- Hey, everybody. How are you? It's Jeff Gellman of Solid K9 Training with my "What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tip of the Day." Tip #48: Why are dogs aggressive? I'm not gonna make some long thing about this, 'cause I can go on for days about aggression, 'cause that's our specialty. But, probably the number one reason why dogs are aggressive is because nobody told them not to be in a way the dog understands.
Historically, what happens is humans, they see some aggression starting and they assume that it will go away, but it never goes away, so it never goes away.There's also be a dog out there that's, sure, it's just maybe faded away. Usually what happens, though, it's when the owners start putting more structure in the dog's life and they address the aggression through punishment.
The thing is, most people will say "oh, I never punish my dog," but they don't understand what punishment is. They probably, most likely, did. Punishment is not abuse. You're not mad, angry, frustrated with the dog. It's just a matter of fact. You can't do that anymore.
So chances are they did. We're seeing a lot of that. So, just to give everybody a little tip of the day, my tip number 47 of "What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tips" (woman interjects) I'm at the airport paying a bill.
I wanna get this done because I gotta get it up before I jump on my plane to LA. I'm gonna start to do more stuff about aggression because so many people are struggling with that, and I got some really, really awesome emails that I'm getting with people being able to get dogs out of aggression just with advice that they're reading about on my page. So that's really exciting. But again, just to shortly recap: the number one reason why dogs are aggressive is because no one ever told the dog not to be, in a way the dog accepted and understood.Madly in love with you. See you tomorrow..
