 Getting along with other dogs..
Alright so i have a question about yorkies getting along with other dogs. I have been socializing Denali since we got him when he was fourteen weeks old. He loves people, dogs, cats, pretty much everything. We go to petsmart at least once a week and he wants to see and play with every dog we meet, we go to the dog park and he runs and plays happily with everyone, we have taken him to have puppy play dates w/ a friends male chihuahua and they play together fine.
However recently i brought him with me to a meeting i had to go to and he was fine until he saw my friends male yorkie. Denali absolutely hated him before he even met him. It was a scary sight because Denali was growling and snarling and just straight up mean. I had never seen Denali act like that!! The only other time Denali had been upset with another dog was when this one little dog and Denali were sniffing each other and all of a sudden the other dog decided it wanted to growl and be mean so of course Denali decided to growl back but it was no where near the meanness he exerted towards my friends yorkie.
This whole thing left me greatly confused because Denali has loved every dog he has ever come across, male or female, any breed from small to extra large. I came to the conclusion that he must not like other male yorkies for whatever reason.(It has to be only the male yorkies he doesn't like because he just played with this cute little girl yorkie yesterday at petsmart.) Or could it be possible that he simply felt a bad vibe from my friends yorkie and just wanted nothing to do with him in particular? Has anyone else experienced something similar? |