Christelle Crozier is often confronted with animals that are addressed to her, with their masters because the situation has reached a level that is no longer bearable.
No, it’s never too late to try an education.
First: what do we mean by an aggressive dog? A reactive dog that will growl and bark? Or are we talking about a biting dog?
In both cases, we can intervene but it is much easier to intervene with a dog that has not yet bitten.
Christelle teaches us that the growling dog is not necessarily protecting something or someone,
he may simply be angry, he may want to regulate the contacts of a group: he growls when a person approaches “his” humans, he may simply not want to be approached ( and it is also a behavior that can be human…).
Christelle, you say that the bite occurs when other signs that the human could not read were sent by the animal?
The dog does not aim to bite, he wants to communicate, he tries postural communication techniques, which will go through growling, barking, and in case of failure he will come to the bite.
Christelle Crozier then tells us the story of a jack russell who bit his mistress deeply. He had been estimated at four on a scale of dangerousness of four and after three years of active education in which his mistress fully invested himself, he went down to one out of four, that is to say like any what other dog. Medicalization, hard work of education, topics that we will discuss in the weeks to come.
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