Teaching a dog not to be aggressive

How to train Pets

An absolutely vital lesson for every pet owner to learn is this; mother nature designed many pets to be aggressive, which was a very important characteristic when they needed to hold for their own food, defend themselves against aggressors or find and keep a mate. Dogs in particular evolved with sharp teeth and claws which enable them to do very considerable damage to not only other animals but people as well, particularly the younger, weaker or more vulnerable.

You may have a dog that obeys every command that you give it and with which you feel completely safe and at ease. Unfortunately this happy situation will not necessarily exist for other people within your family because a dog is a natural pack animal and as a member of a pack it has to know what the pecking order is in order to survive. This means that it will usually completely accept the wishes of what it considers to be a superior animal (usually you) but it will have a much lower opinion of other family members that it considers to be inferior to it. This can result in dogs attacking old people, small children or babies without a great deal of provocation and often with disastrous or even fatal results.

It is vital that a dog which is a member of a family is trained from a very early age to respect and obey human beings without question. This can be done by regular training and rewarding the dog when it obeys, and putting it into detention, by leaving it alone for a while if it is disobedient. If you are not confident yourself on how to do this, it is important to seek the help of a professional dog trainer, and the earlier that this is done the better. The result should be a well-behaved and obedient pet, which has been treated with kindness and which will see no reason to attack you or other members of your family.