Common behavior in dogs

   Previously I have discussed about aggression in dogs. Aggression is a common behavior in dogs. well now I will discuss some other common behavior in dogs.

Bark
   Bark may be one of the behavior of the smallest dogs tolerated by humans, especially in the suburbs. There are several types of dog barks more easily than other types. Terriers, for example, bark if there is the slightest provocation, while the rare Siberian husky barking and Basenji only sounds with high and low tones. This is a way to communicate with the family dog. But in some ways a dog barking excessively and this can interfere and become a serious problem.


 

   There are many causes of barking are often done and it is important to find the cause of each case. Tone and bark patterns may help us understand why dogs bark. Some dogs often bark when they hear loud noises, the arrival of guests or any person or any dog ​​that passes through your house. Dogs who behave like this should be diverted his attention so as not too sensitive, such as bone or toy and give her warm bed.

   Usually when you will go, your dog will bark immediately after you leave the house and continued to bark, usually with a monotonous tone as long as you do not exist. This is probably because your dog feel uneasy because of separation from you. We recommend that before you go, take your dog to walk around and play until he is exhausted, to be sure your dog will relax and sleep as long as you go.

Prevent problem barking

• Provide training on command 'Quiet'
• Familiarize new puppy or your dog to socialize with many environmental and sounds unusual as often as possible, and give rewards to his calm.
• Divert attention by giving the command to sit or lie down and give the food reward.

Destructive behavior

    Destructive behavior is much more common in young dogs. Because puppies need to be biting his teeth are growing, especially when this is done to help relieve pain and itching. Also puppy chewed need to adapt to the environment, as the way they recognize and understand their environment objects

   The older dog or adult is also likely to biting behavior. Usually it is done to play or because left alone, perhaps because of anxiety due to separation from you.

   The puppy will be very damaging various items if not controlled. Scold your dog when it bit her shoes or furniture in your house by saying 'no'. Tell me in a voice loud and firm, because the dog understands what we say with our voice. But do not hit your dog because it can cause trauma to your dog. If your puppy chewing on the toy itself Praise him with soft and gentle voice, rubbing his head.

   If your puppy stubborn, use a water pistol. Spray your dog's face with a water pistol when he was chewing on your furniture, and do not utter any words. It is best if the puppy does not connect the events digigitinya fun with objects, not with you.

Preventing destructive behavior

•     Train your puppy to chew its own toys.
•     Do not leave your puppy in a place that there is a valuable piece of furniture.

Dig  
Usually dogs dig to bury or hide the toy or bone, to remove something they kiss or have them buried, to make the hole to be more warm or just to play. Digging can cause problems if your dog continues to dig and destroy your favorite plant or a tunnel to keliar from home.

Prevent the dog digging

• Give your dog a lot of interactive games every day and took a lot of physical activities like running and walking around your house complex.
• Divert digging behavior with activity or other games such as playing ball or frisbee throwing.
• Give a bone in place that is not possible for dogs to bury him.

Throw dirt in the house
    This action is usually carried out by the puppy. But it can also occur in adult dogs for several reasons, such as the presence of infection in bladder or bowel, anxiety due to parting with you, to mark the territory as an attitude of dominance toward other dogs inside the house.

   If you do not want your dog pee or dirt inside the house, should bring your dog to walk out of the house every day. This is in addition to train it to pee and dirt outside the home, can help relieve boredom in the house (reducing stress) and can help your dog socialize with other animals and the environment.

   Adult male dogs rarely remove all the contents of the bladder as well, so that by walking long distances to help encourage them to empty the bladder

Restlessness due to split
    Restlessness due to separation is a term used to describe the behavior displayed by some dogs when the dogs are left alone or separated from one particular family member.

   These dogs usually start barking as soon as you go and kept barking before you return. This dog may be chewing on the doors, carpets, curtains, destroying furniture and also remove the water and dirt inside the house.

Preventing anxiety due to separation

1. Familiarize your puppy to spend time alone.
2. Your dog socializes with everyone, so he can feel comfortable with other people and not just with you as the owner.
3. Do not make the separation as a problem is too serious and not excessively noisy when you return.
4. Give heavy physical activity for your dog until he felt tired when you leave it for a long time.

Obsessive compulsive disorders 
   This is behavior that is usually normal, but indicated the abnormal frequency. Examples of this behavior, including digging, chasing shadows, chasing tail, biting flies imaginary, ran along the fence and bit-gigiti foot.

   Dogs who suffer from OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) usually can not be diverted his attention from such behavior. Even if the dog had been persuaded, it is only temporary course even in the short term. Some dogs can become aggressive to anyone who tried to prevent it from doing these behaviors.
   In the most severe cases, it might hurt themselves physically. Dogs are compulsive diggers might dig up his leg bloody and broken nails. Dogs that bite-gigiti and chasing its own tail could possibly cause injury to the skin and can suffer secondary infection.

   It seems that this condition is inherited, so that should not mengembangbiakan dog that has behavior like this. Type of offspring who have this tendency, including Scottish Terrier, Bull Terrier (tail chase) and King Charles Spaniel (biting flies). Dogs who suffer from OCD has a shortage of certain nerve compound in the brain and require treatment to divert attention. Usually, these dogs require lifelong treatment.

Escape
    Several dogs kept trying to escape and go wandering. This can cause anxiety in the dog owner and dangerous for the dog. If you have a clever dog to escape, one of the most important thing to do is to make a fence with a minimum height of 2-3 meters.

   You need to spend some time each day to play interactively with your dog. So the less likely your dog will run away from your house.

Well, says the behavior problems common in dogs. Hopefully useful .. :)

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Aggression in Dogs

   Aggression is a behavior that is intended to make the object experiencing harm or pain. In the world of dogs, aggression is part of normal behavior. and dogs usually show aggression when they feel threatened by other animals, when the hunt, when to protect their children and also to determine social rank or dominate daalm environment. Usually when the show aggression, indicated with a growling, and barking menggretak. Aggression will be problematic if too much or directed in humans. In fact, this is one of the most common behavior shown by dogs.

Aggression to dominate
It is the aggression of the most common problem, this occurs when a dog tries to impose his will on the owner, to fight pesisi controllers. Dogs may have felt he was in control, or maybe test the owner to obtain feedback on its position in the house.

Dominant dogs often growl angrsif or trying to bite its owner when he was annoyed when she was sleeping and when eating, or when I had to follow orders that do not want to do. Form of aggression is usually seen at the age of the dog about 18 months to two years. At that age the dog needs to know where his position in the hierarchy and will attempt to create a ranking.

Preventing aggression to dominate:
To reduce the risk of developing dog aggression to dominate nature, you must provide clear instructions to him, which tikah acceptable behavior and what is not from the beginning as a child.

1. Give food to the dog after you or a family finished eating. This action strengthens the family dominance over the puppy. In this situation the dog group, the dominant animal to eat it first.
2. Accompanying your dog to sit beside her bed for a few moments every day. This can assert your dominance.
3. Spend about five or 10 minutes to provide training
4. If your dog shows signs of aggression, give time off for 5 to 10 minutes in a separate room. Play with him only when he did not behave aggressively.
5. Teach your puppy to let the family members walked through the door first.
6. Give the command "sit" and "down" at least twice a day after the puppy has mastered this command.
7. Give your child attention only when the dog can be quiet and to obey orders.

Aggression because of fear
This is the second most common type of aggression, and in some cases of this nature was revealed. Aggression for fear of being the most commonly seen in dogs adopted from shelters and often because of custody from the beginning. Dogs that require rehabilitation.
Dogs with aggression because of fear, may begin to display patterns of behavior like that around the age of three months. They feel frightened even when there is nothing that triggers fear. When being taken for a walk, this dog may be frightened at the people who came near or at a roadside banda. This dog responded by growling, shaking, tail between his legs and hide away from the person or object, and will likely throw urine or feces. The feathers on the neck and buttocks will usually stand.
If your dog like this, you may need help from an animal behavior specialist. Dogs like this need treatment and sensitivity reduction program on the stimulation that triggers fear gradually accompanied with relaxation therapy.

Prevent aggression because of fear:

Perhaps it is impossible to prevent aggression for fear that the overall properties inherited from its parent coward. Perhaps to prevent a dog can get used to the environment and human life is different from the beginning, and by providing positive experiences such as do not like beating a dog or hurt him and keep your dog from another dog attack.

Aggression to have
Typical examples for this kind of aggression is a dog who refused to give up his toys or objects that are considered as a toy san stolen property. If you impose took it, the dog may be growling, menggretak and even biting. Dogs that show aggression to have often also show aggression to dominate. Aggression to have this potentially dangerous, especially to small children associated with this dog.

Preventing aggression to have:

• Give a clear understanding on the dog that he is at posisibawah in the house.
• Avoid fights due to play fight with toy puppy or adult dog.
• Teach your puppy to deliver toys to be exchanged in return for a meal.

Aggression to eat
Dogs that show aggression to eat may be very dangerous. especially for small children. This dog with a ferocious growl maintain continuous food and eating. When you're eating or chewing on bones or biscuits, this dog will attack and bite anyone who walked nearby.

Maybe you should give this dog eat in a separate, closed for more safe. Similarly, if you want to give the bones in your anjin, give the place or a separate room and closed, because usually he would maintain bone tersebu very active.

Preventing aggression to eat:
Aggression to eat is normal behavior because it is natural for dogs to keep them that food. Anjingpun child can quickly learn to fight to get more food and keep whatever they have.

Perhaps to help reduce the aggression can be done by occasional feeding your dog through your hands or by feeding your dog until she was not afraid you will seize the food. And he would not hesitate that you are dominating.

Aggression because they have a baby
This aggression occurs when your dog has one or more puppies. Female dog as a parent will maintain and keep her children with persistent of the various types of actions that could injure or harm children.

Aggression can also occur during false pregnancy when there is no puppy will be born and instead it protects female dog toys.

Prevent aggression because having a baby:

Since the average female dog after giving birth would behave aggression, then we recommend you female dog in sterilization (sterilized) for your female dog can not get pregnant and give birth. 

Aggression toward unknown dogs
Aggression is usually a problem when you're bringing the dog for a walk. Usually aggressive dogs will challenge other dogs that walk through it with a growl, bark and even attack. Such a situation is very scary because the owner of two dogs often make the dog a mild or severe injury.
Very uncomfortable bringing a dog that always the way each meet aggressive with other dogs. Dogs like this do not behave normally. Behavior was probably due to underlying anxiety in the dog away.
If this behavior appears in male dogs, castration may help. Castration is the removal of the male sex glands. This action will not solve the problem by itself, but will help reduce the reactivity of dogs.
We recommend that if you bring your dog's aggressive road use a head halter to better control your dog while walking.

Preventing aggression against an unknown dog
By socializing your dog on a regular basis since childhood to avoid aggression towards other dogs that are not known. Because usually dogs that have aggression like this, is because the dog does not socialize with other dogs.

Aggression between dogs in the same house
Some dogs who live or lived in the same house, requires a hierarchy. In other words they need to specify the order of dominance. Usually when bringing a new puppy into the house, new puppy will try to win dominance in the home. A fight will begin when the dog is older or more used to live at home you do not want to let go of domination.
You need to determine which dogs are likely to win in the struggle for dominance in your home. When an older dog becomes weak and small dogs will probably win the next fight, you need to strengthen the efforts of the younger your dog to dominate. Although you may feel you are betraying an old friend. However it is best to avoid a fight-a fight next.
You can help strengthen the dominance of the small by feeding it first to him, let him occupy the preferred area, and give more attention to her once before in the old dog.
When an older dog that has the potential to win in a fight, strengthen the status of an older dog as the holder of dominance as described above. If you have two dogs are equal, maybe you better find a new home for one of your dog.
There will be no peace in the house until this issue is resolved. Do not leave the dogs together before the hierarchy is formed, Fights in this situation will last very vicious.

Prevent aggression between dogs in the same house

If you want to have a second dog, you should:

• Select a dog with the opposite sex with your older dog.
• Do not let the two dogs together in a limited space.
• Do not give bones and biscuits together.

Aggression as a predator
A dog that has aggression as a predator will develop the habit of chasing and killing other animals, like cats, chickens, squirrels and others. In general, these actions are taken in secret and very agile. Behaviour like this is very uncomfortable, because the dogs would kill other pets and even potentially threaten human.

Dogs who have behavior like this, can not be trained to leave its nature and must be controlled at all times. These dogs should never be left unattended, especially if being around children.

Prevent aggression as a predator
Providing training to obey orders would help to control this dog, and do not leave the dog alone with small children who are likely to become victims.

Redirected aggressionSuch behavior is seen when the dog to prevent dog owners malakukan aggressive action, for example, growling and barking at guests who come home. Shortly after the reprimand, usually dogs vent or divert it to chase a cat or terrorize another family member.

The most important of this type of aggression is to recognize and understand what the trigger and handle.

Preventing aggression is diverted
It is impossible for us to estimate when a dog will exhibit behavior that redirected aggression. By providing comprehensive training, will certainly help reduce the likelihood of such behavior.

Aggression idiopatic
'Idiopatic' means the cause is unknown. Suddenly and for no apparent reason, the dog exploded in a great aggression. Dogs like this may be frothing from his mouth while aggression and very dangerous to be approached. In this dog may have a mental disability is the cause. This dog is better when it is confined to relapse and may need to be injected with a sedative.

Preventing aggression idioptic
This behavior can not be predicted, because there is usually no obvious trigger, so it is impossible to prevent. Fortunately this condition is relatively rare.

Well that's explanations about aggression in dogs and its prevention. yes .. hopefully useful :)

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