We have been having a problem with our 20 month old girl, Roxy. She is a mix between terrier/spaniel mix. She is only about 20 lbs. We do a lot of socialization with her, and other dogs. In most situations she plays well with other dogs, and she will be a joy for us, and the other dogs. There are certain situations where she will seem to get aggressive, and try to scare off other dogs. The biggest situation we will see is when she has a ball in her mouth, and she either drops it, or some other dog drops the ball. When that happens, she will go at the ball hard, and will go after any other dog that tries to go after the ball. She would never do anything(like biting or anything), but she will just attempt to scare the other dog off. Most other dogs, will just let her have it, because they don't care as much as she does. It usually only happens with items that can only be possessed by one dog(ball, little toy). If there is rope or something, she doesn't mind sharing that with other dogs, where they can play tug of war. Usually when I see the behavior, I will yell at her, and I will give her a swat on the bum. This definitely does not seem to deter her from doing it again later. Since the behavior happens so infrequently, it is hard to know how to react when she does that. I was going to try talking to a trainer, but I thought I would post the problem on this forum.
We had started taking her to a doggie daycare once a week, to break up her weekdays, which had been going okay. The last two visit's, the gal's running it was saying that they had altercation with roxy, and so now they have asked us to not bring her there for a while. The way the doggie daycare works, she is usually getting 1hr of play time, to 1 hr of rest, for all 8 hours during the day. My wife and I are sadden that she got kicked out of there. She had only gone like 4 times, but we know that she loves it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Sony
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; where they can't do certain things, because roxy doesn't like it. I guess I can see their perspective. We are supposed to meet with a dog trainer this weekend, to see if they have some good techniques. I'm starting to think that this behavior is more of a symptom, then the actual problem. We don't have really good obedience with Roxy, in a busy situation, where if her attention is focused on something else(off leash), it is difficult to get her to focus on us, and listen/obey. Maybe the problem is more that Roxy needs to know that listening/obeying is the number one thing. I don't think that is the case with Roxy. We have taken her to puppy obedience class early on, but then we have been bad about keeping up the training.
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