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good morning all,
This morning I was running my dog on one of our regular routes. We turned a corner near where a usually placid older golden retriever lives.
The old golden charged across the street barking, hackles raised, low to the ground. Real aggressive. Midnight stopped dead in his tracks and gave the golden "the eye" so I told him "Heel" and he did so we kept running. The golden ran up to midnight snarlling and tried to come at me. The dog was focusing on me not Midnight. Midnight lunged when the golden tried to get past him and they got to fighting. I broke it off with a snappy leash correction on midnight and we ran off.
This dog had tried to come at me once before, but its owner was in their front yard (unfenced) and ran to pull him away from me before the psycho golden to get across the street, but he did aggressively charge on me. Had his owner not been in the yard then it would have gone just like today.
This was good because Midnight's heel wasn't super consistent with close distraction. he did it instantly as soon as I told him.
But it was bad. Midnight was tied to something before I rescued him. He is still not fond of the sound of chains clinking and was terrified at the sight on any kind of chain for the first year I had him. . He was leash aggressive to other dogs when I got him and we worked soo hard for a long time to get his leash manners down good around other dogs. I noticed on the rest of our run that he was starting to lunge at the other golden retrieiver looking dogs we saw on the run.
A fellow runner in the area runs her two goldens. We occasionally stop and talk, but today (after the pyscho dog ran at us) midnight wouldn't settle down when the other golden were around. He lunged at them a couple times.
How should I go about treating this new flare of leash aggression? What should I do about pyscho golden?
This morning I was running my dog on one of our regular routes. We turned a corner near where a usually placid older golden retriever lives.
The old golden charged across the street barking, hackles raised, low to the ground. Real aggressive. Midnight stopped dead in his tracks and gave the golden "the eye" so I told him "Heel" and he did so we kept running. The golden ran up to midnight snarlling and tried to come at me. The dog was focusing on me not Midnight. Midnight lunged when the golden tried to get past him and they got to fighting. I broke it off with a snappy leash correction on midnight and we ran off.
This dog had tried to come at me once before, but its owner was in their front yard (unfenced) and ran to pull him away from me before the psycho golden to get across the street, but he did aggressively charge on me. Had his owner not been in the yard then it would have gone just like today.
This was good because Midnight's heel wasn't super consistent with close distraction. he did it instantly as soon as I told him.
But it was bad. Midnight was tied to something before I rescued him. He is still not fond of the sound of chains clinking and was terrified at the sight on any kind of chain for the first year I had him. . He was leash aggressive to other dogs when I got him and we worked soo hard for a long time to get his leash manners down good around other dogs. I noticed on the rest of our run that he was starting to lunge at the other golden retrieiver looking dogs we saw on the run.
A fellow runner in the area runs her two goldens. We occasionally stop and talk, but today (after the pyscho dog ran at us) midnight wouldn't settle down when the other golden were around. He lunged at them a couple times.
How should I go about treating this new flare of leash aggression? What should I do about pyscho golden?