Dogs are pack animals, so there is always the chance of confrontation between them. While you can’t always stop aggressive behaviour, you can look out for the signs and prevent a situation escalating by taking the right actions.
One of the big mistakes dog owners make when they think their dog is becoming aggressive it to get anxious and panicky. The dog will be looking to the owner for a lead, and will only feel it more necessary to defend itself if the owner seems scared. Stay calm in these situations and it may help to relax your dog and stop a potentially dangerous situation.
Another mistake is to try and comfort your dog through petting or even giving a treat. While with humans this might seem a reasonable thing to do, it may be accidentally reinforcing the aggressive behaviour by leading the dog to think it is being rewarded. Act normally when your dog becomes aggressive and don’t give it any encouragement.
If a fight does occur, never try to break it up yourself by coming between the dogs. You may end up getting hurt as the dogs are in an aggressive state of mind. Instead, the best way is to try and distract the dogs. A well trained dog should respond to the come command, but in a fight situation training may be forgotten or temporarily ignored, which is why you may need to distract the dogs before using a return command. Don’t risk your own health to break up a dog fight in any situation.
By: Richard Cross Terris
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Filed under Aggressive Puppy by on Jan 27th, 2012. Comment. 
When is the best time to teach your dogs how to control their barks? The answer is while they are still young. Just like humans, babies are the easiest to train, since their minds seem to be open to almost anything.
However, dogs are not really humans. Even if they are still young, they already have their own temperaments. For example, some breeds are barkers. This means that they bark to almost anything-from humans to objects. Unless you’re able to learn how to control their sounds, they would surely startle and even annoy neighbors, guests, and even your own household.
Training a dog how to control his or her bark can be very exhausting. Thus, you may need the help of a Petsafe dog bark collar.
A Small but Powerful Device
The dog bark collar that you will learn today is labeled as the smallest there is in the market. This is ideal for those dog owners who want to train their pets controlled barking while they are still puppies. The dog bark collar can accommodate a neck size of up to sixteen inches. It can also work for dogs who weigh as much as 55 pounds.
Now, if you’re wondering if you would ever suffocate your pet with it, this dog bark collar comes with a Quick it buckle. This means that the device has a way of snuggling the neck perfectly. It is not too loose that it will bounce up and down when your dog moves or too tight to eventually injure your pet’s neck.
The collar is also durable and is water-proof. This way, you don’t have to control your dog’s movements at all. He or she can run, play, and go anywhere; and you won’t have to worry about a breaking device after.
How It Works
This Petsafe dog bark collar comes with a patented bark detection technology. In case you don’t know, some dog bark collars are equipped with a microphone. This is how they pick up the sounds. The sad thing is that they can also be sensitive of other pet’s sounds or even with the slightest movement of your dog. In the end, a lot of things can trigger the bark control collar.
The new technology will ensure that only your dog’s sound and vibration will set off the ultrasonic waves. These are high-pitched sounds that only dogs can hear. Once your dogs would be able to determine that their barks cause the system to “set off an alarm,” they would learn how to bark occasionally.
You won’t have any problem of controlling the correction level of your dog bark collar. It’s automatic, which means that the high-pitch sound will increase or decrease depending on the bark produced by your dog. You can also control the correction level on your own with its light-touch system.
You definitely can do something to control the dog’s bark, and you can train them like a professional. You simply have to get the smallest bark control collar today.
By: Russ Elderman
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Filed under Puppies Problems by on Jan 26th, 2012. Comment.
By its very nature, a dog is an aggressive animal. Aggression is necessary to not only hunt, but also to protect territory and resources, and mate successfully. Breeding has diminished this behavior immensely over the centuries. However, dogs remain more than able to inflict serious injury on humans, other dogs, and themselves.
If you are attempting to properly train an aggressive dog, you are actually trying to reprogram mother nature’s hard-wiring of your dog’s brain. That doesn’t mean that the task is impossible – not in the least. As dog-owners, there are numerous things we could do, to effectively subdue and train dangerous, aggressive behavior out of your dog.
1) It is vital that you socialize your dog. By doing this, you are getting your dog to learn through their experience with humans(other than you) and other dogs. In addition, this conditions your dog to easily accept and deal with new situations and people without fear or anxiety – two factors that rear their ugly heads in the form of aggressive behavior. Socializing your dog is more of a consistent concerted effort, rather than strict regimental training.
2) Seriously consider group dog-behavior classes. These are a great opportunity for your dog to interact with other dogs and humans, as well. Ideally, these types of classes will be initiated when your dog is still a puppy or quite young. Often, an unruly, imbalanced dog will be turned away from such group-classes, because they pose a danger to the other dogs, their owners, and themselves. If this is the case, you and your aggressive dog will be better suited for intensive on-the-leash obedience training with specialists experienced in dealing with these particular dog-behavior problems.
3) Don’t waste any more time waiting for the perfect solution to your dog’s aggressive behavior to fall in your lap. Get ahold of a system, guide, or program and stick to it. Training the aggression out of your dog doesn’t have to be a tall order. However, the longer you wait, and the older your dog gets, the harder training your dog not to be aggressive will be.
A Mastiff puppy aggressively toying with the cat might make for a great photo, but a full-grown Mastiff doing the same with someone’s baby definitely is not. An aggressive adult dog is the result of dog-owners that relish the spontaneous, “cute” behavior of their puppies, yet completely fail their dogs, by hindering their mental development with a lack of discipline. This is a recipe for a dangerous, destructive situation to arise. In addition, your dog continues to struggle with aggression, anxiety, and confusion around other dogs and humans(often your own family). They are yelled at or scolded, but they will NEVER realize why.
All too often, the laziness and ineptness of the dog-owner results in a tragic accident involving their dog. Thousands of dogs are destroyed every year, because of attacks on humans or other dogs. These incidents are readily attributed to the particular breed being “naturally dangerous and aggressive”. That is a cop-out, actually better translated as certain dog-owners being “naturally lazy and irresponsible”. There’s no way around it. The training of your dog has everything to do with the training of YOU and vice versa. If you aren’t fully prepared for the investment of effort, money, time, patience, furniture, frustration, and love that is necessary to properly rear a dog, please do the world a favor – don’t get a dog.
By: James Mitchell
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Filed under Aggressive Puppy by on Jan 26th, 2012. Comment.
If you are a dog owner that struggles with stopping your dog from pulling and tugging on his or her leash while walking then you are not alone. Many owners make a great effort to stop this uncontrollable behavior trying everything in their training arsenal with no luck. They find themselves avoiding people along the walk by crossing the street or waiting for them to turn the corner before continuing the battle. Rest assured every dog owner goes through the same thing at one point or another it’s just that some dog owners are more experienced, some dog breeds learn better, but you too can teach your dog how to walk on a leash.
One of the most popular purchases a dog owner makes is an investment in a dog collar. They buy two types, a collar for their dogs’ tags and a choke collar for training, or least the hope of training. While having a dog collar for tags is necessary as most states require dog tags a choke collar may not be the right solution for the inexperienced dog owner.
Choke collars, if not properly placed on your dog can actually damage their throat especially if your dog continues to pull and tug on the leash. Regardless of the size dog from small dog to large dog all are susceptible. Moving to a dog harness for walking is your best and safest option for correcting this bad behavior.
Dog harnesses come in a variety styles and finding the right one to solve your dilemma can seem confusing. Not just any dog harness will work for teaching your dog to walk properly on a leash. For example, a dog harness where the leash attaches at the top of your dog’s back will offer no help as your dog feels only the resistance from you as you try to pull him or her back. The dog simply rears up and if they are stronger than you, off you both go running down the street chasing what it is your dog is after.
The dog harness we recommend is a “no-pull” or “stop pull” dog harness. With this type of harness, the dog leash attaches in the front at the chest level. When your dog pulls and tries to take-off the harness zaps the strength from his/her front legs making it almost impossible for them to do anything but walk.
The product that we found offering the easiest to put-on, needing no acclimating before use called “Sense-ation” No-Pull dog harness is the best choice for the seemingly uncontrollable dog. This harness comes in a variety of sizes to fit your particular dog breed and an easy how-to instruction book. The results will be immediate from the very first use.
While a no-pull dog harness, will solve your dog leash training troubles they are not for every dog-training lesson you will teach. There will always be a place for a traditional collar for hanging your dogs’ tags and training collar for all of the other dog obedience training sessions you will have. However, for those dog owners with a pooch that cannot seem to walk properly a no-pull dog harness is the safest and fastest way to teach this obedience lesson.
By: Michael Hrynewich
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Michael, a dog owner for over 25 years, has amassed several dog obedience-training techniques as well as an extensive knowledge of dog health problems. To read detailed information about your dog from temperament to health and shop his Pet Supply Store visit him at Remarkable Dogs Where we are dedicated to providing only the very best for your dog.
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