Can a dog move between colors during stressful situations? Can a Blue dog turn Red?
No. A dog cannot move from one extreme to another. This is important to understand. Let’s say you have a Green dog. He’s a nippy little Chihuahua-mix. He can go one of two ways, towards Yellow or towards Blue. If he’s forced to do something and is afraid, he’ll go to the extreme of Blue. A Blue dog can be fear aggressive and bite. The same Green dog, this Chihuahua-mix, if you train him the right way, he’ll move towards Yellow. Another example would be an Orange pitbull mix with a bit of an aggressive streak. You pull the leash and his hackles go up. You keep forcing him and he’ll become a Red dog. If you calm him down he’ll go towards Yellow. Are some behavioral problems (house training, biting, fighting) associated with certain colors? Not necessarily. Biting and fighting are just how dogs are in general. Any color dog can have difficulty with housetraining. All dogs can learn the basic commands that I teach in the book. These are Sit, Stay, Come and No. In the book I explain how to
