Dog Aggression Behavior Test

This is a test for you, not your dog. I would like you to take a look at the following dog video and tell me what you think.
Is this dog aggression?
Tell me what your first impression is, then I would like you to tell me what else you think this could be.
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Watch The Spirit Dogs Grooving Out to George Clinton and The P-Funk AllStars Dog Video

These are all the dogs names that you can see in this video, even if they are only on camera briefly. This is what happens to all the dogs with animal and / or human aggression problems once I get to spend some time with them.
The two dogs playing in the dirt are Freeport Animal [...]

Freeport Animal Shelters Missy Video

I would like to introduce you to Missy,  a young female American Bulldog that had a little to many aggression issues that made it impossible for the Freeport Animal Shelter, down on Long Island to safely adopt out.
So after contacting us about a month or so ago they drove Missy up from Long Island yesterday.
I [...]

Cesar Millan The Dog Whisperer, Proof that this Guy’s a Putz

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Below is the time line of the dog whisperer, discussing everything that he was doing, and everything the dog was doing.
Listen in Cesar’s own voice as he proves just how little he knows about animal behavior and how to communicate with dogs.
link to video ( when you reach the [...]

Dog Life Saving Tip

The Spirit Dog
Dog Lifesaving Tip Of The Millennium
The very first time that your dog or puppy does anything that you don’t understand and gives you any reason for concern, hire a dog trainer or whatever. I say “or whatever” because everybody that works with dogs will say they deal with all sorts of behavior issues [...]

Excited Dogs Will Fight or Bite

Happy dogs that live together can fight if they get too excited.
Some dogs when they get highly excited will start fighting with any other dog that happens to be in close proximity to them. This includes and is not limited to dogs in their pack and this is not a dominance issue, it’s a moron [...]

Reading a Dogs Body Language The Bite Emotion

You gotta love YouTube, here’s another video I saw sometime ago and recently found again, that’s important for you to see. Reading a dogs body language is nice if you can do it, but reading a dogs emotions is the key to stopping all unwanted behaviors.
The dogs emotion precedes the easily observable body language. When [...]

Abusing Dogs Does Not Make Them Aggressive

For some reason and I don’t know exactly what it is, people think that former abuse in a dogs life makes them aggressive. Wait a minute that can’t be right, I know precisely the reason people think that, that’s what many experts in the behavior field tend to tell them.
There is not a whole lot [...]

Biting Aggression in Golden Retrievers

So what’s the deal ?
Are Golden Retrievers becoming more aggressive towards their human counterparts ?
Is there some sort of aberrant behavior thing going on due too inferior breeding practices ?
Have Golden’s finally lost their minds ?
Or is it something much more simpler ?
Here’s the scoop, poop or whatever else you like to call it. Golden [...]

Is It OK To Use a Shock Collar

For any trainer to vehemently appose the use of a shock collar as a tool for problem solving, shows just how little they know about the human mind. And after all the human mind is the one your trying to reach, not that dogs mind.
To think that every dog training client has the time, patience, [...]

Aggressive Dog Bite Video

This is what an aggressive dog bite looks like.
I want to show you what an aggressive dog bite looks like, no barking, no growling, just bite. You will notice just as I have described to you in an previous post, that when a dog bites aggressively they don’t let go. (Aggressive Dog Bite or Nervous [...]

Shock Collar Dog Training “Spinning the Shock”

Electronic Collars for Dogs
If you have read some of my previous posts on shock collar use, How to stop all dog aggression behaviors and How to stop dogs from barking, when your not home.
You would have found out that for some dog behaviors that could possibly wind up getting your dog euthanized, I will wholeheartedly support [...]