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Keeping the Peace: A Guide to Solving Dog-Dog Aggression in the Home
Do your dogs guard food or treats from each other?
Does a certain furry someone get jealous over petting or affection?
Does excitement over visitors cause fights?
Does play arousal sometimes boil over into aggression?
Whether your dogs are actually fighting or simply not getting along, constant tension and discord can create a stressful home environment that is unhealthy for your dogs and for you. As an experienced canine behavior specialist who has not only helped countless owners with this problem but who has also lived with it, I understand all too well. The good news is, help is here! You will learn to assess and define problem areas, create a firm foundation for safety and behavior modification, teach solid training skills, and use proven techniques to solve specific issues. Whether you have two dogs or five, with patience and practice, you will be well on your way to restoring harmony between your dogs and peace to your home.
Does a certain furry someone get jealous over petting or affection?
Does excitement over visitors cause fights?
Does play arousal sometimes boil over into aggression?
Whether your dogs are actually fighting or simply not getting along, constant tension and discord can create a stressful home environment that is unhealthy for your dogs and for you. As an experienced canine behavior specialist who has not only helped countless owners with this problem but who has also lived with it, I understand all too well. The good news is, help is here! You will learn to assess and define problem areas, create a firm foundation for safety and behavior modification, teach solid training skills, and use proven techniques to solve specific issues. Whether you have two dogs or five, with patience and practice, you will be well on your way to restoring harmony between your dogs and peace to your home.
- GenresNonfictionDogs
264 pages, Paperback
Published March 27, 2018
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About the author
Nicole Wilde
22 books37 followersNicole Wilde is an internationally recognized, award-winning author and lecturer, as well as a professional canine behavior specialist and Certified Professional Dog Trainer. Her twelve books include Help for Your Dog-Reactive Dog, Don’t Leave Me, Help for Your Fearful Dog, and Keeping the Peace: A Guide to Solving Dog-Dog Aggression in the Home. She is on the Advisory Board for the Companion Animal Sciences Institute, the Advisory Board for Victoria Stilwell’s Positively Academy, and the Advisory Board for Apex Protection Project. She is also the Behavior Consultant for Villalobos Rescue Center and has appeared as a trainer on the television show Pit Bulls & Parolees.
Nicole has written training and behavior articles and blogs for various publications including the Huffington Post, as well as for her own blog, Wilde About Dogs, and is a regular contributor to Modern Dog Magazine. She co-stars in the DVD "Train Your Dog: The Positive Gentle Method," and co-hosted the Dog Talk radio show where her experience, humor and quick wit were put to good use. Nicole lectures worldwide at conferences and for training clubs, humane societies, and other groups.
Always having had a special place in her heart for dogs in need, Nicole served as Volunteer Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles’ Animal Services, where she instructed volunteers in handling and behavior, worked with hundreds of dogs, and acted as an adoption counselor. After moving to L.A. County, she volunteered for a County shelter. At both shelters, her efforts were instrumental in many dogs finding loving homes. In addition to working with dogs,
Nicole has worked with rescued wolves and wolfdogs for over twenty years and is considered an expert in the field. She was Executive Director for Villalobos Rescue Center, which was at the time a sanctuary for rescued wolves and wolfdogs, as well as pit bulls and exotic animals. Nicole’s specialty was socializing the fearful wolves who were to live out their lives at the center, and she ended up bringing home three of the especially needy residents to live out their lives with her and her husband. Nicole has presented wolfdog education seminars to animal control officers, schools and specialty groups. Her experience is rounded out by having supervised 40-50 off-leash dogs daily at a doggy daycare, working at a veterinarian’s office, serving as Editor/Chief Writer for Get-A-Pet magazine, and many years of teaching dog training group classes as well as private lessons.
Nicole is also a photographer and digital artist who loves to use her talents to help animals in need. She photographs dogs to improve their chances of adoption, and donates artwork to various animal-related organizations to raise funds. Nicole owns and operates Gentle Guidance Dog Training in Santa Clarita, California. She lives with two rescued northern breed mixes, sled loads of dog hair, and one very understanding husband. Nicole continues to write books, teach seminars, train dogs, volunteer, assist in wolfdog rescue, and to help dogs in any way she can.
You can find Nicole's books, seminar DVDs and Wilde About Dogs blog at www.nicolewilde.com, her pet portraits at www.goodmojopetportraits.com, and her artwork at www.photomagicalart.com.
And you can find Nicole on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NicoleWildeA...) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/NicoleWilde)
Nicole has written training and behavior articles and blogs for various publications including the Huffington Post, as well as for her own blog, Wilde About Dogs, and is a regular contributor to Modern Dog Magazine. She co-stars in the DVD "Train Your Dog: The Positive Gentle Method," and co-hosted the Dog Talk radio show where her experience, humor and quick wit were put to good use. Nicole lectures worldwide at conferences and for training clubs, humane societies, and other groups.
Always having had a special place in her heart for dogs in need, Nicole served as Volunteer Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles’ Animal Services, where she instructed volunteers in handling and behavior, worked with hundreds of dogs, and acted as an adoption counselor. After moving to L.A. County, she volunteered for a County shelter. At both shelters, her efforts were instrumental in many dogs finding loving homes. In addition to working with dogs,
Nicole has worked with rescued wolves and wolfdogs for over twenty years and is considered an expert in the field. She was Executive Director for Villalobos Rescue Center, which was at the time a sanctuary for rescued wolves and wolfdogs, as well as pit bulls and exotic animals. Nicole’s specialty was socializing the fearful wolves who were to live out their lives at the center, and she ended up bringing home three of the especially needy residents to live out their lives with her and her husband. Nicole has presented wolfdog education seminars to animal control officers, schools and specialty groups. Her experience is rounded out by having supervised 40-50 off-leash dogs daily at a doggy daycare, working at a veterinarian’s office, serving as Editor/Chief Writer for Get-A-Pet magazine, and many years of teaching dog training group classes as well as private lessons.
Nicole is also a photographer and digital artist who loves to use her talents to help animals in need. She photographs dogs to improve their chances of adoption, and donates artwork to various animal-related organizations to raise funds. Nicole owns and operates Gentle Guidance Dog Training in Santa Clarita, California. She lives with two rescued northern breed mixes, sled loads of dog hair, and one very understanding husband. Nicole continues to write books, teach seminars, train dogs, volunteer, assist in wolfdog rescue, and to help dogs in any way she can.
You can find Nicole's books, seminar DVDs and Wilde About Dogs blog at www.nicolewilde.com, her pet portraits at www.goodmojopetportraits.com, and her artwork at www.photomagicalart.com.
And you can find Nicole on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NicoleWildeA...) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/NicoleWilde)
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June 7, 2024
Excellent book about dealing with two or more dogs in your house not getting along. Our dogs are great 98% of the time, but that 2% is stressful and I didn't know what to do. This book gave really concrete ideas of things to try to solve problem behaviors. I found this book really helpful and really hopeful, even though our problem puppy isn't that bad, I felt sorry for people who have it worse.
I usually borrow books from the library. My friend asked if I had borrowed this book and I said, "No, because I want to be able to take notes in it and have it on hand as a reference book."
I read through it, starting with the chapter 14 When the Fur Flies, about handling violence. And now I'm going back and rereading the whole book, with the intent of implementing more exercises. But I've already started using a few techniques and I was glad to know that she recommended some of the things that I was already doing. I was very impressed that the author recommended skipping to Chapter 14 if you are trying to stop violence.
I highly recommend this book. These are my first dogs and we unknowingly got litter mates without realizing there were inherent problems. In our case, the companionship and exercise with an energetic playmate out weighs the bad, but this book is VERY helpful in working on the newly materialized resource guarding. I naively thought we were in the clear with our very sweet puppies, but at 6 months the tranquil honeymoon was over. Several people told me that they might outgrow this behavior, but as it got worse, I decided to engage a dog behaviorist. Local dog trainers wanted hundreds of dollars to teach my dogs to sit, stay, go into a crate and walk on a leash. They do most of this (Wait instead of Stay) and we still have behavior issues, so I despaired.
Before I had children, I read multiple childbirth and parenting books. Before we got puppies, I read multiple puppy training books. But you can try to socialize your dogs, train them and exercise them and still face behavior issues.
A dog trainer told me that dogs either resource guard with other dogs or with humans but not both. I'm here to say that is an old wives' tale, my male dog definitely resource guards more against his sister, but he has also growled and snapped once each at my husband and myself. My female dog occasionally guards my husband and I from her brother, but with my new knowledge, I expect to change her behavior easily.
I also bought the very short Mine!: A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs but it only presented one very detailed plan for each resource guarding situation and half of the book was background information. Since I have two dogs, it didn't really apply. And it was basically the same technique altered for food guarding vs toy guarding vs location guarding vs people guarding. But it might be helpful if you only have one dog and you are dedicated to the step-by-step plan. It did have a useful plan for muzzle training and body handling. I've decided though I don't actually need it, prepared is better than desperate, so I am going to muzzle train both dogs and I'm going to use techniques from both books.
I usually borrow books from the library. My friend asked if I had borrowed this book and I said, "No, because I want to be able to take notes in it and have it on hand as a reference book."
I read through it, starting with the chapter 14 When the Fur Flies, about handling violence. And now I'm going back and rereading the whole book, with the intent of implementing more exercises. But I've already started using a few techniques and I was glad to know that she recommended some of the things that I was already doing. I was very impressed that the author recommended skipping to Chapter 14 if you are trying to stop violence.
I highly recommend this book. These are my first dogs and we unknowingly got litter mates without realizing there were inherent problems. In our case, the companionship and exercise with an energetic playmate out weighs the bad, but this book is VERY helpful in working on the newly materialized resource guarding. I naively thought we were in the clear with our very sweet puppies, but at 6 months the tranquil honeymoon was over. Several people told me that they might outgrow this behavior, but as it got worse, I decided to engage a dog behaviorist. Local dog trainers wanted hundreds of dollars to teach my dogs to sit, stay, go into a crate and walk on a leash. They do most of this (Wait instead of Stay) and we still have behavior issues, so I despaired.
Before I had children, I read multiple childbirth and parenting books. Before we got puppies, I read multiple puppy training books. But you can try to socialize your dogs, train them and exercise them and still face behavior issues.
A dog trainer told me that dogs either resource guard with other dogs or with humans but not both. I'm here to say that is an old wives' tale, my male dog definitely resource guards more against his sister, but he has also growled and snapped once each at my husband and myself. My female dog occasionally guards my husband and I from her brother, but with my new knowledge, I expect to change her behavior easily.
I also bought the very short Mine!: A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs but it only presented one very detailed plan for each resource guarding situation and half of the book was background information. Since I have two dogs, it didn't really apply. And it was basically the same technique altered for food guarding vs toy guarding vs location guarding vs people guarding. But it might be helpful if you only have one dog and you are dedicated to the step-by-step plan. It did have a useful plan for muzzle training and body handling. I've decided though I don't actually need it, prepared is better than desperate, so I am going to muzzle train both dogs and I'm going to use techniques from both books.
June 29, 2019
Lots of very practical advise. Very informative.
January 7, 2020
Good book. Practical advise. Will be trying a lot of the ideas out with my dogs.
November 3, 2020
Great book. Helped me work through how to keep the peace at my house. Also put into prospective that what I had going on was very minor. Great tips and understanding
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