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Play fighting with your dog...

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wheresmymojo · 07/08/2022 23:41

Do you play fight with your dog?

We play fight with ours quite a lot...just being silly with her really. She absolutely loves it and sometimes will play bow and bark until one of us gives in and 'fights' with her.

She's quite bitey during these sessions but never breaks the skin. However she does occasionally get over excited and snaps at your face and on occasion has bitten my nose which has hurt (again, no skin broken and I don't blame her, it's just natural play behaviour however we have put boundaries in place around snapping towards faces and stop playing with her immediately if she does this so this has reduced).

I guess I just wondered what other dog owners do? Do you rough play with your dogs?

Shes quite a large(ish) German shepherd x Doberman x something else (maybe something hound-ish) mixed breed rescue.

I can imagine some people might think were mad to play fight with her.

Important to note that we don't have any children or children who visit us at home and I watch her like a hawk around other people because if she decided to play fight with them they might think she's aggressive.

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Sweetleftfood · 11/08/2022 17:18

I personally think any well adjusted dog will play nicely and not all of a sudden bite your hand off. Surely you know your dog and know what they like, always so much over thinking on this board imo

sunsetsandsandybeaches · 11/08/2022 17:33

Sweetleftfood · 11/08/2022 17:18

I personally think any well adjusted dog will play nicely and not all of a sudden bite your hand off. Surely you know your dog and know what they like, always so much over thinking on this board imo

Did you miss the part where OP says this dog has bitten her on the face before?

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