@trustgodalways If you’re getting your positive techniques from balanced trainers (whether you’re using corrective gear or not) or from positive trainers on the internet, you’re likely not getting the best positive reinforcement method training.
I had a dog who was nervous at under a year old. She started to get aggressive. I could hand her off to someone else and she would do “fine” (super shut down and do nothing). I got the help of a balanced trainer and my dog got worse, fast. Finding a trainer who went through a similar experience that I did and made it her mission to understand and use reinforcement
super well was a game changer and made me fall in love with training. That dog is now almost 6 years old and when I tell people she was diagnosed fear-aggressive at one point by a Veterinary Behaviorist, they really don’t believe me.
Hope is not all lost, but if what you’re doing isn’t working, try something new with someone new.
IAABC behavior consultants are who I go to when I have a behavior situation like this. If you do go this route, make sure when you search you’re not looking at IAABC-ADTs. I find them when I search for behavior consultants for some reason and they are not at the same level. CDBCs are mostly what you would be looking for.