OUT AND ABOUT WITH YOUR DOG: DOG TO DOG INTERACTIONS ON THE STREET, ON THE TRAILS, AND IN THE DOG PARK
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Does your dog lunge and bark at other dogs? Is your dog out of control on walks or in the dog park? A condensed package full of valuable information -- This book offers training and management tips to help you manage your dog in public and around other dogs. It gives you insight into your dogs personality traits and how well it will mix with other canine personalities at the dog park.
Topics include on-leash encounters, understanding healthy and unhealthy play, and a guide to assessing your dog and his behavior with other dogs.
Sue Sternberg
Sue Sternberg has devoted her personal and professional life to helping dogs and people live together happily. She is the author of numerous books and DVDs on dog adoption, canine body language and behavior, especially aggression. Her work educating shelter personnel on training, temperament testing and environmental enrichment has helped countless dogs find their forever homes.
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OUT AND ABOUT WITH YOUR DOG - Sue Sternberg
Whether you’re going to find out through this guide that perhaps your dog is one for whom the Dog Park is not appropriate, whether you’re going to find out through this guide when to remove your appropriate dog from the Dog Park for his own protection, or whether you’re going to find a great play group for your dog, I hope the words contained in this manual can help you keep your dog (and other dogs) safe, happy, and healthy.
Out and About With Your Dog
©2009 Sue Sternberg
All rights reserved.
No part of this book, including interior
design, and illustrations, may be reproduced
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otherwise) without the prior written
permission of the author.
Book design: Brian Peterson
Printed in the United States
CONTENTS
SECTION ONE:
On the street, on the trails
Chapter 1 On-Leash Encounters
Chapter 2 Enjoying the Great outdootrs with your Dog
Chapter 3 Controlling Your Dog During Play
SECTION TWO:
In the Dog Park
Chapter 1 Understanding Dog Play
Part 1: What Is Healthy Play?
Part 2: What Is Unhealthy Play?
Chapter 2 Identifying the Cast of Characters at the Dog Park
Chapter 3 Assessing Your Dog Before Going to the Dog Park
Chapter 4 Assessing Your Dog’s Behavior at the Dog Park
Chapter 5 Identifying a Safe and Healthy Dog Park
Chapter 6 Dog Park Tips
SECTION ONE
Introduction
Many dogs are angels in their own homes, angels with humans, but behavioral nightmares when in the presence of other dogs. And even if your dog means no harm, the sight and sound of a dog lunging and growling at the end of his leash trying to get to another dog causes the public to panic, make wide berths or cross the streets to avoid your dog—the dog they believe to be horribly evil and aggressive. Some dogs can actually play well off leash with other dogs, but on leash, become snarling, lunging monsters. Owners of these alleged monsters are shunned, ostracized, looked down upon, and believed to be at fault and the reason for their dog’s bad behaviors.
Does your dog lunge and strain and bark when you’re out on a walk and another dog appears? Does it feel embarrassing to be out in public with your dog if any other dogs are around? Has your dog picked fights at the public Dog Park? Is your dog a heat-seeking missile that really does hate all other dogs?
Or does your dog seem to love other dogs so much that any other dog in his sight causes him to pull and strain and gag and claw his way towards it?
It can be just as frustrating to live with a dog who LOVES playing with other dogs, because he loves them so much that he feels the need to strain and pull towards any other dog he sees while out on a walk. Sometimes, a dog who adores other dogs so much that he is out of control around them is as difficult or embarrassing to live with as a dog who hates other dogs.
No matter what particular behavior your dog displays around other dogs, this book will offer training and management tips so that your dog can behave like a good canine citizen in the presence of other dogs.
CHAPTER ONE
On-Leash Encounters
ON-LEASH ENCOUNTERS
The absolute hardest, most problematic, most difficult way for dogs to greet and meet is on leash. And there are really only two potential outcomes for the greeting, and neither is particularly useful or desirable:
1. After the initial investigative sniffing and greeting ritual, the dogs play.
2. After the initial investigative sniffing and greeting ritual, the dogs fight.
Neither is actually better than the other. If the dogs sniff and then play, your dog has just gotten a jackpot sized reward for going up to a strange dog and introducing himself. The next time he sees a strange dog, he will want to pull towards that dog to greet it, to see if he can make a friend and have a little play session. Each subsequent time, your dog will strain harder and harder to get to the other dogs, hoping to get to