Dog Aggression:Can These Dogs Get Along?

Is it possible to make two dogs who hate each other get along without a dog fight? What do you do about intense Dog Aggression toward another dog?

Absolutely!

... But not if you go in there with the attitude that you are asking them to do so.

You have to go in there like a Leader who expects his pack to behave like a pack.

How?

Start walking the dogs together and making them smell each other through the fence. Make them lie down and give each other their backs.

Right now I have a client with this problem to the extreme. Two of her dogs were extrememly intent upon going after each other. Both the Pit Bull and the Korean Jindo were "starters," not peacemakers.

So they were both made to surrender their backs to each other, to lie down beside each other, and to smell one another. Then we took them on a 45 minute walk without allowing them to look at each other.

It worked. Now the owners can walk them together for the first time ever!

Of course, when you have dogs, you will always want them to get along. But when they don't, you have to step forward and do what needs to be done.