The dog thread is better than the cat thread, because it features dogs.

[StoneRoad]

Oh isn’t it nice to have a dog, and meet other dogs, that are pretty chill re guarding their resources
My old dog, I never really got to find out how he would be with other dogs as he was so reactive in the early months, I kept him away from them. Learned a lot from my mistakes with him which I have poured into Mungo
Maybe by the time on my 4th or 5th dog, I’ll have got it sorted

tbh, a lot of the near miss incidents that I have seen in the past few years have involved dogs on leads - a tightly leashed dog could be even more defensive / aggressive than when off the leash.

case in point.
Bringing Ben up the stairs from the outer harbour beach, he was walking to heel (-ish) but unleashed. We passed a GSD type being held back and pulling very strongly against a choke-chain collar and thick rope lead, also barking fit to bust. Ben just went "huff" [not actually a bark], otherwise totally ignored the GSD and went up onto the walkway.
I was told later, by yet another local dog-walker that this particular GSD was also supposed to be muzzled in public - it [or it's owners] had a bad reputation but had never been up before the courts since moving to the area [for some reason the witnesses always refused to testify].

 

[Saunders]

tbh, a lot of the near miss incidents that I have seen in the past few years have involved dogs on leads - a tightly leashed dog could be even more defensive / aggressive than when off the leash.

case in point.
Bringing Ben up the stairs from the outer harbour beach, he was walking to heel (-ish) but unleashed. We passed a GSD type being held back and pulling very strongly against a choke-chain collar and thick rope lead, also barking fit to bust. Ben just went "huff" [not actually a bark], otherwise totally ignored the GSD and went up onto the walkway.
I was told later, by yet another local dog-walker that this particular GSD was also supposed to be muzzled in public - it [or it's owners] had a bad reputation but had never been up before the courts since moving to the area [for some reason the witnesses always refused to testify].

Yeah, I think so much of dogs reactions are down to us their owners (controllers, if they’re on lead)
I was so lucky getting g mungo from a refuge where he’d been exercised and running with the puppy pack. By the time he arrived to me he spoke excellent Dog, so all I had to do was work with him on strange loud things like washing machines and traffic and not eating jumpers