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Yup, I never was tense before till she almost attacked a dog in the park when her harness broke and she got loose, and now I am always like uh Ginger are you going to behave if another dotg comes around us or near her.
She does extreamlly w ell sometimes if SHE wants to approach THEM< but then out of the clear blue she'll snap at them or snarl and I am like oh no not again. not out loud but mentally.
She was never socialized I don't believe I don't know her entire history. I do know that for many many years like 5 plus it was just her and her mom and she never got out of the house cause her mom wasn't capable of taking Ginger out. So now she's super stranger agressive and shy, because strangers are not a normal occurance, and I really do n't have that many people to come around and be introduced being it's just me and daddy and I don't have real life friends, and I am so worried she's gonna bite someone if I take her out in public to meet new people.
I tell people automatically if she's around please do not approach the dog until I tell you it's ok to, she's skittish, and it works but then most are afraid to touch her or be near here, and one time one doofus said it's ok if she bites me i'll punch her I'm not afraid to get bit.
If we start taking her out regularly and having safe people( people who won't over react if she shows fear) talk to her, regularly maybe we won't have to fear her out in public, because we'll have worked with her and trained her to be utterly cool..
Incidentally there's less agression if Daddy has her than I do, I guess she feels safer. I have noticed a definite trend that if you are daddy and you're introducing her to a stranger she'll accept them much faster than if I Mommy introduce them. WE can do so much more when he's in charge than when I am in that regard. We can even walk her and she behaved better for him, because he's established himself as the one to trust and obey as alpha.
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ORIGINAL: impishlilhellcat
It's not uncommon. If a dog isn't socialized on a regular basis they can easily become other dog aggressive. Another thing is too is that you probably unbeknownst to you tense up around other dogs for fear she'll attack. Every dog trainer I have ever worked with states this is a problem. I have a little australian shepherd who was dog aggressive and if I don't take him out around other dogs for training he still gets that way from time to time. You can train them (in small steps) so that they aren't, but it's a constant effort. It's taken me two years to trust him off leash around other dogs we don't know. Even now if a dog off leash rushes us as we are walking he will try to attack. If they approach slowly then it's all good. If he's off leash he doesn't much care either way. My dogs are trained so that I can simply take a book out into the yard and read and they will play, chase squirrels whatever as long as I go with them. For instance this morning I went and raked leaves while they chased each other around the yard and jumped through my pile of leaves. I also have this huge hard plastic ball, which one of them has learned to herd around the yard.. I.e she pushes it around with her nose. Not only is it physical exercise, but it's mentally exhausting for her too. It works similar to a treat ball. They have to figure out how to get the treat.. she has to figure out how to move the ball around the yard.
There's a pattern here. Constant training for you and the dog.
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