Is it possible to train a dog for an owner that doesn't want to put any effort at all into training her dog? Dog trainers always say they train the owner, not the dog. What if the people who live with the dog won't put in the time? Is it a hopeless situation? I think I am in a [URL="http://forum.doityourself.com/pets-farm-animals/393794-dominance-agression-towards-my-wife.html"]hopeless situation[/URL]. I sent her to training for this dog and yet she and the kids still do everything wrong. Instead of calmly facing the dog and establishing limitations, they scream at him and expect him to understand them. Instead of using their physicality to assert themselves, they squeel like girly girls. They fail to even try to establish any trust with the dog. Clearly these people should never have adopted a dog. Yet here he is and he has decided I am his best friend. I watch the Dog Whisperer every friday to see if I can figure out if I am giving off any signs that he should behave this way, and I really don't think it is my mental state. I need to train this dog to behave for other people when I'm not around. Tonight the dog nipped at one of the girls and broke her skin. She cried, her mother said the dog has to go. It may be too late to save him.

I have a neighbor who has a small dog. I forgot what he said the breed was but its like a mutt.The owner is not all together there mentally. He was in a motorcycle accident that left him a coma for 4 months and half a brain(hit and run drunk driver slammed into him). He leaves his dog outside all day in the 95 degree heat and he has all sorts of stuff all over his backyard cause he collects scrap metal. The dog is on a chain sense he hasn't finished building a little fence for the dog. The dog is always getting tangled up and going under the house for shade and crapping under it. I can't sit outside due to the fly's. The owner doesn't seam to care or just doesn't know whats hes doing. Should I call the humane society but then sense he was in a biker club and mentally ill I don't know what he might do if he find out I'm the one who called. He might not know right from wrong or not care. He hasn't had the dog long maybe a month. There is no food out there and the dog tipped over his water dish.