Zoey is 9 months old, and is very friendly to adults, but not towards children. A week ago when I was walking her a family with 2 children walked by (about 3 or 4 years). The family seemed interested in zoey and the kids asked to pet her. I warned that zoey might jump up on them, but I didn't expect any rude behavior from her. When the girl when to pet zoey, she jumped up on her in a friendly (but obnoxious) way. The girl kind of screamed (not in a scared way) and I pulled zoey off and told her no. When I did that zoey made a low growling noise and pulled to the girl in a non friendly way. I was freaked out. The dad pulled the girl away and told her not to scream like that. He wasn't mad about zoeys behavior at all, but i was completely shocked. How do I teach her to respect kids? It's hard to socialize her because I don't want to ask people if I can use their kids to socialize my unfriendly dog...
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