How to stop dog aggressive behavior towards people? Quickly and easily 

I have been using this technique for a year and a half on my little one. and he has gone from barking for 5-10 min or until the "threat" (Stranger/child) leaves to about 5-30 seconds. It too three times each time in the beginning and now only once per episode. Thank you for this. While I will always have to watching and be on guard, this allows us to move on with our walks.

My dogs just hates everyone exept my family

Been trying this with my two small dogs. Went from non stop barking to, to a single bark and the person can pass without much reaction. Still a long way to go but this has been helpful. Thank you.

My dog goes crazy in public places and takes forever to calm which makes me nervous to take her anywhere. This is so simple. I'm going to try this out. Thank you so much

Your work saved my dogs life. Literally. I am a dog trainer who works with troubled dogs. I appreciate you more than I could ever express.

My dog is aggressive with strangers. I have to put him in the cage, have people come inside and sit down. Let my dog out of the cage and have him approach them, and then he is completely fine.

Excellent. Nice to see a calm explanation with a trainer who is genuinely interested in the dog.

Thank you so much for this video. I have been using this with my nippy dog and it is working. All of the trainers I met with wanted to use pinch or ecollars and I'm not on board with that. This does take about 3 times per incident before he stops but it now is only minutes instead of him freaking out for half of the walk.

IT'S A PITY, that trainers....most trainers have no clue about the psychology of the dog as you present it.....In the States, a dog trainer is often someone who just has a business card. Thank you for the videos.

Thank you. I will give this a try.

This works like magic!!! Thank you!

Thanks for posting this, very useful. Have you made a video about leadership in the home env? I could not find, be grateful for a link if you have.

Thank you so much for making a video that gets right to the point without 15min of already known info😊

Awesome. Thank you. I want to be as calm as you.

It’s so nice when dog trainers don’t use e collars and prong collars and all that bad stuff. Hurting ur dog don’t help

I have a pitty. I can’t “get in front” of my dog when she’s in that state. She barks, lunges, pulls the entire time. It’s embarrassing and often leaves me gettin hurt.

Ty. My fear aggressive dog needs this

Pretty amazing video... thanks from Pittsburgh Pa.

THank you will incorporate

Wow, ok. I knew I had the right instinct! I didn’t know if I should pet or try to calm her down though. Thanks so much!

Brilliant!

Hi there, This video is so informative! i hope to see more!

❤ Eager to try this tomorrow w group coming over

Plz post more videos we r waiting eagerly.......help us to teach our dog to bring things like newspaper etc. Plz

Great job 👍🏽 thanks 🙏🏽

I had a dog who was wary of everyone but family. He wasn't aggressive, but very suspicious and friends who came over were fine but they never pet him. My current dog just wants to stand behind people and bury her face in their cheeks to sniff their butts. It makes people uncomfortable.

Very interesting, thank you. Question- is it not risky to be putting your face so close to theirs when they are feeling so tense? It seems like an opportunity for redirected aggression (or just plain aggression), especially if you make eye contact.

When I try to hold her collar, she started biting my hands, she’s about 3 months old. I left her for 2 days to my family’s care and she started play-biting aggressively, jumps on everyone, and starts being disrespectful. I’m guessing they spoiled her and let her nip on everyone and praised her barking because it’s cute; I’ve seen them let my puppy do these. I just can’t function on what to do anymore, almost nothing works, I’m teaching everything from day 1 again, I feel stressed I just started feeling blue whenever I walk her because it feels unpleasant nowadays. My top most problem is making everyone listen to you and accompany you to training.

Looks logical. I'll give it a try.

very nice and helpful video! do you think that this technique will help my dog ​​if he gets nervous about people that he meets at the street or park? he is snapping and snap his jaw at men, women are ok but men makes him very anxious.

Love ya work

First time I have advise that make sense , I am looking for to trying this out

I’m gonna try this on my dog from now on

I got a female one.... Good work ..

I have a German Shepherd/Chow that is aggressive to strangers and it sucks. A few years back she actually bit a neighborhood teenager that was walking by the house while I was at work. My wife was home alone and took her outside on a leash and I guess my wife didn’t put the collar on tight enough and she slipped out of the collar and charged at the passerby. I’ve tried everything and nothing works. When she sees a stranger it’s like something in her brain snaps and she charges. She also totally ignores me while she’s in that mode. I’ve even tried using a shock collar to correct the behavior or at least try to stop her and that didn’t even work. she knows many commands such as heel, sit, stay, lay down, kennel, etc. and when it’s just the two of us alone she always obeys but as soon as there’s a guest or stranger that’s in the yard or in the house it’s like she doesn’t even hear me. Another thing that makes this dog particularly odd and dangerous is that she doesn’t just bark aggressively to sound intimidating to warn strangers, she just straight up immediately charges and tries to attack the second she sees someone. She has absolutely no bluff whatsoever. She sprints and leaps toward her target looking to pull them down by their arms. It’s horrifying. My neighbor came over to talk to me the other day (I have a fence that can be seen through kind of like a chain link) which is frustrating because this particular neighbor knows that I have a problem dog and he comes over anyway knowing how stressful it is for me and the dog. The entire time he’s talking to me my dog is hurting herself because shes trying to squeeze her head through the fence to bite him and the entire time I’m trying to pull her back away from the fence. Then my dumb ass neighbor puts his hand over the fence “to let her smell him” after I’ve told him countless times that she bites and he always says something along the lines of “oh she’s not going to bite me” or “I’m not scared of her” (my neighbor is an old southern man. Around 60-70 and some might call him redneck) sure enough she snaps at his hand and he barely pulled away in time with her teeth narrowly missing his fingers. It’s infuriating and it’s embarrassing because It looks like I’m a terrible dog owner when In fact I’m a very experienced dog person that has had a large variety of different breeds over the years. I’ve had boxers, a red heeler, a pug, a cocker spaniel, a pit bull, a lab, a Rottweiler, beagles,mixes, etc. but I’ve NEVER encountered a dog this dangerous or untrainable. It’s frustrating too when people try to say that THEY could make her behave. Like they think I’m some idiot that doesn’t know how to train a dog. I just laugh and say “sure, sure you could”. Some other things this dog does that’s not normal: She eats her poop. She attacks the vacuum cleaner She attacks the window if she sees someone outside (destroys the blinds) She swallows things whole (all kinds of things) She constantly cries. It’s like an anxiety cry. She will cry and cry and cry for hours for absolutely no reason. It comes in spells like a panic attack or something. Then she’s fine for days until the next spell. She’s done this since she was a puppy and she’s 8 now. If she sees a stranger outside of the fence and she’s in her attack mindset she will bite our other dog if he gets too close to her. If my wife gets out of bed before me and tries to come back in the bedroom then she barks and growls at my wife. When I scold here or try to correct her behavior in any way she literally just attacks our other dog. It’s as if she’s saying “YOU MADE ME DO THIS! ITS YOUR FAULT DAD IS ANGRY NOT MINE!” I’m telling you, this dog is not normal. I think she may have some kind of mental illness or something. Its sad because I know she loves me and I love her. When it’s just us she’s great. All she wants to do is cuddle all of the time. But I don’t know what to do and I’m so worried that she’s going to bite somebody again and have to be put down.I take extreme measures now to make sure she won’t bite again such as muzzle AND put her in the garage when we have guests just in case a guest wanders in the garage. If I have to take her anywhere I muzzle her and I put a harness on her with a heavy duty leash. I keep the gate of our fence locked with a pad lock .

Idk if my dog is aggressive or scared of guests. When I adopted her she was completely fine with me, didn’t even get mad at my dad either. I got her last Wednesday. She even barked at my brother for a second but stopped. But now all the sudden when a guest comes over she barks at everyone and growls. Nonstop. Nothing can stop her. We thought she’d get over it but she’s still growling and barking at our guests for hours and hours and hours and hours. Had a guest all day once and istg she never stopped. Ever. And once the guest leaves she still barks for a few hours. She shakes and shivers and everything. She’s a little pomeranian btw. Unspayed but we will spay her soon. If I block the person she’ll stop to look at me but then go back to barking. I can try this method where I block her and give treats. But idk if it’ll work. Because I had her do tricks for treats while in front of people and she went right back but maybe it’s because it was the trick and not to calm her down basicslly. It’s confusing really. Yesterday my friend came over and she stopped barking almost immediately, and same with the pizza man. But the day before she was going crazy at my mom, and she’s still going crazy ar my mom. She did this to a friend I had too and didn’t stop. I don’t really know what to do. My mom keeps telling me to either put her down or get rid of her but I have a strong love for her already so I just started crying cause idk what to do. And I don’t wanna get rid of her. She’s my love. It sucks she hates my mom but idk how to fix it. I also wanna have friends over but she just barks and barks. And she’s not kennel trained either so she just whines at being in the kennel so. And my mom isn’t helping either. She hates mt dog and keeps telling me to put her down or get rid of her so I’m still crying. I need as many methods as possible and we’ll get a trainer soon too I think. Can this be fixed or do we just have to get rid of her? I really don’t want to.

Definitely going to try this. My girl dog (pitbull mix) just barks at everyone. She's never bit anyone or lunged at anyone. She just barks her head off! All they have to do is squat down and she's wagging her tail and ready for pets. But if they stand up, she's back to barking again.

Just Awesome!

Do you have any tips for possessive dogs?? My dog is really possessive over stuff and she lunges at other dogs at my home and when she’s in my room she lunges at my family

How do you incorporate these techniques with a dog who is afraid & aggressive with the veterinarian, who also needs to handle the dog?

My 2 yr old yorkie is super aggressive torward people who come to or even walk by my apartment. If we let him sniff the person he eventually stops barking. But he's aggressive towards people when we walk him so we always have to keep him close.

Which breed is this

Gonna try this tomorrow when I walk my dog.

when i do this my dog moves to see the person again she’s very strong to

Quick question If the dog when i blocked the visual still trying to catch a sight do i need to use some force under the chin to take him back where he was? Or do i need to make him sit when he don’t have vison on whats behind?

This man is a wizzards

M thg dog keeps attacking me when i get close ti my mom any advice?

I like big and strong dogs, I just don’t want to get one because I know I won’t train him/her, and Im scared because I already have a poodle and a Maltese .

I'm living with my cousins house for over a week now and I don't know why her dog still keeps barking at me even though I'm giving it treats sometimes. I really don't know how to get the dog emotion.

What do you do if when you block the dogs view and it deflects and becomes handler aggressive?

I have a bully the thing I struggle on is bringing people over he’s so strong and wants to launch at them and jump on them and he just gets crazy I really don’t wanna let my boy go I’m trying everything possible

My dogs hate strangers including my relatives.

Hi! It would be good to see a video geared towards non dog owners, showing what do in a situation where a dog is aggressive.

Took this video out in the wLmart parking lot. So fucking helpful. Worked instantly. Thank you .

I have 4 month old collie and border collie mix and I didn’t know our problem was this bad until today we went to see the vet and he bit the vet and tried biting my mom too. But I thought the problem wasn’t that bad bc when someone comes over to our house then maybe 5-10 minutes he barks and then calms down, but idk maybe he got a trauma from the vet and now is more scared of strangers. I’m really worried.

My yorkie German spitz cross literally hates all people. Oddly enough though loves every dog he sees and makes friends with them instantly.

What if the dog is not on a leashe? And runs towards people.? When me and my dog are in a park with other dogs and they are playing, if someone (without dogs) walks through the park, my dog will run after them, bark and jump up at them. What to do then? When I cant catch him before its too late. I try to keep an eye open for people walkong through , and destract my dog before he sees them, that works, but if he is to far away and someone walks through then its very difficult to get him to listen. Can you please make a video on that behaviour and how to train?😅❤🐶

Thank you. This won't help me. Mine is not afraid of people, he wants to punish them if they behave incorrectly according to him. Like if they are drunk. I don't trust the people he doesn't trust, and won't be turning my back toward them. I think his social intelligence is higher than mine. He is my social barometer. We walk a city every day.

can you do this same thing when your dog is being hostile to other dogs in the neighborhood?

Yeah mine doesnt stop ever

My mom trained my dog to protect me when he was a baby now everytime someone walks by me he thinks there trying to hurt me and he snaps at them. Any tips?

Great video, I'm going to try this. Would a shock collar work in this situation if this technique doesn't work?

My dog has suddenly become aggressive towards people and other animals including myself and it mostly began when we temporarily fostered his brother

I want the dog to know when and who to be aggressive with so that he still protects .

Our body language is so important. When he got in front of the dog, it confused him. lol Calm freeze under dogs chin. Block the visual, show your back to what he thinks is a threat. Nice.

If I try to hold my dogs collar he will bite my hand or arms. Especially if there’s another dog around. He’s small (9lbs) and the only thing that stops him is holding him up by his harness but I don’t like doing that. I don’t know how to stop his aggressive behaviour without getting bitten! He was a 4 year old when I got him and already had these behaviours. He’s much better with people now but not with dogs.

My dogs are sisters. I bought them from my moms friend who is a chiweenie breeder. They were fine then they were babies but now if I take them outside to use the bathroom and someone walks by the yard or if someone comes to my house they bark and growl like crazy

I have a blue Heeler pup she's really fearful runs at men especially nips their feet

Will dogs calm down with leadership and protective issues once they get fixed?

I'll try it...but my dog is laser focused on the person and tries to get to them as much as possible!

So do these techniques help in the long run? Or just mommentarily with only this specific person?

My family recently rescued a dog who quickly loved the whole family in thhe first few days but quickly showed signs of extreme defensivnes when anyone who wasnt our immediate family came to our house ans she barked for a full 60 minutes and it scared my mom and sister and i knew i needed to find some helpful information quickly before this scares my family out of wanting her in our family

Idk if my dog's not properly socialized during her youth or smth, but she's literally so aggressive towards everyone :( she even bit my grandma today. Seems like we've been training her wrong and need to deal with her calmly instead.

hai i got a video of my dog would you like to watch it and help me out i am out of answers and dont want to lose my dog cause she is 6 months old i got here from othere people and they said she grawl at people while i thought ok np but she did not only grawl but also want to attack them while she is just 6 months and i think someone did something to her and really need advice so i can help her she listens good in home outside she goes attacking against people and dogs while she can calm down my dad has tried it with some food and she let him give the food but still if he goes of the couch she still want to attack him i think she is just scared but not scared to attack and bite while she is so lovely towards me and i just have her for almost 2 weeks now pls pls help me out she is heavier then this dog on the video this dog is even calm in turns of mine

Mine is okay till someone comes nearly and my dog doesn’t know me too anymore

I have a pitbull he’s about 4-5 months now and he can be so frustrating to deal with,this technique did work when i take him for walks but my main issue with him is he doesn’t listen he keeps trying to mess with things he’s not suppose to and he plays way too much sometimes he nips a lot does anyone have any advice i really dont want to have to get rid of him

Hey i need some training help so i Adopted a Pitbull female from the animal shelter and i cant have her around other dogs and yesterday she attacked a male dog how or what can i do to help my dog get along with other dogs please and thank you

See this wouldn’t work with my dog because when he sees someone he pulls me way to much to let me get infront of him and if I can’t get infront of him of him then this isn’t helpful

Apbt shouldn't be human aggression. They're bred to be dog to dog or animal aggression. This is sad to see APBT turn out.

I am going to try this, my son's dog has attacked a friend of mine and everytime he hears the screen door he goes into a territorial stance, and wants to attack who ever it is....this just started and I can't handle it

My dog is the sweetest most cuddly thing in the world, but will not let anyone else pet him

My 2 yr old pomeranian gets only aggressive to brother in the family. No matter the training, my brother refused to cooperate. He kept making my dog mad, even nearly hitting him when I am not around. I fear that his aggression will make it difficult in the future.

He is in fearfull situation

That dog is trained mine is not and it does not work not even a little

This dog is excited and obviously he is intimidating but he doesn't display anger, IMO. Even his tail wag is not of a dog ready to attack (NOT SAYING HE WOULDN'T IF RELEASED). My dog who is almost 11 month is showing aggressive behavior especially towards the mail man, he is hackling, growling, barking, and lunging, and tail straight up wagging fast. He is otherwise very friendly just not to the mailman. He goes to basic training but looks like I will have a behaviorist help me curve this new aggresive attitude.

Better to be over protective over your property than not in my opinion! But i understand the limit twords calming a dog down after danger is gone..we trained our dogo argintinos young..if you enter property there wolves .if we go to park to play there teddy bears! They learned early when out in public the difference between socializing and aggression. Especially with our children..if your aggressive twords our children no matter where we are...your soul had better belong to jesus!

my dog can’t even be walked during the day when people are out because he pulls & try’s to attack people. hes been around humans since he was born and was with another family, then we took him in. he’s gotten more aggressive as he gets older he was still aggressive when the other family had him. they were going to put him down so we took him in. idk what to do.

My two rottweilers hate everybody I don't like them being that way maybe they're just overly protective

This would absolutely never work for my dog. He doesn’t care if I turn my back..he doesn’t care if I shout.. and he’s unpredictable… especially if it’s someone in my house

That's nothing. I wish my dog just barked at ppl. My dog a German shepherd with any person he will have his teeth out snarling and using every bit of his force to get to a person. I'm 200 pound man and it takes all that I have to keep him off the person. I need help idk what to do. I have a killer police dog and idk how to fix it.

Very dangerous to do this - there is a high likelihood of the dog redirecting to the owner if he is over threshold

Me watching this with my 3 kilos Pomeranian dog 😅

i think if you are confident, the eye contact is useful, and not to avoid it

There's no way you could sit holding my gsd with one hand, you'd be hauled out and dragged to his target, your method does work to some degree.

nah man my dog act sway worst than that and he is a sausage dog mixed with pottong lol. he doesn't stop even after a few minutes and he would just try to jump over me if i tried to block the visuals.

This video not for me because my dogs not fearfully barking, when he does it he’s wagging his tail and being very aggressive

Do not own a fanged predator that can snap at any second?

This look like fearfull territorial barking my dog look like he is trying to kill stranger

My dog’s aggressive to people who are not me

dog men say that’s not a good example of the breed genetically