Golden Retriever Forum:
Aggression

We have 4 goldens and love them all to death. They are spoiled rotten. Our youngest male has become increasingly more aggresive as he matures. Certain times I understand such as when one of our females was in heat and when she was close to delivery. We have tried confining him away from the other dogs and this seems to work for a time and they are fine then it is back to same thing. I have been bitten twice and have never experienced this with Goldens. I have had them all my life. I am hoping this is just Alpha dog syndrome and getting him fixed will take care of this. We were not planning on breeding him do to allergies so this seems like the logical next step he is only 15 months and sweet most of the time as well as hyper but that I can live with attacking my other dogs I cannot. He has been with the other dogs since birth as he is one of ours from our first litter so not sure were the agression is coming from.

What type of teaching has he had? Clickers might help...hmmm. Its a learned thing, what happens when he acts agressive? Do you back away, leave him alone? Can he do what he wants to do then? things to think about, GoldenPup

hello i also have a couple goldens myself...i tihnk if u would get him fixed then he should stop being so aggresive...hope this works out for ya!