blackcob
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I had wondered if this was down to D perhaps being in pain in the weeks pre-op and of course post-op but thinking about it it started long before that, plus she's definitely not in any pain now and the behaviour is getting worse rather than better.
She has become, in short, a narky bitch.
She used to be very gregarious, friendly and happy to play and interact with all dogs. These days I have to watch her like a hawk.
At agility training she took an intense dislike to a collie bitch (admittedly a very starey slinky one who likes to swing by at speed, grumbling, in a confrontational way). After a number of incidents where one or the other would break off halfway through a run to fly across the manege and nail the other they had to introduce a sort of beach windbreak thing that we now take turns standing behind while the other dog is doing their run.
Since then she's extended her narkyness to several other dogs. She was horrid at our last competition, I had to hold her by the collar in the queue as she took great exception to the dog behind us and sat with her upper lip curled back pulling snarl faces at it the whole time.
She will now have a pop at random dogs on walks. I say random because there seems to be no trigger that I can see, some dogs are greeted like long lost friends, some immediately set her bristling. I thought that some of this was down to protecting Ricoh and perhaps there is an element of this but she will even sometimes lash out now when walked on her own. Never anything serious, just lip-curls and handbags, but if the other dog retaliates in any way she would properly lay into them - thankfully it will never come to this as she is on a lead except on my own turf.
Is this just how she is now, is it a result of stepping up the training and competition type stuff, is there something I'm doing wrong? She'll be four in August. She still loves every hoomin she meets, this is specific to dogs only.
She has become, in short, a narky bitch.
She used to be very gregarious, friendly and happy to play and interact with all dogs. These days I have to watch her like a hawk.At agility training she took an intense dislike to a collie bitch (admittedly a very starey slinky one who likes to swing by at speed, grumbling, in a confrontational way). After a number of incidents where one or the other would break off halfway through a run to fly across the manege and nail the other they had to introduce a sort of beach windbreak thing that we now take turns standing behind while the other dog is doing their run.
Since then she's extended her narkyness to several other dogs. She was horrid at our last competition, I had to hold her by the collar in the queue as she took great exception to the dog behind us and sat with her upper lip curled back pulling snarl faces at it the whole time.
She will now have a pop at random dogs on walks. I say random because there seems to be no trigger that I can see, some dogs are greeted like long lost friends, some immediately set her bristling. I thought that some of this was down to protecting Ricoh and perhaps there is an element of this but she will even sometimes lash out now when walked on her own. Never anything serious, just lip-curls and handbags, but if the other dog retaliates in any way she would properly lay into them - thankfully it will never come to this as she is on a lead except on my own turf.
Is this just how she is now, is it a result of stepping up the training and competition type stuff, is there something I'm doing wrong? She'll be four in August. She still loves every hoomin she meets, this is specific to dogs only.
