[yorkietalkjilly]

Here is a recent post I did on another thread and it just echoes what others have said to to with her. A biter has just escalated beyond the initial aggressive stage to vicious out of fear but with some training, time, settling in and overcoming her past horrors, she will learn to stop aggressing. She will learn there is nothing to fear in time and with re-training, her behavior will modify. It will take time and patience and lots of love but you can do it. Once she's settled in, I'd start her working learning obedience, challenging games and lots of good, healthy exercise to keep her busy learning and achieving a team membership with you.

Thank you so very much for taking this poor dog and giving her a real chance to be a wonderful, happy and healthy, fulfilled dog with a great life ahead of her. You are wonderful!

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Aggressive dogs will usually initiate barking, growling, showing teeth to get people/dogs to move away because they are fearful or unsure of them. Sounds like she was upset by that experience of the family members, felt as if she had no control of what was happening and it made her unsure around people she doesn't know. Inviting people into your home one at a time to slowly desensitize her to people could help. Have the person come in, don't look at her, talk to or touch her, sit and visit with you while totally ignoring her and then leaving in 5 minutes or so could start to get her used to strangers being around and teach her there is no harm in them. After three or four have done this visiting-while-ignoring visit with you daily for two weeks, have each person now start to toss out treats on the floor near them from time to time for her though still strictly ignoring her. After another couple of weeks of that, a visitor could see if she will start to act friendly, approach or sniff by placing a hand down by the side of a chair, maybe with a treat in it. Allow them to briefly interact with her if she does approach but leave fairly quickly after she initiates their attention and to leave her wanting more. In time, with more visitors and time, she should regain her enjoyment of having people visit and interact with her.