How To Stop Dog Aggression
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?
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 alway 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 fearly and everything in between. Then there is aggresion 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, feaful 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 you 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.
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 you 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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