 Suddenly fearful?
When we were out this weekend walking Jack there was an older woman out walking her yorkie. Her dog was extremely aggressive, growling, snapping and trying to lunge at Jack. The woman looked like she was having some health issues and she was yelling at her dog and struggling to keep him under control. We walked by quickly and I never really thought about it again except to comment on how we'd never seen such an aggressive dog - let alone a yorkie!
Well this morning as I was out walking Jack he seems suddenly afraid of women around the same age. The first woman we walked by had a large (but friendly) dog with her so I attributed it to that. But then I noticed he wasn't afraid at all around men or younger women - even if they had dogs. We walked by a number of older women (some without dogs) and he was fearful around all of them.
He was never hurt by the other yorkie and the whole episode only lasted a few seconds - do you think this could have caused his behaviour this morning? I'm just shocked because he's normally quite confident and will happily go up to anyone waiting to be petted.
He's only 7 months old so I wonder if it will just fade from his memory if we don't run into this woman again. |