Does your dog play too rough? Train your dog to adjust it's play

What to do with a 5 months old Vizsla and a 4 year old dalmatian?
My older Dalmatian plays way to rough with my puppy. Also my Vizsla is always challenging him further when he stands back up again after nearly getting "eaten"

My parents have a mini doodle who is about a year old and he just is on crack he plays way too rough with my Italian greyhound who has problems with her kneecaps slipping. He'll just barrel full speed towards her and knock her over and it's very frustrating because he just doesn't stop.

You didn’t really teach us how to do this. You just noted the importance of getting dogs to adjust…

I have two dogs who both go all out rough playing ALL. THE. TIME. but one has been constantly getting hurt. I now can’t even let them be together, they are gated off from each other and I have to take turns bringing them outside and out for walks. It’s not sustainable, and such a bummer that they can’t play with each other! These dogs in the video are all very calm, mine would have been full on play mode growling and rolling all over each other immediately. I need help, if anyone has suggestions.

My last GSD learned gentle naturally. My new 5 mo old GSD isn’t picking it up so quickly lol. Granted his siblings are a 1 year old Aussie and cats who aren’t scared of him.

Love your videos man. New owner to my 1st dog and I used all your tips for my pup. It was a lot of work and discipline on my end, but she’s sooo well trained now. She was a feral pup and has came a long way. Woud love to get a video on her overcoming anxiety with people (gets skiddish but is getting better slowly).

Thanks!

I've been working with my one yr old pit mix for some time now. Overall, in the house it's even with my other dog. But in the backyard when we come back from our walk she's body slamming him and being overtly rough. I'm not sure why specifically after our walk seems like only time it's so off balance. She does have a prong we wisely use as a tool (she actually loves it!). A friend suggested to leave it on with the leash in that instance. Did this morning and her demeanor totally changed. Hopefully she learned. We shall see how she does tomorrow

Being able to wrestle with your dog is one of the greatest pleasures in life. N.0 reason to get a big dog imo. That Aussie looks a lot like our pup, likes the rough play but is starting to learn other both people and dogs aren't like him. Max socializing is key imo, every play session is a learning session too.

I used to have a Briard girl. (I had to put her down three years ago, she from nowhere, aged 11, got epilepsy, probably a brain tumor )
Late in her life I realized that she had ADHD, maybe a light version of autism too, another story, but she played MORE than rough, with dogs as well as with humans.
She never listened to other dogs, she didn't learn from other dogs. The message never got through to her. (Later I understood she wasn't "listening", she was so into her role in the play, 'hyper-focused')
She WAS friendly, she loved EVERYONE, she just didn't get the rules. Upon that, she never got tired, so after a while even dogs that could also play like her got tired, she didn't. And she didn't stop trying to get them back on the field again, so to speak.
I had to stop her, literally go and get her, because in that stage she was deaf.
I had hoped that she would have learned from other dogs, but no. When she was around a year old I started to go in and throw a ball or rope (dog toy) at her hind, shouting "CUT", like the director of a film , the second I thought it was enough, reading the other dog was just about to have it. She stopped, stood still, watching me like she waited for me to give her more direction. Since the other dog wasn't tired, just thought she was over the line for what is acceptable, I gave a calm 'go' again. Repeated that a couple of times, until the other dog was tired. I was surprised that it worked so well. After that first day a loud "CUT" was enough. (Cut is a perfect word for stopping something, when you use it like a command, it literally cuts through the air like a whiplash.)

I kept using this method FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE, every time she met a new dog, or a friend she hadn't seen for a while. (She didn't notice the signs from the other dog, OR just didn't understand, I can't tell which).
The "break through", as I see it, was when she understood "maybe I'm too rough now?", and SHE STOPPED BY HERSELF, and look at me, with a smile (you know, you can tell about your own too!), looking for support and further direction. I said "good girl" several times, and "go". I cried with happiness and a deeply touched heart. After that she most of the time saw when she was over the line, but she always turned to ME, not the other dog. I didn't want her to be more rough than the limit for that dog.
This worked so well that she could play with most any dog, she immediately picked up the rules for every individual. But she never learned to read from the other dogs.
On the other hand, SHE had crystal clear body language. And couldn't read it especially well from other dogs. (Autism?)
She was a special dog, very special. Everyone who knows just a little about dogs agrees with that.

I wanted to tell you about Tilly, because before I started to understand that she actually was different, I lost my patients many times too much with her. Many people said I should put her down, she had something wrong in her head, was like a biting, nibbling puppy as three years old, absolutely wild, but NEVER aggressive. NEVER. But she couldn't understand what humans said, what other dogs communicated, had emormously difficulties to take no for an answer, and in most behaved like a human three years old kid with ADHD.
When I turned my back to practically everything I had read and had been told by dog trainers (EXCEPT for playing – stop (cut) – playing – stop etc to make her understand that also humans could have enough ) and experts, I got through to her mind about more things than playing with other dogs. I had to LITERALLY show her, holding her body, to make her walk by my side, sit by my side, to sit and wait, walk on my right hand side, left hand side, right or left side of the road and so on.
When she was four I only needed a leash on her, other than when there was too much going on around her. She got stressed, panting, one minute she wanted to examine everything, sniff all people, being overexcited, next she wanted to get out of there, next moment back to meeting everyone. Overstimulated by what she just had around her.
She could walk calmly by my side, when someone else had to wrap the leash around a tree when they saw us because their dog became like a total freak. Tilly was like "what a fool" in those moments.

She became a wonderful companion, friend and baby.
Never give up on a dog because it is difficult!
In Tilly's case she needed something more, or else, than other dogs. She had never could have been what she became if she had lived in a family with children, or even in a home with two people who didn't have EXACTLY the same rules and ideas. She had been confused and stressed out, maybe turned aggressive, cause to stress.
Now it was me my old Bichon Frisé and two kittens, the latter she adopted as her puppies.
And a lot of my friends, the majority dog owners.
That gave her enough calmness, no one who wanted to play indoor, relaxation. She needed that until she was six-seven years old. By then the cotton ball (Bichon) was gone, so was one of the cats, and she had finally matured to a "normal" four years old Briard, but she was two years older .
I miss that crazy, furry big heart to death.

Thank you for this. My 1-year-old lab plays rough (jumping up on and face-biting some other dogs). If another dog doesn't check her she gets too rough. If she's checked, she doesn't do this.

If they don’t respond to your commands and you do time outs can you move forward to a using a remote trainer tool ?

I have taught my mini schnauzers the command gently even if the dogs are bigger than them – I don’t want my dogs intimidated so I don’t let mine be intimidating. They also know leave because they can be intense.

Take it easy on the camera movement. I’m going to puke. Great info.

Watching for my husky/Pyrenees pup. At 3 months she towering over my moms wiener dog and plays way too rough.

I have a 13 year old yorkie and we just got a new 9 week old German short hair and she wants to play too rough with the yorkie but the yorkie does not have enough power behind her to tell the German short hair enough is enough and she just keeps playing too rough with her what can I do