If you want to understand
how to stop dog aggression let me start by asking you two rhetorical questions!
Firstly do YOU start the
aggression with your dog simply joining in?
Secondly does your dog
listen to you just before it behaves the way it does when you try show it another way to behave?
The answer will of course be
the following:
At the point your dog starts
to become aggressive he is taking no notice at all of you.
He is making his own
decisions and will not listen to you if you try to show him a different way to
behave. What he is doing is simply too important to him and is the right thing
to do. Dog aggression is nearly always done in order to protect, their pack and
their own lives.
Firstly there is of course a
whole range of different types of aggression from dominant to fearful and
everything in between. Then there is aggression that occurs the whole time and
other aggression, which is very erratic, and random depending on a number of
differing factors. We could also look at what your dog is aggressive towards;
it could be people, animals, other dogs or objects.
The way to stop dog
aggression however is very much the same, or at least the cause of the problem
is the same. Your dog thinks that it is the pack leader, becomes fearful and
attacks to protect, you and himself. Dominant dogs will be more proactive,
often attacking when they still have the option of running away, fearful dogs
will only attack if they have no place to run. All the other factors pale into
insignificance compared to this.
The most important concept
to grasp if you want to understand how to stop dog aggression is that your dog
must first look to you as the pack leader in the home. (This is the easiest
place to convince him you are the decision maker.) Only then can you convince
him that you are the pack leader on the walk. There are some fantastic video
sites now that show you exactly how to become the pack leader.
Once you have convinced your
dog that you are the pack leader outside then upon reaching the point where he
usually is aggressive you will find that he will actually start to take notice
of how you are behaving! If you aren’t
then your dog will probably continue to ignore what you are doing at this point
forever.
Just remember, dogs are pack
animals and they follow the pack leader.
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