What should we do?

[Mamacast]

I know its been several plus months but wanted to update everyone. Gusto is a little over 6 months old now and has turned into a great companion. So much great help from people here I am immensely grateful. Using the following suggested actions really worked:
Fed by hand all of his food and made him work for everything he got
Established a timeout space outside on the enclosed deck
Belly rubs while treating
Collar shaking with treats
"Waiting" for food
Not that I choreographed this but at a puppy match he tried to play with a grown cousin and she layed his nose open. As difficult as that was he took the point home and is now more moderate around almost everything!
The trainer never did start with us telling my referral "what did we expect, these dogs were raised to hunt lions" -so glad we didn't get started with him. We started with someone else the 1st of Sept and he has sit, wait (stay), place, heel and is now working on a long lead recall. The trainer absolutely loves him and would like to find a CC for himself at some point. My take away from this is that perhaps there were too many traumatic changes all at once and that it really required a period of time for acclimation to our home. We had picked him up from the breeder as she was returning from the ear cropping, and then scuttled him to a new home.
He is now one big teddy bear that still piddles when a woman greets him, has not started "marking", and shows no sign of aggression toward people or dogs. Until the snow started flying he would eat out at patio restaurants once a week where we would have strangers feed him while we visited. Many interactions with toddlers and strangers will approach without fear. Thanks so much to this forum for throwing many handlines when I needed them, I was so close to bringing him back to the breeder.

 

[cinnamon roll]

What a great update!!!!

 

[Satchmoe88]

Thanks for sharing your story MaMaCast and for all the input in this forum. I discovered this forum last year when I was experiencing some puppy hardships and am soooo greatful for the knowledge here. My female CC liked to play rough, she would nip and bite at the leash, at our hands (especially gloves). And I was trying to correct her using the traditional domination methods (i.e: rolling them on their backs, pinning them, etc) and man, she would just come at me harder and stronger. There is really nothing that scares these dogs, manipulation doesn't work and brute strength definitely didn't work for me. I totally hear you about the neighbour complaining that those dogs "bite peoples faces off". My neighbour witnessed me grappling in the snow, trying to get my glove back and my little girl was play growling. The neighbour told me I was not being stern and dominant enough. It turns out the only thing that works on my dog when she is playing too rough is ignoring her, or sometimes a very well timed calm "uhhh unn". If you pretend you don't care about the glove she drops it immediately! I tried a trainer who was recommended that works with aggressive dogs but who doesn't take cane corsos over 6 months of age. He used force to tell her to sit by pushing her rear end down. To this day she isn't fond of strangers touching her rear. I found a trainer who worked better for me that utilizes positive reinforcement and realized how easy it was to train her. She learned shake a paw with some liver in 2 minutes flat! I hope things get better for you and you find a good trainer whose methods work for you and your dog. Keep calm + train on!

 

[DDSK]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is what we did with our 1st Corso and what we are doing with the new 10 week old puppy.
She has quit resisting being rolled onto her back now and she is enjoying the belly rubs.
This seems to calm her down now when she starts to get wild.