I've had Tallulah about a month. She's 4-1/2 and was re-homed (via a rescue organization) because she was fighting with the other dog in the house and injured him.
She's incredibly sweet and loves meeting people. She's always happy to have anyone at all pet her. She is not aggressive in any way with me or other people.
Other dogs are an issue though. She's not reactive. She sits quietly when we're waiting for our obedience class to start. When she sees dogs when we're out for a walk and will watch them, but doesn't bark or lunge. She's curious and wants to meet dogs that we encounter, but after very preliminary sniffing she'll suddenly start to get snarly. When she sniffs she always goes for the other dog's head, too; either she doesn't get as far as the butt sniffing or skips it. Last weekend she did it with a dog she met after our dog class and an hour later with a dog at the vet. Today she did it twice on our walk. Big dogs, small dogs, indoors, outdoors. No pattern there. She's always been on a leash. When I pull her back sharply, she'll stop and doesn't make any more aggressive moves. Of course the other people leave or we do since they're all strangers, so I haven't really tested if she just needs to settle down.
Not long after Tallulah came home, my sister-in-law brought their dog by when I wasn't home one day and she said the two played happily in the backyard for quite a while. Maybe because she wasn't on a leash? That seems to be the only difference.
I'm going to ask the trainer at the dog school, too, but I was curious what other people think.
She's incredibly sweet and loves meeting people. She's always happy to have anyone at all pet her. She is not aggressive in any way with me or other people.
Other dogs are an issue though. She's not reactive. She sits quietly when we're waiting for our obedience class to start. When she sees dogs when we're out for a walk and will watch them, but doesn't bark or lunge. She's curious and wants to meet dogs that we encounter, but after very preliminary sniffing she'll suddenly start to get snarly. When she sniffs she always goes for the other dog's head, too; either she doesn't get as far as the butt sniffing or skips it. Last weekend she did it with a dog she met after our dog class and an hour later with a dog at the vet. Today she did it twice on our walk. Big dogs, small dogs, indoors, outdoors. No pattern there. She's always been on a leash. When I pull her back sharply, she'll stop and doesn't make any more aggressive moves. Of course the other people leave or we do since they're all strangers, so I haven't really tested if she just needs to settle down.
Not long after Tallulah came home, my sister-in-law brought their dog by when I wasn't home one day and she said the two played happily in the backyard for quite a while. Maybe because she wasn't on a leash? That seems to be the only difference.
I'm going to ask the trainer at the dog school, too, but I was curious what other people think.