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Treating aggression involves identifying the specific triggers that initiaties the aggressive tendencies and desensitize your dog to the trigger. In your case, your dog's trigger is dog approaching when you are nearby. Try this: Enlist the help of a friend with a dog Keep both dogs on leash Watch...

Hi Kristen, You are overall doing a lot of things correct, but you are moving too quickly. If a dog "feels" like growling repeatedly or actually growls when someone is near her food, then she will be more tense the next time someone starts to approach her food. You need to go slowly enough...

Hello, I have a two-year-old female dog and I just adopted a four-month-old male pup. They get along pretty well, and my first dog has been getting better at sharing her toys and stuff with him. However, she doesn't seem to be able to get over her food issue. She's from a shelter and she's...

My clients often hire me to help rehabilitate their dog's problems. Sometimes they recently adopted an older dog that already has behavior problems, while others have had their dogs since they were puppies and were lax in one or more areas that resulted in behavior problems forming over a period...

Congratulations on your big day coming up. This issue can be helped, but you really need to make sure you are on top of things to avoid a potential serious problem. Even a small dog can cause a serious bite to a child. I recommend a three tier approach to handling this problem. Work on desensitizing...

I am training a boxer who is being kenneled on a long term basis. I started taking her to a dog park. For two weeks she was fine then she started showing signs of resource guarding. She is guarding me from the other dogs. She attacked a dog that came to see me soI had to remove her. the next day she...

With aggression is it important that dogs do not rehearse the behavior. If Ni-Night ends up getting aggressive around dogs or Josh time after time, then the behavior will definitely continue and probably get worse. What you need to do is desensitize him to the situations that currently cause him stress...

Welcome to the community and thanks for your question. As far as your dog aggression issues, I would recommend that you start by listening to my radio show on aggression to get your feet wet. The main points to keep in mind are to go slow and to prevent putting your dog into a situation by being too...

Welcome to the community and thanks so much for the detailed description. You sound wonderful and Lola is lucky to have you. Keep in mind that unless behaviors are innate such as breathing and eye blinking, other behavior patterns are rooted in a combination of instinct and learned behaviors and can...

Ever see a dog growling around his food bowl? Ever see those "Funniest Home Videos" shows where a dog is showing teeth while standing over a bone? You have witnessed something called Resource Guarding, a form of dog aggression. This form of aggression is fairly common, but easily preventable...