Canine aggressiveness

Aggressiveness is the most serious behaviour problem, which the dog owners have to face, and in most of the cases the owners are guilty. The aggressiveness could have been prevented, if the master had wanted to find out and to understand the factors that determine the aggressiveness in the behaviour of a dog and to at so as the poor animal not to become a danger for the people around it.

There are many types of aggressive behaviour:

• territorial aggressiveness,
• hierarchical aggressiveness,
• predator aggressiveness,
• irritancy aggressiveness,
• fear aggressiveness,
• maternal aggressiveness.

A dog can show mare than one of these types of aggressiveness. In this classification, the hierarchical aggressiveness is an example of competitive aggressiveness and the irritancy and the fear aggressiveness as well as territorial and maternal aggressiveness are examples of defensive aggressiveness. There are also episodes of atypical aggressiveness, identified in cases of first and second hyper aggressiveness, as well as in cases of neurological affections.
It is very important to notice and study the behaviour sequence of aggressiveness; it means the order of the whole actions of the aggressor.

The behaviour sequence of the aggressiveness is made up, chronologically of three phases:

• the phase of threaten and intimidation(the dog growls, shows its fangs, raises its fur, raises its ears and its tail)
• the phase of attack (it jump over the enemy and wants to catch it how it can until this adopts an inferior position)
• The phase of assurance (the winner comes and bites "merciful" the forehead or the face of the looser, puts its paw on its back)

Except for the predator and the fear aggressiveness for me as a specialist in dogs recovery with behaviour problems this sequence is important because when all the phases are present (the complete sequence) we can talk about a react aggressiveness and when the threaten and the assurance aggressiveness disappear the case is called aggressiveness with inconvenient sequence or instrumental aggressiveness or second hyper aggressiveness

Chances of recovery or such dog (that presents one of the aggressiveness) are much bigger if the recovery program is started until the first manifestations of the dog.

The education program consists in a correction discipline which differs from case to case. Working together with you we can ameliorate and in the end solve any problem of behaviour.

CRISTIAN O. - international trainer in dog training,
specialist in recovering dogs with behaviour
problems and canine education