How Do You Stop Dogs From Biting Training?
This article is the third of a four-part article training series dealing with considerations to stop your dog from biting. This article is going to discuss why dogs sometimes bite, and analyze the two different types of biting that oftentimes occur. Amazingly enough, each year in the United States, over 4 Million people become dog bit victims. This statistic is both shocking, and sobering. It reminds us that we need to carefully review how we are teaching our dogs certain behaviors. Dogs bite for many reasons. Several of the predominant reasons include: fear, alpha dog mentality, and pain. These three emotional states for dogs trigger many mixed reactions. Now, allow us to review the two main types of reactionary biting: 1) Pain Biting – When dogs are in pain, they are oftentimes in fear. They also cannot always flee the scene of their pain on their legs, and instead rely on fangs to control the situation. Dogs that are normally pacified, can become ferocious when they experience pain.
