[nagdu] barking and dog distraction revisited?

[Craig Heaps]

The other dog might have been looking at her in a way she read as 
aggressive.  That dog might have been staring and had a body posture that 
suffested it was not friendly.  That might have made Jenny feel threatened.

I have the opposite problem.  Chase is what I call "dog stupid".  He stares 
at other dogs and gets them all riled up.  He doesn't seem to have that 
instinct not to stare and the other dogs seem to interpret that as a 
challenge.  We ran into it with a tied up pit bull downtown last week.  The 
pit was calm.  Chase stopped when he saw him, and we were going to go way 
around.  But the owner said the pit was "a good dog.  He won't bother you." 
(I should know better than to believe things like that.)  As we passed, I 
could feel Chase's head turned toward the dog, and the dog snarl and lunge 
at him.  Fortunately, he was well enough secured that he didn't get to 
Chase.

Craig and Chase, the dog who doesn't seem to know the rules of dog-dom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl Marie via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:15 AM
Subject: [nagdu] barking and dog distraction revisited?


> hi guys,
>
> Was walking to work today and Jenny and I came across another dog. 
> Normally, Jenny will either ignore the dog, or speed up and wag her tail. 
> Today, she turned toward the dog, started a growl, and then barked at the 
> dog.  The plus side of this was that I was able to get out of the 
> situation quickly, wave her forward, and off we went.
> this is an incredibly unique situation... any idea why she may have done 
> this?  I didn't hear anything from the other dog, but could it have been 
> in its posture?
>
> Daryl and Jenny
>
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