At wits end with a dog. I fear it may not end well!!

[Bearhunter247]

Aggression is a dominant trait in dog dreeding. It will be very hard to get that out of her ,and it may be impossible. MOST of the time aggression is not a thing able to over come. And aggression and grit are 2 very different things

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[Marc]

That s an idea as well.   We are happy our contractor enclosed that part of the yard for us, when we get the rest of the area she is not allowed in landscaped, I think a run would be perfect to keep her in check as well.  My wife feels that the dog and I need the summer to curve her ways and mine, to decide whether or not to keep her where she is at. She is a great meat dog, I average 100 squirrels a season, along with 30 rabbits.  She caught at least five of the rabbits on a dead run.  I fear the small dog thing is a prey issue.  I am going to muzzle her in a couple weeks and work with introductions to small dogs with training collar in hand. Thanks gang for all the positive feedback.  al

I am no expert, but I have used a collar on my labs with great success...  But not on aggression...  Not sure how that would work?

The dog must be collar conditioned, and I use the collar to reinforce behavior the dog already knows, or to dissuade behavior the dog already understands is bad.  You CANNOT teach a dog with a collar, you can only reinforce behavior...  Using a collar improperly is a sure way to ruin a dog, or create aggression.

[Farmboy27]

Easy. Beat the thing within an inch of it's life if it does it. If it keeps doing it, then bye bye. Going to be hard to break at this point. I've run dogs all my life and bad habits were always dealt with swiftly and seriously. I'm not advocating abusing any dog. But a beating or two is certainly better than having to put the dog down because of bad behavior or habits

[saverx]

Strong words GobbleNut for someone asking for advice. I don't think you can lose everything for dog on dog crime, but then again I'm no lawyer. If someone took care of something out side of my residence however, things would escalate quickly. Don't put the dog down. If it is a cur and will hunt, It's worth some cash.

[Bowguy]

Aggression is a dominant trait in dog dreeding. It will be very hard to get that out of her ,and it may be impossible. MOST of the time aggression is not a thing able to over come. And aggression and grit are 2 very different things

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Dominant traits come from genes stacking. Not gonna get into a breeding thing. Now this sort of post annoys me. I've been a dog guy all my life and I can't understand how anyone let's bad behavior go on. Certainly attacking other dogs is bad behavior.
I agree w gobblenut. If it was me standing there and a dog came over the fence after my dog I'd fix it for ya.
Fix it, put it down, cage it. Whatever it takes. Keep it away from me and you can keep Godzilla if you're my neighbor.

Now what you should have done the very first time this happened is a very negative response from you. Similar to something farmboy said. You made the problem worse by allowing it to continue.