Dog Health Questions: Dog training question?

I have a 10 month onld maltese and he is not trained at all.. actually he does what he wants and is extremly spoiled, mainly because of my mother, i plan to take him to obedience classes but is it too late?, any advice for me?

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It is NEVER too late to learn how to properly train a dog... I have had six year old dogs in training classes... my present b*tch who is a ch/cd/sch dog wasn't even leash trained until she was almost four years old! haha And she learned very fast and has been excellent in all she has performed in... Good luck...

add: In over fifty years of training dogs and people to train dogs, I have yet to run into any dog that was 'hyper' -- when people called their dog that it always indicated that the people had not trained the dog or had poorly trained it and they were making excuses for their own shortcomings... your dog is not 'hyper' nor likely 'spoiled' -- simply poorly trained in some areas and untrained in others...

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• You need to at least train him to sit, stay and come.


• It is never too late to train. It just might take longer because of the age. Good luck and God bless


• if he is hyper..training will do no good. he needs to be a calm dog..and not spoiled..otherwise no training in the world will help. and he wont obey period. he needs to be walked every day to release energy. stop spoiling him. he is not a person or child.he is a dog. no matter the size, a dog should be treated like a dog. make him earn everything you give him. and to earn something..he must be calm..its sort of positive reinforcement training. once you can control his behavior..you can get him trained..and remember..training is NOT alterting behavior. training is simply commands.


• It is never too late to train a dog. Maybe obedience classes could wait until he is even a little older and has settled down a bit, but in the meantime work on teaching him basics such as sit, stay, come, etc. Also, the spoiling should stop immediately. He won't benefit in the slightest if he is spoilt, you can still cuddle him, and let him know you love him but no spoiling. He's gotta know that you're boss, so laying down the law and beginning some basic training will teach him this.
  Helping him to let off some of his energy will help a lot in calming him down and training him. If you live in town with a small backyard i suggest you take him for 2 walks a day (if this is possible, of course) to release his energy because he is still young and a bundle of energy by the sounds of it. if you do have a lot of space, don't leave him tied up for long periods of time (like some dogs i know), let him run!


• It isn't to late however it wll take a lot of patience as you will need to break bad habits already taught.
  If you have family make sure they know about the training and htey back this training. teh dog will be very hard to train if only one in the family does the right thing and the rest continue the spoiling.
  Patience and consitancy