[gemy]

I wanted to share, a concerning and surprising event that happened the other night. I had started this thread two or three times; mainly I like to post to share advice, or post a warning or some such. And I guess this falls into Gosh Darn it, bad things can happen.

In one way I am proud of Razzle; kind of like ruefully shaking my head, at his bigger than life personae. And more of me goes Thank you God or the Universe that he is safe and sound.

So we come back from a nice walk, ball chasing, hubby has our big BRT, I have Razzle. We are literally one house away from our home. No foot or street traffic; and I always work on training the pups to go HOME. So I dropped Razz's lead one house away from ours. And well he ran up on the neighbours lawn; and their youngish GSD (18mths prox), jumps through the screen andtakes their side window off the track to get to Razzle. It happened so fast, but already I was on their front lawn, cause Razzle is not supposed to run over neighbours lawns.

I'm already about a foot away, Razzle turns and barks aggressively like a madman. I'm running now forward, the poor GSD runs away, and Razz chases him up onto his porch. I'm one step behind, and the GSD lowered his head, and I shout BAD DOG NO NO. I scoop Razzle up. The GSD is cowering in the corner of his porch. Now that Razz is safe'; I look back and finally hear my big male, doing the most aggressive barking, total threat bark; lunging at his lead with hubby.

We go home; not far. I am constantly checking out Razzle. NO bites not even any saliva on him. Phew.

I say to hubby we have to go back, the GSD is loose off lead. I don't think the owners can be home.

So we secure dogs in our home, and go back. Finally when we are both on the porch the neighbours front door opens and; "she says is everyone OK?" WE said yes, but your boy is free and we were worried about him.

Anyhoo this shook me a lot. In some ways I wish my big dogs had put that scamp in his place when he was growing up. Instead they coddled him. They ignored Razz's bad behaviour.