Reply to Do you let your dog off leash ever?

Forum Index » Pets

Reply to "Do you let your dog off leash ever? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We go to a dog run and the socialization is so important for our dog. The angry people on here ranting about long leashes etc likely have aggressive breed dogs, and refuse to acknowledge it. [/quote]

Trainer again. “Socialization” is such a ruined term. Dogs need acclimation. They need to calmly observe and experience the world going by without negative consequences. Dogs need to lie down and do nothing while the world goes by, garbage trucks rattle, other dogs pass, babies cry, strollers stroll, etc. They do not need to play with other strange dogs.

Curated friends are a good thing! One or two known dogs with similar play styles, behaviors, mannerisms. But not a dog park. The staring border collie is rude to the body slamming retriever who is offensive to the spaniel who is scary to the tiny terrier. The person who brings their fearful dog to try to “help” is going to create an explosion of fear aggression when other dogs approach. If there is an experienced person there reading body language and stepping in and redirecting it can work with a few dogs, but 5-10-20 at a dog park is a disaster waiting to happen.[/quote]

Exactly. But people get a dog without training, don't hire a trainer, think it will be fine because 'its not a pit bull' and... yeah. Yikes.[/quote]

Who said the dogs aren’t trained? Most people I know have well trained dogs. Not perfect, but thankfully an imperfect moment generally won’t mean my dog loses an eye [/quote]

Actually that's a hell of a lot more likely than you seem to understand, especially when you and your untrained friends and their kinda-trained dogs are at a dog park-type, off-leash, low-control environment. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics