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Heres the deal: my dog will always listen to me...wait, no she wont! Theres another dog, better run up to it terrifyingly fast and scare the pee out of the poor animal and then just sniff in a friendly way. Luckily there have been no problems cause by this yet, but for one:
There is a spaniel that as long as schatzi has known her, it always charges up to us snarling. I leash her in and pull her between my legs and bring her to a sit and hope the spaniel doesn't run in to meet its fate, but it never quite does. Well.....the other day I had schatzi off leash taking out the garbage and she suddenly sprinted off the yard onto the spaniels yard and tackled it, holding it to the ground with her mouth. I think she felt this dog was going to attack me or my kids or her who were all outside...... It was a good 10 seconds before I could get there so I feel if my dog wanted to cause harm it would have. Make no mistake, I know that harm done or not there is NO excuse for this kind of behavior.
So here's my question. I have been socializing her and she has other dogs around a lot but when we are out she WILL NOT listen to me when other dogs are around. I think people are going to say that more socializing is the answer but I'm starting to doubt it. maybe I'm just frustrated and need to stay the path if that is whats needed.
Or...Is she bound to be on a leash every time we are out?
There is a spaniel that as long as schatzi has known her, it always charges up to us snarling. I leash her in and pull her between my legs and bring her to a sit and hope the spaniel doesn't run in to meet its fate, but it never quite does. Well.....the other day I had schatzi off leash taking out the garbage and she suddenly sprinted off the yard onto the spaniels yard and tackled it, holding it to the ground with her mouth. I think she felt this dog was going to attack me or my kids or her who were all outside...... It was a good 10 seconds before I could get there so I feel if my dog wanted to cause harm it would have. Make no mistake, I know that harm done or not there is NO excuse for this kind of behavior.
So here's my question. I have been socializing her and she has other dogs around a lot but when we are out she WILL NOT listen to me when other dogs are around. I think people are going to say that more socializing is the answer but I'm starting to doubt it. maybe I'm just frustrated and need to stay the path if that is whats needed.
Or...Is she bound to be on a leash every time we are out?