Is Your Dog’s Aggressive Behavior Caused by Its Diet?

Before making judgments about what is causing your dog’s behavior, you must understand something about how dogs react to particular situations. Many humans react aggressively in certain circumstances, so do dogs. Did you know that there are foods that do not agree with dogs? Knowing what is good for your animal will go a long way toward making it gentle and happy.

A diet which irritates your dogs system will make it irritable. You know when you are irritable, you easily fly off the handle. Well, the same thing happens with your dog. Continued irritation of its digestive system will lead to aggressive behavior. So educate yourself about what foods are good for your dog and you will have a contented animal.

Dogs evolved from wolves. Wolves thrive in the wild by eating prey that lives on vegetation. The first area they eat after killing pry is the stomach, which is full of leaves, roots and berries. Have you noticed that your dog eats grass? Evidently these animals need their vegetables, in addition to meat, just as we do.

If a dog were in the wild, it would eat only foods that it could digest and eliminate easily. Since we choose the dogs diet, it has to eat what we believe it needs. Unfortunately, many dog foods contain synthetic preservatives, coloring and fillers…none of these are GOOD for your dog.

Some manufacturers even stoop to add addictive ingredients to boost their sales. Needless to say, many dogs die young because of this selfish practice! When the dog’s discomfort exceeds tolerance levels it becomes overly aggressive, just as you do when you are perpetually irritated. An inappropriate diet will sap your dogs energy. It will become listless and even worse, unruly. A grain based diet should never be fed to a dog, as it leads to wild swing in blood sugar levels–eventually to insulin resistance, then diabetes. Even if wild dogs consume only minimal quantities of grains in the form of already digested paste and juices in the intestines of a seed eating prey. Remember that a diet composed of high quality protein, plus roots, green beans, fruits, tomatoes and bananas will lead to a happy, healthy animal. Healthy, mature dogs are normally gentle and do not bite.