Civil Aggression - Page 1

I've been told that a dog with civil aggression is not an appropriate dog for a family setting. The implication being that the dog would have a higher propensity to bite a family member.  This doesn't make sense to me. To me it comes down to the temperament of the dog. Am I missing something?

Were you told that by someone with an unaggressive dog they wanted to sell you? :-)

I can only speculate on having a dog around family but I would not feel comfortable having the sort of dogs I like running loose with kids, babies etc. I just do not have that level of confidence and knowing just how quickly shit can happen. Also seeing how many hyper ADD little punk brats these days run around out of control with no respect for anything I want to smack most of them upside the head so I can only imagine how a dumb dog feels.

 

I do get told a lot, a real lot, especially by breeders that dogs can be aggressive civil monsters and totally fine around the family.

Personally if I know a dog has the goods, that eliminates him from free exposure to a family.

Prepare for lots of still pics of gsd laying next to babies coming up.

 

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All boils down to honesty and knowledge of seller of a dog,
many people difference only between a non agressive or agressive dog, but there are multiple forms of agression
I dont care for handler agression, food agression or possesive agression, but these are the forms that mostly couse the problems

A balanced dog with civil agression can be a familydog or sportdog without problems, my old dog Ajax who has a little loose trigger on civil is a perfect familydog also with kids, but when strangers visit I put him in other room, just responsible dog ownership nothing more

here is a perfect example of balanced dog, anybody can take him on line and walk with him, kids also, but when asked for he will light up
can be very good sportdog as well, just over one yer old an NFS

https://youtu.be/Uh9anV8DfbY

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NFS?

While I would use great caution and restrict access to eachother if introducing an adult civil dog into the family, the general blanket statement is BS. Provided the children are taught to respect the dog I know many civil dogs that are safe with their family. If they are raised by that family or bonded and not safe there is something else off with the dogs temperament IMO.

GSDfan- that's my general impression. Also, it may have something to do with thresholds. I had a friend who owned a Lord son. Very civil dog, yet the kids would be all over the dog with no problem. I had an opportunity to get the dog, but my wife refused because he growled at her. Tried to explain that the dog was just expressing his dissatisfaction with her overt friendliness, but you know as they say happy wife.....

If civil aggression come in a,dog with balance and very high environment training that dog can live anywhere or do anything . I have a 2 dogs that lives with my family in the house they both have very high civil aggression but are super balanced. Iv had these dogs all over Europe in many camping area's. That's the difference between good obedience in a very high civil dog and a dog with no obedience environmental skills . High civil is hard work but is the obligation of the owner to train the dog to fit society

I suppose it depends on who is defining civil aggression. I'd mean it in the sense the dog can be aggressive to people outside his accepted family, not aggressive to all people. I would not mean it as a dog that is generally nasty or unpredictable. A dog with a normal, confident temperament can still be civil in some situations and perfectly safe within the family and in normal life.

Margaret N-J