Fearful-offensive threatening

Complex behaviour. The dog moves into a frontal stance, with his hindquarters lowered, tail down, while the anterior portion of the body is held high, head up with characteristic rearing profile; often the dog will also exhibit barking.
(Capra, 2010)

The tawny mixed breed male exhibits fearful-offensive threatening: head held high with gaze oriented toward the face of an unfamiliar person, hindquarters lowered, centre of gravity shifted backwards.

The female Malamute exhibits agonistic pucker, an offensive threat display, while the Terrier mix displays fearful-offensive threatening.

VIDEO

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Video filmed during a behavioural evaluation. In the first clip, when the evaluator moves the artificial hand toward the bowl, the male Border Collie mix exhibits an agonistic pucker, then growls, flicks his tongue, leaps forward and moves into a frontal stance. The Border growl-barks, then exhibits fearful-offensive threatening: head held high, tail and hindquarters lowered, tail wagging, ears back and centre of gravity shifted backwards. The dog steps back and exhibits a back-off posture; when the hand moves near the bowl, the dog exhibits an agonistic pucker and growl-barks. In the second clip, the dog, a male mixed-breed, exibits fearful-offensive threatening when the evaluator tries to caress/touch the dog with the artificial hand: high-pitched barking and growling associated with defensive threatening and bite-threatening, hindquarters lowered, head held high, ears back and hackles raised.

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