Any dog ​​breeder is of the opinion that if a dog growls at its owner, then this situation is extremely abnormal. Of course, one cannot take into account those situations when the dog experiences severe pain and is not in himself.

What happens to the pet and why it starts to growl, whether it is necessary to deal with it, what difficulties it will have to be overcome, and how such behavior can threaten. All these questions concern every watchful host.

Interesting Facts: more than half of the dogs that at least once showed aggression on the owner, in most cases are capable of causing him physical harm.

Common causes of dog aggressive behavior

Experienced dog handlers and veterinarians, as well as many other specialists, are sure that no dog will ever bite a person like that. Excluding sick animals. In any case, the person intentionally or inadvertently poses a threat to the dog, as a result of which the dog may begin to behave aggressively. The most common causes are:

• mistakes made by the breeder during breeding;
• poor pet conditions;
• aggression directed towards the dog; improper upbringing.

Interesting Facts: hMost often, dogs injure their owners or family members.

Any aggression is, first of all, the result of improper actions, but also aggressive behavior can be corrected. To do this, you should know the main types of aggressive behavior.

Causes and types of dog aggressive behavior

Dominant

This behavior is primarily due to the fact that the dog is trying to establish leadership in the family. The dog may try to crush the owner, jump on him, refuse to carry out the learned commands and so on.

Interesting Facts: the most frequent victims of bites are old people and children.

Intraspecific

It appears when the dog is angry with his relative, another dog. The owner pulls the dog, and aggression is redirected to him.

Sexual

Most often found in male dogs, the dog behaves aggressively only with dogs of its gender. For the owner, the danger is the same as the paragraph above.

Maternal

This type of aggression is found only in female dogs. When they either defend their offspring and are not able to control themselves due to instincts, or they are aggressive towards another bitch. But most often this behavior is quickly eliminated.

Interesting Facts: more than half of the physical injuries inflicted by dogs that in the past were raised by man.

Territorial

This type of behavior is safe for the owner only if the dog considers him the leader of the pack. Otherwise, the dog will begin to guard its territory from the owner.

Food

Everything becomes clear from the name, aggression appears only at the moment when the dog eats food.

Game

The danger of this behavior is that while the puppy is small and growls and bites the owner in the game, he gets away with it, but when the dog grows up, then this behavior is firmly fixed in her. Therefore, all aggressive manifestations of the puppy must be stopped.

It can be noted that there are several types of aggressive behavior, but it is important to know one thing. It is not difficult to wean a pet to growl at the owner, the main thing is to know the causes of aggression and eliminate them.