okay i've read some posts and still not sure if i'm gonna post this right so here we go again. I got a beagle/coondog and 1 1/2 yrs ago she was about 3mnths then. so when we first got her she was my buddy. my husband and i both took care of her. But her and I got along just fine. No prob. then one day i went to check in on her in the foyer she flipped out on me growling and snapping when i tried to call her to the livingrm, I feel she flipped for nop reason. My cat even went to attack her for attacking me which was kinda crazy. i then had to break that up. the 2nd time my husband and i were watchn tv and she came over sat by me so i went to pet her and she flipped started growling and snapping my husband stepped in and yelled at her i didn't really know what to do either time i have never had a dog respond to me like that i later learned i was going about this all wrong so i took control of the situations after that i also learned she needed to completely depend on me so i feed her walk her exercise her i do the care she still continued from time to time flipping out on me a few times she got her butt smacked i didn't like doing that i'm not typically violent a feww times i ignored her most times after i learned to put her in submissive postion so i would do that and it seemed to work altho there did come the day it didn't work. now let me just add that at first i thought this was related to myself getting my mentrual cycle it just seemed like that's when i would happen okay so like said to the day the submissive postion was not workn i ended up kicking her out of the rm we were in a closin the door after that she didn't seem to have a problem now it seems like all of a sudden she 's testing the water again altho i am questioning the fact of the food we gave her wondering if she is associating me for making her sick. i had run out of her food that she was doing just fine on. so when i got to the store they weren't carrying the old brand so i had to buy something else so i wan't able to slowly make the transaction anyways we talked to the vet they told me what to feed her and we're doing all that but it just seems like she hating me again. she has been flipping on me the one day i walked in frm work she greeted me all happy and then turned on me. what should i do i love her i won't get rid of her she really is good at times too what am i doing wrong? i will try what ever. althou i don't have thousands to spend on trainers she listens to me i've got her trained in that manner it's just like she only listens because she has to but lets me know she hates me and adeores my husband why?

Hi smorgankel,

Your in the wrong section hun, your post should be on the behaviour thread, you are in Idle chat. :-)

In the meantime. Dogs don't do hate, or vengence for the wrong food, so take those human emotions away from her, they don't exist.

Dogs understand that a behaviour is wrong by putting them in time out, pop up a dog gate and if she growls at you she goes straight into time out, she needs to learn that this behaviour is unacceptable.

I feel she flipped for nop reason  There is always a reason. :-)

But, you need to find the cause, dogs will growl if they are afraid, being territorial, protecting someone/something, or perhaps to food guard, all need different techniques so reassure and stop a behaviour. So firstly you need to get to the bottom of what exactly is causing this problem. So think carefully about which of the above may have caused this behaviour. The one thing I will say is that reacting negatively may very well cause a negative reaction, you hold her down, smack her, she will react in two ways, either become afraid and submissive, which in turn may also cause her to fear growl, or stand up to you agressively and bite and growl back.

Time outs for a few minutes cause neither reaction, she is taken away from her humans and being ignored, you must remove her calmly, with no anger, use the command No! Use a stern voice and make strong eye contact, but you must always stay calm and in control this will teach her more than anything else ever will, so I would implement that immediately, never, ever show fear to her either. She must never get away with doing that to you again, you are in charge here not her, but you are always to be the strong calm force.

Good luck, remember no negative reactions, just time outs and see if her behaviour will change. ;-)