Dog Obedience Training Info

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I have a 15½ week old female Lhasa Apso. She sometimes nips and bites, which I try to distract her from doing by giving her a chew toy or a squirt with a water bottle. While that often works, sometimes she just gets crazy. I attribute that to her being tired, as it is worse at night and when she goes in her crate she sleeps pretty quickly. I am taking her to dog obedience school and that is going well. When she gets in a spat of aggressiveness, she will not let me touch her, she will "back off" (not run away) and then snap at me and if I turn my back on her she goes for the pants and growls loudly. I walk her 3 times a day and play with her and practise training… she is 90% potty trained (thanks to crate-training from the time I brought her home at 8 weeks). Am I overstimulating her? Or might there be a medical explanation for her aggressiveness? We go to the vet next week so I will be sure to ask. I also want to point out that she is not aggressive or possessive of food and or toys.

Okay, here’s the deal. I went through three levels of obedience with my dog. She’s smart and listens well to me, but won’t listen to my parents.

They stay up later than i do so they agreed to keep an eye on her. She’s apparently a demon in disguise: as soon as i leave she’s literally on them.

She yodels, she shrieks, she growls, she pounces on them, the nips at them, she runs around like mad… she basically won’t leave them alone and they’re sick of it. They don’t want to crate her, they just want to be able to get her to stop nipping and pouncing (they don’t mind playing ball or tug, they just don’t like the noise and physical stuff.)

She gets daily walks and play sessions with me. I plan on increasing the walks when it gets warmer, but until then i need some ideas: what training tips could i give them that aren’t too involved? They tried the "get up and leave" thing, they tried to squirt her with water. Neither worked (she likes the water and would follow them to the gate, nipping at their heels and continuing to bark.)

Their goal: to be able to enjoy TV before bed without being pounced on or nipped AND without the noise. Like i said, they don’t mind playing with her and do that - she just gets out of control with them.

Note: She does not do this with me OR when i am around. Not to the extent she does with them, and she’ll usually stop when i tell her to. So they really need to be the ones to correct this as i do not see it often enough to do so myself.

I have a pit mix 42lbs thats has been through obedience school training and has passed and done well. since she exibits good guard dog traits (never mind the pitbull part .she has no problem biting strangers and holding them back ive seen her do it many times lol) are there any tips that i can do at home to make her a bit more aggressive to intruders when they come in to my house. she only guards me on the street. she wont even bark when someone comes into that house. i tried some attack dog techniques on her but it didn't work. any help?
She only nips at strangers if they touch her. as for my house OF course my windows and door is locked i live in a big city.
i know no one is gonna believe me but the dog was given to me and already came like that. she does it naturally not by training no one made her do it. Can someone please just be nice its only a dog!
the problem is she wont bark at intruders.
Can some one just answer my question? i mean a regular person not a militant dog obsessed person!