How can I get my dog trained properly? I have tried the gentle hand and it won't work?

You have a dog that was bred to be moving CONSTANTLY all day and doing something (sheep herding). They are not couch potatoes or calm dogs. She has energy to spare and no place to run it off.

TEACH her things - something that requires the use of her mind. The dog is going nuts as it is. The breed is well known for this, same as Border Collies, they're obsessive compulsive dogs and need something to do constantly.

Please contact the representative in your state for Australian Shepherd rescue - they should be able to guide you to a trainer in the area who can help, and perhaps also have someone talk you through getting this dog under control. It's commendable that you saved her from the pound, but let's make sure everyone is safe or she could end up hurting someone, and that doesn't have to happen.

Here is the website for ARPH which is the national Aussie rescue -

http://www.aussierescue.org/

There is a list of subjects under the Need Help? tab, under Keep Your Aussie. Read through those, and then contact the state rep if that isn't enough. And if things just aren't going well, consider placing her with ARPH. Sometimes it takes a bucket brigade to save a dog, and she may just not be in the right place, or the right dog for your family. Not every Aussie is right for every family, but you've already saved her life.

Just contact them - they'll help you help her, and hopefully get you squared away so we don't have your poor sister afraid of dogs.!

Keep her on a leash and hold her back from jumping on people, and/or tell the people to raise their knee and knock the dog off its feet if it jumps.. That takes care of jumping. Get a collar that tightens if she pulls. No dog gets out of one of those if it pulls. Keep the leash short and she will not be physically able to get ahead of you.

Why is knocking the food bowl over a problem?

Stop doing things that get her excited and she'll probably stop peeing on the floor.

You plainly don't know anything about training or managing dogs, so I suggest getting the dog to a trainer.

The real question is WHY did you get a working dog that was bred to work all day and move all day and try to turn it into a pet?

The dog will be put down when you dump it since its a working dog

Surrender the dog to a breed resuce

If you are working on obedience training you are not going about it in the right way. I suggest you look up Basic Obedience Training, There are thousands of sites on obedience training & some have videos. Dog training books are full of all kinds of training & training tips.

You have to change your ways to get your dog trained. You can even join an Obedience class. You have to learn all this in order to train your dog properly. Something you need to do yourself. All kinds of help out there & it all cannot be written in this little space on this site. Whole books are written for this purpose.

It is not the dog, it is you. You need to learn how to train her.