Am I Making My Puppy Aggressive

Puppies are very rarely truly aggressive.

Am i making my puppy aggressive. She is very loving to our daughter and submissive to my husband but she growls at small children and won't let any one but my daughter pick her up. Conditions such as cognitive dysfunction and brain diseases or tumors may provoke the onset of aggression. In a way, this aggression can be equated to a temper tantrum in a child.

She gets lot of attention and i do lots of training with her. This means the gene is not only present in those considered ‘ potentially dangerous ’ dogs. You should never encourage aggressive behavior in your dogs.

Occasionally a neurological problem, disease or other health condition can cause a puppy (or dog) to be aggressive. Other illnesses may affect your dog's brain, leading to seemingly unreasonable aggression. It can be pretty easy to get puppy aggression and dominance issues confused, especially if you're not familiar with normal 'baby dog' behavior!

This will only add to the resentment of the adult dog toward the puppy. Take your dog to a puppy class so that she learns how to play properly. How to deal with an aggressive puppy.

In practical terms, this means that fearful, aggressive, or otherwise atypical pups are very likely to grow into fearful or aggressive adults. However, they might also get jealous and territorial when bringing the new pet home without even interacting with the puppy. Part of the problem is that people believe that any dog that bites, growls, or backs away (stress/fear) is aggressive, or going to be aggressive.

So does hollding her down by the neck to the floor. You will have a liability on your hands. Treating the underlying condition will usually reduce, or even eliminate, the undesirable behavior but if there is a serious neurological issue it may not be treatable, but this is.