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Dogs have several types of aggression problems, but dog aggression  directed at people  is the biggest problem of all of these. Any time a dog begins to act out aggressively to humans, it is a warning that your dog may actually be willing to bite someone, perhaps a family member or a guest to your house.

You will need to correct your dogs behavior if you see it displaying aggression towards people. Dogs usually have a reason that has caused they to become aggressive . When it is a case of a dog that is displaying aggression towards people,  the reason is often due to previous physical abuse by its master or someone with access to the dog.

If you know what to look for, the signs of aggression towards people are easy to spot. A dog displaying aggression will be growling and snarling. 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. Your dog’s aggression towards people can be reconditioned by using only positive conditioning to  reverse his problem and create a bond of trust and confidence between you and your dog.

Do not let your aggressive dog run loose until you have retrained him not to be aggressive towards people. 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. I recommend that you have the meeting away from your dog’s own territory-this should at least remove his instinctual territorial aggression urges to protect his turf. You should already have put your dog’s leash on before you start the training. The leash gives you the control you will need in case your dog decides to lunge at your friend. If your dog tries to get at your friend, put him straight back into his sit position with a correction and a firm “no”. 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.

You do not want to pet or praise him till he is sitting in a calm and relaxed way. After he has become calm and deserve his rewards you can do praise him and give him a treat. By only praising and rewarding the behaviors you want, you are using positive reinforcement to get the responses form your dog that you want to see. Each time your dog shows some aggression, just repeat this step-over and over, be patient. Through the positive reinforcement your dog not gets, his aggression towards people will eventually be desensitized through repeated exposures to them.

You will want to practice stopping your dog’s aggression towards people often to really establish your dog’s new found ability to be relaxed around other people. Once your dog is relaxed around your friend, you can try the training with different people, until he can meet a new person without getting aggressive.

Until later in his training just introduce him to 1 new person at a time. too many people could make it difficult for your dog 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. Of course, you want him to be comfortable around groups of people in every social situation, so he can be part of the family.

If you use these steps your dog’s aggression towards people will be corrected, and he will finally be around people without feeling like someone may abuse him. Once your dog has stopped his aggression towards people, you will find that the both of you are much more relaxed-it is no fun worrying about your dog’s aggression-and whether he might end up biting someone.  Now you can enjoy bringing your dog to social situations, rather than always having to leave him behind.

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