Aggressive Dog Behavior - A Dangerous Situation

Aggression itself means to harm someone. When a person keeps a dog as a pet he faces the problem of aggressive dog behavior, which can occur due to number of reasons, but it mainly happens due to genetic and environmental changes. This is extremely dangerous problem and needs to be coped up before it hurts someone. Since the aggression in dog may appears due to any reason so it needs to be handled in a bit different manner. However aggressive dog behavior become more and more complex if the owner of the pet does not know how to deal with it. All breeds show aggressive dog behavior while some breeds got predisposition in showing this type of behavior.

When a person is keeping a dog which was showing normal behavior before and suddenly it starts to show aggression then the situation is very complex and requires professional assistance to overcome this situation. Aggressive dog behavior can become quite serious problem for pet owner and the people around the dog. But most of the time the aggressive dog behavior is not towards human but still remains a dangerous problem. It can be judged only when a dog continues to do something like constantly barking, air snapping or growling, display of nervousness in front of owner, while on leash, continuously pawning, mouthing, tackling chasing, nipping, wrestling and sometimes they harm other dogs when they feel that this is the last option for them. Moreover aggressive dog behavior can become very dangerous for the children and they might get bit by them.

Pet owners more often try to keep already trained dogs or train them so they will never show any sign of aggression, but if still they show the sign of aggression then no training will keep them normal for a longer period. At this point only professional training and opinion can make the dog to show normal behavior. Aggressive dog behavior can occur at the age of physical and psychological growth to the age of social maturity i.e. from 6 months to 4 years. Aggressive dog behaviors sometimes occur at the stage of physical development for the dog as a process of training.