The dog is an aggressive instinctual creature.
In nature, aggression was useful: dogs needed to attack fishing, defend themselves from other creatures. Defend resources like food, a place to sleep, and miscellaneous. Selective education over the centuries has downplayed this quality, but there is no way around it. Dogs can cause serious damage (just look at those teeth!)
Mother Nature is cunning, hard to counter the power of instinct! But that doesn’t mean that we, as dog lovers and owners, exist to deal with our dogs. There are many things we can do to prevent aggression from rearing its ugly head. Even if prevention is not possible (for whatever reason), we can still take steps to recognize and manage.
Different assault: the two most common are:
Aggression towards strangers – Aggression towards family members, you may wonder why we like to classify this. Aggression is aggression, and you want to let it go now, don’t waste time with details, right? Well … not everything. These two different assaults come from different causes and need different treatment.
Aggression against strangers – What’s that? Easy to recognize when a dog is nervous around strangers. You are nervous and alert; or he cannot stay still and does not rest, jumps at the slightest noise, walks between barking and barking. Or he’s still unsteady, sitting steadily like a rock. Looking at the point of your doubts (visitor, postman, someone who approaches you on the street while you are tied up outside the store).
Why is this happening? There is an important reason why dogs do not appreciate strangers: they do not have the opportunity to become familiar with them. Remember that your dog is 100% confident in expanding his horizons. Avoid taking a lot of trips to see the world and succeed yourself. Through constant and positive experiences that the unknown does not mean sad news for him. How can you expect to relax in an unfamiliar place?
What can I do about it?
The approach of making your dog be used in the world called all people (and animals) who have socialization. This is a very important part of your dog’s education – it’s hard to emphasize how important it is. Socializing the dog means exposing it from an early age (once vaccinated) to new experiences, new people, and new animals.
How do you avoid socializing a strange aggression?
When it comes to learning your dog, you teach him through experience, new images, sounds are fun and they are not alarmed. It’s not enough to expose an adult dog to a crowd of outsiders and say “Calm down, Roxie, it’s okay.” Understand that it is okay for him. You have to do it by dragging it to absorb the lesson. The more people and animals you meet (children, young children, teenagers, older people. Men, women, people in uniform, people with motorcycle helmets, people with umbrellas, etc.). Happy and safe with outsiders, he will be.