control them.
Overall these are the breeds that are great only for people that are really up to the challenge and understand how to get the dogs to work on their strong features. But they are really very hard to try to conform to a lifestyle they don't want.
@tomdavisofficial my fault. My dog (put bull/Shepard), whom I had just adopted, not knowing she hated other dogs, attached the Great Dane and I somehow got in the middle of it. She was trying to get the pit bull to unclamp her jaw which was embedded in her back. It was horrendous. All of us got stitches.
My 3 kg Maltese also stands like a Column, when she sees something for her interesting. If you wanna pull this little thing, she throuws oneself dramaticly to the ground and acts like dead. Very funny wirh this fluffy little white dog, and very easy to pick up and carry her, on my arm, up here she knows, complaining is meaningless 😂 Glad that I ve not to deal with a great dane. 😂
Well i've owned many of breeds of dogs in my lifetime. I've owned 8 Dobie's, 4 Lab's, 3 GSD's, 1 Poodle, 1 Lasa Apso, & many of mutts in my lifetime.... All of my dogs were pretty easy to train with the exception of our Lasa Apso, he was as dumb as a stick..... Only dumb dog i've ever owned😅😂🤣!
let me ask you a question if anyone else that knows i have had german shepards all of my life accept recently and i'm thinking about getting a american akita how hard are they to train ?
My dog (Doberman) refuses to listen to any other than sit without a treat! You don’t even have to say anything if you have food in your hand for her to sit. And you can tell her wait holding that treat to her nose and she won’t touch it until you say ok. BUT? You got a treat, she’ll do two somersaults a back flip with a perfect landing for you to get that treat! Yes I’m exaggerating on the backflip, but that’s exactly how I feel trying to get this dog. Do anything without a treat. she’s year-old and very stubborn.
I have a labrador mix who I DNA tested and as much as he looks like a lab(he is my profile pic) he is a mix of 7 breeds and a majority of the breeds in him are DA breeds, so he is a nightmare sometimes when out walking but we are working on it. I also have a bully mix who is really sweet but can also be really questionable with other dogs and last I have an akita that is just the sweetest thing, sweet to everyone and everything.
Crazy, we have a dog that looks almost identical to yours. We were sure he was a lab mix. Embark surprised us, telling us he was a German Shepherd/Husky/Boxer mutt with zero lab dna. I'm pretty sure his brain is mostly Husky.
What breeds do you guys find hard to train?
How did I forget the Boerboel? 🤨🤨🤨🤨😂
@@tomdavisofficial awesome video... Although we have a Caucasian shepherd who has turned out absolutely unbelievable (with help from your videos might i add), we knew he was never gonna be a German shepherd and have seen the guarding instincts first hand so i would personally consider any of the Livestock guardian dogs as inherently hard to train because of how powerful and strong their guarding instincts are...
My boerboel is the most stubborn puppy I've ever had (mine is 7 months now). But I do love his personality.
Really? Shiba Inu more so than a Basenji? That's interesting. I've been a Basenji breeder [have mostly African imports] for many, many years...and it sounded like a Basenji to me.
The yorkie
My daughter has a Shiba Inu. She got him when he was already one year old. She has trained him to be a Therapy dog. He's very smart, but also gets very excited when we come to visit her. It doesn't surprise me that you say they are cat-like as my daughter is more of a cat person, owns two cats and last year took her dream trip to Japan.
Our home lives at the 2 extremes. A husky and Belgian Malinois. Recommended if you find life boring.
Hahah
Does the Husky get influenced by the Mali and his worth ethic? Like if he has so much fun, maybe it‘s not so bad working with my peeps?
I have a Shiba Inu, he's definitely cat like and stubborn, but he was easy to train in my opinion, sits at the door and waits for the okay from me, goes to his place on command, goes to my left side with the "left" command, etc. BUT when he doesn't want to or doesn't feel like doing those commands he will bark and not obey me lol. But I love him to death
Sounds like my mule. He was wonderful when he wanted to be good but if he started out refusing to do anything I told him to I would just put him back in the pasture because I knew it would be a horrible experience.
As a dog trainer myself, I agree with you on your choices for difficult breeds to train. Have you ever worked with a German Indian Dog? I have and they are another very stubborn dog. They are that way because they are part Siberian Husky and Malamute. They also have German Shepherd and Chinook. My personal favorite dog is the Shetland Sheepdog. They are smart, energetic, and very loyal.
I have not
I have had 2 Great Danes. And I was honestly surprised to hear you include them in this video. My 4-year-old Dane is the sweetest dog I have ever seen, and she was so easy to train. It only took a few days to potty train her when she was a puppy. We recently had to put our 11 year old dane down. She was a little more difficult to train when she was a puppy, but not by much.
11 year old Great Dane? Wow, that‘s amazing…you must‘ve really watched out when she was young..!
I know a lot of them part after 6-8 years, way too early, sadly!
I have a Husky and he’s my first dog ever 😄 it helped that I watched tons of videos on dog training before bringing him home, I’m talking years of reading and watching videos and I loved the breed since I was a kid so I kinda knew what to expect. I started training him as soon as he settled into my home and when he was around 6 months I contacted a dog trainer in town and he helped a lot, my Husky is food motivated so it’s quite easy working with him to the point that I get compliments on how good he is but it was and still is a lot of work. If I can offer any advice I think you should have very clear communication as Tom says often and establish boundaries at home and never change the rules, they’re extremely smart and they will try to challenge you and your guidance constantly, they’re bred to be independent thinkers and strong willed so you have to work around that.
I love working with Huskies and spitz in general.
Totally agree with your top three. My personal list would include Beagles edging out Danes.
I have seen 1 beagle in my career, most people who own them use them for the proper purpose.
Breed education and knowledge is so critical when choosing a furry friend. It's a 10-20 year commitment and should be taken very seriously when considering a dog that works with your lifestyle and willingness to invest time into it's enrichment
Yep
Sheltie and BC owner here :) My sheltie has been a greater challenge than most BCs I worked with, just because he is so incredibly sensitive. I absolutely cannot recommend this breed to just anyone. You have to be a very stable, calm, non-correction oriented person to truly raise them right. And their reactivity is normalised even amongst breeders &watered down to them being "vocal"... Truly heartbreaking tbh
I have had 4 Shelties over time and only one came from a breeder. The 3 others were rescues. I personally have never encountered the extreme sensitivity you are experiencing. But as a professional dog trainer, I can tell you the extreme sensitivity can be seen in any breed. 9 times out of 10 it is genetic, or poor breeding selection. No one can dismiss the possibility of abuse or chaos in the breeders home. Fear in a dog can definitely increase and multiply. I would suggest getting professional counseling from a certified behaviorist b fore that happens.
@suannepinoniemi6524 It's more of a problem in pure British lines :) But then again, I don't train professionally but rehabilitate and habituate shelter or rescue dogs so my view can be different.
@ thank you for what you do to help our furry buddies. I have heard that this affliction can be more prominent in some genetic lines, but I will also add that after 14 years of training, we are seeing a great number of fearful (some aggressive) dogs (all breeds) where owners are thankfully reaching out for help. I have witnessed a lot of very fearful dogs rehabilitated through gentle but well rounded training with their owners. I need to let everyone know a lot of dogs develop fear because of their isolation! If you want to prevent your dog from developing fearful behavior, walk them, take them, gently expose them to as many different places, stores, neighborhoods, open outdoor malls, use your imagination. So that new experiences won’t be so traumatic. They will eventually look forward to it and you will too. Let people greet your dog, pet them, give them a favorite treat to give to your dog.
I have a Siberian Husky that I board. She was so aloof and terrible at recall when she first came. 2 years later she listens to me, better than the owner but she’s one of the only dogs that cannot be off the line while walking.
All characteristics mentioned are spot on.
hzhs thanks!
I would also put a hound (like a Beagle) in that group, especially if they get a whiff of something when you're trying to get them to do something.
1000000
We had a coonhound when I was a kid and my dad had some difficulty training her.
Our rich neighbors have one…by choice. He is loud, cannot go off leash, but very friendly and cuddly. Plays well with my Saluki rescue mix, too.
However, if you don‘t own a hous within huge fenced in yard, better not get one.
Love the mix of opinion with a side of history/breed background. (And also, can we vote to have a drumroll in each of your future RUclips videos please?!🥁)
haha
I have to add my breed to this list. I have a Great Pyrenees I am doing obedience and performance with. He has been one of the most challenging dogs I have ever trained in my life, and he is extremely sensitive to any type of correction, as well as he is not food, toy, or attention motivated.
Yeah, sloowwww for OB. But then again, not bred for OB
Shiba owner here and I agree with you 100%. My girl is food motivated and loves to walk, play and hike, but without food in your hand good luck getting her to listen and respond to anything. She knows all the words... you've just got to have food in your hand and hope that it is of higher value than whatever else has her interest. Off leash is not an option, even in secluded woods due to lack of recall.
ding!
I agree on the first two (husky also has wanderlust so they are like "see ya, I'm going out on my own to explore." As for GDs, I've seen severely aggressive GD (well, one actually) and I've worked with some really nice ones that just needed training. Any large breed, especially a guarding breed, should be owned by someone who is prepared to put in the training work. And to Tom's point, if you're going to get a dog from a breeder, make sure that person is a real breeder who cares about the breed, not just about the money.
That;s my ned video!
I have a male Rhodesian Ridgeback, which I believe were originally bred with some Great Dane in them.
Possibly
Have a male Ridgeback also.. the most unique dog we have ever owned, if i had to sum up i would say an all-round family guardian dog who just adores his people but can be stubborn and really doesnt give a hoot about strangers... generally so placid but i have never seen an on switch in a dog so much when he is challenged by another dog...this can make them challenging to train because of their size but again amazing dogs
Hi Tom. I just had to laugh when you listed Shibus as the hardest to train. The first Shibu i worked with was about 2 decades ago and i was excited to work with a new oriental breed! Oh my god! What an impossible dog. I just absolutely could never form a relationship with him. He just couldn’t care less! It was actually hilarious. He was the worst dog to train. I guess I helped the owner, but mostly by making her realistic about the nature of her dog!
My second worse was an Afgan hound i rescued as a training challenge 30+ years ago. That dog had zero common sense. He laid under a standing horse and had his leg broken when the horse stepped on him. I was able to obedience train him, but he was never completely house broken, so weird! I’ve had great success with other sight hounds, as i love sensitive dogs, but Tony, the Afgan was memorably difficult.
I agree about huskies. They are charming funny delinquents who normally are just in the absolutely wrong situation!
Crazy thing about huskies: a friend had one but his neighbor would keep calling authorities because he saw it sleeping in the snow. No matter how much my friend tried to explain that the dog preferred the snow to the warm indoors, it didn't matter. He even had a dog house - but he still preferred the snow. As for Danes - as a trainer I can understand what you mean: you are only going to see the ones that have not been trained properly from puppies. I've owned them since the 70s and find them incredibly easy to train - they are so eager to please. That said, if you don't do it right when they are young, they can be nightmares because of their size when they are adults (I would never rescue a dane). My last one is a covid pup and saw no one but my immediate family for the first two years of his life; he has a boatload of mental issues.
Thank you for your helpful insights! Always appreciate you!
Thanks for watching!
Shar-peis are like cats; they are not trainable. I had them for 25 years, but I love you the most.
Yep
One point that a lot of people miss is when is the right time to buy another dog. My answer is when your current, well trained pup is still alive and healthy. From our recent 7 dogs, we only really trained the first one...the first dog trained the second, the first and second trained the third and on. Not that we did not have specific behaviors to work on, but the leadership role of the older dog made subsequent pups much easier. Also, a young dog in the house can be very good for maintaining vitality (within reason) in an older pup.
Depends on the space you have available. In your heart and your apartment.
Took me 3 years after my first dog died to get another rescue, and she was such a challenge, I‘d never have done it if I‘d known what lay ahead.
But I love her and she is amazing with any critter, be it dog, bird, duck, cat, deer, …the works
Humans…not so much. Rescue from Romania
Love my big Boerboel! Kinda stubborn at times, but food seems to fix this issue. :)
I no longer train dogs but god did I hate seeing a husky on my schedule. I dreaded it every time
its a challenge!
love you and everything you do 💕
Too kind
I used to have a GSD/Belgian Shepherd mix (Terueren) and she loved to work. She was so eager that she sometimes didn't have patience enough to wait for me telling her what to do, she started guessing 😅 I taught her, for instance, to jump up onto big rocks on command and she thought that "for some reason mom likes when I jump up onto big rocks" , so she started doing that expecting praise and candy. I loved her so much but unfortunately she was very reactive (my fault, I know, I didn't socialize her enough). Now I have a five months old Golden Retriever puppy and I thought that she would be less of a turbo dog. Oh, was I wrong. Either that or I'm getting old. She weighs 37 Pounds (nope, not fat, big and sturdy, English type) and the other day she wanted to catch a leaf and made my husband fall to the ground. When he came home, he thought it was a baaaad baaad idea to get another dog. He loves her and is usually very stoic, but he doesn't want to look like a fool in front of the neighbors.
I had a great dane and a boerboel and eventually ended up haveing a great dane mix boerboel pup grew up to be very protective and very loving he was great with kids and people but terrible with other dogs sadly he passed at 7 years old from cancer , now i have a 10 month old boerboel pup and trying to get him stabalized with his anxiety and socialized but i guess its difficult because his in the fear stage
Wow, I’ll bet the cross was gorgeous!
Lol i have a shiba and a great dane. Spot on with the shiba, this is my third dane though- and they have been angels. My shiba is highly food motivated, was not trained when i got him, and is now a pretty good dog(got him when he was two, and not a good dog)
With danes it is important to train them early bcause of their size- and are naturally skittish- but environmental socializing gets rid of that by month 8😮
I have a sait berard/pyrenese. 120lb dog which weights more than me. Pulls like crazy and now I'm not able to walk her. Am I better of with a prong collar, as at the moment she's walked with a harness. Plus I have a old englishbulldog. Both great dogs. Just can't walk the big one. Chases everything. She's 1 years old.
Some rescue mixed breeds can be hard to train.
You should try training a Basenji - they make Shiba's look easy!
I heard that but I haven’t worked with one
If you want a dog that has looks like a husky or shiba, but more trainable, look at the finnish lapphund.
Are they still a bit stubborn? Yes. Definitely have some personality. But smart, trainable and can be very calm in the home.
Don't find him very sensitive to corrections either.
How would you rate the Boerboel now that you've spent almost a year with one?
Very difficult, wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
@@tomdavisofficial I know someone with two. I hate his training techniques. It’s all about punishment. I refuse to visit because I don’t trust the dogs or his ability to control them.
Overall these are the breeds that are great only for people that are really up to the challenge and understand how to get the dogs to work on their strong features. But they are really very hard to try to conform to a lifestyle they don't want.
As a shiba owner, I agree with everything Tom has said lol
Hahha
My boyfriend's great Dane accidentally ripped off my scalp (27 staples 18 stitches). And she was a sweet non-aggressive dog.
Wow, sorry to hear. I have to ask, how the heck did that happen?
@tomdavisofficial my fault. My dog (put bull/Shepard), whom I had just adopted, not knowing she hated other dogs, attached the Great Dane and I somehow got in the middle of it. She was trying to get the pit bull to unclamp her jaw which was embedded in her back. It was horrendous. All of us got stitches.
Ofc a pitbull @bsnowden
Basset Hound! 😅
hehe
What about the Bullmastiffs?
My 3 kg Maltese also stands like a Column, when she sees something for her interesting. If you wanna pull this little thing, she throuws oneself dramaticly to the ground and acts like dead. Very funny wirh this fluffy little white dog, and very easy to pick up and carry her, on my arm, up here she knows, complaining is meaningless 😂 Glad that I ve not to deal with a great dane. 😂
Ohhhh
Well i've owned many of breeds of dogs in my lifetime. I've owned 8 Dobie's, 4 Lab's, 3 GSD's, 1 Poodle, 1 Lasa Apso, & many of mutts in my lifetime.... All of my dogs were pretty easy to train with the exception of our Lasa Apso, he was as dumb as a stick..... Only dumb dog i've ever owned😅😂🤣!
hahah
We've got a great dane at our shelter right now who's at risk of being euthanized because of the difficulties you mentioned
Bingo
let me ask you a question if anyone else that knows i have had german shepards all of my life accept recently and i'm thinking about getting a american akita how hard are they to train ?
Haven’t worked with too many. As mentioned in this video is more about breeding and genetics
If chihuahua isn’t on the list I don’t want it 😂
hahaha facts
Huskys are vocal babies 😂
My friend has a pomski. I wonder if adding the Pomeranian with the Husky makes it worse. Her dog won’t mind on a leash and it’s very vocal.
Def vocal dramatic dogs!
I never hear anything about Plott Hounds...... any input?
Again great hunting dogs not good pets typically
I bundle Spitz breeds together. Sammoyeds are so popular for the aesthetics but I haven't met one that didn't continuously scream, bark, and hump.
Truuuu
My dog (Doberman) refuses to listen to any other than sit without a treat! You don’t even have to say anything if you have food in your hand for her to sit. And you can tell her wait holding that treat to her nose and she won’t touch it until you say ok. BUT? You got a treat, she’ll do two somersaults a back flip with a perfect landing for you to get that treat! Yes I’m exaggerating on the backflip, but that’s exactly how I feel trying to get this dog. Do anything without a treat. she’s year-old and very stubborn.
That means he doesn’t know sit he knows when there’s food to sit. So you’ve used too much food to train.
"You have a dog that was born to pull sleds in Siberia but you live in Calafornia." RIP
RIPPPPP
I have a labrador mix who I DNA tested and as much as he looks like a lab(he is my profile pic) he is a mix of 7 breeds and a majority of the breeds in him are DA breeds, so he is a nightmare sometimes when out walking but we are working on it. I also have a bully mix who is really sweet but can also be really questionable with other dogs and last I have an akita that is just the sweetest thing, sweet to everyone and everything.
Crazy, we have a dog that looks almost identical to yours. We were sure he was a lab mix. Embark surprised us, telling us he was a German Shepherd/Husky/Boxer mutt with zero lab dna. I'm pretty sure his brain is mostly Husky.
Dogs don't even look like wolves, so Ik when I see either a wolf or a dog since they're different
Oh ok
@tomdavisofficial also..Yorkies r like little demons
@tomdavisofficial so how can I train my yorkie?
glad boston terrier is not on your list
haha, why? It's just the breeds that are tough to train, not breeds I don't like.
2 MINUTES AGO??
Yep!!
I have a Shiba girl.. i legit agree everything Tom stated here..
You know!!!!
The worst dog breed is a bad dog breeder
oh
Very helpful, BUT your drum rolls need training…
Oh I thought they were pretty on
first
Let’s go