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Tact
This is probably the wrong place to ask how to handle something tactfully, but here goes. I've mentioned Axel the little Terrier something humping machine that goes after the dogs that tell him off when he attempts to hump him. After the last incident when he went totally ballistic on a chocolate lab puppy (puppy was yelping and running, tail tucked, with Axel growling and chasing after him), we didn't see him for a couple of weeks and assumed that maybe his human has finally decided to not bring him any more or that he had gone in to get snipped. Well, he's baaaack. Unfortunately, it is neither of the above reasons that kept him from returning. Khan seriously dislikes this dog, and attempts to intervene when he harasses other dogs continuously. Although I would like nothing better than to see this little dog's butt kicked (actually his mom's butt is probably the one that needs kicking), I keep a lid on Khan's activities. It was very, very hard to do yesterday because half of the dog park was just a mud pit and restricted the space we had to move about in, and Axel kept insisting on getting in Khan's face (1 attempted hump, 1 attempt to pee on his head, lots of attempts to jump in his face, growling at him, etc.). I told his mom that she really needs to control him better because his behavior could get him into serious trouble with other dogs. Answer: Oh, he's never been seriously hurt, he got his ear torn once, but that's it boggle. This lady has been coming up with a series of excuses on why she can't neuter the dog, and at this point, I think that she's never going to do it. I also don't think she's ever going to do anything about his behavior unless he seriously hurts another dog or another dog hurts him first. A few of us moved as far away from Axel as we could, because there were little skirmishes breaking out around him that we did not want any of our larger dogs to get involved in. And at the height of all this, she breaks out a bag of treats! Is there a tactful way to handle this? Suja P.S. We both arrived there at the same time. Had it not been for that, I would have left as soon as I saw them coming. |
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