Edit: yes I see the typo in the title not much to do about that now
I got my dog River from a shelter where all we know is at abt 2 weeks old she was abused and abandoned by some arsehole and now is reactive to new ppl. While she likes me, my grandparents (especially my grandmother who is a no nonsense kind of dog person and I have never seen a dog dislike her even the very aggressive ones) and my mom jut fine, anyone beyond that is a potential problem.
The biggest problem i run into is that I live in Maine right on the coast and everything so we have a very big tourist season all right in our area. River is a very distinct looking dog that has had that “puppy look” even at a year and a half old ( if u wanna see what she looks like no pressure I just like to link it in case ppl are curious https://instagram.com/rivers_a_doggo?igshid=1gz0l8p0gjn76) and ppl always ask to pet her and want to talk to me abt her breed, age, etc.
I usually will just say sry she’s a rescue we’re still working w her and in theory that should be the end of that. while a good portion of ppl are understanding and move on, I have had a lot of entitled parents w small children saying shite like “oh my child won’t pull her tail or anything it’s fine” then put the kid down to come over and try and pet her anyway. At that point I say she’s aggressive I don’t want your child or u to get bit and if they keep coming towards her she has the Rhodesian ridgeback feature where her whole spine of fur raises up plus her ears go back and she growls a little.
The only time someone has kept coming after that she snarled a little and clacked her teeth a bit and the mom backed right off pulling her kid with her while glaring at me as if it’s my fault she decided it was ok to pet my dog after I said she was aggressive.
I just gotta say I hate entitled ppl that insist they or their kid won’t cause a problem w my dog bc it’s not their god damned call to make. Another thing to note is I’m a 13 yr old girl, I’m 5’4” and I only weigh ~100 lbs and while River is my dog, I intend to have a career w dogs/dog training something along those lines and have put a lot of time into learning different methods/tactics and as a result I have done all the training and rehabilitation I know how to deal w her and I am the only one she really truly trusts/listens to, ppl seem to assume oh that fairly small kid is the one walking her she can’t be that bad and I just gotta say that’s utter bullshit if the owner of a dog says no back off u fecking do it no exceptions there’s probably a reason they don’t want u there even if it’s as simple as working on training and even if there’s not an obvious reason it’s just not your call to make if it’s not your god damned dog.
I say this here bc I trust everyone here will get it and I just needed to say that so if u got this far hope u agree
I got my dog River from a shelter where all we know is at abt 2 weeks old she was abused and abandoned by some arsehole and now is reactive to new ppl. While she likes me, my grandparents (especially my grandmother who is a no nonsense kind of dog person and I have never seen a dog dislike her even the very aggressive ones) and my mom jut fine, anyone beyond that is a potential problem.
The biggest problem i run into is that I live in Maine right on the coast and everything so we have a very big tourist season all right in our area. River is a very distinct looking dog that has had that “puppy look” even at a year and a half old ( if u wanna see what she looks like no pressure I just like to link it in case ppl are curious https://instagram.com/rivers_a_doggo?igshid=1gz0l8p0gjn76) and ppl always ask to pet her and want to talk to me abt her breed, age, etc.
I usually will just say sry she’s a rescue we’re still working w her and in theory that should be the end of that. while a good portion of ppl are understanding and move on, I have had a lot of entitled parents w small children saying shite like “oh my child won’t pull her tail or anything it’s fine” then put the kid down to come over and try and pet her anyway. At that point I say she’s aggressive I don’t want your child or u to get bit and if they keep coming towards her she has the Rhodesian ridgeback feature where her whole spine of fur raises up plus her ears go back and she growls a little.
The only time someone has kept coming after that she snarled a little and clacked her teeth a bit and the mom backed right off pulling her kid with her while glaring at me as if it’s my fault she decided it was ok to pet my dog after I said she was aggressive.
I just gotta say I hate entitled ppl that insist they or their kid won’t cause a problem w my dog bc it’s not their god damned call to make. Another thing to note is I’m a 13 yr old girl, I’m 5’4” and I only weigh ~100 lbs and while River is my dog, I intend to have a career w dogs/dog training something along those lines and have put a lot of time into learning different methods/tactics and as a result I have done all the training and rehabilitation I know how to deal w her and I am the only one she really truly trusts/listens to, ppl seem to assume oh that fairly small kid is the one walking her she can’t be that bad and I just gotta say that’s utter bullshit if the owner of a dog says no back off u fecking do it no exceptions there’s probably a reason they don’t want u there even if it’s as simple as working on training and even if there’s not an obvious reason it’s just not your call to make if it’s not your god damned dog.
I say this here bc I trust everyone here will get it and I just needed to say that so if u got this far hope u agree
