11/11/2024
‼️Please people - take a moment to read this post if you are a doggy owner‼️
This situation could of been totally avoidable if this certain doggy owner educated herself on dogs/dog behaviour/socialisation BEFORE she got a dog herself!!! This type of inconsiderate, entitled, reckless, DANGEROUS behaviour can cause real injury to people or their dogs. PLEASE educate yourself BEFORE you decide to become a dog owner!!
Misha Roma Dog Behaviour Academy is an amazing dog trainer + is soo amazing with her packs + the doggies she helps train/socialise! She is always sharing valuable information to help the doggy community - this is not fair! Misha + her pack did not deserve this kind of treatment from a sh*tty dog owner.
Repeat after me... I WILL NOT LET MY DOG OFF THE LEAD IF THEY DON'T HAVE GOOD RECALL AND I WILL NOT LET MY DOG RUSH UP TO OTHER DOGS, specially the ones I don't know.
It's been a while since I haven't had an incident that will ruin my day and made me think of shutting down my business.
Today a lady was walking her puppy on the lead at the beach, while me and my dogs were at least 50 mts. away minding our own business.
The lady let her puppy off the lead and puppy came rushing up to each one of my dogs, being an absolute pest, not understanding dog's cues of being uncomfortable.
I was walking senior dogs and all of them gave the puppy snapping bites, chased her away and felt extremely uncomfortable around her. Owner still remained 50 mts. away, letting her dog, me and my dogs fend for ourselves, doing a poor recall job and walking very slowly where we were.
I recalled all of my dogs and went up the dunes so the puppy would go away, but kept following us to the dunes, driving each one of my dogs crazy.
I finally had to come down to bring the dog back to the owner who at this point was 100 mts. away from her dog.
While I was doing all that, one of my dogs got tired of the frenzy attitude and pin that doggie down. I split them up. Immediately after, puppy came back for more, and my dog pinned her down again, this time more aggresively.
After splitting up and applying force to my dog so they wouldn't redirect to me, this lady finally came up to us, but far from being apologetic for causing mayhem in my group, she told me off about my dog's attitude and the fact that I had to use my force to pull my dog off her dog.
Absolutly UNBELIEVABLE!
I yelled at her, in a frustrated state of mind, that that's an awful way to teach socialisation to her puppy, how rude all this was, how poor her recall was, and how she was in the wrong!!!
I moved away my dogs and regroup them immediately, sitting next to me, while it took her another 3 or 4 minutes to get hold of her dog - another person had to get the dog back to her.
People need to GET EDUCATION about how WRONG it is to allow your dog rush up to other dogs with no control.
50% of dogs out there (in the world!!!) have some sort of reactivity that if pushed to the limits WILL transform into horrible aggressiveness.
6 of each 10 consultations I have are for this exact same problem: dogs that are SELECTIVE in the way they relate with other dogs and are asking for respectful interactions. And they won't handle dogs rushing up to them in the best way.
People need to understand HOW RUDE it is to do this to someone who is minding their own business (owner and dog) and HOW BAD it is for the socialisation of their dog.
The dog can get snapped at, mauled, or even killed! because "they were just trying to say hi!"... in the meantime I had to split a potential dog fight, create a bad moment of all of my dogs, risk a problem with the Council and ruin a puppy's socialisation!
Again: 50% of dogs out there COULD POTENTIALLY attack a dog that rushes up to them. Why would you risk it?
Reactivity in dogs is fairly normal, exists and EVERY DOG TRAINER will agree with me here.
CONTROL YOUR DOG!!!!
PS: full infography in the comments, worth the read.
