Why is it that a dog does not know it's size. In reality they do very much know they are smaller and a target and could very easily get hurt and or killed.
Therefore that is why they ar fear aggressive or just plain protecting them selves. Scare the heck out of the other dog before it gets me. Because many large dogs are not soicalized to small dogs a small dog does scare them and because many small dogs are not socialized to large dogs they get scared.
Dogs are not wolves, wolves are not dogs. Dogs are not pack animals in the wild they are social beings that float in and out of relationships depending on the resorouse available. There is not the resources in the wild for dogs to pack they form one or two dog partnerships. What is seen at a garbage dump is these small bands coming to a resouces and fighting for limited supplies with other dogs. Once they leave that supply source they break off into ones and twos again.. Therefore not a structured pack.
Therefore treating them as a pack animal makes as much sense as us treating our human kids as pack animals.
Wolves and dogs split a long time ago. You take a wolf and try to raise it as a pet you have to pull it from its mother at 14 DAYS old. You have to be hands on all its life and you can never trust it. It will bite you if you hit it. It is not tame it will be wild for life.
Dogs know we are human and the problems we have with our dogs is not understand what is actually their body language is and they read us far better then we will ever read them.
There is a saying that goes watching a wolf to learn to raise a dog is as good as; oh I watched a guerrilla today I can be a good human mother now.
Dogs are dogs more like a fur covered human kid then a wolf.
Only thing is they do not talk and their body language and what they find rude is far different then a humans.
90% of all aggression is fear and most of that is caused by lack of socialization at the right time...... right from birth.
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