Euthanize an "aggressive" dog?!

[pickled_onions]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Love that reply!

This is one of my pet peeves, if your dog was a huge dog, they wouldn't insist on petting him after you said no, why do they not respect the smaller dog? Smaller dogs are likely to act out of fear. Joey just hates strangers patting him on the head, and I've had to get quite aggressive to tell them no.

I think our reply to these people should be
"My dog's been to dog training classes, but you need to go to people training classes." Some people just aren't nice.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by pickled_onions

I think our reply to these people should be
"My dog's been to dog training classes, but you need to go to people training classes." Some people just aren't nice.

Lol, actually that's true, Joey has been to training classes and can do dozens of tricks before he bites your hand off.

[ladyjane]

Years ago, I had a biter (have a couple now, too...lol) .. anyway, I used to walk Maxwell with his sister, Sassy every morning around 6AM. We always met the same people during our walks. One elderly man was so nice and would always stop to chat with me. I told him from the get go to only pet Sassy because Maxwell would bite. One day it happened...he went ahead and tried to pet Maxwell and omg he bit the man so hard and he was bleeding all over. I told him where I lived and offered to help clean it up...and advised him to go to his doctor or an emergency room and I would pay for it. He told me no worries and said it was his fault (yes, it was) and went on to his home. I am laughing now as I write this....terrible of me. LOL Anyway...I NEVER saw him again. Don't know what happened...if he died or was just afraid to come out again.

[FryFry]

Originally Posted by pickled_onions

wow aren't some people just rude and obnoxious.

no one pet's my dogs without knowing me first, random people walking by us on the street always try to ask, even children and onion has little dog complex, I'm not risking one accident especially when he's anxious, that will lead to him being taken away or put down.

I'm mean when i have to in order to protect my dogs, pickle acts more aggressive when we go on walks with little onion as a protection mechanism.

Just the other day I told some kids my dogs got rabies so stay away.

Oh wow, that is funny though telling them your dog has rabies. I guess I'll have to be more assertive, and strictly tell people "No"

[FryFry]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

Years ago, I had a biter (have a couple now, too...lol) .. anyway, I used to walk Maxwell with his sister, Sassy every morning around 6AM. We always met the same people during our walks. One elderly man was so nice and would always stop to chat with me. I told him from the get go to only pet Sassy because Maxwell would bite. One day it happened...he went ahead and tried to pet Maxwell and omg he bit the man so hard and he was bleeding all over. I told him where I lived and offered to help clean it up...and advised him to go to his doctor or an emergency room and I would pay for it. He told me no worries and said it was his fault (yes, it was) and went on to his home. I am laughing now as I write this....terrible of me. LOL Anyway...I NEVER saw him again. Don't know what happened...if he died or was just afraid to come out again.

My fear is "what IF he bites someone" because they didn't listen to me. I don't want that to happen, and the possibility of having to put him down or something scares me..I don't want to have to risk it.

[FryFry]

Leo will start barking once the stranger talks to him. At the dog park, those who listened to me about "no touch, or eye contact" he did great with them..it might've taken him like 30 minutes but after that he would go up to those people and want them to throw a ball.

[intilis]

Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1

MY response to them would have been: "I have found he is an excellent judge of character! I appreciate he can see issues in people that I do not see! Why in the world would I have such a valuable friend put down?"

[windwalker]

I have always told strangers "No" when they want to pet any of my dogs, why would you want to risk litigation? All my dogs were trained to accept strangers on command, but I only allowed that with people that I wanted to socialize with. Remember you are responsible for your dogs action even if a idiot causes the bite if you allowed the petting!

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by FryFry

Oh wow, that is funny though telling them your dog has rabies. I guess I'll have to be more assertive, and strictly tell people "No"

That is the safest bet!

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by FryFry

My fear is "what IF he bites someone" because they didn't listen to me. I don't want that to happen, and the possibility of having to put him down or something scares me..I don't want to have to risk it.

It can happen in the blink of an eye. That man just reached down before I could open my mouth to stop him!

[Susan78]

My very first yorkie Keyla was a very aggressive protective dog. I was told to put him down by a vet but I did not. I had him eleven years and he was my best friend and always there for me. I never let people come up and pet him so basically we never went to doggie parks. He warned me of many little things so I was so thankful to have given him a wonderful home. It was a heart breaking ordeal to say goodbye to my baby I loved him with all my heart. Susan

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

Years ago, I had a biter (have a couple now, too...lol) .. anyway, I used to walk Maxwell with his sister, Sassy every morning around 6AM. We always met the same people during our walks. One elderly man was so nice and would always stop to chat with me. I told him from the get go to only pet Sassy because Maxwell would bite. One day it happened...he went ahead and tried to pet Maxwell and omg he bit the man so hard and he was bleeding all over. I told him where I lived and offered to help clean it up...and advised him to go to his doctor or an emergency room and I would pay for it. He told me no worries and said it was his fault (yes, it was) and went on to his home. I am laughing now as I write this....terrible of me. LOL Anyway...I NEVER saw him again. Don't know what happened...if he died or was just afraid to come out again.

Omg, that would scare the heck out of me. I've always thought that Yorkies were all bark and no bite, boy was I wrong about that.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Omg, that would scare the heck out of me. I've always thought that Yorkies were all bark and no bite, boy was I wrong about that.

Oh no they are not! I have one right now that is a mess....I have been bitten quite a few times by him. He is better...just going to take time; and honestly, if they are like that, sometimes they always have some element of it in them. The biters I have had were fear biters .. that is fixable but you have to have a lot of patience. And, you definitely restrict them in public places.

[FryFry]

So, my question is, if I see another dog coming towards us, or a stranger coming towards us outside, should I turn around and walk the other way? Like I said, I really think it's an anxiety/anxious /excitement type of bark. I'm honestly going to look into private trainers in my area. I kind of want to nip this in the butt while he's still young. ANOTHER thing that doesn't make sense, is when he was a puppy he absolutely loved strangers. He was one of those dogs that EVERYONE had to pet, and he wanted EVERYONE to pet him. I think his behavior started changing when he was around 9 months old. That's when he would start the barking at random dogs outside, or at strangers. I thought it was just a phase he would "grow out of" but I guess not.

[chachi]

I would ust tell people not to pet him just say hes not friendly I dont think you should have to avoid people