Dog Health Questions: Help with our dog and her "table" mannners!?

We adopted two 9 year old rat terrior sisters a few months back. They have been great so far, we love them. But one of them has developed an issue of begging, taking food from our toddler, eating anything unattended and picking in the garbage.

She also started biting our toddler for no reason. Sometimes our daughter is rough with her, we understand that. But if our daughter is just walking by she will snip at her hand.

This behavior came out of no where. We are not experienced in dog training at all and need some advice as to what we do about the horrible habits she has. Any suggestions?

Thank you!

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Okay use something wet like water, get maybe a jug or a spray bottle and throw/ spray the water on the dogs face or you can take a newspaper or paper tails and when they do that slap them on the butt. Also, use a stern voice and scold.

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• Empty paper towel rolls and rolled up news papers work wonders. Just give a light swat on the rump, accompanied with a sharp no, and it work wonders. She probably views your daughter as another dog, a pack member, so she wants to be alpha over your toddler. Watch her very closely, and if she nips your daughter, flip her over on her back and hold her that way until she relaxes. If she struggles hard, keep her down. If you let her up, she'll think she is still alpha over you. Keep your energy positive and calm but assertive around her. Good Luck!


• Your dogs behavior he/she is acting is for a reason.
  Try throwing something wet at him/her..Like a jug of water.


• When you rescue dogs they come with issues built in from their experience and what works for them, as you say you haven't dog training experience then use this http://k9deb.com/nilif.htm .......dogs are opportunists and so will steal food, go into the rubbish and take food off your daughter, it works she gets a tasty treat immediately ( so is praised) so there is little point is scolding the dog as it is too late ( if you do).
  
  This behaviour has NOT came out of no where...it has been there all along, it has just taken time to come through and she doesn't respect or have pack leadership which is what she needs.........you are the provider of all her resouses and she has to learn this now.
  
  You need to stop your child 'being rough' with the dog, the dog isn't a toy and will react, you need to teach your child to be pack leader, so the dog respects her........and that includes putting the dogs out when your child is eating, putting the rubbish where it can't be raided and putting all food that can be stolen away.
  
  Having the dog on a lead and letting it trail, means you can step on the lead if you see any bad behaviour immediately and get control and remove the dog without getting angry or shouting or chasing after it away from the situation...........the least amount of touching, talking or looking at this dog the better as that keeps training very simply understood by the dog


• every time he acts out throw a jug of pee at him and he will stop eventually. I tried this with my dog when he did these things and the nonsence stopped immediatly after I tried this.