Dog Aggression Training - Control It!

By Allen McDaniel

A dog is a naturally aggressive species. In nature, aggression comes in extremely handy for dogs. Dogs must have aggression to defend themselves, to defend their home, to acquire a mate, and for other necessary tasks.

However that does not mean that we must be helpless when it comes to handling our dogs. There are steps we can take to stop aggression from rearing it's head.

One type of dog aggression is the aggression directed at unfamiliar faces. The process of accustoming your dog to society and all it's strange people is known as "socialization". This is a necessary segment of training your dog Socializing involves taking her from a young age to a wide variety of happenings, people, and animals.

When socializing your dog you're getting him to understand from experience that unfamiliar things are fun, rather than scary. Socializing your dog can be more of a ongoing effort rather than a specific method. To accomplish this involves just using more time interacting with your dog around unfamiliar territory.

Aggression towards family members has to be taken care of in a different way. Aggression towards family members shows that the dog is defending a thought up threat (you). Or, she isn't comfortable with the care she is getting from it's surroundings. This is known as "resource guarding".

Resource guarding is common among dogs. This term references overly-possessive behavior traits shown your dog Resource guarding is a old technique of dominant behavior . If a dog thought himself as lowest in the pack hierarchy, it would never dream of exhibiting aggressive or dominant behavior traits directed at a higher ranked pack member.

The most well-suited training technique for aggressive/dominant dog behavior is steady, constant, obedience training. This can make it clear that you rank above the dog Schedule obedience methods to be quick and productive . Zero playtime and no misbehavior allowed.

Dogs display aggression for a purpose. It can be important to progress slow with a dog's obedience/aggression training. For complete knowledge on how to handle an aggressive dog handling disobedient dog behavior, as well as every other dog behavior and training issue, it is important to obtain a complete dog training information resource.

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