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Rajko is 22 weeks(or 5 months, depending on your math). For what feels like the past couple of weeks, he tends to deeply growl and aggressively bark at certain people, which seems to be at random.
For instance, we were standing in front of a Target recently and while he would not even notice or care about some people walking in, some would see him and even walk near him with no issue, yet all of the sudden he would bark at a person, and later even second person.
Also, we went camping last weekend. It was at a pretty empty campground, and our site was about 100 feet sloped downhill from the road through the campsites. Throughout the day different people would walk along the road. Again, sometimes he would not care at all, sometimes he'd just look at them, and sometimes he'd growl or let out a few loud barks, moving towards the them even. Young, old, male, female...all types of people. Again, other random people around the campsite he would go up to wagging his tail and loving attention and petting from.
I have never coddled him when he has shown this type of behavior. Usually I give him a deep and firm "knock it off", but it does not really stop the behavior. I socialized the heck of him between 8-12 weeks especially, and while we go pretty much everywhere together, now that he is bigger he does not get as quite much attention from strangers.
So, the question is... what do I need to do?
For instance, we were standing in front of a Target recently and while he would not even notice or care about some people walking in, some would see him and even walk near him with no issue, yet all of the sudden he would bark at a person, and later even second person.
Also, we went camping last weekend. It was at a pretty empty campground, and our site was about 100 feet sloped downhill from the road through the campsites. Throughout the day different people would walk along the road. Again, sometimes he would not care at all, sometimes he'd just look at them, and sometimes he'd growl or let out a few loud barks, moving towards the them even. Young, old, male, female...all types of people. Again, other random people around the campsite he would go up to wagging his tail and loving attention and petting from.

I have never coddled him when he has shown this type of behavior. Usually I give him a deep and firm "knock it off", but it does not really stop the behavior. I socialized the heck of him between 8-12 weeks especially, and while we go pretty much everywhere together, now that he is bigger he does not get as quite much attention from strangers.
So, the question is... what do I need to do?