[Pablo Afcha]

The way I see it, there’s no right answer regarding what should you have done about that situation. It all depends of the kind behavior you want to achieve on your dog.

I have an apbt who growls when someone she doesn’t know is coming to my house and I do correct that behavior immediately letting my dog know I noticed she may not be sure about them but letting her also know I am the one looking after us so she can relax. In that way I don’t allow the aggression to escalate, and it only takes a few seconds for her to accept my guests.

I do correct the behavior because I don’t want a protective dog, I rather go for a friendly chill dog.

If you’re aiming for that kind of behavior too I strongly suggest you to work more on socializing your dog, meet and greets are important if you want your dog to be able to relax with people she doesn’t met before.

I sincerely hope this is of any help for you.

Best of luck…

[Pablo Afcha]

Mike, you have no idea about the impact your words just had in the way I see everything that happened and how helpful they are for me.

I really want to thank you and let you know how much I appreciate what you do for everyone on this site and for all the dogs they get to help because of what we learn from you.

You’re just such a great human being…

You did write a long reply and I’m so happy you did because everything you said was really important and helpful.

I hesitated a lot before posting this but know I am really happy I did and it is great to know that it can also help other people here too.

Thank you.

[Pablo Afcha]

Thank you Judy, you’re awesome.

[Pablo Afcha]

Thanks a lot for these words, I will dig carefully in all this info.

It makes a lot of sense to me what you say about skipping steps on the aggression cycle and that creating confusion and making people think it is a neurological issue.

What I don’t understand is why the same dog presented a submissive behavior several times when I corrected him before in very similar scenarios with other dogs or even with people.

He also didn’t show a dominant language before and I’m not sure about this last part because I’m just talking from my experience but most of the dogs I worked with, when they tried to attack me because of a dominance issue, they never went to kill. I had dogs with that kind of energy but it was usually triggered by a predator mode and some how this one was different.

So that gets me confused.

I will go deep on the streams you mention and I hope this helps me to have a better understanding.

Thank you for your help.

P.S. One thing that I didn’t mention but it also caught my attention is that when the dog was attacking me and I was struggling to control him another person got into my yard (my wife whom didn’t have contact with the dog yet) and she didn’t even approach but as soon as the dog saw her he tried to charged at her and then continued charging at me. So I’m guessing the dog wasn’t on predatory mode neither.

[Pablo Afcha]

Michael, my intention was never to disrespect no one. I was just trying to point the fact that usually no one can tell what’s wrong with a dog without having the chance to at least look some footage of it.

But I am truly sorry and I want to appologygse if I made somebody feel disrespected, I didn’t meant to. I’m just kind of having a hard time dealing with all these since is the first time I lost a dog.

P.S. Your link is not working…

[Pablo Afcha]

Thank you Judy, this kind of diagnose is completely new to me, that’s why I’m trying to learn more about it.

I do can say I also never had a dog like this one before and I did worked with tons of dogs, but unfortunately I don’t think having it posted here or in the Q&A will help me to have a better understanding of what was this dogs problem since I don’t have any footage of him and his behavior. That’s why my intention with this post is to be able to learn more about neurological disorders and how can they affect a dogs behavior.

I do appreciate your comments.

[Pablo Afcha]

Thank you, I’ll have it under consideration.

[Pablo Afcha]

Ok, that’s your opinion.

I’ve studied ethology for two years in college and went several times through all the videos on the ethology class. As I stated helped several dogs with aggression issues and I watched the dog on the video you posted below and I can’t tell you it has nothing to do with the dog I talked about.

Anyways my question was more directed to find info about aggression coming for a neurological disorder, since it is what the vets diagnosed and it is something a never heard before.

I think it is a little ambitious to go over the vets diagnose and everything I noticed without being able to get to see the dog once, but good for you if you’re that confident…

Thanks for all the articles and info you shared though.

[Pablo Afcha]

I would love to know what took you to that conclusion…