We went to the dog park today (me and all 3 of the dogs). Well at this particular dog park the watering hole is outside of the fence.
So I leash Bon up and take him out for a drink. Everything was fine until a young pup came up to get himself/herself a drink. Bon growled and snapped as to say "This is mine...take a hike". Of course I immediately put him in a sit stay and appoligized for his behavior. Luckily she wasn't upset, but I was. So after they leave I let him drink his fill.
As we were starting to leave a woman with two pugs comes (with one dog in her arms and the other offleash..outside of the fence). So Bon sees him coming and growls also telling him "take a hike". Of course this little pug had no intensions of taking a hike and growled right back. I try to go away..get him out of the situation and the pug follows us with his owner calling him to come, which needless to say he didn't do.
Finally she came and hearded him inside the fence. She really didn't say anything, but I could tell she wasn't happy with the way Bon reacted and neither was I.
He's never done that before and we just went to the park with a ton of dogs a couple weeks ago. I just don't understand.
Now my questions are:
Should I quit taking him to the park?
Should I just keep him on leash?
Will he grow out of this?
Does this mean his is getting agressive and we should have him neutered?
See, some of the people bring their own water buckets in and share with everyone so they don't have to make the trip outside the fence. So I don't want this to happen again. He's 119 lbs (and 9 months old) now and almost heavier than I am.
Any advice would sure help!
***Added extra information about Bon's park encounters in another post below***
Huney, Bon & Simba-missed so very much
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