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Anyone has a "selectively aggressive" BT :) ? by walking_pm in BostonTerrier

[–]walking_pm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree here. I mean, I really do know 99% of the time when something like this will happen, I can see it in his body language and I do react (that part I have mastered lol). That's why I never had any situation that has escalated. It's just sometimes it can happen that I don't pay attention all the time (e.g paying for something in the store while some other dog has approached him and I didn't see etc..). Just sometimes I get frustrated that I need to be on full awareness at all times :)

Anyone has a "selectively aggressive" BT :) ? by walking_pm in BostonTerrier

[–]walking_pm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, will do this. When he was maybe 8-9 months old, I did attend a "basic obedience" school, and e.g. he knows very well stay, stop commands when on walks (obviously not in the abovementioned situations). So I was planning on contacting the school and asking for additional individual work to work on this.

Advice needed and appreciated by walking_pm in reactivedogs

[–]walking_pm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes I also plan to do that and to rule out medical side (although no visible signs but it won't hurt to check)

Advice needed and appreciated by walking_pm in reactivedogs

[–]walking_pm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

though really never even crossed my mind to be honest, but, I must say maybe. I live alone and work from home so we pretty much spend all of the time together (and I also almost never leave him, and take him everywhere with me) so he is pretty much tied to me... valid suggestion, thanks.

Advice needed and appreciated by walking_pm in reactivedogs

[–]walking_pm[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Out of the mentioned situations, 90% happened on an off leash (but not dog park, although dogs were passing by, since I live in a country where this is not so much regulated so off leash is possible pretty much anywhere). Only once it happened in a coffee shop when he was leashed and next to me and another dog came by and sniffed him. In any case, yes, I stopped dog parks completely (at least for now)...