Not exact matches
The difference between males and female
biting behaviour
in the aggressive strain is possibly due to their hormonal responses to
stressful situations, as Dr Becerra says: «Stressed male rats might
bite to protect themselves alone, whereas female rats might have the natural instinct of
biting to also protect their offspring, so presumably will be fiercer.»
You face
stressful situations every day and why not indulge
in some fitness time if it is able to reduce your stress, even by a little
bit.
We too, experience disease
in our animals and each time we do, it teaches us a
bit more about how to make
stressful situations just a
bit easier on you AND your animals.
Any one of these factors can cause your dog's
biting, and even the calmest dog may react with aggression or
biting behaviors
in a
stressful situation.
Shar - Pei's have received some bad press as being fear
biters (dogs who aggressively nip or even
bite when
in a
stressful or dangerous
situation).
This appeasement behavior is similar to the nail -
biting habit
in nervous humans, so you may witness continuous yawning when your dog is at the vet or
in another
stressful situation.
But the ones who bark and lunge, or try to
bite, are not abnormal or «naughty» — they're reacting to a
stressful, scary
situation in the only way they know how.
But a dog WITH this «
stressful DNA» may instead up - regulate
in this
situation, meaning she will become MORE stressed and reactive to the inappropriate dog, and attempt to
bite.
See, those
situations in real life are incredibly
stressful and just a little
bit scary, but playing this game takes all the stress out of it and actually makes it really fun.»