Correct way to approach a GSD?

[just another truck]

I have just read the full 9 pages.. and I am wondering if the dog takes after the owners feelings for strangers?? If they are picking up on your feelings and it goes from there..

[DCluver33]

Originally Posted by just another truck

I have just read the full 9 pages.. and I am wondering if the dog takes after the owners feelings for strangers?? If they are picking up on your feelings and it goes from there..

oh yes dogs pick up on your feelings all the time. If your dog is acting weird towards a person chances are you and/or the other person are nervous, scared, excited, anxious, ect. I always say if you're calm your dog more than likely will be too.

[VegasResident]

Originally Posted by just another truck

I have just read the full 9 pages.. and I am wondering if the dog takes after the owners feelings for strangers?? If they are picking up on your feelings and it goes from there..

Absolutely. Sometime read the book "The Other Side of the Leash". One of the most interesting points is that just as your dogs read every eye body and mouth movement of other dogs, they do the same with you. They see your eyes, your tension in your face and mouth if you are nervous, they feel how you are holding the leash, etc. An owner can easily make a dog feel that there is something wrong with the stranger and in the end the owner may not even know it, the owner make think that their worry is only known to them and not the dog.