Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Disgrace and Embarrassment
Went to dog training on Tuesday evening and I thought that I would be clever and try to go early to run some of the beans out of Turbo. The pup had been very good on his recall and I thought that as some of the runs to the park to play football had not elicited any aggression from him with lots of dogs around, that I would be alright to let him off the lead.
So playing with the basketball Turbo pierced it (he couldn't get it off) and he then decided to get a bit aggressive with "Blue Bell" an absolutely massive Great Dane, I thought it was due to the burst ball and managed to prise it off Turbos jaws.
Every thing else went pretty well (for Turbo) until near the end when Turbo decided to get snappy with the most docile dog in the entire class, a massive Pyrenean Mountain Dog. I was completely shocked as they have never had a problem before and a wasn't expecting it. I think he drew blood on the other dogs lip, I couldn't apologise enough to the man. I don't want to have to muzzle him, but he does have issues with large dogs.
So playing with the basketball Turbo pierced it (he couldn't get it off) and he then decided to get a bit aggressive with "Blue Bell" an absolutely massive Great Dane, I thought it was due to the burst ball and managed to prise it off Turbos jaws.
Every thing else went pretty well (for Turbo) until near the end when Turbo decided to get snappy with the most docile dog in the entire class, a massive Pyrenean Mountain Dog. I was completely shocked as they have never had a problem before and a wasn't expecting it. I think he drew blood on the other dogs lip, I couldn't apologise enough to the man. I don't want to have to muzzle him, but he does have issues with large dogs.
