UPDATE (4/11/11): Try this at home. Google “dog people aggression.” I did and here’s what I found. Outside of two notable exceptions, Google’s top eleven picks didn’t offer much that was helpful. Most sites referred to so-called “dominance aggression.” One site delineated a tedious taxonomy of differently motivated types of dog aggression. Several sites recommended [...]
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Welcome to the third post in our six-part series: Difficult, Aggressive Dogs Need Strong Training. Really? John Visconti continues his story about rehabilitating and training Pepper, the dog-aggressive, stranger-aggressive, resource guarding, and thunder phobic pooch he adopted from a local shelter. One of the many reasons I’m delighted and privileged to share John’s and Pepper’s [...]
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Imagine this. You volunteer at a shelter where you meet a dog that has, well, issues. You’re told she “blows up” over nothing. She bites you over a prized pig’s ear. She’s highly reactive to other dogs and strange humans she encounters on walks. She freaks out during lightening and thunder storms as if Zeus [...]
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