Casey Crawford Webboard User Reg: 10-25-2004
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Alright I understand that fight drive does not usually show up until a dog is a mature adult. Is a precurser to this drive ever extreme dog aggression as a young adult. I have a 10 month old male that is very sociable and stabel with people but everytime he gets on the field with other dogs present he shows extreme aggression towards them as well as the bad guy. Is this just going to be a pain in the butt or can you sometimes focus this type of aggression as the dog matures towards the bad guy in fight drive? Thanks
Dog aggression and people aggression are completely different. You can't use the aggression from the dogs for the work. It is completely useless. I think that I and most other trainers tried to use it at one time or the other. Trust me it doesn't work.
Casey Crawford Webboard User Reg: 10-25-2004
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Is this something that they sometimes grow out of or should I just get used to the fact that this is going to be a useless pain in the butt aspect of this dog? Thanks
Will Rambeau Moderator Reg: 01-25-2003
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I've found that it tends to remain a useless pain in the butt trait. I've actually scrapped dogs for dog aggression as I work multiple dogs in my household.
I'd be interested to hear if people had dog aggressive young dogs that grew out of it...
Matthew Grubb Webboard User Reg: 09-27-2002
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We don’t have too many “young dogs” that come into our training group. The average dog comes in between 1.5 and 2.0 years old.
We have had some extremely dog aggressive dogs come into the group. We have generally addressed it through group obedience exercises with some really heavy corrections when we start to see bad behavior.
We will lay out all of the dogs in a line and take turns walking a serpentine through the group. We will start out with the handler in between the downed dog and the heeling dog, then progress with the dogs closer to one another. We will down the dogs in close proximity to one another.
It didn’t take long to begin to see subtle avoidance behaviors such as looking away when approached by or approaching another dog.
That said… were just putting a band-aid over top of the problem. A portion of the dog aggression issue is genetics and no amount of training will ever be able to address that root cause.
Ed Frawley Administrator Reg: 07-11-2001
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In the sense of service dog training and the term "FIGHT DRIVE" being used in that context animal aggression has nothing to do with "FIGHT DRIVE" I have owned a number of dogs with a ton of fight drive that were not animal aggressive.
Animal aggression is a behavioral problem and as such a sign of a problem and not a sign of something good. I am closing this thread.
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