My ten month old JRT cross met my friend's eight month old border terrier today and they took an instant dislike to each other. Before they were even near each other they were snarling and baring their teeth. I have literally never heard her growl in anger before, only ever an 'excited' growl when playing with toys. We went for a walk with them and they were chasing each other around and randomly erupting into very vicious fights (which we broke up).
She is usually very submissive with other dogs - can it be the case that they just didn't like each other or was it the fact that they are both females, similar age, similar size? It did look like they both wanted to be 'the boss' of the other. I was really surprised by it and I worry that this has awoken some kind of vicious nature in her. My friend had also not seen her dog like this before.
Should I persevere with her meeting this other dog or should we accept that they don't like each other?
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