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I’ve had a couple of cases recently of similar things. Odie bounded over to a dog who was off the lead the other day. The other dog ran up to meet him and they did a little trot around each other and a sniff - literally nothing bad at all. Then the other dog had enough and yapped at Odie, so he slunk off back to me. The woman shouted out to me something about her dog being a nervous rescue and how Odie should be more considerate (not me, Odie! 😄). I was a bit baffled - she seemed genuinely pissed off about the situation. If hers was nervous and she had it on a lead, I’d have called Odie back as soon as he looked like he wanted to go over - I tend to just play it safe whenever there are dogs with leads knocking around.
Had to have a proper think today and check if I wasn’t just being a crap dog owner and not noticing, just because it’s happened a few times lately!
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For some reason this story reminded me of a lady we see in Greenwich Park.
Whenever another dog does a play bow in front of her dog, her dog for whatever reason interprets it as a threat to his owner and gives the playful dog a fairly stern telling off. Loads of dog owners I know have seen it. It's not a drama at all to them. They just know this particular dog does that.
Except the lady in question doesn't realise this is what's happening. Instead she is convinced that every other dog is aggressive to her dog (even though they are just playing) and her dog is defending itself.
Nobody really cares. Except the lady who seems to spend every walk fuming at all the dogs "out to get" her dog.
Feel a bit bad about it tbh, somethings not right there.