***Jet requires an experienced or aspiring force-free professional who understands this is an ongoing behavior management project requiring significant expertise, patience, and resources. This is not a typical pet placement. Not appropriate for homes with children, other pets, or frequent visitors. ***
When Jet feels safe and he is calm, he is a very sweet boy, but he is not safe or appropriate with dogs or humans when he doesn't feel safe, so with at least 3 reported bites on his record as a +70 lb, 6 month old puppy, he was put on the shelter's behavioral euthanasia list, and found his way here to the Dog Decompression Center, arriving June 14, 2023.
Jet is a very playful, silly, affectionate, and fun loving guy, but he can be fearful of strangers, and he will lunge, snap, and bite them - maybe funny to some if he was a Chihuahua, but Jet is a very tall, large, athletic dog, around 70 lbs.
Jet must be an only dog. Jet can jump on and be very mouthy in a playful way towards the dogs and humans that he feels safe with, but he will very quickly lunge, snap, nip and bite when he feels unsafe. He resource guards his food, toys and water bowls aggressively from other dogs and displays highly inappropriate play behavior including excessive mouthing, lunging, snapping, and biting due to high arousal, poor body awareness, and poor impulse control. While he enjoys dog company, his intensity, size, lack of awareness, and lack of bite inhibition make him unsafe around other dogs and other animals.
Due to a rough start to his life growing up mostly in the shelter system with the most trusted people in his life using punishment based training on him, Jet can often be incredibly insecure, and extremely quick to feeling unsafe and using his teeth to create distance, to make the unwanted behaviors STOP NOW.
Corrections will escalate Jet's reactivity and create dangerous situations. Force-free methods are non-negotiable.
Corrections may make dogs like Jet "appear calm in the moment" - which can be highly reinforcing to handlers - but they do not address the root Fear, Anxiety, and Stress driving his behavior. Punishment-based methods will increase his aggression and create worse outcomes for everyone involved.
There is documented fallout from using aversive methods: https://eileenanddogs.com/fallout-aversives-punishment-negative-reinforcement/
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