We Wouldnt Let This Happen To A Child, or, Your Responsibilities At The Dog Park: 1. Assist the dog who is outnumbered. 2. Protect Small Dogs From Big Dogs Here are some examples of humans participating, forming alliances with dogs in need, and generally helping everybody go home without bloodshed. Lets keep in mind that these are probably not bad dogs, they are just over-aroused dogs in this particular video clip. They are dogs who are exhibiting bullying-type behaviour that needs to be interrupted for the safety of all at the park that day. In the case of the Puggles bullies, two woefully under-trained dogs behaving in a manner consistent with litter-mates adopted at the same time. In the slow motion you will even see brief teeth contact with the Puggle. You may notice how relaxed ALL the dogs seem to be once a human steps in and supports a dog in need? Even the main instigator, in one clip, -finally- trots away, Oh, whats over there?! quite happily. I have been using terms like splitting, supporting, and protecting up until now for these types of defusing, helpful behaviours. I REALLY like the term alliance, as it is so aptly named in this particular video, so more alliance references to come! Dog Students: Watch the high tail carriage of the dog in the purple harness. See the tip of it, almost like a scorpion -pointed the same way the teeth are -towards the black dog. Watch how that purple harness dogs tail remains high, initially, even after the intervention and protection from the human are offered. The other two dogs back happily away, but the brown dog is not backing off, he is briefly pausing. In the real-time video clip, the purple harness dog flanks the crouching human. Hes checking for access around the side after his attempted frontal launch on the black dog was denied. Talk about not getting the hint! Either he doesnt speak dog that fluently (that could be Nature OR nurture), -or he does, and just doesnt care to respect the No thank-you polite gestures from the black dog. What may have happened had the human not intervened at that point, *and held his position*, for his black dog? With some certainty, the purple harness dog had drifted past play into either predatory or all-out fight mode. He wanted to rumble! The two accompanying dogs could have attempted to split that, or they could have all piled into the degenerating mix, depending on what everybody had for dinner, whos turn was it, and where the moon was. *If YOU are the human in this situation and feel in your gut that a dog has intent towards your dog (or another), you have a brief moment to get up to your full height, power, and authority and tell the offending dog to GET BENT!, or SIT! like you mean it, plus the hand signal. Just that can be astonishingly effective in at least getting the attention of softer dogs who are in a less-aroused state. More serious dogs? Lets avoid spilling blood, if we can. Hand on your pressurized citronella spray canister ready for the eyes and nose of the most intense dog. That tool sprays 10 feet, is legal, does not cause lasting damage, and is a last-ditch way of forcing a pause in a beginning conflict -without risking your body parts. Seize the pause the spray gives you to get your dog out of there.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 04:30:16 +0000
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