Who Chaparro is
Chaparro is a big, young male dog who lives with a Spanish-speaking family, their other dogs and their cats; the older dogs, the owner says, are about seven or eight. The evaluator says Chaparro is not even a year old and still growing. His breed is not known; the evaluator guesses at a hound and pit mix with possibly some Akita. At the visit the family describes fights with the other dogs and heavy chewing outdoors. Everything about him on film comes from that one visit to the family's home, recorded in two parts on 18 September 2026.
What the family says
His name. The family call him Chaparro, which is Spanish for a short person, a 'shorty' (our translation). As the recording renders their Spanish, they had been told he would stay small, and the name stuck: he now answers only to it. He did not stay small.
On film
What's his name? Chaparro
He grew up with people and is not one to attack them.
On film
Él no es para atacar a la gente, creyó con gente.
English meaning (our translation): He's not one to attack people; he grew up with people. ('creyó' as heard, probably 'creció', grew up)
The trouble is living with the other dogs. They cannot eat together, and he has fought at least two of them: once when he was lying down and another dog walked through, and once at a doorway, when he grabbed and shook a dog and did not let go for a while.
On film
Porque cuando también, juntos no les puedo dar, juntos no pueden comer. Eso es normal, ¿no?
English meaning (our translation): Because also, I can't feed them together; they can't eat together. That's normal, isn't it?
So she was saying how she attacked both this one and that one in different situations.
One time he was laying here and that one was like trying to walk through and then all of a sudden he bit him or they started fighting, they started attacking.
And he said that one time he grabbed this one and just like shook them and didn't like let go for a while yeah um but it was when they were coming in right when they were coming in like through a door
When he fights, he does not let go.
On film
él cuando pelea él no suelta
English meaning (our translation): when he fights, he doesn't let go
He chews and destroys things outdoors: wood, cables, everything.
On film
muerdes toda la madera, muerdes todos los cables, destrozas todo
English meaning (our translation): you chew all the wood, you chew all the cables, you destroy everything
allá afuera el, el es un destructor completo
English meaning (our translation): out there he, he is a complete destroyer
He provokes the oldest dog: he walks over him and stares at him.
On film
Encima de él, tirando, provocando. Lo pasa así y se queda mirando, o sea como provocando.
English meaning (our translation): Over him, pushing, provoking. He goes past him like that and stares, I mean, like he's provoking.
So he'll be laying outside and this one will walk over and kind of like lean on him a little, provoking him.
Asked whether he had ever bitten anyone, the family answer that the owner was bitten while separating a fight. Their answer was given in Spanish and is only partly clear on the recording; it is a report, not something filmed, and the evaluator's view of it is under what the family was told.
On film
Has he actually bit somebody before?
How the evaluator reads him
Not aggressive. He has reactivity toward other dogs.
On film
que queremos ver la diferencia de que si él va a morder en verdad o sólo es que está viendo o cosas así por eso como vemos que él no muere significa que él no es agresivo simplemente tiene reactividad hacia otros perros
English meaning (our translation): what we want to see is the difference between whether he will really bite or is only watching, or things like that; so since we see he doesn't bite ('muere' as heard, for 'muerde'), that means he is not aggressive, he simply has reactivity toward other dogs
He's not aggressive.
Overexcited, and he takes it out on the nearest dog.
On film
So I don't think it's like a full resource guard issue. Most likely what's happening is he gets overexcited. And because he gets overexcited, he redirects to something that's nearby, which is going to be one of the other dogs.
Confident and controlling: through the visit he keeps pushing the other dogs around.
On film
I mean, he wrangles them around. This whole time he's been pushing them in different directions
He thinks he has to control it because he's more confident.
Intelligent, and bored: the evaluator puts most of the chewing down to boredom.
On film
and most of that is he's bored
He's technically a very intelligent dog, because the more intelligent the dog, the more confident, the more controlling, and the more patterns they learn.
Not much prey drive: he has lived with the family's cats and not gone for them.
On film
Yeah, I mean, his prey drive isn't super high. Otherwise, he would have gone for the cats already.
A little resource guarding, but not much more than ordinary dogs show.
On film
A little resource guarding, but it's not horrible. It's like normal dogs, but...
Big, young and still growing.
On film
And he's not done growing, he's not even a year old, he can grow up to two years old.
Está bien grande, eh.
English meaning (our translation): He's really big, eh.
He came out really big
His breed is a guess. From his markings, paws and head shape the evaluator suggests hound, a pit mix and possibly some Akita, or else a large hound type.
On film
It kind of looks like he might have a little Akita in him, based off his markings, like definitely hound, definitely like pit mix, but he's too big for pit and hound only
It's called something, something curled, something hound dog, they get really big
In an aside the evaluator says he has the temperament for protection work but would need guiding, so that he does not bite the wrong people. What came before 'do protection with him' is lost in a gap in the sound, so whether protection work was being suggested, asked about or ruled out is not clear.
On film
do protection with him. I mean, he has a temperament for it. We would just have to guide him to make sure he's not trying to bite people that aren't supposed to be fit.
The household
Older dogs, about seven or eight years old, which the owner says she never trained.
On film
Porque a ellos nunca los entrené, pero ya tienen como 7, 8 años ellos.
English meaning (our translation): Because I never trained them, but they're already about 7 or 8 years old.
A small, confident female he leaves alone. She is probably the same female the evaluator mentions near the end of the first part, where he says she gives nothing off; that stretch is partly unclear on the recording.
On film
He's not going to do anything to her. She's really confident and she plays how a dog's supposed to play.
Her husband said that he's never bit her because she's a female.
Yeah, which is probably why he leaves her alone.
Gordo, one of the other dogs, who became very nervous while Chaparro played, as the interpreter told the family.
On film
vente gordo, vente gordo, vente papá
English meaning (our translation): come here, Gordo, come here, Gordo, come here, papa (a call to another dog)
¿El gordo? Este o el gordo. El gordo. Ajá, el gordo. Él vio que se puso muy nervioso y también el otro andaba ladrando.
English meaning (our translation): 'Gordo?' 'This one or Gordo.' 'Gordo.' 'Yes, Gordo.' He saw that he got very nervous, and the other one was barking too.
The household's most nervous dog, the one the evaluator wants trained alongside Chaparro. Whether this is Gordo is not clear: when the dogs were being named, the interpreter corrected herself mid-sentence.
On film
Yeah, but like he is the most nervous, so he will feed off him.
dice que el gordo, no ese no es el gordo
English meaning (our translation): he says that Gordo - no, that one isn't Gordo
Cats, which he has not gone for.
On film
Yeah, I mean, his prey drive isn't super high. Otherwise, he would have gone for the cats already.
The program, stage by stage
Arrival: does he really bite?
18 September 2026, the start of the visit (watch 00:13)
The visit is at the family's home, with the household's dogs loose. The recording opens as Chaparro and the evaluator first meet, a meeting set up to see whether he would bite ('i'm gonna let him go in first', though which of the two goes in first is not clear). He is greeted ('hi buddy') and does not bite. One of the staff says afterwards that they had been expecting a bite. The conversation with the family runs in Spanish through a staff member who interprets; the evaluator speaks English. The interpreter explains to the family what the first meeting was for: to tell a dog who will really bite from one who only watches and reacts. Since he did not bite, she tells them, he is not aggressive; he has reactivity toward other dogs, and correcting him when he goes to react is part of the training.
On film
i'm gonna let him go in first we wanna see if he's he's gonna bite him hey buddy hey
hi buddy i don't think you're gonna bite me probably not
no estamos en peligro es que no sabíamos como me dijo que muerde pues teníamos que estar
English meaning (our translation): we're not in danger, it's that we didn't know; since you told me he bites, we had to be [prepared]
pues estábamos esperando la mordida
English meaning (our translation): well, we were expecting the bite
por eso como vemos que él no muere significa que él no es agresivo simplemente tiene reactividad hacia otros perros
English meaning (our translation): so since we see he doesn't bite ('muere' as heard, for 'muerde'), that means he is not aggressive, he simply has reactivity toward other dogs
y simplemente hay que corregirlo cuando el va a querer reaccionar a otros perros pero eso lo hacemos con el programa
English meaning (our translation): and you simply have to correct him when he's about to react to other dogs, but we do that in the training
The family's account
Through the first half of the visit (watch 02:06 and 13:34-15:56)
In Spanish, the owner describes the trouble at home. By her account he grew up with people and is not one to attack them; the problem is the other dogs. They cannot eat together, and there have been fights with at least two of them: one when he was lying down and another dog walked through, and one at a doorway, when he grabbed and shook a dog and did not let go for a while. When he fights, she says, he does not let go. He also chews and destroys things outdoors: wood, cables, everything. Asked whether he had ever bitten anyone, the family answer that the owner was bitten while separating a fight; that answer is only partly clear on the recording. None of these incidents is on film; they are the family's reports.
On film
Él no es para atacar a la gente, creyó con gente.
English meaning (our translation): He's not one to attack people; he grew up with people.
Has he actually bit somebody before?
muerdes toda la madera, muerdes todos los cables, destrozas todo
English meaning (our translation): you chew all the wood, you chew all the cables, you destroy everything
él cuando pelea él no suelta
English meaning (our translation): when he fights, he doesn't let go
So she was saying how she attacked both this one and that one in different situations.
And he said that one time he grabbed this one and just like shook them and didn't like let go for a while
A tug game as a test
watch 03:53 and 09:52-13:41
Early on the staff bring out a toy ('it smells of dogs'). Later the evaluator plays a pulling game with Chaparro, probably with that toy, while the other dogs are around; most of the play has almost no speech. Afterwards the evaluator gives his first reading: not a full resource-guarding problem. Most likely he gets overexcited and redirects onto whatever is nearby, which is one of the other dogs. The interpreter relays it to the family: the game was to see whether he gets agitated or angry when someone plays with him, and with so much emotion he does not know what to do with it and goes for the dog beside him. The owner adds that they cannot eat together, and asks whether that is normal.
On film
Uy, esto les va a encantar a ellos, huele a puro perro
English meaning (our translation): Oh, they're going to love this, it smells of nothing but dog
le va a encantar este juego es de jalar si, a ellos les gusta esto de jalar
English meaning (our translation): he's going to love this game, it's for pulling / yes, they like this pulling
So I don't think it's like a full resource guard issue. Most likely what's happening is he gets overexcited. And because he gets overexcited, he redirects to something that's nearby, which is going to be one of the other dogs.
Por eso estaba jugando este juego para ver si es que se agita cuando uno está ahí tratando de jugar con él y como que se enoja.
English meaning (our translation): That's why he was playing this game: to see whether he gets agitated when someone is there trying to play with him, and sort of gets angry.
Pero ha visto que con mucha emoción, se ve que no sabe qué hacer con toda esa emoción y les quiere moler al perro que esté al lado.
English meaning (our translation): But he has seen that with a lot of emotion, it looks like he doesn't know what to do with all that emotion and wants to go at ('moler' as heard) the dog that is beside him.
Reading the household: a confident young dog among nervous older dogsTurning point
Hearing the fight reports and watching the dogs, the evaluator moves from the single dog to the household. The older dogs get nervous when he approaches; he gets excited, does not understand why they are nervous, and they clash; being bigger and younger, he will end up the dominant one. One of them, Gordo, became very nervous while Chaparro played, as the interpreter tells the family. In the evaluator's model a nervous dog should turn away and leave when a more confident dog walks over; when it does not, a confident young dog trying to control the situation ends up starting a fight. He has been pushing the other dogs around the whole visit. He starts the fights, the evaluator says, but they come from what the other dogs are doing, and in his mind he is doing the right thing. What he has to learn is to ignore their nervousness and look to the family to direct him. He leaves one female alone, and the evaluator suggests why; his reason comes in a partly unclear stretch of the recording, where he seems to say that she gives nothing off.
The problem stops being one dog's aggression and becomes a pairing: his confidence against the other dogs' nerves. Everything recommended in the second half follows from this reading.
On film
they get nervous when he approaches he gets excited he doesn't know why they're nervous and they clash right and then he's bigger and he's younger so he's gonna be the dominant one.
¿El gordo? Este o el gordo. El gordo. Ajá, el gordo. Él vio que se puso muy nervioso y también el otro andaba ladrando.
English meaning (our translation): 'Gordo?' 'This one or Gordo.' 'Gordo.' 'Yes, Gordo.' He saw that he got very nervous, and the other one was barking too.
Yeah, but it's because they get nervous, so like, he feels their nervousness, and then he reacts.
And when this guy gets nervous and uncomfortable, it makes him tense, and so if he's trying to control the situation, he's trying to tell him, like, don't be nervous, right? But because he's nervous, he reacts badly, and then he starts a fight.
Because what should happen in a perfect world, right, is the dog gets nervous, they turn away, the more dominant, stronger, more confident dog walks over, and they go.
I mean, he wrangles them around. This whole time he's been pushing them in different directions
And he is the initiator of the fight, but it's coming from behaviors that they're doing. And he thinks he's doing the right thing.
And so he has to learn to ignore that and to ignore the behavior and then look to you guys to direct him, right? Because you are what he's trying to be, but he doesn't know that.
Yeah, which is probably why he leaves her alone.
Breed guesses, boredom and the outlet
watch 24:29 (the end of the first part)
The evaluator guesses at his breed from his markings, paws and head shape: hound, a pit mix, possibly some Akita, which he describes as a dominant breed; or else a large hound type. He is not done growing; he is not even a year old. Then the plan in outline: first, set boundaries on his urge to control the situation. Most of the chewing is boredom. The more intelligent the dog, the more activity it needs, and the more destructive it becomes without it; the urge can be controlled, not removed. The first part of the recording ends here.
On film
It kind of looks like he might have a little Akita in him, based off his markings, like definitely hound, definitely like pit mix, but he's too big for pit and hound only
And akitas are very dominant dogs.
And he's not done growing, he's not even a year old, he can grow up to two years old.
that is leading to like this stuff and his urge to like want to control the situation. we need to like set some boundaries to that first
and most of that is he's bored
And so the more intelligent the dog, the more activities they need, and the more destructive they become.
Because you can't get rid of it, you can't clear it out, but you can control it,
The second part opens: a job, the cats, the other dogs
watch 00:01 (the same visit, continuing)
The interpreter carries on in Spanish: give him a job and take the energy out of him and he will stop doing all that, but he still has to be corrected and told it is not okay. The family asks about the cats; the evaluator reads his prey drive as not very high, because otherwise he would have gone for the cats already. He will not trouble the small female either, the evaluator says, because she is confident and plays the way a dog is supposed to play; the interpreter passes on that he has never bitten her. A problem between two males is rare, the evaluator says; it is usually the mix of dogs. The owner says the older dogs were never trained and are about seven or eight. The evaluator's concern is two dogs: Chaparro, very confident, and the household's most nervous dog.
On film
Pero si tú le sacas esa energía y tú le ayudas a tener un trabajo, entonces él no va a continuar a hacer todo eso. Pero uno hay que seguir corrigiéndolo y diciéndole que no está bien.
English meaning (our translation): But if you take that energy out of him and help him have a job, then he won't keep doing all that. But one has to keep correcting him and telling him it's not okay.
Yeah, I mean, his prey drive isn't super high. Otherwise, he would have gone for the cats already.
He's not going to do anything to her. She's really confident and she plays how a dog's supposed to play.
yeah it's actually pretty rare for it to be like oh it's a male and male together issue that's that's pretty rare. It's usually a behavioral problem with the mix if you have so many different breeds together.
Porque a ellos nunca los entrené, pero ya tienen como 7, 8 años ellos.
English meaning (our translation): Because I never trained them, but they're already about 7 or 8 years old.
Yeah, it's more, he's super confident and he's super nervous.
The recommendation: train both dogs, separately and then togetherTurning point
The nervous dog, the evaluator says, was able to live his life being nervous until Chaparro arrived and started trying to make him stop. Chaparro could be trained on his own, but the better solution is to train both. The interpreter gives the family the recommendation in Spanish: train the two, first separately and then together, so that both can live together at home, both well trained. Games and outlets will help the chewing, but the two have to be trained together, to fix one dog's nervousness and the other's dominance at the same time, so that they can be together off leash. The evaluator calls the resource guarding a little and 'not horrible', and then gives a warning: if he lives a couple more years like this, he will become dangerous. The owner describes him provoking the oldest dog. The interpreter then describes in Spanish how the training would run: at first he will be more nervous in a new place with a new routine and needs time to calm down; then obedience with each dog on its own; then the two together, watched closely and corrected in the moment; the scenes are filmed so the family can see how it is done; and when the dogs go home, the family is told how to keep the training up.
The visit's answer: not Chaparro alone but the pair, Chaparro and the most nervous older dog, trained separately and then together.
On film
so he's been able to live his life being nervous and nothing happened now he goes you're not supposed to be nervous so i'm gonna try to make you not be nervous and then it starts to play right so i mean we could just train him and like tighten everything up and like teach him how to deal with that the better solution would be at least training him and him together
Pero para tener un mejor resultado, sería entrenarlos a los dos, primero separados y después juntos. entonces para que los dos puedan vivir en casa juntos y los dos sean bien entrenados
English meaning (our translation): But for a better result, it would be training both of them, first separately and then together, so that the two can live at home together and both are well trained
We need to build some games, give him some outlets too. That'll help with the chewing and everything, but definitely training them together because we need to fix his nervousness and his dominance all at the same time, and then we need to to make sure they can exist together off leash and stillness, right?
I mean, now, if he lives a couple more years like that, he will become dangerous.
va a ser más nervioso porque es un lugar nuevo, es una nueva rutina, todo es nuevo,
English meaning (our translation): he'll be more nervous because it's a new place, a new routine, everything is new,
ya cuando uno los ha entrenado individualmente de obediencia, los ponemos juntos, los entrenamos juntos para asegurarnos que si ese le grita a este, este no le muerda,
English meaning (our translation): once each has been trained in obedience on its own, we put them together, we train them together to make sure that if that one growls at this one, this one doesn't bite him,
Y entonces vigilamos bien y vemos lo que va a pasar y corregimos al momento, nos corregimos bien.
English meaning (our translation): And then we watch closely and see what is going to happen, and we correct in the moment.
Y ya después de ahí, nosotros grabamos todas las escenas para que ustedes vean cómo es que lo hacemos. Porque después de eso van a regresar a casa. Y después de eso, nosotros le vamos a decir cómo es que ustedes van a mantener el entrenamiento en casa.
English meaning (our translation): And after that, we film all the scenes so that you can see how we do it. Because after that they'll go back home. And after that, we'll tell you how you are going to keep up the training at home.
On the couch: a correction, and what it was taken to showTurning point
The owner says she is frightened of what will happen when the dogs are together. A moment later a dog is stopped with 'uh-uh', 'don't do that', 'you're fine', 'go back'; those words are all that can be heard of it, and the dog is not named. The interpreter tells the family that he did not care until the owner's face changed, and that is when he started. A little later the evaluator says that when he had just corrected Chaparro, the dog put his head down and accepted it; if he were aggressive, he would have attacked. That is most likely the moment heard at the couch, the only correction on the recording, but the evaluator does not say so. He also takes up the bite the family described: being bitten while breaking up a dog fight is common, he says, and has happened to him, because a dog grabbed in a fight flips round on whatever is near it. Then he explains the couch moment to the owner: Chaparro did not care about the other dog coming up until she got nervous; then he started guarding the couch and her, trying to make the other dog go away because he thought that would fix it. That explanation is what indicates the dog stopped at the couch was Chaparro. What he needs to learn is that guarding is not his job, even if the owner gets nervous.
The only correction heard on the recording, and most likely of Chaparro. How he took a correction is the evaluator's main evidence that he is not aggressive toward people.
On film
She's really scared about what's going to happen. Does it scare you when they're all together?
Hey, uh-uh. Don't do that. Uh-uh. You're fine. Go back.
Cuando ella empezó así con su cara y se sintió así bien rara, es cuando él empezó a hacer eso.
English meaning (our translation): When she started with her face like that and felt really strange, that's when he started doing that.
He would have bit me when I just did that, because I just corrected him, like, and he put his head down and everything, and so he accepted it perfect. If he was aggressive, he would have attacked me.
and i mean that's pretty common like i've been bit breaking dog fights up right and because like when you go to step and break a dog fight up if you grab that dog that dog's gonna flip around
Because even that, like, he didn't care about that dog coming up until you got nervous. And then he was like, why are you so nervous? And then he thought you were nervous because he was on the couch. And so he started guarding the couch and you trying to get him to go away because he thought that's what would fix the issue.
And so we just need to teach him to like not do that. Even if you get nervous, like it's okay.
Owner lessons proposed: at home, the whole family, in Spanish
watch 18:36 and 20:33-20:54
The evaluator wants the owner lessons mostly at the family's home with everybody there, because the dogs feed off people's nervousness too and everyone has to know what to do. He would probably have Kelton run them, because Kelton speaks Spanish and can teach everybody and make sure everybody does the same thing. The recording ends with practical arrangements for the sessions.
On film
mostly i want everybody here um because like all family off of people's nervousness too so we're gonna have to like address that and make sure that everybody knows what to do
I'll probably have Kelton work it out all of it because then he can do the session with everybody and he can speak Spanish online. But Kelton can do the training and he can teach everybody how to do it and make sure everybody's doing the same thing.
How the method adapted
Nothing was trained at this visit. What adapted to Chaparro was the evaluation itself and the plan it produced. Each item below is a decision made at the visit, with the reason given for it.
The first meeting was set up to answer one question: does he really bite?
The staff came expecting a bite. Letting him meet the evaluator loose was meant, as the interpreter told the family, to tell a dog who will really bite from one who only watches and reacts.
On film
i'm gonna let him go in first we wanna see if he's he's gonna bite him hey buddy hey
pues estábamos esperando la mordida
English meaning (our translation): well, we were expecting the bite
que queremos ver la diferencia de que si él va a morder en verdad o sólo es que está viendo o cosas así
English meaning (our translation): what we want to see is the difference between whether he will really bite or is only watching, or things like that
A pulling game with the other dogs around, to see what play does to him.
To see whether he gets agitated or angry when someone plays with him. It moved the reading from guarding food and places to overexcitement redirected onto the nearest dog.
On film
Por eso estaba jugando este juego para ver si es que se agita cuando uno está ahí tratando de jugar con él y como que se enoja.
English meaning (our translation): That's why he was playing this game: to see whether he gets agitated when someone is there trying to play with him, and sort of gets angry.
So I don't think it's like a full resource guard issue.
The reading moved from one dog to the household.
Once the evaluator saw how the older dogs reacted to him, he read the fights as Chaparro's confidence meeting their nerves, with Chaparro the one who starts them while believing he is doing the right thing. That changed what would have to be trained.
On film
they get nervous when he approaches he gets excited he doesn't know why they're nervous and they clash
And he is the initiator of the fight, but it's coming from behaviors that they're doing. And he thinks he's doing the right thing.
Two dogs instead of one: the most nervous older dog to be trained too, separately first and then together.
Training Chaparro alone would leave half of the problem in place. The other dog's nervousness and Chaparro's dominance have to be fixed at the same time if the two are to live together off leash.
On film
right so i mean we could just train him and like tighten everything up and like teach him how to deal with that the better solution would be at least training him and him together
Pero para tener un mejor resultado, sería entrenarlos a los dos, primero separados y después juntos.
English meaning (our translation): But for a better result, it would be training both of them, first separately and then together.
but definitely training them together because we need to fix his nervousness and his dominance all at the same time
A correction during the visit doubled as a test.
When he guarded the couch he was stopped; only the words ('uh-uh', 'go back') can be heard. How he took a correction, head down and no bite, was read as evidence that he is not aggressive toward people. The evaluator's account most likely refers to the couch moment, the only correction heard.
On film
Hey, uh-uh. Don't do that. Uh-uh. You're fine. Go back.
He would have bit me when I just did that, because I just corrected him, like, and he put his head down and everything, and so he accepted it perfect.
Outlets alongside correction for the chewing.
The chewing is read as boredom in an intelligent dog, so games and a job come with the boundaries; the urge is to be controlled, not removed.
On film
And so the more intelligent the dog, the more activities they need, and the more destructive they become.
We need to build some games, give him some outlets too. That'll help with the chewing and everything,
Pero si tú le sacas esa energía y tú le ayudas a tener un trabajo, entonces él no va a continuar a hacer todo eso.
English meaning (our translation): But if you take that energy out of him and help him have a job, then he won't keep doing all that.
Owner lessons planned at home, with the whole family, in Spanish.
The dogs feed off people's nervousness, so everyone in the house has to know what to do and do the same thing; the trainer proposed for the lessons was chosen because he speaks the family's language.
On film
mostly i want everybody here um because like all family off of people's nervousness too
I'll probably have Kelton work it out all of it because then he can do the session with everybody and he can speak Spanish online.
What the family was told
He is not aggressive; he is reactive toward other dogs
que queremos ver la diferencia de que si él va a morder en verdad o sólo es que está viendo o cosas así por eso como vemos que él no muere significa que él no es agresivo simplemente tiene reactividad hacia otros perros
English meaning (our translation): what we want to see is the difference between whether he will really bite or is only watching, or things like that; so since we see he doesn't bite ('muere' as heard, for 'muerde'), that means he is not aggressive, he simply has reactivity toward other dogs
y simplemente hay que corregirlo cuando el va a querer reaccionar a otros perros pero eso lo hacemos con el programa
English meaning (our translation): and you simply have to correct him when he's about to react to other dogs, but we do that in the training
Not guarding so much as overexcitement, taken out on the nearest dog
So I don't think it's like a full resource guard issue. Most likely what's happening is he gets overexcited. And because he gets overexcited, he redirects to something that's nearby, which is going to be one of the other dogs.
Pero ha visto que con mucha emoción, se ve que no sabe qué hacer con toda esa emoción y les quiere moler al perro que esté al lado.
English meaning (our translation): But he has seen that with a lot of emotion, it looks like he doesn't know what to do with all that emotion and wants to go at ('moler' as heard) the dog that is beside him.
Why the fights happen: his confidence meets their nerves
Yeah, but it's because they get nervous, so like, he feels their nervousness, and then he reacts.
And when this guy gets nervous and uncomfortable, it makes him tense, and so if he's trying to control the situation, he's trying to tell him, like, don't be nervous, right? But because he's nervous, he reacts badly, and then he starts a fight.
And he is the initiator of the fight, but it's coming from behaviors that they're doing. And he thinks he's doing the right thing.
What he has to learn: to leave it to you
And so he has to learn to ignore that and to ignore the behavior and then look to you guys to direct him, right? Because you are what he's trying to be, but he doesn't know that. He thinks he has to control it because he's more confident.
And so we just need to teach him to like not do that. Even if you get nervous, like it's okay.
The chewing is boredom: he needs outlets, and correction
and most of that is he's bored
And so the more intelligent the dog, the more activities they need, and the more destructive they become.
Because you can't get rid of it, you can't clear it out, but you can control it,
Pero si tú le sacas esa energía y tú le ayudas a tener un trabajo, entonces él no va a continuar a hacer todo eso. Pero uno hay que seguir corrigiéndolo y diciéndole que no está bien.
English meaning (our translation): But if you take that energy out of him and help him have a job, then he won't keep doing all that. But one has to keep correcting him and telling him it's not okay.
The recommendation: train both dogs, first separately, then together
Pero para tener un mejor resultado, sería entrenarlos a los dos, primero separados y después juntos. entonces para que los dos puedan vivir en casa juntos y los dos sean bien entrenados
English meaning (our translation): But for a better result, it would be training both of them, first separately and then together, so that the two can live at home together and both are well trained
Entonces, a él le podemos enseñar a cómo lidiar con los nervios de los otros perros.
English meaning (our translation): So we can teach him how to deal with the other dogs' nerves.
We need to build some games, give him some outlets too. That'll help with the chewing and everything, but definitely training them together because we need to fix his nervousness and his dominance all at the same time, and then we need to to make sure they can exist together off leash and stillness, right?
How the training would run
va a ser más nervioso porque es un lugar nuevo, es una nueva rutina, todo es nuevo,
English meaning (our translation): he'll be more nervous because it's a new place, a new routine, everything is new,
ya cuando uno los ha entrenado individualmente de obediencia, los ponemos juntos, los entrenamos juntos para asegurarnos que si ese le grita a este, este no le muerda,
English meaning (our translation): once each has been trained in obedience on its own, we put them together, we train them together to make sure that if that one growls at this one, this one doesn't bite him,
Y entonces vigilamos bien y vemos lo que va a pasar y corregimos al momento, nos corregimos bien.
English meaning (our translation): And then we watch closely and see what is going to happen, and we correct in the moment.
Y ya después de ahí, nosotros grabamos todas las escenas para que ustedes vean cómo es que lo hacemos. Porque después de eso van a regresar a casa. Y después de eso, nosotros le vamos a decir cómo es que ustedes van a mantener el entrenamiento en casa.
English meaning (our translation): And after that, we film all the scenes so that you can see how we do it. Because after that they'll go back home. And after that, we'll tell you how you are going to keep up the training at home.
A warning
I mean, now, if he lives a couple more years like that, he will become dangerous.
Your nervousness is part of it
Because even that, like, he didn't care about that dog coming up until you got nervous. And then he was like, why are you so nervous? And then he thought you were nervous because he was on the couch. And so he started guarding the couch and you trying to get him to go away because he thought that's what would fix the issue.
mostly i want everybody here um because like all family off of people's nervousness too so we're gonna have to like address that and make sure that everybody knows what to do
A bite while breaking up a fight is not aggression toward people
He would have bit me when I just did that, because I just corrected him, like, and he put his head down and everything, and so he accepted it perfect. If he was aggressive, he would have attacked me.
and i mean that's pretty common like i've been bit breaking dog fights up right and because like when you go to step and break a dog fight up if you grab that dog that dog's gonna flip around
Yeah, once he realized it was you, he probably, like, he was like, oh, and he stopped, yeah. If he was, like, aggressive, he would've held on.
The lessons: at home, with everybody, in Spanish
I'll probably have Kelton work it out all of it because then he can do the session with everybody and he can speak Spanish online. But Kelton can do the training and he can teach everybody how to do it and make sure everybody's doing the same thing.
In the family's own words
Él no es para atacar a la gente, creyó con gente.
English meaning (our translation): He's not one to attack people; he grew up with people.
Porque cuando también, juntos no les puedo dar, juntos no pueden comer. Eso es normal, ¿no?
English meaning (our translation): Because also, I can't feed them together; they can't eat together. That's normal, isn't it?
él cuando pelea él no suelta
English meaning (our translation): when he fights, he doesn't let go
Porque a ellos nunca los entrené, pero ya tienen como 7, 8 años ellos.
English meaning (our translation): Because I never trained them, but they're already about 7 or 8 years old.
Morder, pero morder, morder. Y ya como muerde a uno, muerde a otro, muerde a otro.
English meaning (our translation): Biting, I mean really biting. And once he bites one, he bites another, and another.
Encima de él, tirando, provocando. Lo pasa así y se queda mirando, o sea como provocando.
English meaning (our translation): Over him, pushing, provoking. He goes past him like that and stares, I mean, like he's provoking.
Outcomes
What the trainers reported
Not aggressive; reactive toward other dogs.
The interpreter, giving the family the evaluation; the evaluator in the second part
On film
cosas así por eso como vemos que él no muere significa que él no es agresivo simplemente tiene reactividad hacia otros perros
English meaning (our translation): things like that; so since we see he doesn't bite ('muere' as heard, for 'muerde'), that means he is not aggressive, he simply has reactivity toward other dogs
He's not aggressive.
He accepted a correction with his head down; an aggressive dog would have attacked.
The evaluator, about a correction during the visit (most likely the couch moment)
On film
He would have bit me when I just did that, because I just corrected him, like, and he put his head down and everything, and so he accepted it perfect. If he was aggressive, he would have attacked me.
Low prey drive.
The evaluator
On film
Yeah, I mean, his prey drive isn't super high. Otherwise, he would have gone for the cats already.
A little resource guarding, 'not horrible'.
The evaluator
On film
A little resource guarding, but it's not horrible.
Without change, he will become dangerous in a couple of years.
The evaluator, as a warning to the family
On film
I mean, now, if he lives a couple more years like that, he will become dangerous.
What the footage shows
He met the evaluator and the staff loose, with the other dogs around, and did not bite. The staff had come expecting a bite.
On film
hi buddy i don't think you're gonna bite me probably not
pues estábamos esperando la mordida
English meaning (our translation): well, we were expecting the bite
During a tug game, one of the other dogs became very nervous and another barked, as the interpreter told the family; no fight is heard.
On film
¿El gordo? Este o el gordo. El gordo. Ajá, el gordo. Él vio que se puso muy nervioso y también el otro andaba ladrando.
English meaning (our translation): 'Gordo?' 'This one or Gordo.' 'Gordo.' 'Yes, Gordo.' He saw that he got very nervous, and the other one was barking too.
Because everything they did, they got really nervous when I was playing with them.
Just after the owner says she is frightened, a dog is stopped with spoken words ('uh-uh', 'don't do that', 'go back'), the only correction heard; the evaluator's later explanation indicates it was Chaparro, guarding the couch. By the evaluator's account, most likely of that moment, he put his head down and accepted the correction.
On film
Hey, uh-uh. Don't do that. Uh-uh. You're fine. Go back.
and he put his head down and everything, and so he accepted it perfect.
Because even that, like, he didn't care about that dog coming up until you got nervous.
The ideas Chaparro's case runs on
- Assess before you ask
- Breed is a checklist, not a verdict
- Integration is a gated procedure
- Nobody is at fault; it isn't personal
- Reading the dog
- Reliability is what you have not tested
- Say it bluntly or it will not land
- The camera is part of the method
- The handler is a variable: nerves, tension, voice and energy
- The pair is the unit of training