Grumpy Dogs: Overcoming Your Dog's Fear and Aggression

About Grumpy Dogs: Overcoming Your Dog's Fear and Aggression

Scott Sheaffer is a certified canine behavior consultant specializing in serious canine behavior problems. Through a comprehensive online consultation, he helps dog owners understand their dog’s behavior, its potential danger, the prognosis, and the most appropriate treatment options. Clients throughout the United States can access his specialized expertise online. Visit our website to contact us (USADogBehavior.com), learn about the consultation process, explore pricing, see what to expect, and access free canine behavior education through articles and podcasts.

Publisher

Scott Sheaffer, CBCC-KA, CDBC, CPDT-KA

Category

kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Mar 2023

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

134 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   If you died at home, would your dog eat you? | The Strange Side of Dog Behavior

   If you died at home, would your dog eat you? In the first installment of The Strange Side of Dog Behavior, certified canine behavior consultant and aggression specialist Scott Sheaffer explores an unsettling behavior documented in forensic investigations. Learn what postmortem scavenging means, hear a real case involving a pug and an owner who died from a heart-related cause, and discover why prolonged starvation can't explain every report. Scott examines the possible explanations, what remai...

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Why does my dog bark at the doorbell?

   Why does your dog start barking before you've even opened the front door? In this episode, Scott Sheaffer explains how the doorbell can become a learned signal for an encounter that feels threatening. He distinguishes ordinary alert or excited barking from fear-driven territorial aggression and explains why, in that pattern, the dog is seeking personal safety rather than protecting owners or property. Scott also explores how repeated barking at passersby through a window can strengthen the be...

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Why Does My Dog Pull on the Leash?

   Why does your dog pull on the leash? The answer may be a simple training gap, a habit that has repeatedly worked, or an emotional response to something in the environment. Pulling toward dogs and people can reflect excitement or greeting frustration, but it can also be driven by fear, social insecurity, or aggression. In this episode, Scott Sheaffer explains how to distinguish general leash pulling from trigger-driven reactivity, why dogs stop responding when they go over threshold, and how t...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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