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Old 02-01-2007, 12:36 AM   #11
FirstYorkie
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Originally Posted by margot. View Post
This is great advice for me and Banks! He got really aggressive at the end of our last puppy class (barking and lunging at the other puppies) and the people were talking while the dogs were just sitting around staring at eachother so I'll have to make sure Banks faces me and/or run interference when he's getting into a staring competition. Thanks for the advice!
Our trainer is really adamant about this and it seems to work. It amazes me when, in the middle of explaining an exercise, she'll suddenly say "Joey and Spot are staring at each other - please break their eye contact". If it goes to the point that they bark at each other, she'll be a little annoyed with us that we didn't pick up on the staring contest earlier.

Apparently, staring is very aggressive in dog body language.
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