Does your dog have friends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes he’s got a few friends who we do play dates with and there are several neighborhood dogs that he knows from walks. He’s happy to play on leash and off. We don’t do dog parks because there are always pits around and people have had problems with aggressive dogs. It’s not worth it to us for one bad incident to make him fearful of other dogs.

You do know that other dogs are also untrained at dog parks, right? Why does pits get all the hate and all the blame?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dog has dog friends. I don’t know why anyone would give you a hard time over such a sweet topic.[/quote]

But that's not what op said. There wasn't even a question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dog has dog friends. I don’t know why anyone would give you a hard time over such a sweet topic.

+1

My dog loves his neighbor friends, and especially loves his friends at the dog park. They see each other regularly. Once in a while, we have "playdates" at our house, because we have a fence.

[Anonymous]

Yep. My dog is buddies with a Great Pyrenees. I mean, he loves all dogs. But this dog? He *LOVES* him. If they spot one another across the street while out on walks, they will each stand there crying until the other owner and I find a place to cross to let them say hi. They’re hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Never did play dates but my previous dog definitely had a few friends in the neighborhood. He was a husky and curiously they were all labs (and he didn't seem to like huskies!) except for a little curly dog who lived next door. . Basically, this was encounters while walking and they'd get crazy and romp around for awhile. Also, they were all the same age as him.

At the dog park, it is interesting to see how dogs will pair off to play, my own included. She will pair off with maybe 3 different dogs at different times. So far she is not so good with encounters while on the leash, she's impulsive and overly friendly and excited and too likely to get in the other dog's face and piss them off. At the park she's totally fine. No neighborhood friends yet except the same little curly dog from next door.

[Anonymous]

Our dog is BFF with our neighbors’ dog. Sometimes their adult son comes to stay with his dog and our dog gets annoyed at having to share her buddy. It’s nice because we dogs it for each other.

[Anonymous]

My dog is introverted and prefers people over other dogs but I’ve lived in my neighborhood almost 20 years and have owned my dog for over 10 and no one knows my name and I don’t know their names. I go by Doggo’s mom and all the other neighbors are Poodle’s mom (or dad), or Spot’s mom, etc. We greet each other’s dogs by name and chat but I can never remember the owners’ names.

[Anonymous]

My dog has lots of dog friends that he is overjoyed to see at off-leash hours. It's funny to me how dogs have strong personalities and preferences, like humans. Some dogs he is utterly indifferent to, others he sees from 200 yards away and makes a beeline to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never did play dates but my previous dog definitely had a few friends in the neighborhood. He was a husky and curiously they were all labs (and he didn't seem to like huskies!) except for a little curly dog who lived next door. . Basically, this was encounters while walking and they'd get crazy and romp around for awhile. Also, they were all the same age as him.

At the dog park, it is interesting to see how dogs will pair off to play, my own included. She will pair off with maybe 3 different dogs at different times. So far she is not so good with encounters while on the leash, she's impulsive and overly friendly and excited and too likely to get in the other dog's face and piss them off. At the park she's totally fine. No neighborhood friends yet except the same little curly dog from next door.

The majority of dogs are not good with encounters on leash. They can't run away if a dog attacks so stop greeting other dogs on leash!