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are many guidelines you must follow to ensure your safety and grant an acceptable level of success. Keep in mind, though, that severe cases require professional help. so do not try to play "good samaritan" if your dog suffers from a severe case of aggression. Below are some common scenarios of aggressive dogs' behaviors.

Food aggression

These are dogs which will not allow humans near their food bowl. They will snarl with lips raised and emit a mean growl. While this may be intimidating, owners must also show no fear as this is what teaches the dog to react this way. The only solution would be to crate the dog during meal times at first. Then slowly while the dog is crated, owners or rescuers should allow the dog to comprehend that their food is not at stake. Rather, rescuers should allow the dog to understand that pleasant things happen when humans get close to his food bowl. Rather than being intimidated by this aggressive dog, rescuers should try to approach the dog when crated. The dog will growl. As soon as he halts growling a treat is tossed. Gradually rescuers get closer tossing a treat at each step coordinating with the moments with no growl. The dog will learn that not only humans are not interested in taking away his bowl, but they actually are adding food into it. Only once the dog seems to get better, this exercise can be practised with the dog out of the crate.

Lack of leadership

In order to show leadership, owners must learn to practice NILF. This form of training stands for Nothing in Life is Free and it consists in letting the dog work for almost anything. Have the dog sit and stay in front of the food bowl. Let him eat the food only when you give him a command to eat. Let him sit before being pet, before giving water, before putting on his leash, before giving a toy. This way your dog will learn that you are in charge of almost everything and he must earn his way to it. Consistency is the key to this method, you cannot let him eat freely from your dish one day and let him sit and wait in front of his bowl the next.

Bad manners

Some dogs may lack proper manners and turn aggressive with owners when they are not left to have it their way. From now on, take away privileges. No dog is to be allowed on beds or on sofas. Generally, all elevated areas are left for owners only. Also dogs must wait for the owner to get out of the door first and the dog must stay next to the owner or slightly behind when walked. Alpha dogs in the wild have privileges and as

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