Comments on: Managing and Training Your Aggressive Dog http://www.training-dogs.com/blog/managing-and-training-your-aggressive-dog.html Positive Dog Training Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:22:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: squeak http://www.training-dogs.com/blog/managing-and-training-your-aggressive-dog.html/comment-page-1#comment-143 squeak Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:41:05 +0000 http://www.training-dogs.com/blog/managing-and-training-your-aggressive-dog.html#comment-143 i have a year and a half old lab mix (lucy) that is ordinarily a sweet, fairly well behaved pup, but several times lately when we have gone to the dog park there has been a problem: she has a dog-buddy (ruby) who is about 6 months younger than she is. they play rough, but it's pretty clear it's just play, and other than a yelp here and there, it's mostly just chase games and never progresses to anything more. however, if another dog shows *any* interest in ruby, or any sign of aggression toward ruby, lucy loses her mind, ceases to hear or see me, and becomes a terrifying, snarling 'i'm going to rip your throat out' kind of dog. once i pull her out of the situation and remove her from the immediate area, she's perfectly calm and pays no further attention to the other dogs. i have no idea if she would really hurt another dog, and am not really interested in finding out. :) she has shown this kind of behavior towards other dogs when they have tried to take a toy or a stick from her, so i think maybe she also considers ruby a possession, but i don't know how to stop this behavior. help! i have a year and a half old lab mix (lucy) that is ordinarily a sweet, fairly well behaved pup, but several times lately when we have gone to the dog park there has been a problem:

she has a dog-buddy (ruby) who is about 6 months younger than she is. they play rough, but it’s pretty clear it’s just play, and other than a yelp here and there, it’s mostly just chase games and never progresses to anything more.
however, if another dog shows *any* interest in ruby, or any sign of aggression toward ruby, lucy loses her mind, ceases to hear or see me, and becomes a terrifying, snarling ‘i’m going to rip your throat out’ kind of dog. once i pull her out of the situation and remove her from the immediate area, she’s perfectly calm and pays no further attention to the other dogs. i have no idea if she would really hurt another dog, and am not really interested in finding out. :) she has shown this kind of behavior towards other dogs when they have tried to take a toy or a stick from her, so i think maybe she also considers ruby a possession, but i don’t know how to stop this behavior. help!

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