In order to understand the behavior of your dog better, you must correctly identify what it is motivated by. One of the most confusing moments is the aggression. The dog may growl at the cat while walking, bark at the casual passer-by, bark at the “Brothers in Mind” at the meeting. Some dogs may respond by grin, growl or bite at the owner’s attempting to take away a toy, food or even making dog go away from the sofa. In each of these cases we can see the aggressive behavior. How to control this aggression, should we promote or suppress it achieving the reaction that is desirable for you?
Aggression is associated with the greatest number of legends and “folk” methods, often leading to unpredictable results. English cocker, I helped to correct the dominant aggression of, risked losing its life because of such legends. A young veterinarian, having seen as the ten-puppy growls at the hosts during feeding, said that the dog had “an aggression gene” and it should be put to sleep. Otherwise, the doctor described the prospect of the whole family to be slaughtered at night… No more, no less. Dog was lucky – before the lulling, owners decided to consult a trainer.
To control aggression, it is necessary to know what it is called with, and what the purpose of your dog’s behavior is. Despite the similarity of its external manifestations, the aggression can be different. We can distinguish the types of it as follows.
Dominant aggression
This social behavior is related to hierarchical relationships in the troop. You have to understand that a dog, living in a human family, takes the laws of troop’s relationships for people. Therefore, the owner and relatives so as children may become the object of domination. Often happens, that the owner controls the dog, but the dominant aggression can manifest itself in relation to the often coming relatives. The dog knows these people and considers them as “its own”, but demonstrates its superiority, putting them in place.
Territorial aggression
This type of aggression is also connected with social behavior. But, unlike the previous type, this behavior is directed to members of other, competing troops. The growling and barking at a knock at the door, barking of passersby who walk near the frontage – all this is the territorial aggression. The same dog can be aggressive toward your friend at your home, and does not react to his appearance on the street. The key point of this type of aggression that it is manifested in its territory.
Defensive aggression
If the dog or members of its troop are in danger, the dog could show the protective aggression. Your pet may bark on furiously stranger while walking, if he behaves “suspiciously”: stops, looks at you, trying to get closer. All of these actions the dog sees as a direct threat, and can react to them aggressively. It should be noted that over the millennia of co-existence with the man specific reactions developed in the dogs that are not characteristic for wild animals. Thus, most dogs, even puppies aged react aggressively to a stranger carrying a bag in his hands or chest. This reaction is innate, dogs with such reactions are artificially chosen as the most “smart” ones.

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Barking is the natural way for dogs to express their emotions. With rare exception, dogs successfully open their mouth when they wish to please neighbours and guests, to welcome the “brothers on reason” and simply “for the good of their soul.” But in practice it is often necessary to open their mouth when it is necessary for trainer. Barking is not only a part of the training sport system, but it is used in applied work. For example, search and rescue dogs must denote the human finding with voice. Many special dogs have to bark at a laying. Besides that, the usual owners of dogs do not mind if their pet barks, when someone touches the door or gate in an apartment or in a private house.

To develop barking and make it aggressive, assertive and dependable is usually not a problem for the trainer. The greatest difficulty is precisely to develop the original conditioned reflex.

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Nothing pleases trainer more then dog that is active, interested in Oporto and being in the mood for fighting the man. Interested persecution of a “prey”, absence of fear to struggle and the desire to work – all these qualities make it possible to introduce more complications easily and to lead a dog on all steps of protective training planned. But the learning process is never smooth. One of the problems that are often faced by the trainer is reluctance to slacken a bite (of a sleeve) under the “Give” command when needed.

It is known that not slackening under a command, for example, in the IPO, causes the same ruthless dismissing from a test as when there is no bite at all. But taking into consideration that the lack of bite may be caused by various causes, including congenital defects of a nervous system, not slackening under a command is a consequence of methodological and technical mistakes in dog training, which can and should be avoided.

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Before the talk about the shot fear correcting, you need to understand the causes of this phenomenon. As it is with any behavior, fear of the shot is formed under the influence of two main components:
 innate predisposition;
 experience gained
Under an innate predisposition, first and foremost the lack of effect of the nervous system should be understood. Excitability and mobility of the nervous system have its influence also, as well as the predominance of the orienting behavior reaction.

Gained experience is usually connected with fear of sudden and violent claps. Sometimes, the puppy suddenly falls under the fireworks or the firecracker is just broken beside. If the nervous system is most vulnerable currently (the dog is under a stress), that forms strong phobia.

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1. Preparation: Don’t wait for the last minute! When you put it all together at the last minute that creates more anxiety and tension for your dog as well as you! When you are prepared your dog will have a more normal experience. If you planning to make hotel reservations there many pet-friendly hotels to choose from.
2. Car Safety: Items to consider having depending on your pet’s size and ability to ride in the car staying safe for both them, passengers and you: Pet Carriers, Car Barriers, Car Seats, Car Seat Belts. If you need to order any item on line, make sure you do it in plenty of time. If you are planning on going to a local pet store, again do it in plenty of time…for if they don’t have it and your pressing the clock, the anxiety is already high and you haven’t even left for your trip!

3. Take a long walk before driving off! A recently exercised dog will be in a more relaxed state during any long trip.

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