Sentences with phrase «aggressive intact female dogs»

Conflict aggressive intact female dogs tend to get WORSE if they are spayed, so consider all your options!

Not exact matches

I see tons of backyard bred dogs here in AZ, tons of people who do not spay their pets, have no intention of breeding them and then complain that they mark territory and are aggressive towards each other when they have two intact males and one intact female.

Now, there are a few notable exceptions to this rule — namely intact males who consistently have trouble getting along with other males, and female dogs who only show aggressive behavior during their heat cycles.

For example, intact males constitute 80 percent of all dogs presented to veterinary behaviorists for what formerly has been described as dominance aggression, are involved in 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents, and are 2.6 times more likely to bite than neutered dogs, while unspayed females «attract free - roaming males, which increases bite risk to people through increased exposure to unfamiliar dogs,» and «contribute to the population of unwanted» and potentially aggressive dogs (Gershman et al., 1993; Sacks et al., 2000; AVMA, 2001).