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The key to understanding any type of behavior is to understand the personality of the subject in question. Humans, dogs, cats, elephants or any other type of social creature are all prone to insecurities. Humans tend to be able to justify it or medicate it or choose not to deal with it. Dogs, they are genetically wired to deal with it. Which creates a liability to all involved. Physically or even financially. For all intensive purposes I will use the situation of a normal dog getting attacked by another dog somewhere and how this normal, well balanced dog develops insecurities and how those insecurities develop into aggression. When you take your dog to a dog park, it is a social event meant to allow your dog to burn off energy stored up during the day while you were at work. This is in most cases a good thing. The only problem is when a person brings their dog into the park that has a chip on it's shoulder or one that is generally out of control. We have all seen this before, pulling the owner to the gate, barking at them to open it, as they cross into the entry pen, silence may start to consume the dog. The owner thinks this a good thing normally, why wouldn't they? As the owner approaches the other gate to engage the latch, the silent dog starts to raise it's head. Then the tail stiffly raises up to a vertical position or maybe curved over it's back a little. The hackles raise, the owner opens the gate and the dog, with immediate intent, bolts straight to the group of dogs playing or rough housing having a good time just being social. The new dog then starts barking at everyone as he runs up to the group, some scatter, but yours stands there waiting to very politely tell this new guy to chill out with a growl of his own, then BAM! The new guy goes straight for the knock down, Now, the other dogs are in a frenzy, there is a chaotic mass of fur and drool and dogs kicking dust in to the air, all of the owners join in on the fray, yelling and screaming and trying to grab their dog, not wanting to get bit, hesitating or even crying or getting mad! The rest of this post on WordPress at The Dog Whisperer of MN Dog Behavior Blog

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The Dog Whisperer of MN chronical of an Aggressive Boxer named Molly

Meet Molly. Molly is a 4 year old Female boxer rescued from a local agency. She was told that she was a zero liability to adopt out. No aggression had been determined by the assessment team after the tests had been done. She was low energy and very very good with people. After her adoption, her owner saw that Molly really was great with people. Hardly would bark at anyone ever, loved and became attached to her children, everything she hoped her new dog would be. Her owner recalls that Molly's first encounter with her older Golden Retriever began with a stare off. Not thinking anything of it and having a "the dogs will figure it out" mentality she knew the Golden Retriever as being low key and non-confrontational, shortly after the confrontation started, he rolled to his side and began his new life as a follower in Molly's control. Nothing transpired from this relationship from an aggressive stand point, though it set the ground work for Molly believing she can control other dogs. Molly quickly became watchful of other dogs outside increasingly intensifying her glares out the window and becoming more anxious at the very site of them. On walks she began pulling towards other dogs while whining. Then pulling on leash and growling to lunging. This worried the owner for a very good reason. So she set out to enroll Molly into obedience classes for some much needed training and socialization. On leash, in a class room setting, molly did very well; with dogs and with the training it's self. A successful investment indeed. Unfortunately, this did not transfer full to "real life". Click here to read the whole story and more on WordPress at:The Dog Whisperer of MN's Dog Behavior Blog

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