If you or your children currently roll around on the ground with the dog during playtime, it might be time to put a kibosh on that. Instead, engage in activities like fetch or hide-and-seek in order to stimulate your pup. Avoid physical contact with your dog or cat during playtime to discourage dominant behavior. Treats can be a great motivator to stop playful aggression, much like with any other form of training.
If your dog starts getting rough, practice a command to get her to calm down. If she obeys, give her a treat. Another method that some owners find helpful is to immediately remove yourself from the situation. Related Posts. June 18, April 20, The healthcare workers and essential workers who are keeping our society going are truly heroes. March 15, Having a dog is a wonderful experience, but in order to have the best possible. September 15, No Comments.
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With Sage and Sam, allowing play to continue was the right decision. Their early play interactions burgeoned into a lifelong friendship. Even today, the two middle-aged boys will sometimes play together for five hours at a stretch, stopping only occasionally for brief rests. When they are finally done, they often lie together, completely relaxed, with their bodies touching. Their faces are loose and smiling, and they seem almost drunk in an endorphin-induced haze.
This relationship shows that play does not necessarily have to be fair or balanced in order for two dogs to want to play with one another.
Scientists thought that if one dog was too rough or forceful e. Until our research, this proposition was never empirically tested. Over a year period, we studied pair-wise play between adult dogs, between adult dogs and adolescents , and between puppy littermates. Dogs do not need to take turns being assertive in order for play to take place. Safi, a female German Shepherd, and Osa, a male Golden Retriever mix, were best friends for many years.
When they played, they snarled a lot, lips curled and teeth exposed. The snarls looked fierce, but they often preceded silly behaviors, like flopping on the ground. Then, as though on cue, Safi and Osa would put their scary faces back on, almost as if they were Halloween masks, and turn toward one another. Their expressions were so exaggerated and obviously fake that they always made us laugh.
Some dogs can even be trained to show a snarl on command in a context that is otherwise perfectly friendly. These observations show that dogs can exhibit nasty faces voluntarily, just as we do when we are only pretending to be mean. Growling , like snarling , is a seemingly aggressive behavior that means something different during play than it does in other contexts.
We have often videotaped play between another female Shepherd, Zelda, and a male mixed-breed, Bentley. When watching these tapes, we noticed that, following brief pauses in play, Zelda often stared at Bentley and growled fiercely.
Whenever she did this, Bentley leaped toward her and the chase was on. Bentley moved toward rather than away from Zelda because he knew her growl was not real. This phenomenon was also noted by other researchers, who recorded growls from dogs in three different contexts, including play 4. Play growls have different acoustical properties than growls given as threats, and when researchers played the growls back, dogs distinguished between play growls and growls given in agonistic i. Surprisingly, in some of the relationships we studied, individuals initiated play and preferred to play with others who were consistently assertive with them.
For example, in a litter of mixedbreed puppies, one female, Pink, initiated play with a female littermate, Blue, more than twice as often as she initiated play with any of her other littermates including another sister , even though Blue adopted the assertive role during play percent of the time. Ears will be pinned flat and lips curled back and snarling. No big silly smiles. The dog is trying to get away from the other one, and her body language is not happy and bouncy. Tail is tucked. Some breeds are just quick to take offense.
They may be better off playing at home with you or with a dog buddy they know well. Keep food and toys out of the picture. Most dogs are possessive of their food and their stuff. Have a plan for home and away If your dog does get into a real fight, do not attempt to separate the dogs by grabbing a collar or using any part of your body. Share a few contact details to get your FREE e-book. AKC Privacy Policy. Founded in , the not-for-profit AKC is the recognized and trusted expert in breed, health, and training information for all dogs.
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