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Horrible experience
I've just met up with the usual crowd of dogs with Jake my 8 month old
Border Collie. He's known by all for his loving and calm behaviour around the dogs/bitches and their owners. So you can imagine my horror when I heard barking and growling, really aggressive barking and saw it was Jake who was chasing after another dog. As someone said, there was utter hatred on his face. The problem is he is big for his age, 56lbs and I dread to think what he would have done to this smaller dog. I reprimanded him (and I mean reprimanded him!!) and obviously put him on his lead. I gave it 5 minutes and walked over to this owner to apologise. I had Jake under full control but he would have gone for this dog again, no doubt, so we moved away. The other owners were stunned but said I should not worry, it would be a personality clash. Indeed Jake sat and all the other dogs/bitches came up to him whilst on his lead and he never batted an eyelid. But it has left me very shaken. Am I making too much of this one off? There are two dogs who hate Jake and go for him and their owners don't seem half as worried as I was today but I take the responsiblity to other dogs and their owners seriously and I really do feel he would have not stopped at a nip. I know you probably don't have any answers but even reassurance would do right now. I am just about to ring my vet too, he has said he won't neuter Jake until 9 months but I wondered if he might reconsider. Thanks for listening. Lynda |
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