How to acclimate a dog-aggressive foster dog to other dogs?

What you don't do is expose the other dogs in your complex to a known dog aggressive dog. I suggest that if you take this dog it is NOT exercised or taken to empty its bowels or bladder in the communal space because it would be unfair on the other owners and dogs.

In addition when conditioning a [shy/timid] dog to be neutral when exposed to other dogs, it is inadvisable to throw it in at the deep in and take in leashed to an area where there are dogs unleashed because that will ramp up its level of stress because the timid dog cannot choose remove itself from a highly stressful situation.

Putting a dog in a situation its temperament isn't ready to handle would set up the circumstances for the dog to react defensively and growl or snap to drive away a perceived threat. You can control where the dog is taken and would be responsible for keeping unknown dogs out of his physical space.

A timid dog will quickly progress body language to signal that it's not comfortable in a situation to a warning grown and outright bite if the person in charge of the dog isn't vigilant and ready to step in if there are any signs the dog is stressed and remove the dog from the situation.

Unless you are experienced training shy/timid dogs and building trust and confidence by gradually increasing the level of trigger stimulus the dog is exposed to in its everyday life, I would pick another foster dog.

Bad idea. You sound like you have no experience with dogs like this. And i'm telling you, it doesn't matter if your dogs on the lead or not. At least one of those other dogs will respond to his aggressive nature and there will be a fight. Especially since it is an enclosed area where there could suddenly be any number of other dogs coming in! How are you going to stop that exactly? When a fight breaks out in a contained area where there are other dogs, the pack mentality normally takes over and then you have a complete brawl on your hands. Can you handle that? Would you be able to break up a fight with a number of dogs? No. And what about the other dog owners? Do they know about this?

The first thing to do is introduce him to the other dogs at your foster home on leash. That way he can get used to the other dogs with supervision. After this it should be ok to let him be off leash if he doesn't show aggressive intents. But still try to keep an eye on him. Introduce him many different dogs and situations. That will help with aggressiveness.

It's the owner that needs to learn how to train the dog, so sending it away to be trained means it will work for the trainer, but when it gets home the owner will probably do everything wrong and the dog will not respond correctly. Learn how to train your dog obedience https://tr.im/q7CMV

Part of the fun in having a well trained dog is learning to train it correctly yourself. That is also the most rewarding. Some people send dogs away for specialist training, like sheep herding, protection work or gundog training, but even then, that is the lazy way out and good trainers do their own training to get what they want from their own dogs.

However it is always more productive to train your dog under a good instructor, especially if you are not experienced

For your safety's sake you really shouldnt try and do that on your own.

But since we are human and we like the unknown . . . Are your dogs and their dogs motivated by food? Are the dogs trained well? I would say have many treats around. also watch a lil bit of cesar milan. he has some really good techniques on how to train and handle dogs. all the dogs can get a long you just have to have time to teach them, work with them.

For the sake of the owners of the other dogs, and the other dogs, I'd not try this. It also depends on how bad this dog is in terms of his dog aggression. So it's difficult to tell you really. And obviously it depends a lot on how experienced you are when it comes to retraining a dog like this. Why would you really want to 'rock the boat' in terms of your neighbours and their dogs, especially if this dog isn't going to be with you forever?

its really dangerous if you can't control other dogs. even if you get a muzzle on yours. if you really want to try it. get a friend with a dog that you know is very friendly and introduce them at a park. both need to be leashed. if their are any signs one might get aggressive. the session is over and try again another time. remember they should sniff each others bum first if they face to face too long that is a bad sign.

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

You need to be able to control other dog's access to him, and you can't do that when there are a bunch of off leash dogs around.

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Okay lets see here you want a dog AGGRESSIVE dog to be with others that may be , is it just me or do you see a problem here ? Your lighting a stick of dynamite just waiting for it to explode .