Just for some background information. Our dog is 10 months old, we had some issues last month with him growling and snapping the air at DS after an incident where DS accidentally scared him (he woke him up by making a loud noise close to his face). We spoke to a behaviourist whose advise we followed and we’ve had no further incidents.
There’s a girl who lives in our street, she has autism. When she sees pup she often screams and runs away (she’s scared of dogs, pup hasn’t done anything to make her scared of him). We’ve told here keep her distance as she’s scaring the dog (he would lock his legs and refuse to walk into the street if he could see her playing out). Today, we were all in the car ready to leave and she came up to the window and banged on it. Pup reacted by barking and growling loudly. I signalled for her to move away from the car and we drove off.
When we got back off our walk our next door neighbour had a friend visiting, she went up to our dog, crouched down, and ruffled his face, putting her face really close to his. He started barking and growled at her.
I feel like these are reasonable reactions from our dog, warning signals that he’s not happy and both times it got him out of a situation that was making him uncomfortable.
I’m just sensitive to his behaviour and wonder if it’s ok that he did this? Do I need to speak to the behaviourist again or is this acceptable from him?
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Stackers382 · 21/06/2020 17:48
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