Aggression towards people is the worse form of aggression of all the various forms of dog aggression. If a dog is already displaying aggression towards people, it could easily become a biter and cause serious injuries to a visitor to your home or even a family member.

You will need to correct your dogs behavior if you see it displaying aggression towards people. Usually a dog will have a reason that has resulted in his becoming aggressive. Usually the reason for a dog’s aggression towards people is that the poor animal had been abused by someone when it was a younger animal.

By paying attention to your dog, it is easy to notice signs of aggression. The dog will be snarling or growling while displaying his teeth. In addition, it may raise the hackles on his back, bark and even make a lunge while snapping his teeth. At this stage of aggression there is a possibility that the dog will soon bite, unless the situation is defused.

For a dog to become this aggressive towards people, it has usually arrived at the its level of aggression because of some type of negative conditioning. If you use positive conditioning techniques to regain your dog’s trust and confidence about people, you can gradually relieve your dog of his aggression problem towards people.

If you have noticed your dog has become aggressive towards people, make sure you don’t let him run loose. Be sure to keep your aggressive dog inside an enclosed yard, or if you have no fence, be sure to keep him on a lead so he cannot get loose and possibly attack any passersby.

You can use this training technique to gradually correct your dog’s aggression problem towards people. To get started, bring your dog with you on a visit to a friend of yours-someone who maybe your dog already knows may work best. By meeting away from your dog’s own territory, you are decreasing some of his aggressive tendencies. Before you start the training, put  your dog on his leash. The leash gives you the control you will need in case your dog decides to lunge at your friend. If your dog does act aggressively you must correct him immediately, and put him back into his sit position while saying “no” in a calm firm voice. Remember to stay calm and not start yelling at or hitting your dog for his misbehavior. Doing that will only negatively impact your training efforts, by keeping your dog tense.

Do not give him any praise or affection or a treat until he has resumed a relaxed sitting position. Once he does so, you can then praise him and give him a treat for being a good boy. By only praising him when he is doing something you approve of, you are positively conditioning the responses you want. Each time your dog shows some aggression, just repeat this step-over and over, be patient. The idea is that this training will stop his aggression towards people through a gradual desensitizing of his aggressive response to being around people.

You will have to give your dog repeated training sessions for this training to work. The next step would be to introduce your dog to new people-eventually he should meet new people without first going through an aggressive period.

Start the training by introducing your dog to 1 new person at a time. This is due to the fact that a larger crowd of people could easily be overwhelming for the dog, and make it impossible for him to relax. However, after he has met and become comfortable around a variety of individual people you should gradually increase the amount of people he is exposed to in social situations. Your eventual goal is to stop your dog’s aggression towards people in any social situation.

Follow these simple steps and you can teach your dog that people might not be so bad after all, and that he can finally be comfortable around people without needing to worry about being struck. If you have successfully corrected his aggression problems towards people, you will finally have a dog that is safe and fun for your family and friends to be around.  Now that your dog has mellowed out, you can even take him out in public for a good time without traumatizing him and him traumatizing the people he encounters.

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