Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

In today’s post, I want to talk to you about dog aggression. Specifically, I want to address one of the questions I receive a lot. This is a topic that makes a lot of people frustrated, and come to me saying: “I’m sure I’ve done something wrong, I feel like such a bad dog owner.” I’m describing owners who have dogs with aggression and have been hearing things from people about where that aggression comes from. There’s this weird and strange myth going around that says dogs are only aggressive if people have abused them or trained them to be aggressive. This is crazy, because aggression comes from so many different places. At its root, the majority of the aggression that I see comes from fear, insecurity, and anxiety. When a dog is presented with something that makes it feel fear or anxiety, the dog has three available options: fight, flight, and avoidance. A lot of people are familiar with fight or flight. Watch National Geographic for a little bit and you’ll hear the commentator talk about it. Dogs defi