Neighbour avoiding us when I take puppy for walk?

[Samdon47]

So we got a puppy 10 weeks ago first time dog owner. Although husband has had dogs his whole childhood and as a adult. First few weeks of walking him he was overly eager and wanting to say hi to everyone and their dog! Hes still like that at 18 weeks old! All our neighbours have been loving him those who have dogs ofcourse because he's a puppy. We meet a couple with a dog who we have never meet before and first few times we seen them they would come over with their dog and my puppy would be excited and jumping up on the dog with the dog seeming to be happy and fine with it. I don't let him jump and get close to every dog BTW. But I have now noticed that this neighbour has been avoiding us walking different direction etc .. she was shouting his name from across the street when we first got him. They have never had a bad interaction. Think I'm just being paranoid and I'm really not the most sociable person so it's not as if I'm craving the interaction either!! Has anyone else had another dog walker avoid them 🤣

Well they've made it fairly clear they don't want the dogs interracting any longer. I imagine they weren't thrilled that yours kept jumping up/on their dog. Perhaps their dog is elderly, or nervous, or the owners expected you to begin training yours.

10 weeks later he shouldn't still be jumping at other dogs. You need to train him out of that.

I wouldn’t want a puppy (however cute they may be!) jumping all over my dog either, nor should you be allowing him to do so. I can see why the neighbour is keeping their distance.

I avoid other dogs and their walkers if their dog jumps up.

What people will forgive in a new puppy they get very fed up of in a grown dog.

If my dog is on a lead and can't escape it's not fair to let another dog jump all over them - especially if the dog is nervous or infirm.

One of the key things dogs need to learn is how to greet other dogs politely and it doesn't sound as though yours does this. You need to teach them how to do this and puppy/dog training classes would be ideal as there will be other dogs around to practice with.

If your dog can't greet other dogs politely it will end in disaster if it approaches the wrong dog or owner. You'll never be able to let it off the lead.

I would avoid you too, to be honest. It might not have been a bad interaction from your point of view, but the other owner doesn't appear to be in agreement.
My dog is very submissive, so to the untrained eye would appear to be fine with a puppy jumping all over her. In reality, she's just too nice (for want of a better word) to tell the puppy off for being rude. So I would avoid putting her in that situation again.

I'm sure your puppy will learn some manners as he gets older and meets other dogs.

They are being responsible dog owners.

My older and anti-social dog met a puppy a few weeks ago. My dog rarely meets others (by personal choice), while the puppy is at classes etc. My dog got diarrhea and vomitting bug from the puppy. Not the puppy or the puppy owner’s fault, but we have been avoiding them since!