Sentences with phrase «intact dog aggression»

Nobody seems to cover the whole unneutered - to - intact dog aggression and how you are supposed to continue to socializing your dog when all your avenues for socializing have been taken away BECAUSE your dog hasn't been neutered.

Not exact matches

Male dogs exhibited the same amount of aggression whether neutered or intact.

Eliminating the hormonal impacts can reduce some natural aggression tendencies present among intact dogs.

Cryptorchid pets will continue to show sexual drive, marking behavior, and aggression associated with intact male dogs and cats.

For example, sexually intact pet store dogs were three times as likely to have owner - directed aggression as were sexually intact dogs acquired from small breeders.

When I had a male dog, fixed very young, before I got him, he still showed most of the annoying behaviors that intact males do, so I think training is a much better solution for marking, aggression and humping.

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association Task Force on Canine Aggression and Human - Canine Interactions, 70 - 76 % of reported dog bite incidents are caused by intact males.

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association Task Force on Canine Aggression and Human - Canine Interactions report released in 2001, «A Community Approach to Dog Bite Prevention», «Intact males are involved in 70 - 77 % of reported dog bite incidents.&raqDog Bite Prevention», «Intact males are involved in 70 - 77 % of reported dog bite incidents.&raqdog bite incidents.»

It has been theorized that, if there is actually a true increase in the incidence of aggression in spayed / neutered vs. intact dogs, this could be due to the reproductive hormones having some kind of modulating effect on behavior.

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).

In addition, not neutering your dog is known to keep their energy high, destructive behavior intact, potential aggression alive, and their drive to mate strong enough to cause them to run away.

* Unfortunately, neutering neither prevents nor cures dominance aggression, but is recommended as part of a treatment program since intact dogs are believed to respond more quickly when provoked, react more intensely, and behave aggressively for longer periods of time than their neutered counterparts.

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association Task Force on Canine Aggression and Human - Canine Interactions, 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents are caused by intact males.

More marking, more territorial aggression, the additional mess and stress from heat, and escaping the safety of home to breed are all increased in intact dogs.