First off, I want to take a moment to offer my most sincere, heart felt “get well soon” to Watt McCain. From my family here at Camp Dog Trouble to the McCain family, we wish you all a fast recovery and will keep you in our prayers.

I would also like to offer the McCain family an open invitation, especially Watt, to come meet a small pack of well behaved dogs… including a calm submissive Rottweiler who was raised around children. It is important for a dog bite victim to move past one badly behaved dog. It is also important for children to learn HOW to behave around dogs as well, so I would be honored to teach the McCain family how to understand more about dog psychology and how to be around strange dogs. My offer is open… Edwin feel free to call me personally at 864-248-6472.

I got a frantic voicemail one day from a man who said his 80 pound dog has bitten his small child in the face. So I explained that I consider this a “red zone” case with emergency priority. Days later at his home, I observe some things that are slightly out of balance, nothing hugely wrong. After pointing out the real issues in pack leadership and teaching them about setting boundaries and handling the excitable behavior, we finished the consultation.

A few weeks later at our follow up appointment, the family is in from out of town visiting… yet the excitable big dog is just calmly hanging back. I like what I see! The young child is at the dinner table and I notice a tape box on the floor around the childs high chair. During feeding the dog approaches the child and the child points and says “shhhhht”… the dog bows in respect and turns away as he should. I am so impressed!

The child who was attacked once was now one of the youngest dog whisperers on the planet! At two years old (I think) I saw a young pack leader who will forever have the knowledge of how to be around a dog. Think about that small child earning the respect of that 80 pound dog to that degree.

This brings us to responsibility. Plain and simple… Your dogs behavior is YOUR responsibility. There are always signs of this type of dangerous behavior before these tragic events happen. If people would swallow their pride and get the proper help from a proven dog behaviorist early on… these things would not happen.

A trained dog is not the same as a well behaved dog. Without your dogs trust and respect as his or her pack leader, all the training in the world will not prevent this type of attack. In fact if you call most dog trainers and say “my dog bit a kids face”… they will tell you to put the dog down. My clients story above proves them wrong.

Let me say that again… There is never a need for this type of thing to happen. It is the owners fault that they were not in the moment enough to see the early warning signs and correct them at the very second the focus was to high. You can ALWAYS see it… IF you are paying attention. What’s more… YOU are often the cause of the attack. You have to be your dogs pack leader 110% of the time and set the rules and boundaries. You also have to be IN THE MOMENT and paying attention to your pack at all times as a good pack leader should.  That applies to all dogs big or small!

I am open to accept this Rottweiler as a client for rehabilitation should the owner, Kennith Shaw the want help. If the judge allow this dog to live it desperately needs rehabilitation by someone who has had success helping many “dangerous dogs” recover. They are free to contact me… as are any readers who may be having behavior issues and seeing the early warning signs. I am absolutely 100% certain that I can rehabilitate this dog, there is no reason to euthanize this animal!

When you see your dog is staring too intently at something… or with too much focus you must correct him. When you see your dog is getting too excitable or going into inappropriate “prey drive” around young children running around… you have to correct the behavior. At the highest level the eyes will change and almost “bug out” in a very unnerving way.

The news, along with the McCains and their lawyer are focusing on banning dogs at childrens events. I can think of no more cruel thing than to change a policy and prevent a child from his beloved canine friend being a part of his life.

We need to focus on raising awareness that dog owners need to learn more about their dogs psychology and pack leadership needs. Dogs need three primary things in this order.

1) Plenty of exercise

2) Discipline (meaning rules and boundaries)

3) Affection comes last

Today in America the “dog lovers” love and pamper their dogs as if they were humans first. They are not humans… Dog must have a pack leader and rules to follow all of the time.

It is my hope that Edwin would consider helping me raise awareness about the pack leadership and exercise needs of our dogs. That is the only TRUE way to help prevent more of these types of needless injuries. Had this dog had a brisk “leadership walk” for a half hour or so before this game,  this event likely would not have occurred. Tired dogs are not as excitable and get in less trouble, but they still need rules and the owners attention at all times.

No laws banning any breed will ever help this problem. No policies banning dogs from their families sporting events will help. Only taking responsibility, leading our dogs and meeting their needs will reduce the numbers of children who are injured by dogs. If the dog bite doesn’t occur at a sporting event it will be elsewhere.. a park… downtown… at the family picnic… You get the idea.

Laws or policy changes will only shift where the injuries occur, they will never deal with the real problem. Educating “dog lovers” so that they can be EDUCATED dog lovers who fulfill their dogs primal needs is where the awareness needs to be focused.

~Jason Miller

This cry for help was written by a concerned worker inside an animal shelter. She wrote an article in which she explains the “behind the scenes” world of what happens to an animal you drop off at the shelter or pound.

I asked for her permission to spread this article so that people could feel her pain.

WARNING: This article is brutally honest about what happens in shelters across our country.  Discretion is advised!

Please folks… when you are looking for a new family pet or companion, visit your local shelter or humane society. It is always better to adopt than to support the masses of puppy mills. So go to your local animal shelter and rescue a new friend today!

Jason

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Animal Shelter Realities… How you can help save a life!

I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the inside if you will. First off, all of you people who have ever surrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work in the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would stop flagging the ads on craigslist and help these animals find homes. That puppy you just bought will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s not a cute little puppy anymore. Just so you know there’s a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it’s dumped at? Purebred or not! About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or “strays”, that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.

The most common excuses: “We are moving and we can’t take our dog (or cat).” Really? Where are you moving too that doesn’t allow pets? Or they say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? “We don’t have time for her”. Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! “She’s tearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me “We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.

Odds are your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don’t get adopted. It doesn’t matter how ’sweet’ or ‘well behaved’ they are.

If your dog doesn’t get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize each animal and making money is better than spending money to take this animal to the vet.

Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”. First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”, every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter workers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a shelter worker who we call a euthanasia tech (not a vet) find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just “go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.

You see shelters are trying to make money to pay employee pay checks and don’t forget the board of directors needs to be paid too, so we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning lethal drug in the vein and let them suffer until dead. If it were not a “making money issue” and we had to have a licensed vet do this procedure, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and then euthanized, but to do this procedure correctly would cost more money so we do not follow what is right for the animal, we just follow what is the fastest way we can make a dollar. Shelters do not have to have a vet perform their euthanasia’s so even if it takes our employee 50 pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get the vein that is what we do. Making money is the issue here not loosing money.

When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for the schools to dissect and experiment on? You’ll never know and it probably won’t even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right!

I hope that those of you who still have a beating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t get the pictures out of your head, I deal with this everyday. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and start educating the public. Do research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are getting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies exist because people just do not care about animals anymore. Animals were not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they are these days. Animal shelters are an easy way out when you get tired of your dog (or cat), and breeders are the ones blamed for this. Animal shelters and rescue organizations are making a hefty profit by keeping this misconception going.

Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about taking their dog to a shelter, a humane society, or buying a dog. For those of you that care— please repost this to at least one other craiglist in another city/state. Let’s see if we can get this all around the US and have an impact.

A red zone aggression case came my way recently that brought reason for great concern. This cute little dog had been getting aggressive with strangers and kids and had chased and pinned a lawyer neighbor against a wall! Imagine how ugly that could have gotten!

Before things got any worse, I rushed over to help get things back in balance…

SUCCESS!

Watch this video to see how well behaved Chloe the dog is now a month after ONE single consultation with me. I am always happy to see clients follow through with the program and love seeing their amazing results.

If you or someone you know is having serious dog behavior problems….

Have them visit me here at DogTrouble.Net or call me at 864.248.6472 ~Jason

There IS hope!

Fact is, I service clients all over South Carolina, North Carolina and parts of  Georgia! I regularly consult with dogs and their people in the Asheville area as well as Hendersonville, Tryon and surrounding parts of NC. I even service Charlotte and Atlanta!

So if you are having a dog behavior problem, and no one seems to be able to help. Give me a call! I can help you solve your dog behavior problems, even when dog trainers and obedience classes haven’t worked. From fear issues to aggression, I can help.

As you may know, the Asheville dog laws can be strict. From the leash law to the “one bite” law. If your dog is having behavior problems then act now before it gets worse.

I look forward to helping you find peace with your canine companion. Call me to see if your case qualifies for an in home consultation. Find out why so many families trust my help and Fox News called me “Greenville’s Dog Whisperer”…

There are no additional travel charges for most parts of Asheville, Tryon and Hendersonville… slight travel charges apply beyond 50 miles from 29611.

864-248-6472

Jason

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There are many fine schools who do a fantastic job of teaching dogs all the commands of obedience training. They will have your dog staying and retrieving things in an amazing fashion. You will see your dog behaving like a perfect pooch under the trainers guidance. This training can be very important for you and your dog. Nothing beats a well trained dog who will respect you and listen to you. I have nothing but respect for top notch training facilities.

Here is the thing… obedience training will not help respect and behavior issues. Once you get home, if you do not understand the leadership mentality you will see a quick return to the old behaviors.

That is where I come in. While training is important, until you understand the natural pack relationship that you dog needs in order to respect you, no amount of training will help.

If you are ready to have a better relationship with your dog then go ahead and give me a call, we can see if you qualify for a behavior consultation to get your dogs attitude back on track. Even if you have spent thousands on “training”… there is hope for your dog. Call me…  864-248-6472

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For those of you who are new to my friends list here in the Fort Campbell and surrounding areas, enjoy these news videos and spread them around! There really is help for dogs with behavior problems and I am here to help folks in need.

Even when nothing else has worked, I can help. Being new to this area I thought I would share a little example of what my home town media thinks of the work I do.

Feel free to enjoy these videos and spread them all around to your friends. If you know of someone who has serious behavior problems with their dog, please let them know that something CAN be done to help! They will thank you!

Fox News Video 1: In home dog behavior consultations with Jason

Fox News Video 2: Jason at the Dog Park With Fox

~Jason

Wouldn’t it be great if there were one simple thing you could do with your dog to help improve all aspects of your life together?

What if there were a “magic bullet” to help you start getting problem behaviors under control?

Good news! There is magic in walking your dog! By taking the time everyday to just walk your dog properly, you can begin growing closer to your dog than you imagined possible. Something as simple as the walk can make or break the relationship you have with your dog.

What do you think of when I say to walk your dog? Do think “well I walk him up the corner to pee a few times a day.” Maybe you think… “I walk her for 10 minutes when I get home.” You might even say… “I have a 10 acre back yard and my dogs roam free!”

If that is the kind of thing you think when I talk about walking your dog, then take a minute to read this short report and apply what you learn here.

A dog is an animal that was born to walk. Fish were born to swim… birds were born to fly… and dogs were born to walk. In a natural environment devoid of humans, dogs will travel miles for food and water. Since dogs are pack animals, they will naturally follow a strong pack leader who can guide them and keep them in line. Their pack leader is fair and assertive and they will follow him for miles and miles a day. This behavior can be observed in wolf packs and packs of wild dogs.

It is important that you understand that your dog is a pack animal. Let’s take a short tour of your dogs view of psychology… As your dog sees the world there are two social positions… Pack leader and then those who follow the pack leader. Just like in the human world, not every dog is cut out to be the leader. Most dogs are not cut out to be a pack leader; they would rather follow a strong assertive leader.

Your daily walk with your dog is the foundation of your relationship. It is a primal bonding experience that helps you grow closer to your dog while providing needed exercise to help keep your dog balanced. The more high energy your dog is the longer your need to walk them. A five minute walk will simply not cut it. That big back yard is just a big kennel in your dogs eyes… it will not replace the walk.

Knowing that your dog is a pack animal who will either lead or follow… ask yourself these questions… When you are walking who is in front? Who goes out the door first? Who decides where to go? If you answered “my dog” to any of these questions then guess what…. You are your dogs follower.

If you walk your dog and he pulls you up the road… he is the leader. If she runs out the door pulling you along… she is the pack leader. This is where most people’s problems begin. The dog walks them… therefore the human is the follower. This is just simple dog psychology.

To keep your dog balanced you must be the pack leader all the time. On your walks, the ideal position for your dog to be walking is beside you or behind you. Do not allow them to walk in front of you and pull you up the road. Walking in front means leader in the dogs mind. She is not allowed to walk in front you. As a strong pack leader you will no longer allow it. She may fuss and fight… but do not pay it any attention. That will just be her trying to manipulate you in the way she always has. Practice this over and over and over… Your dog needs a leader.

The walk is the most important part of a dog’s life next to food. The bond between pack leader and the pack happens during the walk. With the big breeds (pit bulls, rottweilers, etc) you MUST be the leader in that dogs mind for the safety of everyone.

How to walk your dog… first of all… NEVER EVER allow your dog to exit the house first. EVERY door is yours to walk thru first… you are the leader. It is an important psychological barrier to the world of dogs.

Get your leash…. always wait until your dog is calm and seated before putting the leash on. Once you are leashed up practice walking thru the door FIRST. If she gets it wrong do it again and again. Never lose your temper…. every dog will just think u are crazy. Dogs won’t listen to mad. If you get frustrated just chill and try the next day.

Make this a daily ritual and you will be pleased with the results. First thing in the morning go walk your dog… I suggest a minimum of 30 minutes a day using a brisk pace. If your dog has a high energy level then extend this to 45 minutes to and hour. Who knows… the walk might even do YOU some good!

As a responsible dog owner it is your job to fulfill your dogs most basic primal needs. When humans bring dogs into our cramped indoor lives we often fail to fulfill their basic needs. If this seems inconvenient to you… just imagine how your dog must feel. He has a deep primal need to migrate and bond with a strong pack leader. Since you have chosen to have a dog in your life that leader is YOU. Fulfilling your dogs most basic needs will get you on your way to having that rewarding close relationship you really want with your dog.

If you need help getting your dogs behavior under control, I can help. Just use the navigation menu to the left.

1. Be sure that your dog is in good health, has all their shots and is spayed or neutered. If you dog is ill or not fixed then skip the dog park.
2. Walk your dog before entering the park! The dog park is never to replace exercise. If you arrived at the park by car then walk your dog briskly for 30 minutes or so before you go in. This will help use up some energy so you don’t take an excited dog into the park.
3. The dog park is not a place to “get a break” from your dog. You must take full responsibility for your dogs behavior and be aware of what she is doing 100% of the time.
4. Make sure your dog is in a submissive calm state of mind. Unstable energy will certainly attract a fight. If your dog is aggressive, fearful, weak or excited then you are asking for trouble at the dog park.
5. If your dogs social skills are in question, or if you are not yet established as your dogs pack leader, or if she is skittish or charges at other dogs, then you should arrange a way to socialize your dog in a more controlled manner. Try smaller meetings with a friend who has a dog or two.

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