My beautiful rescue dog is a larger breed and is the perfect dog apart from when they're around other dogs but particularly terriers and toy breeds. As such we keep them on lead at all times, as advised by the rescue centre.
If we spot a dog on our walk before our dog does we spin her round and walk the opposite way. If we spot it too late we get our dog to sit and stand blocking the view to the other dog and get her to pay us attention while they walk past and loudly ask them to put their dog on lead if necessary.
All well and good so far, this works 99% of the time.
Today it didn't. I don't know if it was because the other dog walkers were older men with toy breeds (one had poodles the other papillon type things) or they were having a bad day or what but BOTH let their dogs go for mine on their extendable leads with no attempt to control them and BOTH blamed my dog when she reacted and said I should have my dog under better control!! Fwiw my dog is on a harness, and on a shorter non retractable lead. Neither dog Walker attempted to get their dogs under control and instead focused on trying to push mine away.
When my dog is in reactive mode they freeze to the spot and launch from there. They cannot be moved without considerable force.
The way I see it. They should have retracted their leads and kept walking past us and by stopping and keeping their snarling darlings near my dog they antagonised the situation.
What, if anything, could I or should I do in future to prevent this?
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Reactive dog - what should I do differently?
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PlayOnWurtz · 02/11/2016 16:41
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