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Originally Posted by lblax  i read her posts when her son got bit while she was in her frenzie has nothing to do at all about being people aggressive the dog simply unloaded this happens quite a bit and has absolutly nothing to do with people aggression |
Absolutely correct, this is simply redirected aggression and it happens often with dogs who are not the clearest in the head, or when dogs have worked themselves into a dither. My oldest girl is famous for this; bark at window, get hyped up, bite dog on neck standing next to her because it's the closest thing to release that energy on. Son was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is why keeping the dog from getting hyped up in the first place is job one, as lblax has explained very clearly in this thread. If you know 'where' your dog's threshold is (the line of demarkation, so to speak), and you should if you own a dog, then you know where the "breaking point" of no return is. The dog should be trained within it's threshold first, learning control and attention on the handler. Then the stakes are upped. This dog simply needs to go back in training to fix the holes.
I agree with the opinion of finding a different trainer.