If animal aggression and human aggression are the same thing..?

Not to drink the Kool-Aid Debunker is sipping on but Greek is right. Drive is drive. If you can get a dog (pitbull) to fight and kill (or die) in an illegal dog fighting operation but can't get him to bite a man you shouldn't be training protection dogs.

If you have a dog who'll bite a man but couldn't take him hog hunting, you should be training catch dogs. Also you're right, all dogs bite. Which is why no one can pet my dogs.

It's a mixture of nature, nurture, and circumstance. A genetically weak dog can bite for any number of reasons. A genetically stable dog could very well become aggressive through abuse.

You take a good, smart kid, and drop him off with a crack**** mother who beats him and is never there and a deadbeat dad he's never met and you wouldn't be surprised when he turned out to be a gang member. Same thing goes here. You can take an awesome puppy and have an idiot ruin him.

Aggression can be learned, believe me, I teach it! Most working line GSDs wouldn't bite at a flea if not trained to do otherwise...dogs with solid nerves aren't aggressive unless taught to be either by good training, abuse, or neglect. And by neglect I mean the failure to nip issues in the bud before they become severe.

By allowing behavior, you are indeed TRAINING the dog to do the aforementioned behavior whether it be bad manners such as jumping up, or something dangerous such as growling at you/your kids. If I were to define human aggression I'd define it as: A dog who will bite a non-threatening human when other clear options are present. For example...if a dog in a neighborhood off leash bites you in the butt...he's human aggression.

You weren't bothering him, he had many avenues of escape. He bite you anyway on his own accord. Now if there was a dog who wouldn't bite you in the same circumstance, but would bite you if you were a groomer and pushing and pulling on him, I don't consider him human aggressive, I consider him a weaker nerved dog who felt he had no other choice since his avenues of escape were cut off.

Dogs who project social aggression/and/or fighting drive onto humans are also dogs who could be considered human aggressive. A dog acting out of true prey drive could also be seen as human aggressive if they bit a man, as well as defense drive (defense can present itself even if there are avenues of escape ie a dog who bites then when confronted they run circles barking at you). Can dog aggression translate into human aggression?

Absolutely. Is a dog aggressive dog a higher risk for human aggression? Not at all.

All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares type of deal. I had a nasty GSD...very quick on the trigger...a dog I had to watch carefully around strangers. My kitten and my little 45-50lbs female Pitbull used to kick his butt every day and he never so much as growled.

And of course there are some very dog aggressive dogs used for dog fighting who've never even thought about biting a man...and then there's dogs who're aggressive to both or neither. I don't think being one or the other "increases" a dog's chances of becoming the other. But I will say I think a dog aggressive dog is more likely to bite a human being than a dog with no aggression to either dogs or humans simply because of the risk of an accidental bite aka redirection.

Human aggression" like all other types of "aggression" is far too loose a word. You can pretty much copy and paste my answer from the other question. True "aggression" in a dog is few and far between.

What people often call aggression are generally simple survival behaviors (resource or territory guarding), pack behavior (self-preservation measures (the dog fears harm to itself, can also be caused by poor socialization), or prey drive. Sometimes the cause is poor genetics- weak nerves, resulting in a tendency to be nervous and fearful, and will produce self-preservation behavior far before a normal dog would bite. None of these constitute a dog who is actually aggressive- just untrained, unsocialized, genetically unsound, or drivey.

Your average pet dog doesn't become aggressive- but take the case with a dog who guards toys, treats, or its favorite spot on the couch- the dog is poorly trained. It probably has a poor pack order in the home, and the dog does not understand that it isn't the alpha, and it doesn't understand that it needs to look to you for survival, not its instincts.

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