Sentences with phrase «reacts unfamiliar dog»

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Research has shown that dogs look to their owners to determine how to react to an unfamiliar object, a phenomenon known as social referencing.

Puppy socialization, when done by a well - qualified and experienced dog trainer helps ensure that fear and aggression do not become part of how your dog reacts to new and unfamiliar situations as he grows.

These dogs might react with aggression when approached by unfamiliar people or dogs while inside their crates.

Poorly socialized dogs are much more likely to react with fear or aggression to unfamiliar people, dogs and experiences.

When a dog feels uncomfortable with anything that is unfamiliar to him, he reacts in one of two ways: he runs from it or he fights with it.

Shy or fearful dogs can react defensively when approached by unfamiliar people.

and the situations where each dog reacts to unfamiliar dogs might be different, only a general approach is written in this hand out.

Avoiding situations with unfamiliar people can be difficult and depends on the extent to which a dog reacts to people.

Because of the risk of a dogfight it is unwise to test this and let a dog off leash when it has exhibited aggression on leash.It is unwise because the unfamiliar dog might react defensively to the aggression (even though the aggression was rooted in fear the recipient may still perceive a need to defend itself).

If a dog can't be avoided, one should put as much distance as possible between the unfamiliar dog and their dog and redirect their dog's behavior to something else (like sitting for a really cool treat) before their dog starts to react.

The reason for this is that some dogs will react to fear by snapping and if you are unfamiliar with a particular dog, it will be difficult to read their behavior and their responses to various stimuli.

Distance plays a big role for some dogs and they only react to an unfamiliar person if the person is on the same side of the street.

Some dogs will react all unfamiliar people that they see on leash walks.

get a dog's attention once it is reacting to an unfamiliar dog.

In order to change a dog's behavior around unfamiliar dogs, he needs to be able to be calm or be redirected in benign situations before we can introduce him to situations where he would otherwise react.

For a dog that bites when unfamiliar people reach for the dog (but does not otherwise react to them) then unfamiliar people should not reach for the dog.

The key is timing; one needs to either stop so the patient dog can't see the unfamiliar dog or change directions before their dog starts to react.

While a dog is being desensitized to unfamiliar people it is important that the dog not have the opportunity to react (and practice the previous response) to unfamiliar people.