Making a dog less gritty

Zach, you can pretty much scratch the pen idea. If a dog has it in them to be gritty that is how they are going to be. Some will back off with age and some wont. I have seen dogs cut and beat up every way immaginable. I have seen broked jaws and broken ribs. Out of all that the ones that were gritty still are. Saw one little airedale get gutted, a hole punched in her side and two ribs broken on a bad boar. She still wants to catch first thing two years later.

If you try to force a behavior you likely wont be sattisfied with the results.

My 0.02