We see her every Saturday. Her owner leaves a lot to be desired. The dog is clearly aggressive but never leashed. Her stance (the dogs not the owners) is one that tells our dogs to keep their distance, which is fine except there is only so much sand and her 'space' is massive meaning our dogs have no option but to walk past her - it's that or go swimming.
Without fail this causes her to lunge aggressively at our dogs, which seems to start a sort of tag team thing with our dogs. Hers will grab the neck of the first dog it reaches, another of ours will then snap at her back end. She will let go of the first dog and grab the second, another dog will then snap at her back end. We successfully call our dogs back to us several times while this is going on but the owner won't leash her dog so it simply lunges at ours again and starts the whole thing off again until we have passed far enough away.
What is odd is that we encountered this dog again, further on our walk without her owner. It would appear that the dog ran off looking for us but she is lovely without her owner there. Very playful, relaxed, happy and waggy. If I hadn't seen the same woman come running after I wouldn't have believed it was the same dog.
Second the lady gets close enough the dog switches again back to being aggressive.
Very odd. Why would a dog be this way?
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D0oinMeCleanin · 01/12/2012 17:11
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