Makes perfect sense Candy, thanks. And your right when you say he's testing the water. He seems to be doing alot of that here lately! He's tested us more than Angus ever did and I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing with him. I'm glad you didn't suggest I not take him to the park any more as he did fine until the water incident.

2crazypuppies4me
We've put our hands in the water and food bowl since he was a pup and he has no problem what so ever with that. Even my 1 yr old niece can take his food out of his bowl and feed it to him

Pit Chick
He's definately more like the horney teenager than a territorial adult!


Now that being said, Liz suggesed and I agree that I should tell you about his park experience and why he can be leery of new dogs(of course this is a little lengthy).

When we went to the Findlay get together he was just awesome with all the dog and of course I was extatic until one of my friends brought her foster husky.
Now he had been to my house before and was fine at first but after a while tried to be mean and boss my kids around so they left. I was hoping it wouldn't be like that at the park, but it was.
Bon and Woody got along for quite a while and then I'm not really sure what happened but Woody was growling and wouldn't leave him alone. So of course after a bit Bon decided he wouldn't put up with it and growled back. They were clanking teeth but nothing was coming of it, but if we werent' there to intervene it might have turned into something worse...who knows.
Well anyway I grab Bon and pull him back and he lunges towards Woody again accidentally grabbing my friends shirt and ripping it
Of course I felt horrible and she left as not to cause any more problems. Well then sibersibes new husky Cloud seemed to want to make something of it with Bon so we seperated them and I kept Bon on the leash for a bit until they left. So once again I let him go and shais mom came with Keegan. Not sure what happened again but I heard growling and of course leashed him again. By then he seemed like he didn't want anything to do with any of the dogs so we left.
Well then a couple days later we went to our park and immediately one of the dogs come up to Bon and starts following him trying to give him a hard time for lack of a better word. Luckily wolf_q's dog Nebo jumped inbetween them and I got Bon and leashed him and we took him on the other side of the park.
So I don't know if he has an "air" about him that other dogs don't like or what.
Also when Nebo was staying here we could not have any food around the two of them. They were fine and would play until one or the other started to mount then they would start to go at it. Never really out for blood, but who know if left unattended.
I don't know if this would help any but I thought I ought to add it.