Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

With today’s post, I want to talk about child aggression in dogs. This is a very tough topic. Dog aggression is one of my favorite things to work on, and I’ve developed some processes and techniques that are really world-class. I enjoy it, because there’s a lot of predictability in how you can solve aggression in dogs—whether it’s toward other dogs, or animals, or people. But dog aggression toward children is probably my least favorite to work on because it’s so much more difficult and the stakes are so much higher. I wanted to talk about that today, give some examples of things I’ve seen and when you shouldn’t even risk it. The first thing we need to look at is teaching our kids to treat dogs with respect. This is a big deal. I remember a client who had a service dog growling at their kids. We tried to look at the situations from the dog and the kids’ perspective, talking about how the kids treated the dog. “Well, they smack him and they’re rough with him. They lull his tail.” No wonder he was showing so