How To Prevent Dog Aggression | Puppies Need Rough and Tumble Play For Proper Socialization

Welcome back to Bluegrass on this beautiful June day. The boys and I have been pulling vines off our fence and I thought this would be a good opportunity to use my surroundings to my advantage. Okay, so what are we going to talk about? today it's the value of

rough

and

tumble

play

now let me turn them around here a little hey backup camera look at those big dogs they're trying to steal my video accessory okay so I've got this I've got this vine here And so all these dogs see me dragging it here and they all want to come out and bite it and grab it and rip it so we'll let them

play

with this vine for a minute and then maybe we'll be I'm going to fight with them a little bit and I'm going to try to convince you to that dogs

need

to learn to be tough, you know they

need

to learn to be physical and if you don't give them the opportunity to learn to If you have to deal with physical exercise at a young age, you're going to have problems later on and that's especially true with certain types of dogs, okay, and let me show you, hey Murphy, what are you doing?

Come here, Murphy, give Murphy a gift. That's especially true with dogs like Murphy, oh my gosh, they're so dense, so let me show you, oh, what we have here. This is an old pitbull mix. Okay, so when you go to the lab, we'll go to the kennel. society rescue group or whatever and they tell you, oh we have a nice lab here, this is what they like, cameraman, every time someone calls me and says Tony, I have a nice black human society lab , you know, I say. send me a picture and it's always a pit bull you know whatever oh my prop was stolen let me get it back listen guys when these dogs come here to play the reason

rough

play needs to be addressed early is because we have a lot of dogs of different sizes with many different personalities showing this dog here cameraman look at this old dog here oh my god this is margo let me pick up mark let's see you can see hey margo this is mario margo is a bulldog too now it's a different kind of bulldog, she's a chubby old English bulldog, but she's still pretty feisty, you know, fortunately, Margo's been coming here since she was a puppy, so she's pretty good at rough play and doesn't get kicked around too much. up, but you can still grab it, you have you and then there it goes, there it goes, this is my accessory, it may not last long, okay, but anyway I go out here and I fight with the dogs and I play with them.

Let them fight each other and what I'm trying to do is try to get the dogs to understand where they fit in in terms of playing with their peers and mentors, group dogs like Murphy, this one here has So you guys watch out, let's look at Murphy, the guys dog, oh here, go, go chase a treat or something, okay, dogs like Murphy, here they have such a speed and athletic advantage over dogs like Wilson that they can even hurt them. without playing, okay, so I have to bring these dogs here and I have to let them play.

I have to let them learn to use their mouths a lot. You have to let them learn to vocalize and use posture to send subtle messages. Signal to the other dogs in terms of what is acceptable and unacceptable play. See what boo radley this old beagle is doing here? Look, he's lying on his back until, on the one hand, he becomes vulnerable, but then when the other dogs come here. he growls at them and you might say well, Stoney, why is he doing that? Well, dogs are like people, sometimes they like to, especially when they get older, like Boo Radley, whining is one of their favorite things to do, so other dogs need to learn that if it's an old beagle. fat old beagle like boo radley if he growls or barks at you he's not going to hurt you he's not really trying to cause any trouble he's like the old lady next door who always complains about the kids being on the grass without the kids being on the grass, what would that old woman do all day?

She wouldn't have anything to do, so complaining becomes you know her way of liking her, you know, interacting with the world. These dogs here are fighting and playing. and like Murphy he can fight and play all day because they have all that pitbull and these labs also like to fight and play and they are very oral but Murphy is so much more physical than them that sometimes as he can he can take a advantageous position and can play long past the point where the other dogs no longer want to play, so if you notice what Murphy is doing it is that he is deliberately lying on his back in an open, helpless position to Encourage this lab to Let him come play with him now, when Murphy first came here he was always on top, but what happens during the course of rough play is that the

puppies

are the stronger, more athletic, more aggressive

puppies

by nature they learn. that if they don't let their teammates win sometimes, then their teammates won't interact with them, so this is a perfect example of that in action.

I have two yellow labs and when they first got here, Murphy just struggled. both to death and he would just be lying here like this, you know? and he would still be watering them and engaging in combat drills with them, grabbing them by the neck, you know?, but then they started seeing Murphy coming and they approached. They would get up and hide, then Murphy would say, Hey guys, why don't you go play with me? And after a while he started to realize that they wouldn't play with him because he's too hard and and and. and you know he wouldn't give them a chance to win, so he started giving him a chance to win.

Now here's the thing that Mike Murphy is kind of competitive, so he's just going to lie on his back part of the time, so look, he's going to know, he laid on his back and let these guys harass him a little bit and now he's like, okay, it's my turn to be on top and then he'll do this for a while. as we go lay down here with him so you can see what's going on, you see him taking his mouth and putting it on his neck, that's all a mock battle and dogs do this for a couple of reasons number one, you know, it's just a way to convey like You know, social bonds are right to facilitate social bonds, but number two, it teaches them how to defend themselves when then they're okay, so this kind of simulated

aggression

, but they have to have an outlet for it, there This is where bite inhibition develops and This is where the idea of ​​uh, your opponent has had enough, so they'll lie down like this and then look at my dog, he wants to play with me, so I'm going to let him play now. , look, look at this, look nameless, look how.

He's biting me, you see, and all he's trying to do here is just try to get my attention. He's doing the same things to me that Murphy is doing. Now look, I'm going to interject with Murphy here for a second. Oh, if I can't get any names oh hey, no names, you go this way look, you go that way, okay, so Murphy came here and went right for Portly's stick and you realize that Portly didn't think much of the stick and when Murphy took the stick, he turned upside down like, Hey guys, look, I'm not a threat, come play with me and he'll play like this for a while and then in a second he'll probably get up and go. back to the top and this give and take that develops during the course of rough play in these pre-adolescent dogs this is what gives them the tools to deal with conflict and during adolescence in the post-adolescent phase, and it's good with It's good letting them do that with other dogs and it's also good to engage in rough play with people you know and this is where I see a lot of problems as people just don't feel comfortable, you know, coming down here and fighting. and playing with dogs is fine, but believe me guys, dogs are not fragile, they are not going to hurt you in the first place and you know that dogs are not on average naturally predisposed to be aggressive towards people, so they are not going to You are not going to make the dog, by fighting and playing with them, become aggressive towards people later.

Okay, you're doing exactly the opposite: you're teaching the dog to be physical at different levels of intensity depending on his partner's preferences. I'll let George come in, he's a young guy, so George, go over there and run around here with these dogs and then you can be on top, sometimes that's enough, stay here in the box, okay, then George will run. he's going to play a little chase with him and then he's going to ask him to get a georgie and take him down and you're going to be on top so george is going to get on top of wilson good and then george is going to fall and he's going to let the dogs get on top of him and then he's going to change the script again grab a different dog grab that big dog there george that fat Otis here we go oh this is at fat camp his owners brought him here we I thought he was like two years old he's eight months old uh oh now guys, there's a dog business right there the dogs come up and attack the cameraman's camera all the time very cute we're doing the same thing with the dogs the dogs are doing together okay georgie now get up and run away and then returns to the same place.

Oh come get your whistle georgie grab your whistle there you go and then run away so now we have chase games. Okay, let's have a second cameraman come. Come here and watch this action. Now we've got a guy, a lab and an Australian doodle doing something like a mock battle, they're sorting everything out, the guys are trying to figure out, you know, where they fit in the social order and you'll see Wilson has you, see if you can go up there, he turned around and you'll see that grip that Wilson has on Stella's neck and you'll see that Wilson has a very good death grip on Stella's neck, but if he bites her too hard, then Stella will let him know. and she'll bite back, you know, and that's what they say, guys, if you can develop that bite inhibition at a young age, then you won't run into the problem of dogs biting people or dogs. they get into dog fights later, okay georgie, run back up the hill a little more, there you go, alright, alright, alright, now that dog is from Saudi Arabia, he hasn't been socialized much with many different people .

Look what happens, George, if you fight this dog here for a second, nice look, perfectly happy, a little nervous wagging of the tail because he's not sure what's going on, but guys, we got him out of the way here with the people so that if you know in public and someone's child comes up and starts hugging or fighting with the dog? The dog doesn't break down, it's okay, they're going to look at those two yellow labs one more time, cameraman, you see these. dogs again same thing mock battles a lot of give and take as to who is up or down very nice now back up and get the boykin and the aussie doodle and then go over there and look no name and murphy with the good stick and look guys here same look come closer come closer cameraman see or that's burly burly and murphy and what's going on there is they have a stick and they're like competing for it but they're not competing for it like that in a way that's going to cause some kind of real violence. because if one of them gets mad, the next time he comes here the other one won't want to play, you know, and that's really the key, okay, go back there and Finish with George by running up the hill a little bit and call him Georgie and then run back here and then get down on the floor and just wrestle with everybody, yeah, and look, we just put you guys in these big group dynamics, guys, that way. know if their owners go to the dog park or go somewhere where there are a lot of newbie dogs, do you know that dogs are well equipped to deal with all kinds of random things that could be thrown at them in an environment and if not do that at an age early it's just that it's very difficult to do remedial

socialization

is difficult okay but

proper

early

socialization

is easy and not only is it easy but it's also fun well I just hope that little video encourages you guys to go out and play roughly with your dogs, end up here in these laboratories.

It's really nice because the kids they know like to come in at 12 weeks 16 weeks 20 weeks 24 weeks dogs just learn everything they need to learn if you can put them around positive companions and positive mentors. Alright, good luck guys, I'll see you all next week.