What causes aggression in dogs?
Dear Darcie, A drunk man was coming down the street toward me. I could see that he had every intention of walking right through me or maybe he had more ideas than that on his mind, like rape, I was worried that he did. I stood still and waited, he was coming right at me, my heart was pounding and I was scared. My dog started barking at him and lunging on the leash. I think she wanted to go bite that man. I held her back with the leash as hard as I could, letting her bark and lunge.We saw a man today that was walking weird and she did it again, I held her back. She was never an aggressive dog and now she is. What can I do? I love her. I just found your blog and I haven’t read all of your stuff yet so I don’t know what your answer will be. Please don’t suggest that I put her down. I just can’t do that. Darcie Dear Darcie, Stop being a victim. What causes aggressive behavior in dogs? The list is probably longer than I know but there are some major reasons why some dogs aggress. When aggre