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Feb. 13th, 2009 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicReece is a great dog, but sometimes she can be such a bully and a brat.
We just got back from Reber Ranch, where I let her run around on the doggie playground for a bit. She was fine, for the most part, except she kept jumping on people, which I think annoyed me more than it annoyed them. Dog lovers/owners are mostly ok with stuff like that, but Lance and I have strongly discouraged her from doing it, and still can't seem to break her of the habit.
There were 2 lab puppies there. Reece kept bullying them. She jumped over one of them and sent it sprawling. The other one, she grabbed by the scruff of the neck, and kept growling. She is actually just playing, and she can be a bit aggressive sometimes, but I kept calling her to me and she refused to listen.
Finally, she jumped on someone, who held her for me until I could come and leash her. Then I called it done. People seemed mostly amused by her antics. She got a lot of smiles and pets and attention. People asked me a lot of questions about her (and again, it was mentioned that she could have Whippet/Greyhound in her lineage). But I didn't feel comfortable with her bratty behavior and I can't encourage it.
We walked into Reber Ranch afterwards, where I picked up some people and doggie treats - a bully stick for Reece and 2 large homemade caramels for Lance and myself.
It is a nice day today. I think Lance is going to try to come home early. We have some paint prep work to do and we still need to go out and get some supplies.
We just got back from Reber Ranch, where I let her run around on the doggie playground for a bit. She was fine, for the most part, except she kept jumping on people, which I think annoyed me more than it annoyed them. Dog lovers/owners are mostly ok with stuff like that, but Lance and I have strongly discouraged her from doing it, and still can't seem to break her of the habit.
There were 2 lab puppies there. Reece kept bullying them. She jumped over one of them and sent it sprawling. The other one, she grabbed by the scruff of the neck, and kept growling. She is actually just playing, and she can be a bit aggressive sometimes, but I kept calling her to me and she refused to listen.
Finally, she jumped on someone, who held her for me until I could come and leash her. Then I called it done. People seemed mostly amused by her antics. She got a lot of smiles and pets and attention. People asked me a lot of questions about her (and again, it was mentioned that she could have Whippet/Greyhound in her lineage). But I didn't feel comfortable with her bratty behavior and I can't encourage it.
We walked into Reber Ranch afterwards, where I picked up some people and doggie treats - a bully stick for Reece and 2 large homemade caramels for Lance and myself.
It is a nice day today. I think Lance is going to try to come home early. We have some paint prep work to do and we still need to go out and get some supplies.