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Originally Posted by Lilah Charm  My sweet little Lilah Charm was actually attacked by a large dog (pure white,, maybe a husky, we were on leash just minding our own business walking by and he slipped his owners hand and went straight for my girl) when she was eighteen months old and has never been the same. That is part of why I query to my friends here at YT. Retrospectively, although she had excellent people socialization, kids, farmyard animals, cats, loud noises etc, I feel like I didn't provide her with a strong enough social base with other dogs and that if she had had a stronger base line she would have snapped back better. I thought we were good, we had met and spent time with dogs, even big dogs and I felt like we had met our mark but after Lilahs attack she has never been the same in the social dog relationship department. She has a couple of friends, but even those relationships have their areas of strain. And in my case, I do think I have contributed to her anxiety because we are very bonded and I have had a lot of stress about it. I want to protect her but I also want to support her social relationships and I feel like I need more conclusive decisions about safe social guidelines and I want input from a broad range of folks who have the same special kind of dog as I do to take into consideration with my own experiences and feelings on the matter. Thanks for all of your valuable input guys  |
"Razzle has lived with two big dogs for almost eight years. I do not let them play together mostly! Sure they are in the house freely with each other. I never pick up my dog. Instead I intersperse my body if a larger dog at a leash free is being too rough. At home my large dogs are taught to obey commands.
Prey drive is important to assess. I have one large dog with a big prey drive and one not so much. She is never allow d off lead with raze.
The only activity they are allowed to do together is water retrieve.
Before we go into a leash free park I observe the dogs and owners. Then I decide to go in or not.
So I look at owner attentiveness to their dog. If owners are sitting on a bench texting and their dog is running around like a hellion , nope not today for us.
I also assess dogs obedience training. Sit. Come. Stay.
On walks when a big dog is approaching, I short leash in razzle to my side and try for as much space between the passing dogs.
I hope this helps