There is nothing more disconcerting than realizing your dog has aggression issues directed at children. This can be highly problematic if your dog lives in a home with children or in an area with a high number of children. Every…
What Can You Do if Your Dog is Attacking Cats and Other Animals
There is more than one reason for a dog exhibiting aggression towards other animals like cats, livestock, birds, and small animals. The most common reasons include: • Prey aggression: This is where the dog is exhibiting aggression towards another animal…
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Why Do Dogs Attack and Bite People?
Most dog owners are totally caught off guard the first time their dog shows any level of aggression towards anyone. While a dog showing aggression isn’t a good thing, it isn’t always the tragic end of the dog. There is…
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Understanding Aggression in Puppies
Aggression in puppies is a rarer segment of the discussion on aggression. Basically, you don’t ever want to see true aggression in a puppy….or you could be headed for real problems in the adult dog. Puppy time line While every…
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Tips to Prevent Dog Aggression
The good news is that for most cases of aggression, there are ways to prevent the aggression in the first place. Ideally, we should always use prevention methods to try and avoid allowing aggression to develop. There are two main…
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Why is it Important to Hire a Professional to Work with your Aggressive Dog?
In our world of the internet, reality television, easy access information, and instant gratification, we like to fix our problems quickly and on our own. Medical websites help us diagnosis what is wrong with us without the doctor (or do…
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The Dangers of Using Punishment with Aggressive Dogs
When encountered with owning an aggressive dog, just about every owner wants the dog to stop what it is doing and with good reason. A dog that growls, barks, and bites just isn’t pleasurable to live with, plus it’s also…
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Sending your Aggressive Dog to a Boarding Facility
Boarding and training is not always the best option to stop aggression in dogs There is a whole crop of trainers that believes they can end all aggression in your dog, RIGHT NOW!, if only you sign up for a…
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Leash Reactivity
You may not know what the term reactive means as it relates to dogs, but in simple terms, this is when a dog barks, growls, pulls towards, or lunges when seeing or hearing something. Reactive is a very broad terminology…
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Tips for Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety can be one of the most frustrating behavioral issues that a dog owner can encounter. The more severe the issue, the most frustrating it is. It can be overwhelming, and dogs can lose their homes due to it.…
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