Cinnamontoast
Fais pas chier!
We had a wire haired vizla puppy come wiggling up to us today. Owner has no lead, not even a collar on the pup. It’s about 1.5x the height of my collie. Lovely dog, super friendly. But my dog is not. Mine is on a lead. My dog goes rigid, eyes wide. I tell the owner my dog will start something. ‘Don’t worry, it’s fine’. Puppy starts sniffing mine, who keeps his cool for about 6 seconds then decides that’s enough. Puppy decided my dog clearly wants to play and bounces straight back. My dog lunges at him again. Puppy thinks this is great and barrels back in for a wrestle. My dog pins him to the floor. I feel like crap for not having better control of him and giving the puppy a bad experience. And it makes me really cross at myself that I didn’t do more to help prevent my dog from being put in that position. But owner is so laid back he really wasn’t bothered. (I sort of know him, nice guy and the pup is to fill the void of an old dog he just lost which just free roamed the farm. Now my brain is wondering how this pup will respond to my dog in future when he’s fully grown and still roaming around free.)
Come on, none of that was your fault. Not even a collar on the puppy and clearly zero recall? All the owner’s fault, not yours. You told him, he made no effort to get him back. As I keep saying, it’s not your/my dog’s job to control an untrained dog, that’s the owner’s responsibility.