Training aggressive dogs can be a challenge – This article will dispel some common myths, and show you some dog training techniques to calm your aggressive dog down, permanently.
When you’re training aggressive dogs, it’s important to realize where your dog is coming from, as opposed to lumping his behavior into “bad behavior.” Most of the time, your dog is either defending his territory or he’s afraid.
Defending territory is part of a dog’s instinct. If an unfamiliar creature invades what he believes is his space, his natural instinct would be to bark and try to scare away this invading creature.
The second reason may be your dog is afraid. A large, unknown creature three times his size (an average person) encroaches on his territory. Your dog feels scared, and instinctively starts barking madly. This is his way of saying “Don’t mess with me man. Don’t mess with me. I’m not an easy target, I’ll bite.”
The most important thing when training aggressive dogs is to understand where your dog is coming from, instead of becoming frustrated and thinking your dog is incurable or is somehow wrong.
Let’s go over some dog training techniques.
First of all, when your dog is being aggressive, make sure not to reward his behavior. Start out by just ignoring him. When the delivery man comes to deliver the mail and your dog starts barking, just completely ignore him. Make sure he realizes that his barking is not doing any good. You may even try on ignoring him for an additional 30 seconds-1 minute after the mailman leaves.
You should also make sure you or your children do not play fight with your dog. When training aggressive dogs, it’s important for them to realize aggressive behavior is not appropriate behavior.
If subtle punishments aren’t working, you can consider giving your dog a time out. Simply lock him in a room for 5 minutes whenever he’s being too aggressive, and make sure he realizes it’s inappropriate to do what he’s doing. When training aggressive dogs, it’s important to also reward him for being nice to strangers.
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