How To Stop Dog Aggression.

If you want to understand how to stop dog aggression let me start by asking you two rhetorical questions!

Firstly, do YOU start the aggression and then your dog simply joins in?

Secondly, if you try to show your dog a new way to behave, does it listen to you just before it misbehaves?

The answer will of course be the following:

At the point your dog starts to become aggressive he is taking no notice at all of you.

He is making his own decisions and will not listen to you if you try to show him a different way to behave. What he is doing is simply too important to him and is the right thing to do. Dog aggression is nearly always done in order to protect their pack and their own lives.

There is of course a whole range of different types of aggression from dominant to fearful and everything in between.  There is aggression that occurs all the time and other erratic aggression that is random depending on a number of differing factors. You can also look at what your dog is aggressive towards; it could be people, animals, other dogs or objects.

The way to stop dog aggression has very much the same source as the above cause of the problem. Your dog thinks that it is the pack leader.  He becomes fearful and attacks to protect, you and himself. Dominant dogs will be more proactive, often they are attacking when they still have the option of running away where fearful dogs will only attack if they have no place to run. All the other factors relating to why aggression occurs pale into insignificance compared to this main source.

The most important concept to grasp if you want to understand how to stop dog aggression is that your dog must first look to you as the pack leader in the home. (This is the easiest place to convince him you are the decision maker.) Only then can you convince him that you are the pack leader on a walk. There are some fantastic video sites now that show you exactly how to become the pack leader.

Once you have convinced your dog that you are the pack leader outside, he will then actually start to take notice of how you are behaving when he reaches the point where he would usually become aggressive!

Just remember, dogs are pack animals and they follow the pack leader.

One of the best examples of a professional dog trainer putting this all into practice is The Online Dog Trainer. The site has live videos of this method being demonstrated and explains exactly how to stop dog aggression by simply convincing your dog that you are the pack leader. CLICK HERE