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travistee · 08-06-2010, 03:18 PM

We were at the dog park again today and the same thing happened with the same dog again.

Kiai does not do this to all the dogs in the park. In fact he is very gentle with them. Last time they were the only dogs there so we thought that may have had something to do with it.
Today he was doing fine with lots of dogs there. Then that dog came in.

This time we saw that the smaller dog came over to Kiai and growled at him. Kiai did not back off and it ended with Kiai's foot on the other dogs chest. If small dogs bark at him he backs away. That growl must have been a dominant growl that he felt he needed to respond to. ( see my original post describing what happened when he was the smaller dog)

We left the park.

I think that if a smaller dog wants to show he is dominant with a larger dog, then that is how they sort out the pack order. There was no biting and I think that if the dogs were left to figure it out on their own the other dog would learn not to try to be dominant with larger dogs.

One of the other people left also because she didn't want that dog to start up with her dog.

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08-06-2010, 03:18 PM	#16 (permalink)
travistee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 32	We were at the dog park again today and the same thing happened with the same dog again. Kiai does not do this to all the dogs in the park. In fact he is very gentle with them. Last time they were the only dogs there so we thought that may have had something to do with it. Today he was doing fine with lots of dogs there. Then that dog came in. This time we saw that the smaller dog came over to Kiai and growled at him. Kiai did not back off and it ended with Kiai's foot on the other dogs chest. If small dogs bark at him he backs away. That growl must have been a dominant growl that he felt he needed to respond to. ( see my original post describing what happened when he was the smaller dog) We left the park. I think that if a smaller dog wants to show he is dominant with a larger dog, then that is how they sort out the pack order. There was no biting and I think that if the dogs were left to figure it out on their own the other dog would learn not to try to be dominant with larger dogs. One of the other people left also because she didn't want that dog to start up with her dog. ? Last edited by travistee; 08-06-2010 at 03:23 PM.