Category: Dog Aggression

Colleen´s Jack Russell Terrier, ¨Fargo¨ is growling and biting… and showing generalized dog aggression… predominantly because she´s not providing her dog with sufficient leadership.  Here´s what we recommend: [Colleen writes:] Dear Adam: I have loved your book mostly because it has corrected many of the problems I was having with my Jack Russell Terrier. My biggest…

(This is taken from a message board post I wrote on an internet jiu-jitsu Bulletin Board.  The discussion turned off-topic and– being the resident dog trainer in the community– I had to step into the thread and refute some earlier posts that were misguided or misinformed.  I thought you might find the following interesting as…

Dog aggression between canine members of a household usually involves dogs of the same sex, often littermates. Trigger people in the family [Editor: Trigger people?] often stimulate such fights, though sometimes food or another dog may also stimulate fighting. To avoid such dog fights, it is best not to obtain littermates of the same sex,…

Nipping isn’t what I consider biting— to which we’ll define here as more serious dog aggression.  Nipping is more “play-biting” or a quick ‘correction’ one dog will give another (or you) when that dog is either excited or wants to be left alone.  Dogs do this because play is actually the primary way they assert…

Want to know the one non-negotiable thing you’ll need to correct dog aggression? It’s you. That’s right. You. And your relationship with your dog. And you might be surprised to learn that it’s as simple as Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug mantra: “Just say no.” “But wait… I’ve told my dog, ‘No!’ before… and it didn’t stop…