Released 2023

Dealing with Dominant & Aggressive Dogs

19 Hrs 36 Mn of Video

by Ed Frawley

Back in 2008, I produced a DVD by the same title as this online course "Dealing with Dominant and Aggressive Dogs". This new online course is not an update to that 2008 DVD. The new course has entirely new content and goes into much greater detail on the causes and solutions to dog aggression problems (which we no longer sell the 2008 DVD). 

It is important to understand that the majority of the content in our course is detailed lecture. We did not set up scenarios where dogs were put in a position to demonstrating various types of aggression for the sake of producing a video. That would be unfair to the dog and would also be dangerous to the people involved.

Those who want to see uncontrolled dog aggression with less than accurate comments on causes and solutions can go to YouTube.

Dog aggression is a extremely complex subject. People who want to become professional dog trainers can learn obedience training in a couple of years. The problem is obedience training does not qualify a trainer to offer advice on dog aggression.

It can take many years (often more than decade) for a trainer to be qualified to offer accurate advice on dog aggression. 

Ed Frawley's Qualifications

Before buying a course on dog aggression, you should know a little about the instructor's experience and qualifications. For that reason, I will include a brief resume on my experience.

I have been involved in serious dog training for over 60 years. I went to my first seminar on the sport of Schutzhund (now called IGP) in 1974 and my first  police k9 training in 1978. In the early 1980s, I competed in AKC obedience trials and Schutzhund trials, titling a number of dogs in both sports.

I started producing dog training videos in 1982.  Many of my training videos dealt with training dogs for the biting sports and police service work.

Later in the 1980s, I imported (from Germany and Belgium) selection tested dogs for police service work. During the 1990s, I was a police K9 handler on our local sheriff's department. For three of those years, I was chairmen of the "training committee" for the Wisconsin police dog association.

During the 1970s and up until 2009, I bred German Shepherds for police work and to compete in the biting dog sports.  All of my breeding dogs came from imported German working bloodlines. I retired from breeding in 2009.

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Some Dogs Will Not Forgive You

- and you cannot change them -

Having started to seriously train dogs back in the 1960s, I have lived through the good, the bad, and the ugly part of the evolution of becoming a dog trainer.

When I talk about the "Yank and Crank" method of dog training, the old William Kohler Method of Dog Training, I know what I am talking about because that's how I grew up training dogs in the 1960s. That's how everyone trained back then. 

I bought my first $1,000.00 remote collar in the late 1970s. Remote collar training with a remote back then was ugly. I tried for about 6 months and put it up for over 10 years. I couldn't deal with the high level "Escape and Avoidance" training. That was just a train wreck.  

Reward-based training came to the dog world in 1993. At first, I thought it was a gimmick until I met our friend Michael Ellis. Michael had a handle on how to train with rewards using markers. It was like opening a whole new world of dog training for me. I got hooked. I was able to put avoidance training behind me. 

My point in saying these things is, in my early years, I screwed up a lot of very nice dogs because of how we trained back then. I wish I had a second chance with my old dogs. I had some great ones.

The one thing I learned from those mistakes is that there are some dogs that won't forgive you for what you have done to them. They are like people. They hold grudges and no amount of being nice will ever change them. Fortunately, not all dogs are like that.

Trainers should realize this when they buy this course that  there are no secret  training methods that will change most aggressive dogs, but there are ways to manage and safely live with most of them if the owners make an effort to learn how to do this. That's what I will teach in this course. 

If you have an aggressive dog and you feel you have the patience to learn how to take the time it takes to manage and retrain your dog, I can help you find the road to getting that done.

It needs to be said that while there are close to 200 videos in the course, I did not go out, just for the sake of the course, and setup scenarios to demonstrate the various forms of dog aggression. Not only would this be stressful on the dogs involved, it could have been dangerous for the people who helped. If you want to see dog aggression and poor handling, you can find all you need to see in YouTube. It's important that customers understand that there will be no refunds because this course is mostly lecture.

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Course Outline