[Fluff] Thankyou to the three young blokes who helped socialize MaxDog Talks

Me and my partner have a rescue who's got some really challenging behaviour around other dogs - we're working hard on socializing him and just getting used to seeing other dogs out and about and not reacting.

We have him muzzled just incase we have any other dogs come running up to him, and it's challenging as we want to start getting closer to other dogs without him reacting, but when other people see him with the muzzle they often take a pretty wide path from us.

While on our walk today we had three young guys stop us and ask if we were socialising our pup, they took the time to walk their dogs back and forth, slowly getting closer and didn't react or care when ours decided enough was enough and did react (still with the muzzle on) which was super helpful - it helps teach max that he can't just be a bully to get his way that he just has to deal with other dogs. Apart from his one little flare up, it wasn't long before he was sniffing bums and wagging his tail. After a lot of frustration with him recently it was an amazing way to finish our walk!

Thankyou, to those people that see a dog with a muzzle and appreciate that the majority of us are working on our dogs behaviour and are understanding of that, if you go out of your way to help us socialize them further you are an absolute godsend!!

Submitted October 22, 2020 at 07:46AM by broodruff https://ift.tt/35phopA