My Dexter tends to be more stand off-ish or afriad of other dogs in general. Big, small, male, female, old, young, it does not matter. Our friends have a big Rottie who is very friendly and playful and about 160lbs. Other dogs seem to sense that Dexter wants NOTHING to do with them, therefore they are always all over him, trying to play or sniff him. One day he turned around and laid into that Rottie something fierce. He was 4.5lbs at the time. It was like he was telling the Rottie to back the #$%^ off. LOL We were all shocked and made sure to keep them apart from that point forward.
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