[nagdu] Too much petting from roommates

[Cindy Ray]

I was dating a man onfce when I got my GSD, Crumpet. I had warned him before 
I replaced the lab I had that he must not participate in my workiung with 
this dog. He didn't overtly, but she was sensitive to eye contact, and with 
his eye contact he won her over. She reached a place where she wouldn't work 
for me if he wasn't there. I worked with her with the help from the 
school--I am sure she was an extreme case--and got her to work better. She 
worked better, too, if we were working places where he had not been with me. 
I am now very sensitive to this problem, especially when I have just come 
home with a new dog.

CL