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Automotive articles 161 [4001]How Do I Get My Dog To Behave Like A Gentleman Dear Adam: I feel we have made great progress after reading your book. I stopped him from jumping up on me using the knee in his chest method about 20 minutes after downloading your book one morning. [To read about the book hes referring to, please click on: /secretsbook.htm] Rustys one continuing problem centers around his looking at me as ALPHA. About 95% of the time he submits to me, but ocassionally when I am trying to brush him or correct him for something he is doing, he will step back and start barking at me or he will start nipping at my hands and barking. If I try to tell him no it makes him worse. The more I say no the more excited and onery he becomes. I can stop him by changing the subject on him, such as calling him to me or getting him to play ball. But if I try to make him sit or stop he just gets more excited. Sometimes I will just change the subject on him and he will be fine, then I will go back and pickup on the brushing etc. He reminds me of my middle son in his rebellious teenage years. Tonight, when he started fighting me about grooming, I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and shook him hard and said no in a really harsh firm tone. This calmed him down, but only for a while. I knew it was a contest and I couldnt let him win. I really had to get pretty rough with him. I have used the prong collar in much of our training and have used an e-collar for specific problems like digging and jumping out of a fenced area he stays in while we are not able to watch his behavior with flowerbeds, etc. As you have probably already guessed, he is not wearing either the prong or the e-collar when he misbehaves in this way. As hard as I have tried not to let him become collar wise, I believe he has learned well that sometimes I can correct him easily (as with the e-collar) and sometimes it is more difficult (as by grabbing the scruff of his neck). He is a