Treating Dog Aggression

  • Which Medication Should be Used for Dog Aggression?

    Which Medication Should be Used for Dog Aggression?

    Which medication(s) your dog will respond best to for aggression or anxiety to depends on the diagnosis, because aggression is only a symptom of an underlying problem, not a diagnosis in and of itself, as well as your dog’s individual physiology. A medication that works for one dog, may not work for another. Prescription medication…

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  • 5 Harsh Realities of Treating Dog Aggression

    5 Harsh Realities of Treating Dog Aggression

    On the surface treating dog aggression – if not a simple fix – can at least appear to be relatively straightforward. Teach your dog to do something that is incompatible with aggressive behavior. How hard can that be? Well, after the initial cycle of excitement and enthusiasm, there is the inevitable wake-up call to reality.…

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  • Training your aggressive dog to pay attention might help improve dog aggression

    Training your aggressive dog to pay attention might help improve dog aggression

    Training your aggressive dog to stop paying attention to something else and shift their to you will likely help to improve dog aggression. People with generalized social-phobia that have been trained to pay attention to non-threatening positive material and ignore threatening material, showed significantly greater reductions in self-reported, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety than…

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  • The World’s Worst Dog Aggression Advice

    The World’s Worst Dog Aggression Advice

    Everyone who has a dog seems to have an opinion on how to handle dog behavior problems and aggression is at the top of the list. Here is some of the worst advice for handing aggression in dogs that you should avoid. Being dominant, being “pack leader”, “alpha”, “top dog”, etc.. Act like Cesar Milan…

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  • The importance of getting your dog’s attention at the earliest stage of aggressive arousal.

    The importance of getting your dog’s attention at the earliest stage of aggressive arousal.

    We and our dogs are unable to pay full attention to more than one thing at a time. Outside of dogs that are aggressive toward their owners, it means that if you can hold your dogs attention, they will not be attention to whatever else he is becoming aggressive towards. Dogs that are not attending to the threats…

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  • Crazy dog at the door?  Trick or treat!

    Crazy dog at the door? Trick or treat!

    Hallowe’en comes every year.  If you have a dog that goes crazy at the door, Halloween is a nightmare.  At best you can hope to take your dog somewhere else where there are no tricker-treaters (good luck!).  Or perhaps you can hide out in your house with the house dark as if no one is…

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  • Environmental Enrichment (Part 4) Exercise and Play

    Environmental Enrichment (Part 4) Exercise and Play

    This is part 4 in our Environmental Enrichment series.  Part 1 talked about why it is important for aggressive dogs.  Part 2 discussed how to implements it.  Part 3 provided 15 examples to get your creative juices going.  Here in part 4, we talk about the importance of exercise and play, but also about some of…

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  • 15 ways you can help your dog beat boredom (Part 3)

    15 ways you can help your dog beat boredom (Part 3)

    This is Part 3 of our Environmental Enrichment series where we give you 15 tips on how to mentally and sometimes physically stimulate your dog. Many of these suggestions involve food, since dogs would naturally spend a lot of time tracking down food in the wild.  For example, African wild dogs spend an average of 3 and a…

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  • Environmental Enrichment (Part 2) Implementation

    Environmental Enrichment (Part 2) Implementation

      This is part 2 of the environmental enrichment for dogs from our upcoming book on dog aggression.  Part 1 talked about why environmental enrichment is important in trerating aggression in dogs.  In part 2 we will talk about some of the ways you can implement this. To start, think about what dogs typically do.…

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  • Environmental Enrichment (Part 1) Introduction

    Environmental Enrichment (Part 1) Introduction

    This week we are going to focus on environmental enrichment from our upcoming book on dog aggression. Environmental enrichment is discussed when it comes to dogs in shelters, but we don’t often see it in regards to treating aggression. Part 1 will be on why Environmental Enrichment is important. Part 2 and part 3 will…

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