How do i get my Mastidane to come back when called if off the leash?

step 1) keep your dog on a long line. A long length of rope or a horse lunge line. You need to teach him recall and since he has no canine manners with other dogs he will need to be properly socialised. Have his meals in your pocket, call him under low distraction, say in your yard, and feed him every time he returns. Never chastise your dog, he has to think returning is a great thing. Gradually add more and more distraction to the situation, always reward heavily for returning. If he absolutely wont listen a check chain and a proper correction when he absolutely ignores you is warranted.

 

step 2) find yourself a good, decent dog training school open to all methods. You have a strong, entire and stubborn dog. Mastiffs and danes are not pushovers. If you do not train them properly they will run all over you as you are finding. His hyperactivity will be linked to his lack of training as well since he will be stuck in a baby puppy frame of mind.

 

By the way desexing is NOT the magic bullet to fixing behaviours. Training and consistency is. There is a lot of free stuff on Leerburg.com

Yes Mali_nut makes allot of sense. We took our dog to Dog School and they taught us Radical Recall. It involved allot of practice of the skills they taught but now when we call our dog or give her a hand signal to come she comes on the first call every time no matter what distraction there is. Something else they taught us also was how to teach our dog to calm down. This is very important when you have a high energy dog. We have lots of outlets for our dog to use up her energy but when we need her to settle and calm down on request she does. I know going to training does cost money but it is well worth the money because many of the skills taught to the owner in training a dog can be used to teach other skills to your dog.

Wow nice to see some activity. I sure would like to know how the training is going. Radical Recall in all dogs is so very important.