Things You'll Need
- Chew toys
- Leash
- Training collar
- Muzzle (optional)
Instructions
Establish authority. Be confident around your aggressive dog and talk and give commands in a stern voice. Show your dog that you are the boss with your voice and with your body language.
Distract your dog. When your dog snaps at something or someone make a loud noise to bring its attention away from that behavior. Clap your hands or say loudly "no." You can also drop objects on the floor to create noise.
Give your dog alternative behaviors. Give your pet chew toys and bones so it has something to put in its mouth. Socialize your dog slowly by bringing it, on a leash, to public places. Be sure to have control of your aggressive dog at all times when you are out in public.
Exercise your dog. On his website Cesarsway.com, Cesar Millan, a noted dog trainer, says the cause of aggressive and exited behavior in dogs is in many cases due to a lack of exercise.
Walk your dog daily or take it to a dog park and play fetch. Be sure when you walk your dog to keep it on a leash and to use a training collar and keep your body between your pet and unfamiliar people and dogs. With daily exercise your dog may calm down on its own.
Neuter or spay your dog. Paw-rescue.org says that neutering male dogs especially can help diminish aggressive behavior.
This will also help you decrease the frequency of your dog's marking its territory.
Consider a muzzle. Try this option if others don't work.