Episode 264 – A Plea for Behavioral Tolerance

After I recorded and edited this, I seriously considered deleting it because  I knew that, in spite of my best efforts to avoid it, some people would choose to misinterpret my words.

For the record, I do not consider all resource-guarding or all displaced or redirected aggression normal. As always, it depends on the circumstances, and that requires an awareness of what’s going on relative to any dogs and humans involved. In that context and like all other behaviors, sometimes these behaviors are normal and sometimes they’re pathological. The trick is to avoid taking a one-size-fits-all approach simply because it’s the most convenient.