I'll be getting a second dog (puppy soon and I am really keen to avoid the mistakes I made with my first dog.
With new puppy I plan to use treats to teach puppy to walk past and ignore other dogs.
I am not willing to allow puppy to interact with strange dogs that I don't know myself.
This is due to a large number of usually unprovoked aggressive encounters to my older dog and multiple frightening incidents where there was no malice from the dog involved but the other owner had no control meaning my dog been barked at, chased, jumped on and squashed flat on the floor on one occasion...
Which has obviously been scary for her.
The result is a dog who started out confident and friendly but is now comfortable with other dogs around but generally, cannot cope with actual meetings and will react aggressively.
New puppy is a large breed and I absolutely do not want a big reactive dog.
I am a little worried that if I never really allow puppy to interact with strange dogs aside from mine and a selected few I know, is the puppy likely to grow up anxious around other dogs??
Am I worrying unnecessarily?
I desperately want to get it right this time.
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frostedviolets · 15/11/2019 15:38
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