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[quote=Anonymous]I in NW near Friendship Heights and I am looking for a dog behaviorist w/in 30 miles of my home. I am just so sad but really concerned that my 2 year old terrier has become dog aggressive. I work from home and she is in and out of the house with me 24/7. We are a family of 6--w/4 kids between 7-13. She had basic training as a pup and she will sit, stay, down pretty reliably (ok, not so much when we're out, but at home). She keeps getting into scraps with other dogs. She becomes rigid and tense when other dogs come near her at the dog park to do a simple butt sniff. She guards horribly if there is any common toy at the park. She snaps and growls and puts her teeth right on the upper shoulders and neck of other dogs if she feels they approach her too directly. She has never wounded another dog--I know that if dogs want to wound it happens in seconds and you don't even have the time to intervene. She was always dominant as a pup--I would take her to the park every day to interact with dozens of dogs from the time she was @5 months old and had all her shots. She was good 95% of the time until she was @14 months old and after taking a couple of months off from the park during the winter we started going last spring and she would get into a scrap. every. time. After 4 occasions, I stopped going to the enclosed dog park and started to take her to big open parks where she could run and not encounter too many other dogs. Still she managed to start up with scrapping with a couple of dogs even there. Today she snapped at a jolly friendly beagle at a open park and I just am done. It's too dangerous and she needs a professional intervention. She has never been people aggressive, but she does growl at my DH +kids feet if they walk around past her too fast while talking loudly. Has anyone used a behaviorist in this area? I am willing to travel pretty far by car to deal with this--out into the Baltimore area or far into Virginia. I'd really like a personal recommendation rather than just googling some random person.[/quote]

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